Our Inner Voice

The other day, I got this message from a guy in LinkedIn, he was interested in meeting with me for a job opportunity. I was very excited, from reading the general description it seems to be something I would like.

After a phone call discussing about this opportunity, I felt unsure. It is a start up business, which I do think there’s potential, but the guy seemed really desperate and wanted to meet me right away. Deep inside I didn’t have a good feeling, but part of me was still very curious, so I decided to meet with him anyways the next day to find out more. After all, if he’s not going to make me pay for any fees or give any personal information, I’m still good.

That same afternoon, I started to get a weird sore throat. I felt fine, had lots of energy, and didn’t feel sick at all. I thought to myself it may be a sign I shouldn’t even go meet this guy. But I thought appointment was already made, I should just go with it and find out more.

Next day comes around, my sore throat got worse, I was drowsy from the medicine I took which didn’t help a bit. I opened my closet to get the shirt I picked out the night before which was ironed, it just fell out when I opened the door. It became wrinkled again, with dust all over it on the floor! I thought “Wow, this has got to be synchronicity.” But as said, appointment already made, may as well go.

As I got to the office, I felt good, the person is nice, and I was learning more about their business model. But as I asked more questions, I realized the company was aggressive with their plans, and not much preparation or strategies. And to make it worse, he tried very hard to sell this job, and became rude when I said I needed a few days to think and have interviews with other companies. I walked out of there knowing my feeling was right all along.

It was a good laugh for me after I left that office. A part of me felt like there’s a voice laughing at me for not “listening.” And the other part of me was saying “OK, next time I’ll listen and not waste time!”