I have to admit I have a love/hate relationship with Lost, every season finale I swear to myself I will never watch again. I hate being left hanging and the feeling of an incomplete story but yet I keep watching. Last week I rushed the kids to bed so I could watch the season premier, the entire 3 hours! And you know what? It didn’t disappoint, no questions were answered and more questions arose. Which got me to thinking, Lost is really like life.

Jack, Kate, and Sawyer, and all of their friends have no control over their circumstances and every time they think they have everything figured out, there are thrown a curve ball. A big curve ball!

Being employed in today’s market is pretty much the same. As an employee you have no control over your future. In today’s economy it’s all about the dollars and the bottom line. Was it always like that?

You can be laid off, eliminated or thrown to the curb at a moment’s notice. And your life is instantly changed forever.

On the news a father murdered his entire family after he and his wife were laid off from their jobs. They missed one mortgage payment; they were behind on the home equity and some other debt. He must have felt completely out of control and couldn’t handle it. Unlike Lost innocent children paid for his instability.

We have a condo here in LA which we purchased approximately four years ago, not at the peak of the market but close enough. After having our son, we realized that we needed to move. We simply out grew the space. We immediately put the house up for sell and even got some offers. But the market was declining and we were slammed with low-blow-below-the-gut offers because of course anyone that was trying to sell NEEDED to sell. Well that wasn’t our case so we waited it out. As we did the condo got smaller and Bizzie Boys gear got bigger. Now just like the survivors of Oceanic Flight we are trapped. We can’t get out of our condo and they can’t get off the island.

The survivors of the plan crash have no control over their situation the same way I have no control over mine. I can’t prevent a layoff and I can’t force anyone to buy my house. Everything is up in the air, should we move, should we stay, change schools, or change jobs. And every time we get close to figuring something out FLASH, our island moves. Not through time but through circumstance.