Everything has its reason, and it is impossible to earn anything without input or effort. Success always comes with a long climb up a ladder, but not an immediate leap to the top. If you only expect someone to hand success to you on a silver platter, then the American dream is only a dream which is not reality. Therefore, people cannot achieve the position they are not really qualified for through career coaches, networking, and inflating their resumes, but via build up their qualifications and abilities. As an enlightenment, the failure of Barbara Ehrenreich in “Bait and Switch” explains that being rewarded with success in America dream must depend on good personality and self-development. Barbara Ehrenreich describes the experience of going
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In second chapter of the “Bait and Switch,” Ehrenreich describes her experience of attending some networking events where she met different people who were struggling in the same situation where she was: seeking better employment opportunities and trying to turn back to the middle class. That is, networking events only tend to attract similar people who are trying to complain their lives and sharing terrible experience. As Ehrenreich told her experience of conversation with amount of unemployed people to Kimberly, her seeking job advisor, Kimberly said “they are unemployed! There is no point to networking with unemployed people unless they have contacts companies you want to work for” (51)! Ehrenreich also agrees and wrote “They (networking) are not worth the time of day. You are encouraged to go to networking events, only to be told that you have been wasting your time” (51). Furthermore, Ehrenreich also states her feeling about being in a networking - “It (networking) feels ‘fake’ because we know it involves the deflection of our natural human sociability to an ulterior end ... …No matter how crowed the room, the networker prowls alone, scavenging to meet his or her individual needs” (Ehrenreich 62). Thus, networking with other people who are desperately looking to switch careers really is wasting
In second chapter of the “Bait and Switch,” Ehrenreich describes her experience of attending some networking events where she met different people who were struggling in the same situation where she was: seeking better employment opportunities and trying to turn back to the middle class. That is, networking events only tend to attract similar people who are trying to complain their lives and sharing terrible experience. As Ehrenreich told her experience of conversation with amount of unemployed people to Kimberly, her seeking job advisor, Kimberly said “they are unemployed! There is no point to networking with unemployed people unless they have contacts companies you want to work for” (51)! Ehrenreich also agrees and wrote “They (networking) are not worth the time of day. You are encouraged to go to networking events, only to be told that you have been wasting your time” (51). Furthermore, Ehrenreich also states her feeling about being in a networking - “It (networking) feels ‘fake’ because we know it involves the deflection of our natural human sociability to an ulterior end ... …No matter how crowed the room, the networker prowls alone, scavenging to meet his or her individual needs” (Ehrenreich 62). Thus, networking with other people who are desperately looking to switch careers really is wasting