Living in the NOW
January 05, 2021
There are times when advice you have received and given become relevant. That’s tends to be during an encounter where you feel that moment shared will resonate and inform someone you are with in this moment. It’s a reassurance that what they are experiencing is timely, will pass and like you they will triumph.
Your lived experience bringing hope to those who have yet to accumulate theirs.
I don’t know how my lived experience is relevant in the time of Covid.
My reflection is specifically turning to career, exams and further / higher education before the career path begins.
A world away today. A distant past that on occasion seems like yesterday and on others faded slight remembrances.
I was always a little disappointed by my uni experience but in the light is 2020 and the dawn of 2021 want consolation can I provide? What vision of beyond the limited horizon of youth can I give?
Life will go on? Passion will endure? Love will conquer all? Listen to your head but follow your heart?
The most influential bit of advice I ever received that truly shaped my early career in my mid to late 20’s was “don’t take a job because there’s nothing else, chase and take the jobs you want.”
It served me well in career phase one. I thought it would be just that way for the duration then I’d retire. In between there would be life, love, family and folly along side work, life and culture.
Career 2 emerged in the wake of emerging social technology. I was definitely in the wrong place at the right time! Always trying to find my place. Absorbing adulthood and learning business, adapting and adopting digital, Its potential joyously screaming community, audiences, freedom, connection.
That time was dark with diamonds.The kick in the teeth was Brexit. The light came with lockdown.
How do I give insight that goes in the face if normalcy? I feel baffled by the present. With all my focus I failed to work and find sustained employment. All my attempts to actively find work and further my career was hard and bore minimal fruit.
Now I see possibility as I am entering career 3 it was Jan 2020 I gave in to circumstance. By March we were in the now.
This now. The story continues.