After two years and a half without a solid opportunity I have the immense pleasure to announce you that I'm back in the job market. After acing a Chemistry test and being scrutinized to the fullest, this afternoon, the longest four-days-wait of my life ended with the following terrific piece of news: "You were selected in our process to be our industrial Chemist".
I mean, isn't that such a thing when God rewards you for your efforts? I truly believe that regardless of faith, color, race and so on and so forth, everyone will reap what they sow. That's the way the cookie crumbles.
A lot of people might come and say that luck is the biggest factor when it comes to achieve your dreams. I always have an answer ready for them though: It is a quotation from Gary Player, "The more I practise the luckier I get". What they call luck, I call the encounter of one opportunity with the right preparation". And that is exactly what happened.
It might sound very bragadocious of me to some but to tell you the truth I had effectively been looking for a job for just two weeks. Isn't that superb?
I'm a great believer that all things happen for a reason. I mean as soon as I got back from the US I sent out a couple of resumes and was called up for a test. I failed miserably at it as it had been about two years that I wouldn't read a thing about chemistry (my major) and stuff. My one and only goal at the time was to brush up my English as much as I could.
It then downed on me that unless I put my English passion in the back burner for awhile and hit my Chemistry books ferociously my outcome on those tests would pretty much be the same…. which would mean a lifetime of studies going down the drain.
Even though I love English and believe that I could possibly afford a decent living out of it, I'd never forgive myself for not taking the most out of my Chemistry studies.
So I was forced to outline a plan to reach that objective in my life. My primary focus at the time was actually getting an approval in an open examination test (concurso) to become a public servant. To be more precise my main target was Petrobras, the way I could rest assured I'd have lifetime stability and fat paychecks. LOL.
However hard I tried though, this path proved to be the most difficult one as after studying for hours on end, every single day, for four months I couldn’t make it. I now understand that in order to be approved in a test of this caliber, one has to be ridiculously prepared. I mean it’s no child’s play dude. After pulling out countless all nighters and burning the midnight oil like crazy to do not even figure among the approved for possible future calls... I have to confess it was a hell of a bummer, a pretty disheartening thing.
All that studies though, along with my last six months at university, gave me a hell of an edge in this last test I took since it wasn’t even near the difficulty of an open examination one. I could remember everything they wanted and put everything on paper. The point is, although my primary focus wasn’t prepare for a company post, had I not taken these last six months to study Chemistry and all the related subjects, I’d probably have failed the test and as a result wouldn’t have gotten the position.
Everyone has a turning point somewhere in life. I mean I was ready bag and baggage to pull up stakes and go live in another State without any job or security. I was willing to leave everything behind, my family, friends, dog, and my cozy and warm house to start from scratch somewhere out there. Even though I’m very confident in myself and also am fully aware that God wouldn’t let me starve, things can be a lot tougher when making the wrong decisions. I’m happy that just two weeks after giving up the idea of doing such a risky thing God rewarded me with this great opportunity. That’s certainly a sign that here is my place and that whatever has to happen, from now on, will happen is His time and His way.
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