Opportunity vs Good Fortune
by Jing Liu ~ November 6th, 2006. Filed under: Professional Development.People often talk about how fortunate someone is in finding a job.Today I remembered something I copied in my Quotations notebook while studying literature at the University in China. The rough translation is: Those who are fortunate are those who can snatch the opportunity up as it flows by you.
November 6th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
I completely agree. I think we should use this weblog to write more about our ideas as they flow by us. Hope I will get some interesting questions from SLAIS tomorrow, and then write about my thoughts. Feel guility not keeping the blog up-to-date. But starting from January 2007…
November 6th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Linda’s words reminded me of something that I once read about job searching. It sort of goes like this:
Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who ends up with good jobs are the proactive ones; who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves; who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
Though I believe there is such a thing as ‘luck’ in the world, yet just as the Roman philosopher Seneca said :” Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”.