Important People

So I have been very busy the last couple of days coordinating a few student visits (ahh, to be on the other side this time) and some new business research...I've just been on the phone and sending e-mails a lot.

In the midst of these different distractions, I get a phone call the purpose of which is not divulged right off the bat. As I try to figure out who I am talking to and to what it relates, I get distracted by the big title of the guy I was speaking with - a head honcho for new business in the NY office. What is he doing calling little ol' me?

So as I try to get my bearings, he relates the story of two people taking separate paths but unknowingly destined to end up in the same confusing forest. We had both, a junior and a VP, been researching the same thing and he wanted to get an idea of what I had been working on! I was simply trying to dig up the costs of adding another research tool for our office, but he was trying to get that research tool for all of our offices.

So he jokes with me, "Do you just want to head up securing that [the tool] for all of our offices in the U.S.?" Haha, very funny, I nervously joke back. Fortunately, he was only joking but said that he would follow up and get back to me with what we would do as a network.

Crazy! I continue to be amazed by my job. I never feel like a "lowly junior" and I'm always amazed by who I may encounter next.

So brush up on those communication skills...you want to impress the VP, don't you?