There’s certainly an opportunity at every nook and cranny…

Opportunities at every click – that’s an old ClickJobs advt that has remained etched in my memory. I’ve always wondered if that is really possible when you take the larger picture of life into consideration—to be able to find an interesting opportunity at every turn. I think one should be an opportunist for this to be true.
And why shouldn’t one be an opportunist anyway. After all today’s career demands that one is an opportunist, proactively seeking to find and get hold of what they are looking for. Sit back and assume that life will work out; things will come to the one who works and shuts out the world and you can kiss your career progression good-bye.
I think it’s bad to be a downright selfish opportunist who won’t think twice to walk over someone to get what they want. If someone is focused and wants to achieve what he aspires for, it would be better he works hard towards achieving what he wants, while keeping a close watch of what is happening around and how he can make use of the situation to his advantage without crushing someone else’s dreams or without taking credit for someone else’s toil.
Look at what Agnes Olubunmi Amos did with her life after recession snatched her of her job. Agnes was disheartened just like all the other professionals who lost their jobs, but she did what no one else would have thought of doing and turned her life around and created her own opportunity for a living. Jotting down her fears, prayers, hopes and experiences in her personal diary everyday as she searched for a job without success, Agnes later realized that her personal thoughts can become a book that can give solace to millions like her. And that was how – “The Journey of a Christian Job Seeker” was born. A hit in the US, the Indian edition of the book hit the stands in September this year.
Nothing but sheer grit and determination to survive could have urged Agnes on, but what is commendable is the way she found an opportunity even in her everyday musings. Now who would have thought of that!
As Alexander Graham Bell once quoted– “When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” Agnes’ progress was certainly stunted by recession but not for long since she did not let that bog down her spirit. What is really admirable is the opportunity that she was willing to see in something that most of us would have considered a pointless endeavour.
Well, I’m sure if all of us keep our eyes wide open it wouldn’t be difficult to see an opportunity in everything too. And it’s high time we started doing just that.