JOBS: PERSISTENCE AND FLEXIBILITY
Many of us with Moebius Syndrome and facial differences know how tough it can be out there in the working world.  You want a job; you want a promotion; you want a new position.  But given how we look and who we are, it can be tough to get by the at-times innate (or unconscious) prejudices out there held by employers and others.  But you can triumph in the end--it just takes persistence--and a willingness to be flexible, as this story today emphasizes:
"While we can all recite quotes about how persistence is the key to success --"If at first you don't succeed ... ", "Nothing good comes easy" -- they're easier said than acted upon when we feel instead like we're "banging our head against a wall" or "beating a dead horse."  The fact is many workers and job seekers struggle with persistence nowadays. It can be hard to keep going when your job search proves fruitless after months of hard work, you still haven't gotten that promotion you were hoping for or it seems like your "big break" is always just out of arms' reach. With so much time and energy put it our efforts to persist, doing so to no avail can cause us to wonder if our persistence will ever pay off....According to Caroline Ceniza-Levine, co-founder of SixFigureStart, persistence does pay off, so long as we remember one thing about our path to achieving our goals: There is a difference between smart persistence and blind persistence.
"Persistence to a goal pays off as long as you can be flexible on how you get there," Ceniza-Levine says. "If your job search isn't yielding offers, then whatever you are doing is not working. You may have the right role and companies in mind but your marketing, your interview technique, your networking approach, or something else about how you are presenting yourself to these prospects is off. Or the prospects themselves may be wrong for you."

Read the whole thing...

"He always looked like a man determined to put his head through a brick wall...and was about to do it."--an observer on General Ulysses S. Grant.