As I sit here tonight I started thinking about my life and what it has become over the past 10 years....
I started my career 10 years and 3 weeks ago, only 17 years old, still in high school, and a mind full of dreams and planning a lifetime of fun.
I had to complete a mentorship with at least 8 hours per week working in a business field that I was interested in pursuing in my future. I wasn't allowed to work in a bar or club at the time because I was only 17, so I settled for a position in a banquet hall.
I was so upset that I couldn't do what I actually wanted and I kept counting down the days until I would be finished, and then something crazy happened... I realized how much fun I was having. I got to help plan parties, attend weddings, make cash tips on Friday nights working coat check.... it was wonderful.
On the last day of my mentorship I was asked to take over as the office assistant, as the current assistant was taking a position with another company. What a shock, and nothing like I thought I wanted. I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Taking that job changed the course of my life... I decided to stay in Toledo instead of moving to Columbus for College. Thanks to that I was home to go visit my aunt and attend a crazy concert... where I met the man of my dreams.
10 years later I am thanking God for all of his unanswered prayers, and wondering what he has planned for me next. I can only believe that it will be more amazing then I had planned for myself.
Sometimes I forget that things happen the way he wants them to happen, and not how I have them planned out. HE always reminds me and puts me back on track. There is always the voice in the back of my mind "If it's not happy, it's not the end."
I started my career 10 years and 3 weeks ago, only 17 years old, still in high school, and a mind full of dreams and planning a lifetime of fun.
I had to complete a mentorship with at least 8 hours per week working in a business field that I was interested in pursuing in my future. I wasn't allowed to work in a bar or club at the time because I was only 17, so I settled for a position in a banquet hall.
I was so upset that I couldn't do what I actually wanted and I kept counting down the days until I would be finished, and then something crazy happened... I realized how much fun I was having. I got to help plan parties, attend weddings, make cash tips on Friday nights working coat check.... it was wonderful.
On the last day of my mentorship I was asked to take over as the office assistant, as the current assistant was taking a position with another company. What a shock, and nothing like I thought I wanted. I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Taking that job changed the course of my life... I decided to stay in Toledo instead of moving to Columbus for College. Thanks to that I was home to go visit my aunt and attend a crazy concert... where I met the man of my dreams.
10 years later I am thanking God for all of his unanswered prayers, and wondering what he has planned for me next. I can only believe that it will be more amazing then I had planned for myself.
Sometimes I forget that things happen the way he wants them to happen, and not how I have them planned out. HE always reminds me and puts me back on track. There is always the voice in the back of my mind "If it's not happy, it's not the end."
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