The Worst Decision I've Made.
I really like the topic you’ve proposed for this post
because it’ll allow us to get to know each other more! Having said so, I’ll
tell you a story of a very silly and impulsive decision I made many years ago
and that, looking at it from now, was in the end a good decision.
It was the year 2010, the earthquake and its massive natural
and social aftershock had taken place during the first part of the year and
being already mid December we were, to be honest, a bit exhausted of all the
circumstances of the famous and memorable 2010.
Back then, I was living in Los Angeles (as you may already
know) and I was working in a couple of universities teaching courses related to
my area of expertise; One of the courses I was teaching was a course on
Translation Studies for the Translation programme of a well known university
country-wide.
As I told you, it was December, the exams had already been
taken and one Sunday I was marking the exams and a friend of mine tells me “I
found really, but I mean really, cheap tickets for Buenos Aires but the plane
leaves in 5 days’ time”, my head went crazy, I felt it was a very good
opportunity because we found the tickets with a 70% discount in Christmas time
and I had never been to Baires. After a thought I said “LET’S GO!”
Five days later, in the morning I was giving my students the
final results and leaving to Argentina in the afternoon. Of course some
students never showed up, and they did not have a mark.
I had a wonderful time with my friend, we really enjoyed
ourselves really much. We came back after a week, and I found that the students
who had not shown up had presented medical leaves certificates and that I
should have been available for their “repetition” exam. Well anyway, I got in
touch with those students and finish the semester.
Later, the institution (private university by the way)
decided not to use my services next semester claiming I had “abandoned” the
job, which was entirely untrue because they had hired me only up to the date of
the final exam, but anyway, what the heck!
Later, after the festivities, I came for a trip to Santiago
and by chance, I was needed here and finally I started teaching here at Uni,
so, one way or another, it might have been a very bad decision but in the end,
it was all for the best (maybe).
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I do not know if you have thought it teacher, but sometimes when one is lucky that something goes well, something else goes wrong, but apparently you are a lucky man. How was Buenos Aires? Regards!
ResponderBorrarOh man, n this world there are many people lying and malicious, so I'm not surprised by your story
ResponderBorrar:S
You have only 1 life, I'm very happy for your history, I think you did the right thing, Buenos Aires are amazing!
ResponderBorrarThere will always be bad people. But don't worry, you had a good time in a very beautiful place like Baires
ResponderBorrarA bad decission took you to a better job. As my father would say "always the bad things brings you something good"
ResponderBorrarJajaja, life is very weird!! One thing to another, at least you enjoyed with your friend and met a new place! I think it was worth it, 'cause life is to short and we have to enjoy it. I believe that there is not such a thing like a bad or good situation here, but you was very lucky for recieving a new opportunity.
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