Following my passion
- by Maria Sandu
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What makes you go the extra mile? What
makes you move forward and be ambitious?
My name is
Alin Gheorghe and I am currently working as a Contracts Administrator in the
Shared Service Centre in Bucharest, Romania. I have graduated from the
Political Science Faculty of the National School of Political and
Administrative Studies here in Bucharest and I am currently undergoing a Master
Program on Security and Diplomacy at the same university. Although I have been
working a full time job here at Oracle since January 2011 and also going to
school after work, I am going to tell you how I spend my spare time and about my
passion.
I always
thought that if one doesn’t have something that he would consider a passion
it’s always just a matter of time until he would discover one. Looking back, I
can tell you that I discovered mine when I was 14 years old and I remember
watching a football game when suddenly I became fascinated by the “man in
black” that all football players obeyed during the match. That year I attended
and promoted a referee course within my local referee committee and about 6
months later I was delegated to my first official game at youth tournament. Almost
10 years have passed since then and I can tell you that I very much love and
appreciate this activity that I have spent doing, each and every weekend, 9
months every year, acquiring more than 600 official games until now.
And even
if not having a real free weekend or holiday might be sound very consuming, I
can say that having something I am passionate about helps me to keep myself
balanced and happy while giving me an option to channel any stress or anxiety I
may feel. I think it’s important to have something of your own besides work
that you spend time and effort on. Whether it’s painting, writing or a sport,
having a passion can only have a positive effect on your life.
And as
every extra thing, it’s not always easy to follow your passion, but is it worth
it? Speaking from my own experience I am sure it is, and here are some tips and
tricks I constantly use not to give up on my passion:
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No matter how much time you spend at work and how much
credit you get for that, it will always be the passion related achievements
that will comfort you more and boost your self esteem and nothing compares to
that feeling you get. I always try to keep this in mind so that each time I
think about giving up I get even more ambitious to move forward.
Everybody can just do what they are paid to do or what
they are requested to do at work but not everybody can go that extra mile when
it comes to following their passion and putting in extra work for that. By
exercising this constantly you get used to also applying this attitude on the
work related tasks.
It takes accurate planning, anticipation and
forecasting in order to combine your work with your passion. Therefore having a
full schedule and keeping up with it will only help develop and exercise such
skills and also will prove to you that you are up to such a challenge.
I always keep in mind as a final goal that if you get
very good at your passion you can actually start earning from it. And I think
that is the ultimate level when you can say that you make a living by doing
exactly what you are passionate about.
In
conclusion, by taking the easy way not only do you miss out on something nice,
but life’s priceless rewards are usually given by those things that you
actually believe in and know how to stand up for over time.
