Que sera sera, qui vivra verra...

From a popular song

November 18, 2014

When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother "What will I be?" And my Mom, a teacher of English and a wise woman, replied: "One should follow the dream!" And she would start telling the stories about her green years when she used to gather a bunch of village kids and taught them various subjects in an improvised school, either on the porch of their house, or in the backyard.

My Mom made her dream come true despite the difficult years after the World War Two and retired at the age of 62. I followed in her footsteps, but suddenly, at the age of 49, I felt I needed to change something in my personal and professional life. So I bought a ticket and went to the capital city to start a career of translator/interpreter.

It was quite an adventure, I must tell you! After a classroom I suddenly found myself in a closed area of the military unit as a military translator. Instead of students, I was surrounded by retired military experts from the U.S. Air Force who immediately taught me the phonetic alphabet and the meaning of the idiom "to buy a farm". Joking apart, two years in this project gave me a lot of valuable experience as a translator, which I decided firmly not to waste.

And here I am, at last, doing 'the work of my dream', promoting democracy worldwide at one of the international organizations. All my previous knowledge and skills have come in handy and one may assume that finally I feel that I have realized my potential to the full. Not so fast! Something inside me knows that the work of my dream is still to be found...

And I will find it one day, I have no doubt. What a beautiful day it will be! You will see. Qui vivra, verra.

Роздуми про своє професійне призначення - покликання, які я виклала у формі блогу у соціальній мережі.