Living a Dream
I just had lunch with an old old friend of mine. I haven't been in touch with her for eons. It felt awkward at first. I just didn't know where to start. So, I started asking her about work, what she's doin. She returned the favour by asking me about work, what I was doin.
I heard her say about how she's working for a boarding school now and doing IT stuff, but that was just plain information. It remained akward until she asked a different kind of question: how have I been doing?. Then things turned alive because I got to tell her how I feel about my work, why i'm doing what I do, and she returned the favour by telling me about why she is working at the boarding school.
It turns out that my friend has been working as IT tech support for some time and eventually realized that it wasn't for her and she has to move on. She gave a lot of thought to this and came down to two things that suited her. Guess which two ? education and healthcare. My two pet domains :-)
She believed that education and healthcare are right for her because they match her core-capabilities. She actually is thinking of running a school one day. A school that teaches things outside the national curriculum. A school that teaches values and builds character - not maths and numbers and figures and general knowledge. So it turns out that God gave her the opportunity to start working towards that dream.
This friend of mine is unique because I wouldn't have guessed that she has an honours degree in computer science. She has a heart of gold, and her core-capability is not IT, it's people-skills. And she's one of the humblest nicest friendliest most caring person I know. She never runs out of nice things to say to brighten up anyone's day. I worked with her when I was still in the university before and I loved that time - she was a great boss .. *hee hee*.
Her portfolio in the school involves building an IT masterplan. Right now the boarding school is too manual, and there're lots of room for simple solutions that work. And this is wonderful for her because it seemed as though God has given her a job where she can utilize her core-strengths, i.e. people skills, and also the 4 years of training she has gotten in the university.
The IT masterplan thingy is one huge thing - I would love to be given that kind of work. So, I offered her my assistance, I even told her I don't mind doing it for free. I just want to go to the boarding school, and learn about how things are done there, and contribute back by designing a roadmap full of simple things that work that can be useful to staff and students of that boarding school. And guess what ? she loved the idea and will want to discuss with me the ideas that she has :-)
I haven't been in touch with her for quite some time. It turns out that she's living a dream. and I'm very happy for her!
I heard her say about how she's working for a boarding school now and doing IT stuff, but that was just plain information. It remained akward until she asked a different kind of question: how have I been doing?. Then things turned alive because I got to tell her how I feel about my work, why i'm doing what I do, and she returned the favour by telling me about why she is working at the boarding school.
It turns out that my friend has been working as IT tech support for some time and eventually realized that it wasn't for her and she has to move on. She gave a lot of thought to this and came down to two things that suited her. Guess which two ? education and healthcare. My two pet domains :-)
She believed that education and healthcare are right for her because they match her core-capabilities. She actually is thinking of running a school one day. A school that teaches things outside the national curriculum. A school that teaches values and builds character - not maths and numbers and figures and general knowledge. So it turns out that God gave her the opportunity to start working towards that dream.
This friend of mine is unique because I wouldn't have guessed that she has an honours degree in computer science. She has a heart of gold, and her core-capability is not IT, it's people-skills. And she's one of the humblest nicest friendliest most caring person I know. She never runs out of nice things to say to brighten up anyone's day. I worked with her when I was still in the university before and I loved that time - she was a great boss .. *hee hee*.
Her portfolio in the school involves building an IT masterplan. Right now the boarding school is too manual, and there're lots of room for simple solutions that work. And this is wonderful for her because it seemed as though God has given her a job where she can utilize her core-strengths, i.e. people skills, and also the 4 years of training she has gotten in the university.
The IT masterplan thingy is one huge thing - I would love to be given that kind of work. So, I offered her my assistance, I even told her I don't mind doing it for free. I just want to go to the boarding school, and learn about how things are done there, and contribute back by designing a roadmap full of simple things that work that can be useful to staff and students of that boarding school. And guess what ? she loved the idea and will want to discuss with me the ideas that she has :-)
I haven't been in touch with her for quite some time. It turns out that she's living a dream. and I'm very happy for her!
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