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I Wanted To Be The Career Professional I Used To Be.
Submitted by: Beatriz
VenezuelaI am married with two kids, 21 and 26 years old. We moved to the USA 15 years ago.
My family which included me, my husband and our two kids, came to this country looking for a better life. We were high ranking professionals our country, my husband even had an assigned company car, exclusively given to top executives. I was also a top executive at an international company. My appearance was always impeccable, I mean clothes, my shoes and I always had a neat manicure. However, when we got to the USA we had to work doing anything that would allow us to feed our children and pay for a home. One of those jobs consisted of delivering newspapers to store chains. Besides delivering the papers we would clean and maintain the racks and put the papers on them.
I remember one day, I was seated on the dirty floor of one of those stores, I recall time it was a gas station. I was cleaning the rack and then I began to cry, remembering my past life. I looked at my nails. They were dirty and broken, nothing like they use to be when I was an executive back in my country. I can remember that I was looking at my nails and making a promise to myself, that one day my nails would be clean and well maintained again. It seems like a frivolous thing but it was not. At that moment, what I was doing was envisioning myself in the future, as a top executive again.
Today, I work for a well recognized fortune 500 company, I got an MBA and I am doing the same type of job I used to do when I still lived in my original country. It took me 10 years to reach my dream but I did it.