APRIL 12 2011 1726 - JACKSONVILLE FL: Today I received some really good news. Not so much from the aspect of my personal life, but more so of my professional life instead.
A few weeks ago, I applied for an opportunity to cross train in the area of Sales. This position is interim and has a life span of any where between four and eight months. Basically it is part of my company's initiative to cross train the current employee base to ready us for transition into a more retail kind of environment.
I applied because, and to be perfectly honest with you, I am getting burned out in my current position. As I explained to my manager, I am reaching burn out. I explained to my manager that I had to move in three year cycles if there is any hope of me maintaining freshness. He completely understood. Nothing like wearing out your highest performing horse, and then expecting to win the Kentucky Derby.
Receiving the news today was like receiving a fresh breath of life. My manager approached me adn asked me to go into a meeting segment. After the customary jokes about whether I should pack my desk out and prepare to hand over my badge - my manger got a kick out of my humor - went into a conference room, where a handfull of my peers were. Every manager in the conference room had smiles on their faces, and that is when they delivered the news.
I have been riding high all day after receiving the news. Here is an opportunity for me to grow, develop and network. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this is certainly a career enhancing move, and I am ready to embrace what the future has to hold.
God has truly blessed me with the news of this opportunity. I cannot thank him enough. I just pray that I will be able to live up to the expectations that God has for me with this opportunity. I am so tired of failing God, and I certainly do not wish to fail him with this endeavor. God is truly good, all the time, and of all the time God is good.
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