Luck Schmuck

Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected. Therefore, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties trying to find a perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends.

Lucky people are more relaxed and open, seeing what's there rather than just what they are looking for. They generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

So what happened to me? Why am I in Sales?!

I recently learned that instead of being assigned to Marketing, I was assigned to Sales. I hate it. Like any other unlucky person, I was too focused to see the unexpected. And boy was it shocking.

I felt like my world just stopped. Everything that I've worked for the last three years of my life seemed to have vanished in that 30-min conversation with Ms. Vanessa. I've long been waiting to go to Marketing, to handle a brand and claim it as my own. It's the reason why I joined MarkProf. It's the reason why I studied Marketing in the first place. And now, everything's just messed up. So messed up in fact that I'm considering the idea of resigning.

I'm getting a car, high comission every month, unexpected salary raise (aside from the raise that is planned soon, too), 250 liters of gas per month, a new laptop, a company card, unlimited free time, the works. The downside? Nothing there seems tempting to me. I don't care about the money, me and my family have that. I don't care about the car, I hate driving. I'd rather ride with Kuya Willy forever. I don't care about a laptop, my personal laptop is way better than what they're giving me, I think. I don't care about the free time, I want to be pressured, to be challenged. I don't care about the company card either. All I want is the experience. That certain feeling that I've long been wanting to feel since I started this career path to Marketing.

All I'm banking on now is the idea of becoming a better person through this Sales experience. Everybody's been saying that this would be the best move for me if I want to become a really really good Marketing professional someday. That I'll be making better decisions when I go into Sales first. God, I hope they're right.

Now, as my tat implies, I have to make a choice and see if it really does contribute to my destiny. Am I really for Marketing? Let's see. I hope I am (coz my heart's still with it) but let's see. I won't block my heart anymore, though. I'll venture into the world of Trade Marketing and see if I'll grow there. Who knows, I may be lucky this time around.