My story as a professor is what I call Divine Providence. For almost 9 years, I have worked as a hotelier shifting from one department to another. I started out as the chief accountant who helped set up the system of the hotel then after I wrote the operations standard of the hotel as a management facilitator and then found myself in Human Resources and Training department.
Needless to say, that I practically know the hotel like the back of my hand. It was during those times that I felt there was something lacking in my life. I just could not figure it out. Realizing that it might be just a case of burnt out, I decided to take a two week vacation.
In those two weeks, I promise myself not to see or talk to anyone who is affiliated or associated with the hotel. Also, I did not want to see the building nor the logo of the hotel be it personal or in any forms of media.
Did it helped?
Well, to cut it short, I came to the hotel from the two week vacation and went straight to my computer and in one unexplained moment, I typed my Resignation letter. In my letter, I typed "Effective May 5, 2005, I resign." Short and sweet. I did not even weighed the consequences of my act, as I did not have any job offers nor I was seeking one. Hmmm come to think of it, I did not even feel the silence before the storm.
Just when I was presenting my resignation letter to my boss, I received a phone call from a friend who invited me to teach in one of the prestigious hotel schools in Taft. Was it an act of God? Is God shutting my door and opening a window? Well I don't know, because I'm surely clueless at that time.
Change can sometimes be earth shaking but I would rather be discomforted with change than to live a life of discomfort not knowing what to do with my life.
