Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Opportunity Knocks

Describe a missed opportunity you encountered, and how things might have been different if you hadn't missed it.

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Quote: “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
https://www.therandomvibez.com/missed-opportunity-quotes/

Opportunity or Hints??

Guess I had to build a door most of my life so I'm not to sure about opportunities. I'm kind of straight forward in my speech so if I get a hint from someone I'm not good at picking up on signals. I've turned down offers of employment once in awhile but usually had a good reason.

Like you can write for us but we won't pay you. I wrote and was published while I was in college and for a bird magazine before college all for freebies. Now if I'm good enough to write at all I think there should at least be a reward for the work.

College kids ran a strike on the college newspaper for the same reason. Writers have a difficult time finding the right gig for the right reward unless they are part of a group who is backing them.

As a journalist I liked being told; find me information on this subject and submit an article. So, maybe I need more motivation. Or just interaction with the publisher which I can't get unless I work at it.

And yet if I get curious enough about a subject I will read, research, and write about it. Hmm. I do remember a straight out opportunity in about 2005. I was in a college admittance office submitting info for graduation when out of the blue a woman at a desk waved me over. She said if I wanted her to she could probably get me a teaching certificate. It was such an out of the blue offer and had nothing to do with my status as a student about the graduate after 5 full years. I don't think I even took it seriously so my fault not hers. Six months later out of work and looking for a job I remembered the offer and looked up a catalog. It would have meant about 15 more credits and I would have been a journalist and a teacher.

I often think I would like to spread some of the knowledge I have to others so maybe teaching would have been a good fit? Still I was 60 when I graduated. Are there actually opportunities out there for a teacher at that age?

Also, I lack trust in people so even this opportunity left me with questions like why now and not the first time i tried to do college when i was 27.

Life is a mystery yet to be solved.