Ken Dala Center – the best community i’ve ever been a part of!
When we started to talk of communities – what they are and how it is to be a part of one – I found myself confuse
d a little bit because didn’t find any to tell about… In one of the previous entries dedicated to communities I presented myself as a member of music studio, which I decided to call a community. That was the most immediate response of my mind on the task. )) But few days later when we in the group continued our discussion on the communities suddenly a thought came to me: I know a community, real community I am a part of (or at least I was..)! That is Ken Dala Center – a business center where I was working for a year and a half. Of course, I don’t mean the building even though I like it very much (nine-storey blue-gray office building) but people in there. That was my first serious job (right after school finished) where I had a position of receptionist – on the first floor, not like a secretary at one particular company, so I knew everybody.
Well, I think people tend to remember everything that occurs to them for the first time. So did I! J But this is not the only reason – all in all that was an amazing time in my life that impressed me greatly. )) It gave me huge experience and useful “lessons”: that doesn’t relate to my direct official duties, which I got used to pretty soon (after 3 months – perfectly) but refers to employees, visitors, “big bosses”, and my direct chief – on the whole, people that was the biggest problem to deal with. Today I call them community J.
Actually, relationships with people usually seem to be the most important task for a person. For me at that time it was so frightening as I felt myself an alien and absolutely alone and lost little girl. I had a lot of responsibilities and data to learn by heart for the shortest period that looked impossible… And plus to everything related to duties I had to distinguish between people: whether a person was a visitor that had to be served in one way, or an employee that was restricted to enter freely and I was there to make him use his personal pass-card which made them all angry with me! That was HORRIBLE to balance among them! Thanks God, it lasted not very long. But even at that time I experienced blank despair and absolute readiness to be fired. There were several dreadful precedents on the threshold of condition described right before. I forgot to open turnstile (a little side door for bosses only) before my boss a few times and he while in full confidence that it was open hit himself against it… First time, he smiled, second time – he said nothing, and third time – his eyes told me “say Good bye to your job!” But strangely enough I stayed there for the year and more J As I have said, in the beginning it was hard to contact people – they all were so gloomy and indifferent, but I continued to “hello” and “how are you” them, so finally the wall was broken, and sunny days began! I felt myself very useful and happy there, because people started to give me feedback)) I felt that I was doing something important for them. Some people told me that they went to work with pleasure because knew at least somebody was happy to see them J
I can talk and talk, but don’t want to risk and loose your attention (if haven’t yet), so coming to conclusion I just want to say that being a part of some community is a wonderful thing, of course on terms that you are in good and friendly relationships with other members, because if so then it becomes a place where you feel yourself happy and cheerful. I think that true sense of happiness occurs only when a man does something for the others. It doesn’t have to be material, but just a smile can be enough J
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June 25, 2007 at 10:04 am
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Natalie M said,
June 25, 2007 at 11:48 am
Thank you for the information, Dauren! But you know, it stays useless until i don’t know how to manage it…
Remeber, Frederich told us: if you were given a computor without knowledge of how to manage it – it’s not precoius anymore…
Yuliya Baissova said,
June 26, 2007 at 9:59 am
Dear Natalia,
I am impresed abou your story. I realy understand you. How you get this job?
I wanted to share with you my first working “experiment”. It was very hard and scared for me because I was working on the REAL RADIO STATION! I have a great experience about the hard weekdays of journalists. At first of course you wanted to know how I get fixed up in this job. Here my cheek help me. Once I just came to the radio station and said: “I wanted to work!” My editor looked at me with the ironival smile and said: ” Ok! Please try!” They give me the probationary period (one mounth). And what was happened to me when I realized that I cannot do something. That even to take interview for me it is a great problem! At the firts time I was tremble with fear, my volar became wet and I asked some silly things. But after the one mounth of suffering everything stand on their places. I work on the Terra radio station for one year. It was realy great. At the beginig everybody help me. I still have many friends from that radio. I will never forgot my first step in adult life and that feeling when you sit infront of the microphone in big studio and speak to the hall city. it is incrediable!
Thank you fro your attention!
your Yuliya
Natalie said,
June 26, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Yulya! That’s great!
I really was very excited with your story, because you must know how it is pleasant and interesting when meet a person that have something in common with U! Even if we had our first work experiences in absolutely different spheres i think the feelings were very similar 
You know, one thing i was amazed is your courage to make such a brave step towards your desire – to go and declare of your wilingness )) That is what many people often are afraid to do! And honestly, i often lack this confidence as well, because a lot of different thoughts and apparent obstacles come to mind which make you doubt… But i am convinced that your dream won’t fly from the sky to you – you have to go and “fight” for it, and the chief thing – is at least to BEGIN ) You know, recently i have made such a brave thing that i couldn’t even think of earlier, and it worked! I tried to do my best and realized that i possess these necessary abilities and skills needed that before only seemed to be worth of attention 
I think that people often underestimate themselves and this leads to many needless and interfering feelings. Well, that’s what i believe ))) Thank you, Yuliya, for your comment!