Please Keep Going

Life is amazing, but isn’t always. Sometimes life can take a turn for the worst when you least expect it. When you think you are on a rocket ship to the moon, the next thing you know it is all taken away from you in an instant. It sucks and it hurts.

I personally spent the first 20 years of my career giving everything I had to building my career in sales, and less than one month into what I thought was my dream job as Sales Director of a Wound Care Company. It became my biggest nightmare and we parted ways. The pain and depression I felt over this was like something that I never felt before. I spiraled to my lowest point, and had no way of seeing a future where my life was back on track.

Fortunately, I am a father of two children that I am responsible for. So every day I had to get up early and take my son to the bus stop at 6 am. Then I would come home and get my daughter ready for school. Then after the kids were in school I had the rest of the day to stew in my own misery, unless I was putting effort into finding a new opportunity. Which also is a struggle, since job hunting comes with a very large amount of rejection as well.

After 5 months I was offered a job as a sales rep, that was a regression in my career trajectory, but got me back in the game. It evolved into a position in a different department in Client Success Management. It ended up being a good fit because I have always believed philosophically that a company cannot grow their business if they do not have a satisfied base.

Am I where I want to be in my career, no. Do I want more in my career, yes. However, this experience did give me the opportunity to change my perspective that centered my life around my career first. Instead of the focus being on being a father and husband. Over time, the pain of what I went through is starting to heal. It has also led me to this website where I am following my dream to help lift other people up.

Tough times stink, and can be treacherous for a period of time that seems unending. However, if you can just try to move forward little by little and persevere then you will slowly generate positive momentum. I believe in myself, and I believe in you. Just keep going and eventually things will change, because change is inevitable.