Life’s a journey! True; just that it’s full of turns and crossroads! Sometimes we see them ahead and sometimes they just appear!
Sometimes, there are highways without turns. And, sometimes full of turns and cross roads. Just like different phases of our life!
When we miss a turn (or an exit); we seem to be lost! Well, it does not appear so! It’s a part of our journey and the journey will end where it has to!
To live the journey again, look back and recognize the turning points in your life.
You would be reminded of picked opportunities, missed opportunities or events that changed the course of your journey. Everyday could be filled with many such turning points.
Identify your turning points!
Try remembering your action or inaction and translate them either to strength or learning.
Don’t forget to express your gratitude towards the people who helped in your journey.
One of my interesting turning points was getting into the IT industry! I am very certain many from my era would have had a turning point story to a career in IT!
I started my career as sales engineer; selling welding electrodes. Sales was one career that I was very certain to take post my engineering. A turn that was seen well ahead! And, I did well in Sales (I think so :-))
When most of my college mates were changing their career into IT, I wanted to continue in Mechanical. After about three years, I decided to try sales position in IT.
One of my friend’s mother connected me to a person to help me with an lT sales job. And, this person connected me to a company involved in IT body shopping. Upon meeting this person, I was made to believe that to sell software, one needs to know IT programming. And, he sold me a course in Java that this company offered; the turning point!
Post the course completion, another friend introduced me to his contact who was looking for a Java programmer. I got this job!
Thank you dear friends Vikram Jayaprakash and Naveen Jayachandran!
An interesting turn in my life! From Sales to Programming in 1999.
Recognize your turning points!
Author: Raghuraman Kadambi
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/turning-points-raghuraman-kadambi/
Image Credit: CC0 License – https://www.pxfuel.com/en/free-photo-xjskf