Yumi's Cells and my career transition
* I'm a Brazilian writing in English to improve my knowledge of the language, sorry for the mistakes. Feel free to correct it, I'll appreciate 💚
**This post have spoilers
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At beggining of 2019 I start reading the WebToon Yumi's Cells. The plot looked similar to Pixar's "Inside Out", but just in the first chapter I noticed would be different (like really different).
The Pixar's movie have just 5 feelings, but in Yumi's Cells everything is a cell that influences her emotions, reactions... Basically everythig that makes Yumi herself.
We have rational cell, emotional cell, love cell, hunger cell (my favorite! I want a plushie like this one) and so many others.
It is impossible to read the WebToon and don't feel like you have the same cells in your head.
At the ending of September, the WebToon was adapted to a Korean drama, I couldn't be happier to follow this story again.
To my surprise, almost 3 years later I was passing on similar things that Yumi have faced in the story and was feeling so understood that wanted to hug Yumi.
In the story Yumi worked on the accountability office from a company, however, she's not a fan of the job.
But one day, she starts to post some texts on social media. Babi, a character that works in the same company, but in the marketing department, start reading her texts and invites her to write for the marketing department.
In every scene of this, I could relate. A few months ago I started to make posts with cybersecurity tips on LinkedIn. I was noticed and started to work in another company, producing content about cybersecurity awareness.
Like Yumi, I wasn't a fan of my previous job. Those who have read my older posts know how I was regretting graduating in cybersecurity. Technical things and not a creative job are not for me.
However, like Yumi I had my insecurities:
"Should I leave this job? It is safe, pay my bills... I love writing and producing content, but I don't know if I'm really talented to do this."
The most fun thing is that I didn't remember that our career change process was so similar, so after watching the drama I remember how anxious Yumi felt in the webtoon and how I wished at the time I had the same courage to take such risk.
So after 2 years, it seams I gained the courage to do the same. But watching the drama I started reflect on and understand what had happened to me.
The Yumi's writing cell was dead so she couldn't work with she liked. Yumi never believed in the work of writing cell till some had pointed she was talented.
I'm the same, I never believed in my creativity cell, I killed this cell, because I never thought it was good enough to work with. However my mom and my closest friend always said that I was creative.
The moment I started believing that, my cell reborned and opened other opportunities for me.
Maybe in the future, wirting and creativity cell won't be the ones that I want to work with, maybe another cell will reborn or born, maybe, I don't.
But at this moment I'm really happy that I gave opportunity to these cells to shine, and thanks to them I'm blissful in my current job.
