Every silver lining has a cloud!

Two things at work reminded me of the above - one of which occurred a week or so ago and the other today.

I was recently contacted by a headhunter from a London firm which shall remain nameless, other than to say that the name of the firm includes the word "Struggles", (look up "Headhunter" & "Struggles" in Google if you don't believe me) and I can see why.

The consultant said that I had been difficult to get hold of (?) and that he wanted to talk to me about an exciting opportunity that I appeared to be very well suited for. Whilst not particularly looking to move jobs, I was "interested" and said that I would ring him back. Upon doing so, the consultant advised me that the "fantastic" opportunity was in Malaysia, and would be..... to set up an "Emerging Markets Division" from scratch. Sadly at this point I had to advise him that as this was nothing to do with the line of work I'm in, possibly he had the wrong contact, or right contact wrong job, or......

Today's similar anti climax involved the fact that I was nominated for an award at work for a highly confidential piece of work that I have been involved with over recent months. Fantastic! However, not so fantastic was the fact that I was also advised that I hadn't been successful as due to the confidentiality of the issue involved , my boss had been unable to explain to the awards 'panel' the extent of the work undertaken. (Or if she had told them she would have had to kill them & I still wouldn't have received the award!)

C'est la vie.