IS THIS MY GOOD LUCK OR BAD LUCK PERIOD OF LIFE?

“In my case, bad luck makes good luck story”

A good thing is coming and then BOOM, shit happened. I know this experience didn’t just happen to me. Only for me in the last few months, this reel of luck and misfortune repeated itself several times. 

As I have already written in several posts, I am in a new country with a foreign language and on stage to find a job in the Czech Republic.
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Patrick normally went to preschool in September, but I couldn’t find a job because there was no place for Dorothy in nurseries. After 6 months I found a free place for her in the private nursery. The job search process should seem easy then. Unfortunately, it’s more complicated than I thought. The first excitement that I was about to work and will return to the collective of people I miss so much, evaporated in the air.

My job interviews

Examples of interview questions that should be banned because make me explode include:

“How often do your children get sick?”

“How often did you miss work due to your children’s illnesses?”

“When was the last time I was sick and for how long?”

After these questions, I’m wondering if I’m seeing an occupational medicine doctor and I’m taking some health tests or if is this really a job interview.

Or some other silly questions like:

“Who takes the children to school?”

“Who picks up the kids from school?”

“What if it’s overtime, who will pick up the kids?”

And they often ask about my children and family, not about my experience and skills. It reminds me of an interview with the headmistress of the Nursery when we enrolled Dorothy. The interview doesn’t seem to be about the job at all.

My first proper interview

Finally, I managed to find a company where the interview was about my CV and was professional. In addition, the conversation was in two languages – my native Polish and English, in which I also like to communicate. I have already passed all stages of interviews with this company positively. Of course, my level of happiness can be called – extreme. The final stage was supposed to be a non-committal conversation about earnings, setting a schedule, and an action plan. The easy peasy dialogue should take place on Monday at 10:00. Then an hour before the meeting with the new employer, they called from the nursery that Dorothy was vomiting and coughing and I had to pick her up.

My small bad luck

Let me tell you that what you have read above still contains a bit of bad luck. On the same Monday, another company contacted me by e-mail, in which I managed to pass the qualification stages, and also want to arrange a final interview with me at 11:00 on Tuesday.

It’s the pre-Christmas period, all my friends are busy, everyone has too much work and a deadline is approaching. My husband works overtime, so there’s no chance he’ll stay with Dora for at least 1 hour. The grandparents themselves are sick, so I will not send them a child with the flu virus, diarrhea and vomiting. Should I?

So if I good counting:

Two good luck – both successful interviews against 4 bad luck – Dorota is sick, their grandparents sick, my friend busy, and my husband has overtime at work.

Just a total drama created in one day. I will comment on it in one sentence:

“I was left laughing through my tears.“

My small good luck

But on the other side, you see the light of happiness, because it’s great that Dora is no longer feverish. Two days with her at home and you can see that my baby is feeling much better. Less vomiting, she started eating small portions of food and drinking a lot of water. You can see that she is recovering very quickly. We can be the happiest family in the world that she didn’t spread the virus to us.

The clearly recognizable differences between the childhood virus and the adult virus are that the children’s virus lasts two or three days, while the viruses in the parents stay forever. Me and my husband, when we get an infection from our little ones, we feel pain all over our bodies, including our hair. We don’t eat for five days, we vomit for six, and we shit like ducks for a week. Let me ask you:

“Is there the same pattern in every family?”

Lucky person

This confirms my thesis, which I have believed for years that we have some luck in our bad luck. I informed both companies of my emergency situation as soon as it happened. So far both companies have been silent, which doesn’t look like a good sign or they are just busy before Christmas. Keep your fingers crossed for me to be a lucky woman in the New Year.

In addition, Christmas is approaching, where everyone wishes first health, then success at work and fulfillment of dreams, and in that order these wishes should remain. I am very lucky with what I have.