For anyone interested, there's a detailed description of what being a Karen means here: https://www.quora.com/What-does-being-a-Karen-mean. Apparently I'm in for a long slog of association with my name actually being added to the world's vocabulary. Quoted from site above, "[Karen] will become a term that is just as demeaning and spiteful as is the term bitch, but it will be universally acceptable for full public use by men, women or children." I'm wondering what all the other Karen's in the world are thinking about this? I'm trying to be excited about the fact that my name is now a verb and can be found in the urban dictionary.
Now that I have clarity about the direction my name is going, I also have clarity that I need clarity about the direction my life is going. That's a lot of clarity going on but unfortunately not about my next career move.
Yesterday I had a free 15 minute phone consultation with Jo from a nearby recruitment agency. She advertised a service on her website where she will help you re-write your CV, update your LinkedIn profile and give you a one hour 1:1 consultation to help with any aspect of your job search. I was trying to figure out if this would be worth paying for. She had already given me some feedback on my CV and some tips on how I could improve it and offered this consultation to help me determine if throwing money at this would help.
Jo was lovely! She took 27 minutes out of her day to give me helpful advice and feedback. Basically she said my challenge is that I don't have clarity about what I want to do and that's where I'm stuck. If I can figure that part out, she thinks I have the skills I need to rework my CV and sell myself. The problem is I don't know what I want. Jo is right.
So my first big quest in the job hunt, redefinition of Karen, is finding clarity on what I actually want. This might take a while as I've never known what I want to be when I grow-up. The search continues.
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