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As I round up my series on my career journey let me talk a little about a career break i took. So I left where I trained and worked as a sonograher for four years. Basically I had this feeling that I had outgrown the place and needed n new challenges. Plus some little management "ish" also happened. It was a very hard and scary decision for me but I had to take it. I left not knowing exactly what I would do but I chose to trust my inner leading( that's how I live by the way and it's never failed me). I sat down though and took in the implications. No more money. And after four years I shouldn't be thinking of going back to being dependent on my parents. So I resigned. Spent a lot of time at home reflecting on what next steps I should take. I knew i loved my job at wasn't sure yet if I wanted to pursue it for life. I needed to settle that clearly. But then I used to nurse this ambition about working with NGOS mostly WHO, UNICEF and the like

 I spoke about how I volunteered in my last post. So let me talk about how I got into what I'm currently doing which happened to be my dream career path. I remember I said at the beginning of 2010 I wrote down on a piece of paper the exact kind of job I wanted. Well it happened o. I got it. Same year. Somewhere around September, I was in the bank one day and bumped into a senior colleague at the University back then. We got talking he asked what I was doing and I said I'd just resigned from a teaching job a few months back. So he just said casually if I'd be interested in getting trained in Medical Ultrasound. I said yes and we fixed an appointment. I got to their Medical centre, he gave me a briefing on how things were done. I met the MD, who asked a few questions and I was admitted for the training. I was slated for weekends initially, then later also during the week. Funny enough that senior colleague happened to be my major instructor alongside someone I

So this week in continuation of my series on my ten year journey in the labor market. I'll talk about my experience as a volunteer. In my last post I ended by saying that i resigned from the school where I worked for two terms. Now this was year 2010. Before i talk about my volunteerism let me say something. Beginning of that year I just felt dissatisfied with what I was doing then, teaching in that school.  I needed something else. Something that had to do with my degree ( I've a medical degree in human physiology) and I really wanted to work with it. It was my lifelong dream from school. So I sat down, picked a piece of paper and clearly wrote out the kind of job I wanted and kept the paper somewhere.  I didn't know if i would get it or not but I just felt it was time to clearly define my path in this career journey before I get lost. I did that, prayed and just went on with my life. I'll share the result of that action in my next post. Now back to being