Man, September 2017. I remember seeing that headline. “Virgo Career Horoscope: Don’t miss these amazing opportunities!” I’m a Virgo, right? And I was stuck. Really stuck. Like, punching-a-clock-and-hating-my-life stuck.
I wasn’t really into the star stuff, but that year everything felt like a massive uphill grind. So I figured, what the heck? If the planets are lining up to give me a break, I’m gonna at least try and open the door.
The Messy Start: Trying to “Catch” an Opportunity
The horoscope wasn’t specific, you know? It just said something about “taking a bold step” and “networking with influential figures.” My first step, the ‘practice’ I logged, was trying to figure out what that even meant. I literally sat down with a highlighter and copied down the prediction onto a piece of paper, like I was studying for a test.
- Action Log Entry 1: August 30, 2017. I dug through LinkedIn. I mean, dug. Found the contact info for three people who had interviewed me years ago but I’d politely declined. Big mistake, turns out. They were “influential.”
- Action Log Entry 2: September 4, 2017. Sent three embarrassingly awkward cold emails. I kept trying to sound “bold,” but I think I just sounded desperate. Didn’t hear squat back. Zero replies. It was a bust. I even called one guy’s office line. Got straight to a receptionist who just punted me to voicemail.
- Action Log Entry 3: September 10, 2017. The horoscope also mentioned “re-evaluating stability.” My current job was stable, sure, but it was soul-crushing. I decided to make a real bold move, the kind of insane thing I’d been putting off for years. I wrote my resignation letter.
I didn’t have a plan B. Not a proper one. I just had this nagging feeling, backed up by some cosmic advice, that my time in that place was done. I marched right into my manager’s office and dropped the thing on his desk. He looked at me like I had three heads. Honestly, I felt like I had three heads.
I worked out my two weeks, collecting all my old notes, throwing out stacks of pointless documents. I was walking out on September 22nd. My friends thought I was nuts, relying on a Virgo chart for a career move. And for a week, it felt like they were right. I was unemployed, panicking, and the job market looked like a desert.
The Real Scoop: The Opportunity I Never Saw Coming
Here’s the thing, the real, undeniable, insider scoop part of this story. The “amazing opportunity” wasn’t the job I went to find; it was the disaster I got to avoid. And I only avoided it because I pulled the trigger and quit exactly when the stars told me to.
Why do I remember this month so clearly? Why did I share this old log? Because the first job I ever had, the place I worked before the one I quit in 2017, was a complete and total mess. The kind of place that looked clean on the surface but was rotting underneath. I was thinking of maybe going back there, seeing if an opening was there, because sometimes you just crave the devil you know.
But the day after my final shift at the stable job, September 23rd, 2017, I woke up to a flood of texts. Not from recruiters, man. From old colleagues at that first company. I mean a proper, full-on panic fest. Apparently, the whole leadership team at that place had been caught doing some seriously shady financial nonsense. The kind of stuff that ends with suits and handcuffs. The whole place was raided. Shut down. Bank accounts frozen. All the senior people just vanished, or tried to.
If I had gone back there, if I hadn’t followed that crazy, silly horoscope that told me to “take a bold step” and “re-evaluate stability” right then, I would’ve been dragged into that mess. I’d have been answering questions, dealing with auditors, maybe even getting my own savings tied up in some legal nightmare. That place was a black hole for anyone associated with it at that time. It was a disaster, a proper financial and ethical dumpster fire.
I spent the entire day just watching the news and fielding calls from terrified former coworkers. My inbox was full of screaming headlines. My phone was blowing up. And I was home. Safe. Unemployed, yeah, but completely clean of the whole mess. I hadn’t touched that company in years, and I’d just dodged joining the next one they tried to start up.
The horoscope got it wrong on the ‘opportunity’ part. I didn’t find a new amazing career in September 2017. I spent the next two months scraping by doing freelance gigs. But it got it 100% right on “Don’t miss these amazing opportunities.” The opportunity wasn’t a job offer; it was the chance to get out of the city, cut ties with terrible influences, and avoid a career-ending legal headache.
I ended up moving to a new state and shifting careers entirely, starting a small operation that actually gave me some control. My current setup? It all started with ditching that old world the minute the stars told me to. Sometimes, man, the biggest win is just walking away clean from a bomb before it goes off.
