I’m waking up in Berlin, it is mid December 2019.
You can hear the winter wind through the window frame. That feeling of opening eyes in a cold morning, my beautiful girlfriend still sleeping and I start flavoring the coffee I’m going to prepare. I woke up, used the toilet while checking my Instagram, brushed my teeth and went preparing my first coffee. She loves Nespresso, so Nespresso it was.
While waiting for my coffee, I received a text message from a business man in Colombia. He asked me if we could talk shortly on the phone regarding a job opportunity in a coffee company. I said yes and the call would happen later that day.
During the previous three months I was looking for the next proper step in my professional life. While living between China and Germany since my girlfriend moved to Berlin, I was knocking doors in different places and the pressure regarding what’s next was increasing. Savings were limited and I had to find something soon.
I visited Germany eight times that year. Driven by love, but also by the energy of progress that she inspired to me. Being with her was living on the edge of development. Always looking for something better, learning, reading, aiming for more. Since summer 2016 she has been a keystone in my life.
But Germany was just not working to me professionally. It was a place hard to read for me. The language, the people, immigration laws… I was not fitting.
And time was running.
Then, the phone call with this business man. He was at the airport, waiting to board a flight somewhere. He asked a couple of questions regarding my professional experience and suggested a personal interview in Colombia in the following days.
I left Berlin. I cried. We were taking different paths and we knew it was the right move.
December 26th I had my first interview, a couple of days later another interview. February 3rd I was starting a new journey at Colombia’s largest coffee company.
Here I am, making calls, talking to clients worldwide, imagining their cities while we talk over the phone and last but not least, selling.
I’m a coffee seller, yes, that’s what I am in basic words. In big quantities to big companies in different places. It is exciting to think about what we can accomplish with the team I met.
David Perez 