Consular or Counselee – it’s about satisfaction

On the side track to testing there is an important factor that impacts everyone in this industry. Sometimes we understand the need, sometime we ignore. I believe it is important to have a consular for everyone. It could be just a well wisher or a professional consular. I am a self made man and so we all are but if we role back a bit and take a peek in our past we might find out few people who gave us right advice at the right time. I am grateful to many of them, specially the one who gave me the pointer to come to testing, seven long years back.

The consular could be anyone. Someone you worked with long back, someone you are working with or someone who just know you professionally. I am not sure why everyone needs one but I do because of some reasons and below are few to point:

1. Dilemma - When you want to take a decision and you are not sure what to do, you might need some advice. The person who is giving advice is not in the same pressure and might think about it with open mind, more objectively than you will.
2. Knowledge – Your wisdom could be more but what you need to know is the right direction and knowledge. Everyone has different interests and so has different knowledge zones. You might know sometime better than your consular but there still could be a side in shadow which can be enlightened by the right person.
3. Comfort Zone - You have a comfort zone and you don’t want to move out of it but that person can guide you or motivate you to push you out of the comfort zone because they believe in you more than you do yourself.
4. Reverse Satisfaction – Most importantly one day the consular can become the counselee and counselee can become consular. Again its just the above points which make you a consular or counselee. The satisfaction to support someone in the time when they need is beyond ‘words’ and each one of us has experienced the both side of it sometime in our lives.

I have a consular who is far far away from me, he is in USA but we meet often on the cyberspace. I guess the way you need a friend to kick back beer on Friday evening to lose yourself in the same way you need a professional friend with whom you can sit sometime to discuss, you know what…

If you don’t have one seek for them and just give it a try or if you are ready to be one, someone out there is seeking for you, so switch on your mind Bluetooth.