Times Of Crisis Shape Or Break Character

Before stepping into a gloomy, though oddly exciting 2023, I took my sweet time to mentally wrap-up one of the strangest years of my professional life. Bear in mind, I’ve been a junior entrepreneur for almost a decade now and yet, 2022 has been a fudge-fest of a year.

Barely out of the mental lock-down of Covid, heart-broken about Ukraine and balancing the nitty-gritty of a consultancy company in the early dawn of an economical crisis were enough to fill one’s plate.

Somehow, though, my cautiously optimistic nature and (unhealthy) workaholic routine managed to keep me going, hoping for a better future, preparing scenarios for a worse version of it (except when I was winging it, as junior entrepreneurs sometimes do). 

You see, I am a person of faith. Faith that every problem has a solution. Faith that hard work & perseverance will take you places. Faith in the good of the people that can fix the bad bits of this world. Faith in sticking to one’s word. And more.

Which is to say, by some accounts, I am the archetypal Innocent, borderline naive. 

Which is fine by me. 

Because I’d rather work with believers, especially in times of crisis. Whether they are colleagues that fight the same fight or clients that respect us the same as we do, looking to build something together, rather than bailing out (sometimes dishonourably), at the slightest wind gust. 

As mad as 2022 has been, it was also revelatory, showing strong character (or lack of) in various shapes and sizes, from clients I’ve worked with (or my team has), some of good faith, others bailing out without a care. 

And though shocking at times, saddening at most, it helped clarify who I want to share a boat with in an even crazier 2023. 

I’m looking for people of faith.

And character.

And together we will move mountains. 

by Elena Hurjui