Andrew (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fangio) wrote,@ 2006-11-15 10:26:00 |
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Opportunities
A thought came to me during lunch today. How does one create opportunities for oneself? I've just taken a huge step in my career. I've run out of lives when it comes to moving around companies. This next one I'm moving to has to be for keeps. Or at least for a good number of years. I'm sure the next few months will be amazingly exciting as I have to move to Edinburgh for 3 months as part of the company induction/training. 3 months right smack in the middle of winter. Totally new environment and surroundings. A chance of a lifetime for me. I know I'm going to absolutlely love it. A real bonus considering I'm going to be doing a job which really appeals to my interests, matches my traits plus a nice pay rise. I'm really so incredibly lucky and blessed.
So back to creating opportunities. I didn't quite create this one for myself. It was a combination of sheer luck. A friend (ex-colleague) had applied for another position there and he told me about the company and the roles that they were looking to fill. How that conversation occured and the scenarios that led to it can be described as a long set of events that happened a certain way. I wouldn't have know about the company had one of those events turn out slightly differently. I may have passed the interviews and landed the job through my own merit but I certainly didn't create this opportunity for myself.
I've come to the conclusion that opportunities are as random as random gets. Kinda like meeting the right person. You don't go out and look for perfect love, it'll find you. To me, this is an important realization because just a few weeks ago I must admit I felt rather lost. I wasn't doing a job which particularly interested me nor paid me what I want to earn (of course whatever amount will never be enough) and I couldn't see anyway out of it. Life as a whole wasn't bad.... its just that I felt kinda bleak about my future as I couldn't see further than my nose on where it would take me. Fast forward a month and the picture is completely different. Bloody amazing, I tell you.
A thought came to me during lunch today. How does one create opportunities for oneself? I've just taken a huge step in my career. I've run out of lives when it comes to moving around companies. This next one I'm moving to has to be for keeps. Or at least for a good number of years. I'm sure the next few months will be amazingly exciting as I have to move to Edinburgh for 3 months as part of the company induction/training. 3 months right smack in the middle of winter. Totally new environment and surroundings. A chance of a lifetime for me. I know I'm going to absolutlely love it. A real bonus considering I'm going to be doing a job which really appeals to my interests, matches my traits plus a nice pay rise. I'm really so incredibly lucky and blessed.
So back to creating opportunities. I didn't quite create this one for myself. It was a combination of sheer luck. A friend (ex-colleague) had applied for another position there and he told me about the company and the roles that they were looking to fill. How that conversation occured and the scenarios that led to it can be described as a long set of events that happened a certain way. I wouldn't have know about the company had one of those events turn out slightly differently. I may have passed the interviews and landed the job through my own merit but I certainly didn't create this opportunity for myself.
I've come to the conclusion that opportunities are as random as random gets. Kinda like meeting the right person. You don't go out and look for perfect love, it'll find you. To me, this is an important realization because just a few weeks ago I must admit I felt rather lost. I wasn't doing a job which particularly interested me nor paid me what I want to earn (of course whatever amount will never be enough) and I couldn't see anyway out of it. Life as a whole wasn't bad.... its just that I felt kinda bleak about my future as I couldn't see further than my nose on where it would take me. Fast forward a month and the picture is completely different. Bloody amazing, I tell you.
