Bumpy Roads and Happy Endings

It's interesting hearing about my colleagues' professional paths to where they are now ~ obtaining experience "doing time", working for contracted companies who worked us and required us to travel the majority of our time, trying out new companies that didn't quite fit, company expectations of us that seemed unrealistic and stretching at times, experiencing mergers, takeovers and layoffs, working with a variety of management styles good and not so good, moving from city to city for personal and professional reasons, life fluctuations throughout career changes, the underlying commonalities we all went through.

But somewhere in there, before or now, there comes a point when we realize that it is all good, that the bad or difficult often opens another door to something we didn't know we were looking for all along, that there is always something positive to learn with every step forward we take. I've had opportunities to travel all across the U.S.; to see parts of the country I wouldn't have seen or experienced otherwise; to learn about varying diseases, treatments and outcomes; to have a job that forever transforms and keeps me on my toes; to work with great people both within my company and at my sites; to eat foods special to regions all over; to blend with the locals everywhere to obtain a taste of life different from my own. I'm grateful for my path too ~ bumpy, smooth, it's all good and growing better still.