Man Who Sold Everything He Owned To Secured A Student Loan To Finalize His Masters Degree, Lands Dream Job At United Nations

A young man named Dr. Jamal Browne has shared his career journey on LinkedIn.

Dr James encountered several setbacks in his education career, but all things work together for his good as he landed his dream at United Nations.

Read his post below;

My story is by no means a “Look at me now” kinda story. It’s completely and entirely a “Where would I have been without the grace of God?” kinda story.

15 years ago – upon completing my undergraduate studies – I was accepted into a leading graduate school in London, but simply could not afford to enroll. I was devastated.

Discouraged and grappling with the thought of “getting stuck” in my career, my only option at the time was to return to my home country.

Well, that disappointment turned out to be a major blessing in disguise. For while it presented a mixed bag of blessings and battles, it was all the preparation I needed for what was ahead.

3 years later – after several unsuccessful bids for scholarships to fund my postgrad studies – I felt a strong sense of urgency to change the narrative of my life.

So in 2011, I took a major leap of faith, enrolling in a 2-year Masters programme with barely enough funds for 1 year.

I sold everything I owned and secured a second student loan to finalize that Masters degree.

2 years later, with my Masters completed, I was determined to keep going, and successfully upgraded to my doctoral candidacy. By then, I was married and had started exploring additional sources of income outside my Graduate Research Assistant role at the UWI.

Just one month after commencing my doctoral studies, I attended a conference in Washington DC where a series of informal conversations set the stage for a career defining opportunity. That was March 2014.

In June 2014, I started what was then my dream job within the United Nations.

In 2016, after returning to the Caribbean to complete my doctoral studies, I was selected as a Fellow of the Inaugural Cohort of the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) – the brainchild of President Barack Obama – where I piloted an initiative that has in-part been adapted and will be rolled out this year (2023) in my current role within the United Nations.

In September 2017, I was officially awarded my PhD, and my career has since then been nothing short of a series of divinely orchestrated assignments that have built my faith, resilience, patience, discernment and intellect in ways unimaginable.

Today is therefore not a day of resolutions but a day of thanksgiving for me – for what God has brought me through, what He has brought me into, and for that divine purpose that continues to unfold in and through my life.

May 2023 be a year of even greater breakthroughs and victories for you and your entire household.

Source: Dr. Jamal Browne | LinkedIn

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