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'The Holidays': We must confess, at times we have a love / loathe relationship with them. As with most things in life, there is a purity and essence to them that we love (think homemade foods, sharing time with people that you love, the opportunity for thoughtful gift giving), but these things get easily co-opted and turned into an overwhelming experience (excessive commercial sales pitches, too much food/drink, and/or treacherous travel).
So we are trying to filter through the noise and get back to the root of it all. While we can't speak for everyone we most certainly know what we need: connection. Pure human support and the reminder that we are tethered to something real. While we may have spent up to 8 hours researching and executing a DIY gift idea, at the end of the day we feel like it might have been more fun to simply spend that time with the gift recipient instead. And for everyone to do so without the anxiety of preparing for end of year deadlines.
You live and you learn. And most importantly, you try to remember it next year so that you don't repeat the same pattern over and over.
But we realized today that this theme extends far beyond the excess of the holidays. Last week we asked you if you had any gripes about the job search process. And the responses we had all focused around the same thing: the need to be acknowledged. Not one person complained about a shortage of jobs, or a lack of securing them. Their observations and desires were much more simple than that: they just wanted to know that they were heard. Here's an excerpt from a response we got:
Looking for a job is an agonizing, and at time dehumanizing, process. It makes you question your skills and your self-worth. When I left my last job I started keeping track of the postings I applied for, wanting a tally of what I was sending out and what I got back. The results are dismal and I have since stopped counting. Sometimes I am surprised, when searching through my email, not only by the number of resumes and queries I have sent out, but at the lack of response. Because I expect a response. A basic, generic, auto-reply works. It lets me know that you have in fact received my cover letter and resume. It consoles me that although I may not be the best fit for your position, you, or your computer, have noticed I’m in the world. And that my resume, my years of experience and accumulated skills, are not just floating somewhere in the interwebs.
So we ask of you this holiday season: if you have the chance to let someone know that you hear them, take it. Write a card or a letter to thank someone for something that they did, or for being who they are. Answer an email that has been sitting in your inbox for months. Pick up the ball that you dropped on some correspondence, no matter how old.
Or maybe, just maybe, if you are in charge of hiring (or know someone that is) make it a goal to set up an auto responder for job applications (we highly recommend simply setting up a new gmail address for job applications, which also helps to manage the process). Communication is key. We are all human, and we all want the same thing: to be heard, to be appreciated, and to be connected to something bigger than ourselves.
If you just can't get over the idea of a tangible gift, we highly recommend the Kitchen Letters from Food52 Provisions. The idea is just priceless: the recipient gets bi-weekly letters with a recipe card / story in each one. (We know they're good, because Taylor contributed the January 1st letter / recipe!)
If you don't have the $60 to spare, then you can always take the inspiration and hand write / copy a recipe and send it to your friends / family / loved ones for the holidays. But the photography and paper alone make these worthy of holding on to.
While it's not feasible for us to home bake a batch of holiday cookies for all of you, the spirit is there. We hope you'll accept this virtual version, and our most sincere holiday cheer - complete with all of the purist, best parts of what the holidays mean.
Happy Holidays to you and yours,
Taylor & Dorothy
Co-Founders, Good Food Jobs
* NOTE: Due to the upcoming holidays we will not be publishing a newsletter or blog for the next two weeks. We will resume with our regular schedule on Tuesday January 7th, 2014.
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We at Good Food Jobs talk a lot about passion. Sometimes it's the passion that comes from loving food, feeling connected to others through food, experiencing the positive effect that you can have on the world around you through food. Other times, we get a glimpse of the passion that stems from witnessing a small miracle, as PheOnix demonstrates. After all, food itself is the culmination of so many small miracles - growth, transformation, sensation - that make us who we are. Read More
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