“The Real American Crossroad”

“The Real American Crossroad”

            As I watch the wide variety of surreal television shows about “the real” housewives, the real intervention, the millionaire matchmaker, the real cooking show, I keep wondering when a real show representing real people will show up on the scene.  Most of the people I know aren’t driving luxury cars, and fighting at dinner tables of banquet halls.  The real American family fights start in the kitchens of the homes of struggling families who are trying to keep a roof over their heads, their children in schools where teachers aren’t being harassed by bureaucracy, and seeking jobs that will pay more than $10.00 an hour when they have 20 yrs. of experience and a college degree. 

These are the “Real American Families” at a major “Crossroad in Life”. These are the real stories that need to be told.  Let’s follow someone on a job search and see how a human resource director called in a candidate with 15 years of experience and asked them to consider a pay rate of $9.00 to $10.00 an hour and then have them meet with a manager who request the candidate go through a round of hula hooping with the VP of the Department and the CFO, only to be questioned during the process with the loving words of; “you really have a lot of experience, will this job suit you”?  “You know were only paying $10.00 an hr.”

Okay you are now at a “Crossroad”.  Right now you want to say; “Hell no this won’t suit me” I have a degree and 15 yrs. of experience, but the last time I looked my kids, they couldn’t eat air and my mortgage can’t be paid with good intentions. You are so mad that you even went on this interview, your saying to yourself I made more money than this when I was my kids age, but again I say, Stop and think.  Now is the time to remember that this “too will pass”.  Friend, if you get the job take.  If you don’t get the job, say I’m going to keep on pushing.  Either way my friends you will need to remember this most essential point;” this is only for the moment”.  Believe it or not that six figure job was for the moment to, that’s why it’s gone. That job was only for a season and a new season has begun. In order to get pass this Cross Road you will have to plant new seed and as you know when you plant seeds you have to water, you have fertilize, clip some bad leaves, but eventually the plant will grow. Crossroads like this one tear at your soul, they make you want to give up, they make you want to scream and cry.  But friend as they say in the words of one of my favorite movies “Shawshank Redemption”; you’ll need to either “Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying”.  You’re at another Crossroad and dying isn’t an option, so let’s go, get up!  Wipe away those tears, scream, and then hit the internet searching for new seed to plant at your “Crossroad”…