HOW I LEARNED TO BE PROACTIVE (Part One)

Hello people, it’s been a while since I last posted… yeah…I know…

Really sorry about that… I got caught up with a lot of work… once again... but I plan to be more consistent in my posts this time round. So help me God.

So, anyway, this time I have decided to post part one and part two of a story on how I learned to be a proactive person.

Oh, wait! Before we get into that story, I have just realized that today is first of June, meaning we are officially half way the year, 2018! If you are alive and well, and reading this post right now, you really need to thank God for this! It’s by His grace that he has brought us this far so far. You really got to thank Him.

“Proactive”, you must be wondering… what does the word mean anyway?

Time was running out, and I knew I had to move much faster in trying to secure myself an internship placement real quick. I was getting desperate.

Almost all my friends had secured themselves places, and others had already started working, while here I was, still walking about, going to different organizations, dropping my application letters, making phone calls to different organizations, all in the hope that I would get to receive that phone call, hear the voice at the other end of the line, tell me what I so much needed to hear! That I had been given an internship placement!

What I thought wouldn’t take as long a process, turned out to be taking a longer time than I had imagined.

So, I happened to go to this one particular, big organization with my fingers crossed.

As I walk into the Human Resource Office, my eyes land on the many young people, who had filled up the office.

You could tell that they had also come searching for the same thing I was, an Internship Placement!

At this point, my eyes turn to the area where I believe the Human Resource Manager is seated. She is an old lady of about sixty years of age, or more.

I could see that she was extremely busy working on some documents on her desk.

Some people would walk in, take just one look at the large number of people in the office, take a look at the Human Resource Manager, who was obviously busy, and they would walk away.

You could tell they were discouraged by the large number of people who had filled up the office.

So, back to the Human Resource Manager; I walk straight to her and greet her, to which she doesn’t respond.

I then go straight to the point and ask her whether there are any internship placements available for people doing the course I was doing.

Surprisingly, she doesn’t respond or look up to show any sign that she had heard my question.

I convince myself that she is probably just too busy and that she probably just didn’t hear my question.

Deep down in my mind though, I knew I was loud and clear enough, and the office itself was quiet enough to hear even a person seated five meters away say “a hello!”

So, I sit back and wait to see if she would probably look up and ask me what I wanted, just incase she hadn’t heard me the first time; but unfortunately, she doesn’t.

I decide to sit back and patiently wait for her, along with the rest.

So I think to myself, “Yes, she must be too busy, too busy to even look up, to look up at all the people, who now keep coming and filling up her office, one after the other.”

After about 5minutes, as I patiently sit and wait, one other young person seeking an internship placement, walks in, pauses a little right next to the door, as he can now see that there are many people who are seated, now waiting impatiently.

He walks right up to her, slowly, and then asks her if there are any internship opportunities, and if he can drop his internship application letter.

It’s at this moment that the Human Resource lady now gets up from her chair, obviously irritated by the too much work on her desk, and the many people who keep flooding her office, gets her plate of food, gets a hold of her bag, and walks out of the office without saying anything.

But as she walks out, I make an attempt and ask her when she will be back from her lunch break.

Surprisingly, she still doesn’t respond.

We had all been waiting to hear her response, but she leaves us right there without any response.

I think to myself, “That’s a little rude…”

So... yeah, that there was my first encounter meeting the Human Resource Manager of this organization.

Then I start to think, “Probably she was just having a long hard day, one that was tough, and now all that was on her mind was having that meal. After all, she must have been having so much work to do, and with all the people that kept walking into her office, and flooding it up! She must have had a stressful day and all she needs right now is a break!”

Though I also thought to myself, “this must be one tough no-nonsense old lady!”

To be continued in my next post.....