A Negative Experience an Opportunity?
Early in my career a position became available which I thought I
was entitled to. I had the experience and a good performance
record. Much to my dismay it was given to an individual with a
university degree. Someone it turned out, I then had to train.
At the time it seemed so unfair to me.
I could have taken the attitude I had failed. However, I didn't
allow this to be a failure. I refused to be beaten. It would
have been easier for me to give up, or become bitter towards the
company. However, I was determined I would succeed, and this was
only a temporary detour. I needed my job and didn't have the
money to obtain a university degree, but I had determination and
optimism. The company I worked for would pay for courses to
attain a professional designation. I enrolled, and over the
course of 9 years, (and two children) attained my professional
designation.
I kept my positive attitude and turned a negative experience
into an opportunity.
To quote Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a
man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."