I remembered what happened to a guy I know and wanted to share it with you as I think it is wonderful. He was the MD at one point of the ad agency I worked for in Bournemouth. He was made redundant. He went to work for a telecomms company and got made redundant again. I found him again on Friends Reunited and he was living in the next village from me. He tried to start a business and was forced to do various jobs to keep his family and their big house. He'd made hundreds of job applications to no avail. He had to earn money somehow so in the afternoons he worked in an Undertakers (Funeral Home) and in the mornings was a Postman. This is a guy who'd been a Managing Director and Marketing Manager but he wasn't afraid of making a change to do what had to be done.
A few months after joining the Post Office he saw a job advertised as a Marketing Manager in London (a job which only would have been posted internally too) so he was okay to apply. His coworkers thought he was mad wanting an office job but then one pointed out the salary would be much better. He went for the job and not only got it but one with a higher status and salary and company car. Had he not gone to be a Postman, it wouldn't have happened.
Life works in mysterious ways - this may just be your path and paths are not often straight and as we expect them to be. However tough things are, and lets face it life is tough (be happy when it is not), something always comes along. The key is to keep going and tackle the twists and turns on route adapting where necessary, taking some short cuts, losing the map and occasionally finding yourself on the wrong.
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