On another day
In another world
You can have whatever you want
It’s all the same
Hard to live in doubt
Harder to explain
White lies come untied
This is my fate

You know, I was never sure I believed in fate. Today I do. In November of 2022 I applied to be the AGM/Bar manager of 1928. I never received a response from sending my resume. I had to carry on, and in February of 2023, I started at Alcove. A place I had applied once before, before it even opened. Me and the owner sat outside of where it would be and had a conversation, he decided not to hire me. Few years later, after developing the skills it took to work for him, he did.

Just a week or two ago, I applied for the AGM/Bar manager role at 1928 again, after a couple days I hadn’t heard a response, but I wanted that job. I know the lovely woman who does pr for them, and I asked what she thought of the place etc. The email with my resume that I sent isn’t what got me the job. After following the owner on instagram, and receiving a follow back, I looked at her profile and did a deep dive on the restaurant. I decided I wanted to work there. I DM’d the owner. When I send an email with my resume, it usually reads the same, it’s a bit boring, professional and to the point. After seeing her attention to detail and things that stand out I knew if I didn’t dm her, I’d never get an interview. I dm’d her and flexed my confidence a bit while also showing admiration and admitting that sending someone like her an email so simple isn’t good enough to stand out against the rest of the applicants.

The day she opened the dm her general manager, who actually had the day off, called me and asked me to interview, I interviewed Friday, Staged on Saturday, and was offered the job at the end of the night. I accepted the job on the spot because my gut told me to.

I still had a stage at toro and maybe toro would have been a better fit.

This afternoon I got an email from the gm of toro telling me, they’d filled the position, and hope to hear from me again in the future.

At that moment I realized, I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be. I feel humbled, and grateful, and life feels a bit surreal.

To think how far I’ve come as a person since I started writing this blog is so incredible to me. To finally be at a point where you are the person you always wanted to be is so incredible to me. I’ve been overcome with emotion, which I think is just my natural state now???? to find beauty and awe in things?

I think my days of being a pessimist are over. I’ll have hard days that beat me down, but since I’ve tried to be more positive life has become so full of beauty. Beauty I was missing out on by being grumpy all those years.

Alcove opened in 2019?

They didn’t want me then, but they did in 2023.

1928 opened in 2022.

They didn’t want me then, but they do now.

I am the firmest believer that this is my fate. I’ve connected with myself and know who I am. I know my purpose. I know my why. Now it’s time to go share it with everyone else.

Be unreasonable and inspire on.

Where the skies are gold not gray,

J.