DIEGO VALLE

First Quarter Report: Looking at the Bright Side

The fifth day of the year I woke up on a sofa at my dad’s family room, with an ortopedic neckbrace, computerless and the need to hitch a ride to the office where I was scheduled to meet with my boss’s boss’s boss, who had just arrived to the country.

The night before, a black pick-up truck tossed me off the road, my mexico-assambled american compact sedan spinned one and a half circles until the passanger side hit a tree. That tree made it half way into the car, breaking the dashboard in two, pushing the windshield outside and trapping my shiny 8-month-old Dell Studio in between the door and the shift stick.

I’m very commited to what I do for a living. So much, that it doesn’t feel like work. In fact, I don’t even call it work. So it was no biggie to show up the next day at the office; I had to keep going, I had to move on; and for that, the office was the more natural place to go.

To stick to your guns is to believe, through thick and thin, in whatever it is that you believe in. I believe in constantly (and sometimes unstopabbly) progressing to a better life where I do the things I enjoy. If I wouldn’t have gone to the office the day after the accident, the relationships that served as basis of most of my current projects today may wouldn’t have even started.

If you asked to my team today “what exactly does Diego do?”, most-likely people would tell you it revolves around Twitter, Facebook and the internet. It is ture. I’ve recently become an Online Media Project Lead for my team, and the things we get done revolve around Social Media Intelligence and Online Collaboration. I drive a mexico-assembled European compact sedan which is newer, faster and a little more luxurious. At the office, our team rocks on a shiny 27″ i5 iMac for the more resource-consumpting tasks; and all the time, you can see me typing on a Lenovo T400; both, given by the organization that I work for.

If you asked me the fifth day of the year how I felt, I would lie if I told you I was sure of where life was taking me to. I didn’t really know how things were going to make sense again. But life is about going with the flow, sticking to your guns, and making sure you always make the best out of any situation; even if said situation is a car-wrecking crash.