I got a call yesterday morning around 8:00 A.M. on my cell phone. The number read Unavailable, so I didn't answer. Then around 8:03 A.M. I felt another buzz in my pocket, and again it was the unavailable number. They left a message but I didn't have the time to check it...I was busy at work. The company line rang about 4 times, and once it was obvious no one else was concerned with getting the phone I answered it.
"_______ Printers, this is Chase." I said.
A women spoke softly,"Hi, my name is Sandy and I am calling from AI (design agency) in regards to a graphic design position we have currently available...". Yeah, they called me at work! That company, one which I had applied to months ago for a different position and didn't even get so much as a courtesy call was now interested. Maybe I was just trying to hard before?
I think it is strange how this world works. People want what is wanted by others. A kid will be playing perfectly content with a toy, until he or she notices that another kid is playing with something else...You get my drift. I had always wondered if the grass was really greener on the other side, if I would ever be content with my life. Then I read the following a couple of days ago- it changed my whole point of view.
"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." Robert Fulghum, in It was On Fire When I Lay Down on It, Ivy Books, 1989
I wish I'd heard this a long time ago.
"_______ Printers, this is Chase." I said.
A women spoke softly,"Hi, my name is Sandy and I am calling from AI (design agency) in regards to a graphic design position we have currently available...". Yeah, they called me at work! That company, one which I had applied to months ago for a different position and didn't even get so much as a courtesy call was now interested. Maybe I was just trying to hard before?
I think it is strange how this world works. People want what is wanted by others. A kid will be playing perfectly content with a toy, until he or she notices that another kid is playing with something else...You get my drift. I had always wondered if the grass was really greener on the other side, if I would ever be content with my life. Then I read the following a couple of days ago- it changed my whole point of view.
"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." Robert Fulghum, in It was On Fire When I Lay Down on It, Ivy Books, 1989
I wish I'd heard this a long time ago.
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