Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Change / Comfort zone / change / COMFORT ZONE

What to do?! what to do?!

I received an email yesterday it said: "URGENT - call me" it was from a good contact/friend/former colleague, I met her while I was working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has an amazing story... which at the end, why we converged was that she had been part of AIESEC Kenya's BOA or something like it. But she is salvadorean.

She was promoted to Director of Economic Promotion of El Salvador with Europe. Brand new area, she needs to put it together and she called me to apply to a post there...

Job description? - no idea
Money? - no idea (definitely more that what I earn here)
Bonus, vacations, insurance, extra stuff? - no idea

Then why was I even considering it? I love the field... International Relations, Political Science... I love it!!!

What's the problem? I have adapted, I have created a comfort zone which is not allowing me to face change, not right now... it screams to me "NOOOO.... its too soon!!!"

I would lose my cheap tickets, I would lose the spare days of vacation at any given time of the year (in the government you have 1 month vacations, but they are fixed dates)...
I wouldn't be able to meet my colleague MCPs in Egypt next year, or attend the oh so many weddings I have planned... I would have to wait for another entire year to get a good christmas bonus...

I am definitely inside a comfort zone... and its not as simple as saying... screw it... not anymore... and I don't know why... and my mind keeps going on from the words "Passion" to the words "Stability" and its screwing my peace of mind...

And I have to decide before tomorrow. What to do?

3 Comments:

At 4:58 PM , Blogger The Dode said...

Apply and see if you get accepted.
Then negotiate, negotiate, negotiate.

If you have the best deal, take it;otherwise you have the comfort zone.

 
At 7:33 AM , Blogger Rafa said...

The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
— Isaac Asimov

I agree 200% with Dody, although at the end it will always be your decision to make, but if you apply and get a good offer you can then negotiate, compare and decide; it seems like you are worrying too much beforehand. If you don't apply, then you will wonder about it and what it could have been.
What do you think?

 
At 5:39 AM , Blogger Devrim said...

I say give up before you even try!

 

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