It’s late Tuesday night and I am relaxing out on my patio enjoying that surprisingly calm, peaceful night. I feel like I have a lot on my mind but nothing really worth putting into words. As stated in previous posts, the end of this school year is quickly coming to an end. It seems like yesterday that the semester was just starting up and here we are, 4 days away from graduation, crazy! Kind of crazy to think that I am also finishing up my second year as an RD. Who would of thought! Crazy to think 4 years ago about this time my journey started as I pursued different RD jobs fresh out of college. After many failed attempts and a few years in the making, God finally brought me here to Canyon and I was given my first shot at a professional career in Residence Life. Many people thought I “wasn’t ready” to be an RD and that I needed more time to be “better prepared” for the position. Funny how that works out huh. I always find it interesting that “people” just like me always think that fresh out of college they were ready for a certain job or position but someone like me needed more time to “develop”. I guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles though, right? It seems that my whole life I have always been underestimated and told that I wasn’t ready for the next step. Hopefully as I continue on in this profession, that I won’t forget what it was like in the beginning. That I won’t forget that everyone deserves a shot at greatness. That not everyone is a “seasoned pro” right out of the gates.
So for those people that believed in me, I thank you. When you are told your whole life that “your not ready yet”, it starts to break down the confidence that one has in themself. For a long while, that was me. It took my time at Target to realize that I was ready to be something great, I just had to work for it. It was nice having people believe in who I was as a person and believing in who I was as a leader. Its funny how a multi-billion dollar organization had more faith in me to have keys to a 50 million dollar a year store and lead a team of over 50 grown adults, but others thought I wasn’t ready to be an RD. Weird how that works out. But I am thankful for the journey that I have been on and for those who showed no confidence in me and for those who new I could do it. I pray though that I never take for granite the journey that I had to walk and never lose the passion and determination that it took to get me here.
