When Push Comes to Shove

I was doing my routine daily read of the usual online papers and this one article caught my eye.

This is Paul Nawrocki who is 59 and lives in the vicinity of New York City. He made the papers cos he's been walking around the business district with a sandwich board, advertising himself for a job. Yes - he's jobless. Monica Gagnier wrote a piece about him in Business Week last week and this is his story.

Almost every week, there would be someone I talk to who is either

1. Looking for a job
2. Knows someone who is looking for a job
3. At risk of losing their job or
4. Not making ends meet with their current paycheque.

Yet, not many of them are doing anything that puts them ahead of the rest in this restless weary world. Sure, you send your resumes out. But like the Paul says: when you're sieving through hundreds and thousands of resumes, it had better be something good that goes *bang* if you want that job.

At the end of the day, the question that beckons would be this: When push comes to shove - how far will your donkey move?! Can you see yourself doing what Paul did? Or are you gonna Chicken-Little it?