Today could be the day that you might make a change
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Let me tell you a story.
Six years ago my girlfriend at the time did something stupid.
She resigned.
She didn’t resign from a dead end job. She wasn’t working for minimum wage in some grotty cafe. She didn’t hate her employers.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
She worked in The City for a swanky architecture and design practice. She got the job after seeing an ad in The Guardian. Over a thousand people applied for that job, and she got it.
And then she quit.
She quit and joined a tiny education start-up. She was the third person to join. This start-up had a generic, tiny office in a place where loads of tiny start-ups exist. They had no funding, no students, no courses, no logo, no website.
But she still left her big, impressive job in The City for this tiny start-up. And she dedicated the next five and a half years of her life to making that tiny start-up one of the most important things to happen to Suffolk for a long time.
She is my wife, and that tiny start-up was University Campus Suffolk.
Six years ago, I was in a dead end insurance job. I hated every godforsaken minute of it. And my wife pushed me to be better; to do something I really wanted to do.
Today, I have a business that I love, where I get to work with some truly talented and wonderful people.
One of those people graduated from University Campus Suffolk today. Well done, Luke.
This post isn’t intended to be self-congratulatory. If you think it is, you’re wrong.
Instead, this post is the proof that you can make a difference. It is a testimonial for doing something you really want to do, no matter how foolish anybody thinks you are.
What are you going to be doing in six years? Something that you love or something that you hate?
Today could be the day that you might make a change.
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