Do you remember that film called “Sliding Doors” starring Gwyneth Paltrow? It was about a certain point in your life when things could go into two totally different directions and your life has two totally different outcomes.
I’m sorry this post isn’t about women or mgtow. It is about me getting older and looking back on my life.
Anyway when I was at university (a long time ago) I worked during the vacations at a certain organisation. My work there went very well. After graduating my boss in this organisation told me a certain Bob Dobbs in Widget-X production was hiring lots of people and I should look there for a job. Obviously I’ve subsituted “Bob Dobbs” for his real name. I actually knew of Bob Dobbs already. I had spoken to him on the telephone and saw him about.
So I phoned Bob Dobbs and told him I heard his division was hiring. He told me straight up that he wasn’t hiring at all. So that was the end of it.
There was a terrible recession at the time and I found it difficult to get a job. After some months I took a job. It was a lousy job. The work was boring. The pay was low. It was in a horrible, run-down part of the country. Anyway I needed to get a better job and fast! The rush to get another job, made me accept another job I had reservations about. Again the job was terrible. My boss there wasn’t qualified in the appropriate line of technology and made ridiculous decisions.
This totally messed up my future in the field and I ended up going back to university to qualify in a different field, albeit still a technical one.
My career in the new field is a much better one. In fact I now realize the kind of work I do now is much better suited for me. I now own my own small business and thousands of companies around the world use my products. Some very famous companies use my products.
I ended up for a while in a foreign country almost half the way in the world away from home. By a total coincidence I bumped into someone who graduated in the same year as myself. She told me of her wonderful career working for Bob Dobbs in Widget-X production. Wow! But if you recall, when I phoned Bob Dobbs he told me he wasn’t hiring back then.
So what had happened? It seems in this organisation, there are two men both called Bob Dobbs and both work in Widget-X production. Yes, really. I looked things up.
So if I had managed to pick the right Bob Dobbs all those years ago, I might have had a different career and I would have saved myself three years of misery working for horrible people in horrible jobs. Just trying to do sensible work in this horrible job, would provoke the boss there to spit venom at me.
All in all things did work out well, but at the moment I am thinking back to this terrible mistake made all those years ago. If I picked the right Bob Dobbs, I would probably be working in a different field and would have saved myself 3 years of misery.
