Using Synchronicity to Find your Next Job – Part 2

Synchronicity led me to my last two jobs.  In these uncertain times, let’s remember that there are additional elements to a job search… synchronicity and intentionality.

Part 1 was the story of the first time synchronicity led me to a job at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) (www.noetic.org). Today’s part 2 story is about how I found my current job at IONS at the retreat center.

I had been in a position for a little while at IONS that was not right for me.  I loved the organization of course, but the particular job I was in was so wrong for me that I would come home at night mentally exhausted and upset and “off kilter.”  I complained and was very unhappy.  One night I came home from work and went right under the covers in bed and didn’t even eat dinner because I was just so unhappy about where I was.  I didn’t want to have to leave IONS, but I was so miserable.  I was caught in the middle and frustrated and irritated.

Then one night I half woke up around 2:00AM.  This was very unusual for me, I usually sleep straight through the night, as soon as my head hits the pillow I am out until the alarm goes off.  So this struck me as odd that I would awaken.  But I was aware that I wasn’t fully awake.  I was in that dreamy space between waking and sleeping.

I said to myself,  “Hey, I think I am in the field of pure potentiality that Deepak Chopra talks about.  Cool.  He says we can manifest things into physicality from this place.  Very cool.”

So I gave it a try.  I put it out there through my soul conscious thought process that there was to be a new job for me.  I didn’t complain or whine about the old one, I stayed positive and laid out what I needed….it had to be fulfilling and aligned with my spiritual mission to help people shift their consciousness about life; it had to allow me to bring my full self to it; and it had to make at least the same amount of money I was making now.  I said it could be at IONS or not at IONS and I released the outcome and trusted that the right thing would happen.

And then to cap it all off I said thank you.  Thank you for the job I know is coming, that already exists there in the future that I am just catching up to by living through time to get there.  Thank you and I will follow the signs to get me there.

Hours later I re-awoke, got ready for the day and went into the office.  A co-worker stopped by that morning and as we were talking she said out-of-the-blue “Did you know that Cathy is looking for someone to work in the retreat center?  She has been interviewing, but can’t find the right person.”

I didn’t even know she was hiring!

Wow, that was fast.

So of course, I got right up to go see Cathy, knowing that intention was once again manifesting.  I walked into her office and said “I hear you are hiring, I would love to work with you.”  And she replied, “I would love to work with you, too!”

Then she asked, “Would you like to see a job description?”

And I said, “I don’t think I need to!”

I told her the story and we were amazed and had a good chuckle about how the universe works.  I’ve been working in that area ever since and we continue to use synchronicity and universal flow as part of our daily operations.

You can check out the events happening at our retreat center at http://www.noetic.org/events.cfm.  You never know what kind of synchronicity might happen there!