Clairewhispers

choice

We made lots of choices every day. Sometimes it's good to have choices because at least we have alternatives for what we want for life. Sometimes choices are bad when it's difficult to make the decision.

I've gone through a lot of job interviews lately. One is Ogilvy Public Relations, almost the dreamboat for every publicist or media-related worker. The interview went well and I'm going to the second one tomorrow. They want me to handle the client such as UBS, which is amazingly larger than everything I can expect. However, I'm doubting my passion toward the public relations industry.

The other one is NCL, a British media company. They wanted to hire me as a project manager, which is a totally new experience. I was so thrilled by its multi-cutural ambiance because half of the employees are foreigners. So basically, working there is like working overseas. Some are from Singapore, some from Malaysia, some from South Africa ect. Due to this, we talk in English all the time. It's not a large-scale agency, hence the clients can't be the large one either. But they had a big client as the National Youth Commission(青輔會). In this big project, I'll be able to travel a lot because the NYC is going to throw a campaign internationally.

I've been struggling between this two choices after the interview. We are always educated to try to reach our goals. And I was thinking in mind -- what's my goal then? what do I really want? Then I realized I'm still struggling because I'm so greedy to get everything. I want the big title from NCL, the big company name from Ogilvy, the colorful interesting work from NCL, the well-built system from Ogilvy. There are many advantage and disadvantage from each of them, and all of them are not equivalent. I'm conscious of that it would be Ogilvy if I want great achievement, and NCL if I want happiness. And at most of the time, you can't just eat the cake and have it.

I'm still glad that I have choices because it's content to know that my life is not limited, but with lots of possibilities.

posted by Claire @ 1:02 AM 2 comments

closure

As an English teacher, I finished one of my classes last night, the first class I taught from the very beginning to the very end. During the past eight months, I met students from different backgrounds. Some are holding the manager position at a large technology company, some working for the government, some working for the car repair shop, some remaining students etc. Lots of them had been attending my lecture for a long period, which appears touchy to me in my eyes because it's a salt mine work for them to attend my class twice a week in the evening after long working hours.

In the last class with them, I decided to have some relaxing chit-chat with all of them. We had congenial conversations and every one seemed to enjoy the class so much. Albeit not every one of them achieve the great language learning, I am still proud of every one of them because of their good diligent spirit. That's my words for them before we were really reaching the end of the class. For the first time in my life, I truly felt I'm a real teacher. And it's so luckly to have them as my students. I'm proud of them and myself, too. I feel it's like a big accomplishment to myself.

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Regarding to my career plan, I'm currently applying for the full-time job from the PR/Advertising industries. To my surprise, Ogilvy Public Relations called me for an interview right on the second day when I distributed all the resume. "Ogilvy!!" I yelled in mind. I feel like walking on the air because I feel I'm reaching to the heaven (or the hell) soon. Wish me luck! :)

posted by Claire @ 4:24 PM 2 comments