If your house is anything like mine, mornings are a mad dash between breakfasts, getting kids ready, and school and daycare drop-offs all while trying to fit in a head start on work emails and actions for the day ahead.
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It is pandemonium - and I use that in the original meaning coined in Milton's Paradise Lost: hell.
Right when you think you are ready to leave, the questions come, often in increasing intensity.
"Where are my car keys?"
"Have you seen my wallet?"
"What are our children's names again?"
OK, the last one I know because I'm usually yelling for them to get off the roof and get dressed, but it is a curious concept when you cannot find things that are right in front of you.
There is a name for the phenomenon: schotoma; mental blind spots.
In other news:
This idea of things hiding in plain sight struck me the other week as NTDC hosted a jobs forum called Let's Get Working.
The forum, designed to provide job seekers with some practical tips and tricks for landing their next opportunity, discussed the concept of the "hidden job market", where jobs are not advertised or known about beyond the employer's immediate network.
The percentage of hidden jobs in Tasmania is particularly high, sitting at 40 per cent compared with the national average is more like 20 per cent.
These figures, presented by James McCormack, are quite alarming and no doubt dispiriting to people trying to find work but not coming across opportunities.
But there were solutions such as networking, leaving resumes with potential employers and searching social media.
However, the best result would be for more vacancies to be advertised and NTDC encourages all employers to do so.
While there might be a cost to some formats, others are free and the bonus for your business will be reaching more people and increasing the pool of applicants to choose from.
Positions vacant, Seek, LinkedIn, social media channels are all ways to test the market.
You can even get in touch with NTDC and we will post it on our jobs page, Jobs in Northern Tasmania, which has thousands of followers and can reach tens of thousands of people.
Finding work can be tough in the best environment and 2020 has been a year of extra hardship for many.
What came through the Let's Get Working session was a sense of optimism.
Entrepreneurship facilitator Adam Mostogl spoke about being a job creator not a job taker by starting your own business. He advised people to think about their "head, heart and hands" when considering options: asking themselves what do I know (head), what do I love (heart) and what skills do I have (hands) that could go from a side hustle to a business.
Micro-business consultant Ari Reich described how people wanting to start their own business could access the New Enterprise Incentive Scheme and all the support that entailed.
FermenTasmania CEO Karina Dambergs detailed what employers are looking for in agricultural jobs, which are becoming increasingly available to the local job market and provide terrific variety and career progression.
And communications business owner Daniela Cavalletti spoke about the power of networking and how to put yourself out there; something so important if this hidden job market prevails.
Thank you to all the speakers at Let's Get Working and to Edward, Georgie and Anna for driving the event.
If you were unable to attend, you can find videos of the presentations on our social media channels in the coming days thanks to the audio-visual skills of Luke Scott at the City of Launceston Council.
Let's get those hidden jobs out there in plain sight.
Let's get the skills and support to people looking for employment.
Let's get people comfortable at networking events.
Let's get working.
