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Lifeline
There are points in every person's life where they might feel that things are quickly spiraling out of control. People must be self-confident and self-reliant in order to get ahead in this life. This understanding tends to create relationships where we push people away. When trouble comes, it is possible to find ourselves alone, so bent upon personal progress that we neglect interpersonal relationships. Sometimes it is simply impossible to keep going alone. It is necessary to find people that can be counted upon because no one completely succeeds without the help of others. In my life, it was within the business world where someone reached out and gave me a much needed lifeline and helped me overcome a situation which I simply was unable to deal with on my own.
After graduating from high school in the year 1988 I decided to attend a two-year college. At that time I was very immature for my age and unsure of what I wanted. While attending college in the fall of 1989, I was given too much personal freedom and it was easy for me to not attend classes and my grades reflected the lack of effort that I put into my studies....
I thought about what I would tell them and the fact that I let them down. Then, I thought about what I was going to do next for a career. I might join the Army or something like that. I did not know what to do. I told my Mom and Dad about my first semester's grades and they were at first very disappointed in me. They suggested that I call my uncle who was in the Philadelphia Electrical Union. I got the courage to call my uncle up and ask if he would help me out with getting into the Philadelphia Electrical Union Local #98 and employment. He told me the requirements of applying for the apprenticeship with the union and told me that everything was going to be okay. These kind words were the encouragement that I needed to hear at that time of my life. In the spring of 1990 I was accepted into the International Brotherhood of Electrical workers local # 98 and I was excited to start my new career as an electrical apprentice. After completing my apprenticeship, which took five years, my uncle and I went to dinner with our families and…
I was involved in a project with The Barnes Foundation Museum. I estimated, negotiated and received a purchase order in October of 2010 to work with this museum. The contract amount of the project was for $525,000, a large sum. It was my company's responsibility to install of the security system in the museum, including hardware. I felt very personally excited at the beginning of the project. Also, it was much needed important and purportedly profitable work for our company. After about a month, that feeling of excitement quickly turned to nervousness and constant beleaguered communication from the foreman of the project about the many problems. Another, month had gone by and the project that I had instigated was turning into the nightmare of my professional life. I had never experienced anything as dysfunctional as a project manager.
It was just after Christmas of that year and I had to provide my superior with a cost report on how many hours the project consumed and the amount of materials we had so far devoted to the project. In the meantime it was quite obvious to all that my estimate was far from accurate. I was in the fight of my life. After, a meeting the owners of the company I work for and I came up with a plan about how we could move forward. We reached out for help from a private consultant who identified where the estimate was low and told my boss what to expect over the next twenty months, the expected length of the rest of the construction. One morning I woke up with sharp pains in my stomach and a high fever. Something was obviously not right. My wife drove me to the emergency room and where it was determined that my colon had burst into abscess. There were severe ramifications for this including the need for surgery.
Once again, taking too much upon myself led to a damaging situation where my future was in jeopardy. My parent's advice about my uncle came back to me from so long ago and I reached out to others for aid. I have had to learn the same lesson twice in my life: to get the help you need, you must be willing to ask for it.
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