7 stories about how life's setbacks and catastrophes help to find a vocation

How often do we complain that prevents us from a bad boss or lack of time to find his calling. Compared with the problems that have befallen the heroes of the "in place", all this will seem a little kick in the bright future.

1. Andrew Kalagin, co-founder of the legendary bar Lumberjack in Moscow

Once Andrew drank a lot and experienced serious health problems. He earned good money, but still could not find a case of life. One day while sitting at the bar "Dolls guns," he overheard the bartenders and realized that this was what he was looking for. Andrew set about trying to create your own bar! After that, he even several times approached the matter with the co-owner of the bars and other places of Dmitry Levitsky, but the conversation still does not add up, because by the time Andrew has managed to take a glass or two.

I have always been a scary thought that 50 I'm some manager or department head. Although I have friends who are in the corporate environment like a fish in water, but it's not mine.

It took some more time, and our hero knew he wanted to be a great father to their child and 50 look good. Then he ventured into action and together with a partner opened their own bar Lumberjack in the center of Moscow. Today, despite the crisis, there are queues to him, because for Andrei bar became a second home, which he did not rest, and sometimes works until 1-2 o'clock in the morning and get on this incredible fun.

2. The founder of the project "Business breakfast" Roman Dusenko

Even in his youth, in dashing the nineties, Roman went to "hook" with coats of Tashkent in native Komsomolsk-on-Amur, then sell feminine hygiene products. As a result, he created a network of other stores audio and video technology, which is due to the price war after three years of successful work collapsed. Because of this, the hero has lost not only a business and real estate, but also in debt to the lump sum. It was the need to pay a huge debt forced him to not give up and move forward.

In life you have to be ready for anything. I am in my life just went from boiled sausage on smoked and back.

This statement reflects the philosophy that money is not the most important thing. The most important thing - your personality, your inner spirit, your state.

After training in the United States developed a novel Russian banking sector, and even became a shareholder of "Investsberbank". Then the hero moved to Moscow to continue working chairman of the board in the banking sector. But every year the feeling that something was missing, was getting stronger. So the project "Business Breakfast" arose, in fact from one ad in the profile Roman on LinkedIn. For the first time responded to five people, who came to the "Starlight Cafe", it was November 30, 2012. Since then the company has conducted more than a hundred breakfasts, fed 3,000 people, 300,000 watched the broadcast of the project.

3. Vladimir Silkin, president of the Sailing Federation

In his youth, Vladimir led a detachment at BAM from 5000 students, but because of the tragedy on the mountain road, in which nine people died, was the sailing to somehow escape from occurred.

For a long time after that he worked as a deputy mayor of Moscow, until finally decided to go to the element that was once his favorite hobbies - in sailing.

Catching the unloved job, never earned. Or earn, but it will be a problem. The big money - big problems. Therefore, everyone should look for something that he likes. And try. Because synergy inner desire and opportunities gives a much greater effect than working on a topic that you can not enjoy.

4. Vyacheslav Yagodinsky lawyer first Russian individuals

Vyacheslav graduated from medical school with honors, and all the teachers promised him great medical career. But it so happened that in the 18 years he remained on the contents of four women: mother, grandmother, aunt, and then another, and a sister with a small child. Therefore, he could not afford to study to become a medical another seven years. Vyacheslav went to make money in real estate agency.

One lawyer was ill, and Vyacheslav entrusted to conduct business. He was not alone, after all, no education, no such experience at the time, it was not, but thanks to the previously acquired knowledge in the work he was able to win the case. Then there was the second, the third thing - he has mastered the books on the legal profession, having no professional education.

In my work, I can not imagine how bored you can, in principle, because this amount of communication with people, observation of human relationships! I even do not watch movies: I'm not interested. I live in a movie, I have the participant, the character of this action.

Later, he still graduated from the Law Institute and created his agency, but in Rostov-on-Don quickly grown to its maximum, and decided to move to Moscow. Today Vyacheslav conducts business stars of the first magnitude and gets incredible pleasure from their chosen profession.

5. Christina Novak, the winner of the competition on the bench press

Day of this young athlete is out of the gym, exercising, walking with a little sister, and help parents at home. She has already won six medals: four on a national bench press, one in darts, and another - in table tennis. And this despite the fact that Christina was born in the village Zlatorunovsk Krasnoyarsk Territory, her congenital cerebrospinal hernia, which is not It is allowing the girl to move without a wheelchair, and in the village do not even have ramps to be easy to go for a walk or score.

I want to win the championship of Russia on a national bench press, and I will do it, you'll see!

Yet she has many friends, and she did not lose optimism and joy of life. A dream is not about Christina sports profession - she wants to go for a free room and learn to be an accountant!

6. Maxim Chiglintsev, founder of mobile bar Mobile Bar CH.M

Maxim was born in the town of Almalyk in Uzbekistan in an ordinary family. Already in the 10th grade, he earned his first money when he began to wash cars. A 18 years old he moved to Moscow and had to contain himself, and then he settled down a waiter at the cafe at the hotel "Druzhba". Then began to work as a bartender, and his career took off he came up with their cocktails and even developed a "cocktail of the ruble taste" that are written in "Moskovsky Komsomolets." In parallel, he began to organize various parties - it was just a hobby, Maxim was not going to make it.

But in 2009, he started having problems with his back, and he could no longer remain in the standing work. Then he had the idea to create a mobile bar. First customer was looking for himself, developing and organizing project also alone.

When you start work at an early stage, you have the problem starts with the staff, where and what to take, where to take back, where to get the sale, and more. When you begin to solve problems, all doubts are forgotten and the project is raised to a higher level. The main thing - a little more confidence to everyone!

Today the company Maxim can be ordered, not only on-site cocktail or candy-bar, but also the know-how of the market - bar spirits!

7. Mila Razgulyaevo-Blagonravova, founder of the project to create the home of footwear

While still a student at the institute, Mila wanted in their new apartment in St. Petersburg to buy a beautiful house shoes and could not find anything. Then she decided to take everything into their own hands and create a project, through which everyone could buy a beautiful pair of house shoes. The first capital of the girl gave it to a young man, in spite of this after the launch of the project for several months regularly went into minus.

All around Mile also asserted that what she was doing - nothing, and did not take seriously the idea of ​​it. But she believed in the success of your project - studied to create high-quality models, work with leather, furniture, design a collection dedicated to the promotion.

I think I just found something that brings true happiness, so that everything is so easy to get and perfectly formed, almost fell into my hands.

Today Shoes "Razgulyaev-Blagonravova" (it names her grandparents) visited almost all the leading glossy magazines, her slippers bought large corporate clients, Mila regularly participates in major shows with their Russian collections.

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