Life is surprising. Today I must admit I wasn't in a good mood. Everything felt kind of hopeless. I was on my way home, but I had just started walking when I found a sunny street with a little restaurant having empty outdoor seats. I sat down and for some reason I didn't follow the normal Swedish rule of pretending others don't exist, but I started talking to the woman sitting next to me. After a while it turned out that she had some own experiences from working in my field and she even gave me some names of companies to contact! The woman was a coach! She told me I just had to go on trying, not because the contacts I work on now necessarily will give me a job, but the trying would work me in the right direction and increase my chances of getting something from an unexpected source. Wasn't that exactly what I needed to hear? I walked away and enjoyed the afternoon.
When I arrived home I found that one of my old contacts had given me an official recommendation! I had also received a personal answer from an employer I had been chasing last week. It all made me feel much better.
What's the saying?
It's darkest before dawn...
