A blog about being on an educational journey in my own life

– an explorer on a voyage of discovery.

Not all who wander are lost.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Why am I doing this?

I guess a lot of whys can be asked!

But this is first of all a personal process - working myself out of an unemployment situation. It is an attempt to turn a complicated position into a positive and more energetic creative work flow by letting coincidence and interest rule. I think there are alternatives to traditional job seeking by applications and that to go Walkabout is one of them with the purpose of increasing the network and broaden my own horizon at the same time.

Another purpose is to take a position to or try to relate to habits, behaviors, taboos and myths connected to being unemployed. It is very common in our society to put people into boxes without asking which one we want to belong to. As time goes by we begin to believe that our picture of the boxed people is true and people inside and outside the box start to act and behave according to this picture. Very much of this is unspoken knowledge in our society, among friends, family and former colleagues but does it have to be like that? And are there connections to other areas, groups of people which it could be interesting to learn from? I think very little has been said and written about these issue so my intention is to reflect during the course of events how I feel about it - a kind of mirroring of my self - from a human perspective and reflect on subjects related to the psychology of being unemployed. My hope is to contribute to a more visible context and a more equal dialog among us about this area instead of just being hold captured in my own box trying to get out!

Why do I have to make this public? Sometimes it is better to face the facts and look the situation in the face and let the unsaid be said - actually it already feels better and has created a more spacious mental room. Other reasons are to push myself forward since this Walkabout is about breaking habits too.

Why is the language English? Because I want to share this with known and unknown relations and friends across borders and again by doing something different than just continue writing in Danish is another way of extending the boundaries.

And least but not last. If this could inspire others to try something a bit different in an unemployment situation - write a book, make a movie, build something, join something - anything that makes it easier to put one foot in front of the other and to keep the personal process on the right track - is has been worth doing.

Feel free to put forward more whys and to comment in Danish if it feels more convenient.

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