Black Monday

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.
-Joey Adams, comedian

Mondays, traditionally, are bad days. Many heart attacks occur Monday morning. It’s a heavy day for traffic accidents, too. In our culture Monday becomes Doomsday. Compare that with Friday, when TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) becomes the mantra. Why?

That Monday is always ‘black and blue’ is a wry commentary on the way we live. If you hate your job so much you dread going back to it at the beginning of the week, what are you doing about it?

There were two Black Mondays in the last two decades of the 20th century, one on October 19, 1987, and one almost exactly ten years later on October 27, 1997. They were days when investors felt like jumping out of the windows of tall buildings.

I know it’s one thing to say, ‘I hate this place’, and something else to say to yourself, ‘I’m going to get out of here’. But if every Monday is a Black Monday, start taking steps to get out of the environment you’re in. Actively look for other opportunities. Remember, if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten!

Excerpt from Gutfeeling
Author, Peter Urs Bender