Times are financially tough. People are losing their jobs left and right. It’s not easy out there. Not at all! However, some individuals must have read The Secret and have chosen not to let this economic crisis bring them down. Instead, they are making light of it by getting creative when trying to search for a job. Take Joshua Persky, for example. After getting laid off by the investment bank Houlihan Lokey, Persky hit the pavement…literally.

Wearing a sign advertising “MIT grad for hire” for six months, he actually landed a job. And no, not at some hotdog stand. He got hired on as a senior manager at Weiser LLP, an accounting firm.

“I liked his resume,” said his new boss, Elliot Ogulnick. “I must admit, it was very innovative.”

Persky said that during his weeks spent as a walking ad on Park Avenue, he got several job interviews. “The publicity I got from the sandwich board [ad] encouraged me to set up a blog to document my experience,” he said. “It feels so great to be back at work. I went through some frustrating times, but every day I tried to be optimistic.”

And it paid off! Persky’s family (a wife and five kids), who relocated to Nebraska to be with her parents to save cash, are heading back to New York to reunite after the end of the school year.

Happy Holidays! Keep believing!

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