[jhynesrockmtn]

I agree with the preparation leads to opportunity but the last two months have had some weird coincidence woo woo things going on that give me pause about luck and fate.

I work in the non profit sector and had become disenchanted with my current gig over the last half of 2012. The Board and I have grown apart.

I took another job at what is essentially a start up non profit micro lending entity. Great concept but between the time I accepted the job and when it started their funding situation changed for the worse and the board cut the 2013 budget in response. They want me to stay and lay off more junior people while taking no senior management cuts. I don't agree.

I received a call the day I started the new gig from a recruiter. What amounts to my dream job was open and she thought of me. They weren't working on the role but had passed my info on to the CEO. Fast forward to yesterday and several conversations, interviews, etc. later and I accepted the job and can gracefully exit the start up.

I've worked hard and am a really good fit for this but the timing is just a bit freaky :-) Oh and 2 days before the offer I was asked by the mom of the kid I mentor to drop him off at one of the new agencies clubs and while out for dinner with him prior to that picked up the local neighborhood paper and the headline story was about the agency. That is the woo woo part. And so it goes.