Thanksgiving - October 1st Week

Last year around this time, I was depressed about losing my web development job, it hit me at my core, the expertise that I built over the past couple of years, led to that moment, and it ended in an instant.

I knew the project was ending but I was hoping to get extended to another project, but that didn’t happen. 

I’m unsure about God, but someone up there had a plan for me. After I finished their project. I didn’t have a job for a week, that same week when I went out I made a friend at a club on the dance floor, and the next day I was working at his restaurant as a host. 

My friend's brother hooked me up with another job, selling shoes. I was back on my feet, with two jobs, enough for me to save up for university.

While selling shoes, I met another person randomly to whom I sold a shoe, who referred me to a dealership. I went in and I smashed the interview, the General sales managers said I had the job, and I was excited, but not for long. The Manager hands me the hiring package, tells me to come tomorrow at 10:00 am sharp, and this person walks in and tells him that he can’t hire another salesman and that they are at max capacity. I was just so done with life, I just wanted to run away from everything.

The General sales manager called his friends,I was interviewed at multiple dealerships, and ended up getting to pick the one I liked. I started selling cars, I learned so much and got all amazing skills from that job. Learn more about it here and here. (Last car sale)

The important thing is looking back if I hadn’t lost my web development job, I would have never, worked as a host, and retail associate and serendipitously met a stranger who would slightly affect my life as to get a job at the dealership, to learn so much about how people interact and how to speak to people, manage my time. I’m just so thankful for all these moments.

There are so many moving parts to life that teach you how to live. In moments of adversity I’d always ask myself “ Why me ? Why did I lose my job, in an industry I’ve been in for 5 years”, but now looking back those things shaped the man I am today. 

I’m not perfect by any means, but I’m closer to my ideal self, the setbacks that seem like obvious setbacks may not be just setbacks but rather a stepping stone, to boost you farther than the natural progression of continuing in that trajectory. 

This was supposed to be on Thanksgiving up I was being lazy : /

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