How Trendy is Success?

Dear lovely people,

Really, how trendy are the constituents of a successful life? What are the must-dos vs the glittering options on your path to success? How should you move on once faces with bone breaking obstacles and challenges on your path? Let’s see how Job handled his…

  

Job as a Jobless man was tired of hunting for a job. He had been turned down twenty times in the last two months and so he decided apply one more time for the position of 'office boy' at EcoPetroleum Inc. The HR manager interviewed him then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. 'You are employed' she said. Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the application to fill in, as well as date when you should start. The Job so startled, replied 'But I don't own a computer, neither an email'. 'I'm sorry', said the HR manager. If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And who doesn't exist, cannot have the job.'

Job again was so disappointed, embittered and left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do next, with only $20 in his pocket. He decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 20Kg tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he succeeded to double his capital. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $120. Job realized that he can survive by this way, and started to go everyday earlier, and return late. Thus, his money doubled or tripled everyday.

Shortly, he bought a van, then a truck, and then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. 5 years later, the man is one of the biggest food retailers in his country. He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance. One day, he called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded the broker asked him his email so he could send to him some electronic documentation. The Job in his usual tone replied, ’I don't have an email.' The broker answered curiously, 'You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded to build an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e mail?!!' Job thought for a while, smiled victoriously and replied, 'Yes, I'd be an office boy at EcoPetroleum!'

Once you set out to carve out a place for yourself in the world of achievements, you have to know those things you must have, I mean the things you must go for and those you can do without. Job clearly demonstrated that being trendy is good but not necessarily the only way to success. He demonstrated that the internet is not the only solution to your life because even if you don’t have access to the internet, but focus and work hard, you can.

It equally stands out clearly that each time you are faced with a challenge no matter how hard it appears, dissect it and examine it painstakingly for hidden within it are a million other opportunities beaconing.