Unsual Place to Get a Freelace Project

I’ve been very very busy the past couple of weeks. Because aside from my regular work, I have another freelance project that I recently been working on. How I got it was a bit unexpected for me. Its not from Odesk, or from someone seeing my resume in job sites like Bestjobs like the usual. They knew of me from a site called MeetUp.com(I am not affiliated with them in any way,shape or form).

I signed up for that site a long time ago. I think it was around December of 2007. I was looking for other flash designer/developers to talk to because that was the time I was working on my online portfolio.I wasn’t even employed as a flash designer yet at that time.I haven’t really been active there at all and I totally forgot about it until recently. I received an email from someone who saw my profile at MeetUp.com asking if I would be interested in working on a project with them. After some emailing back and forth as well as in person meetings, I was able to get the project. So I have been working on it for the past couple of days.

The whole thing seemed serendipitous, sometimes opportunities come from unusual and unexpected places. But although sometimes luck plays a part in our life, hard work is still very much needed. We can’t really rely on luck for everything. I worked hard on building my online portfolio and improving my flash scripting and design skills before I got that email. When I think about it, I think I would have gotten that same email whether or not I had any experience on being a flash designer. A year has passed and I could have done any number of things in that year, but since I DO have the experience in working with flash I realized I put myself in the position of being lucky, ready for the opportunity. Well I guess my friend Seneca was right when he said:

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.


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