It’s been a while since I wrote in this space, and I think today is a great time to do so. I had a great time yesterday with our Life Leadership Academy. They are a great group of motivated educators that are part of the next generation of leaders at Life Schools. I am glad they put up with me each month as we grow together. I can’t wait until we begin blogging our experiences together!
Yesterday I got to thinking about my journey and how things have shaped out to where they are now. I can still remember the time that I went for my first principal job. Boy was I excited! I actually had an opportunity to interview for a principal position of a large junior high in a great school district. I studied and prepared well, and thought I did a great job on the interview. I can still remember waiting anxiously for the superintendent to call me and tell me that I would be the new principal of this school. Day after day, night after night…no call! I knew that the school board meeting was coming up and they would soon be naming the new principal at the board meeting. Well, the board meeting was Monday, and it’s now Monday and still no call. I sort of figured that I didn’t get the job by now. Around 5:00 pm on that Monday I received a call from the human resources director informing me that they had gone with another individual. He told me the individuals name, and gave me her number because I was currently an assistant principal and I would be working for her. There it was staring me in the face! I didn’t get it! I was crushed! It felt as everything had been taken from me. I just sat there with the phone still in my hand. What made this tough was that I wanted it soooo bad. I could taste it! It didn’t happen!
So what did I learn? I learned that there is a time and place for everything. It took me several years to verbally speak about this situation. I always felt I was inferior because I didn’t get it. But now I know better! I know that it just wasn’t the job for me. The good thing is that there was a job out there for me, and I later got it. I had to keep working hard in my current position until I got something else, and I couldn’t give up on the journey I was attempting to take. It was a hard lesson for me, but I now appreciate it. There have been other jobs I haven’t gotten. I learn from the experiences, keep working hard, and keep marching forward.
Herbert
Great post! We certainly appreciate your time and efforts in Life Leadership!
Thanks Monika!
Excellent article. I had a similar experience.
Thanks LaTonya! I appreciate you reading and commenting!
This was an excellent post cousin. Sometimes we have to wait untill our proper season. Well put Sir.
Thanks Donovan!
Timely message and such a poignant but relevant reminder!
Thanks Wykesha! I appreciate your reading!
Words of wisdom from one of life’s lessons! Thanks for sharing and for investing in leaders!
Thanks Vicki! Glad you read!
Thanks for sharing this! I am a firm believer that everything has its timing.
You are so right. I am learning that more and more the older I get.
Thanks for reading QuaNesha!
Herbert
Journeys are significant as are the people we meet on our journey. I am grateful for the journey and those who I have met along the way. Keep inspiring others.
Thanks for reading Deidra! Your words just now have encouraged me!
Herbert
God had a plan…just look at you now! It was that district’s loss, though, that you left.
I remember my first interview at the junior high where I worked. The assistant principal welcomed me and offered some of his french fries. After I was hired, I came up to school to work in my room and saw him power-washing outside. He came into my classroom and cranked out his “Soulja Boy” moves. At a school dance, he taught all of us the “Mississippi Cha Cha Slide.” He was present in the hallway during each and every passing period. I always thought, “This is my kind of people.”
And he’s still helping me today…
awwww! This is so sweet! Thanks Deanna! Hope all is well!
This is so true of everything in life!!! Sometimes, we feel that there is more that WE should have done to advance our careers but God has another plan for us and His plan is really the one that counts!!! Miss you and your leadership!
Thanks for reading Lucy! You are so right about His plan!