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This is Work – Organization


Happy New Year to all and just like 2022, this will be another year focusing on how work is happening all around us. Each year is in a cycle, not just a cycle of seasons, weather, and holidays, but a cycle of trade, commerce, and as people are, priorities. A new year means new resolutions and some people are going to focus on the traditional stuff such as eating right and exercising more, while others are looking at the things in their day to day that need to get in order. One of those areas is organizing stuff.

There is an entire industry devoted to helping people control chaos, clutter, and keeping things in order. The organizing business is much bigger than you might expect. Just head to the store and you will see reminder signs that something in your life is not in the right spot, looks messy, or needs assistance. Retail trade and commerce has devised products for us to buy with the idea that people just us will need stuff to stuff our stuff in. It sounds silly, but this is legitimately keeping people employed.  

I like to think of myself as organized yet watching any videos online about organization, you would think that I am seriously lacking. I might head to my retail giant, or specialized store and purchase some goods to keep my spices in order for my kitchen or I can take it to the next level and hire someone to do this for me.

Hiring a Professional Organizer is different than hiring someone to clean the house. An organizer does not wash your dishes, rather the person takes a pile of dishes and miscellaneous other items you may have in your home and helps you prioritize, declutter, classify, and store those things. A professional in the organization business may also help you come up with a system that works for you to prevent the piles in the future.

Some of my readers are saying you need one of those people to show up at your door right now, while a few more of you are saying this could be your new business. I searched on Google to get some statistics and learned there are estimated to be almost 45k home organizing professionals in the United States. While this seems like a tiny amount of jobs for people in the United States, it apparently is a growing business. The demand has grown since 2020 and will likely continue.

I was trying to think of a large company name off the top of my head and could not, so when I searched I found local small businesses. What I found was entrepreneurs with a skill or talent that someone else seems to be in need of, to help people get their material possessions in order. Ultimately, organizing, whether it be you doing it to your stuff or an expert getting your life in order is work. #Thisiswork

 ~Karen Cirincione

Email: kcirincione@gmail.com        

Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/karenjcirincione

Twitter: @kcirincione 

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