Day Two hundred and four - I can change

My decision to accept that offer would prove to be a very rewarding gamble. The five or so weeks I spent on loan to corporate were fairly uneventful - my tasks were simple and dead easy. All I had to do was collect some documentation from the client's employees, give them any additional info they might require, and update an excel sheet with my progress. Easy peasy.

But I still wanted to put on a good show, nonetheless. I knew I was being watched and I was being taken into consideration for something. So early 2019 I return to my old team after that spell at corporate, and I keep on doing my job to the best of my capabilities. Just after I returned, I was asked if I wanted to have some specialized training for the knowledge management part of the business. I was intrigued enough to accept that offer - I figured that any further skills I picked up along way would only help me. That led me to being then asked to be a part of a team that would be responsible with creating content for our internal knowledge management site. Me and a few others were given a list of documents to create for the website, and in a month or so we'd done it.

A couple of months or so after that I was being asked if I wanted to help out with a particularly boring - but financially advantageous - task for another team. Naturally, I said yes, and that went as well as it could - until management decided that that task had been deemed unnecessary, and terminated that position. I thought I'd be heading back to my old team, but in fact I got asked to stay at this team I'd be helping out. I was to be working clsoe to the team leaders and help out the team with any doubts they might have, but also to create training material fro the team, and then to publish it online on our internal site. I was also tasked with the training with every single new person that got hired to work with the team.

The hard work had been paying off. I got offered a new position with a nice financial incentive, and I took it with gusto. And I have to say - challenging though it was, seeing as I had no previous formal training or, indeed, experience in training people, and I had to learn a lot on the fly and adapt quickly, I loved that time I spent doing my job. It was new, it was different, and along the way I would be given even more responsibilities. Things were on the up and up, things were going good, and I thought that hey, maybe the future can be bright for me too.

So 2019 wound to a close, and no one knew just how different 2020 would be. No one knew just how weird and awful things would become. I know I didn't. Sometimes I think that year ruined what prospects I had professionally.