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