Recently, I’ve been watching a lot of my definitely favorite TV show – "Sex and the City". It’s just fabulous, so real and full of life wisdoms. In one of the episodes, Carrie said that “in
New York City you always look for a new job, an apartment or a relationship”. I looked at my life and discovered that it’s not only in NYC. The same happens in
Rabat, Morocco. In my life.
A perfect apartment – we’d been looking for a new apartment for couple of weeks. The whole process started to be very stressful last week. Some friendships were faced to challenges. Although its end was a bit sad and not as I expected it to be we can say that all the negative emotions and effects were sooner or later avoided. And then, I finally found a new apartment (only yesterday). I will share it with one Moroccan (a nice guy that I already know). The flat is cool although not perfect – it would be much better with a normal toilet and not a Turkish one but I think I will survive :) The neighborhood is not my dream one but I will have my own room and the MC office is in a walking distance. I will move there this week. So for now, this process is over. However, I will leave Morocco in around 5 months (or a bit less) and I will have to go through it again…
A perfect job – until around two weeks ago I still had doubts what to do with my future. Another AIESEC position (MCP somewhere) or an internship? Most of the people in my shoes would choose AIESEC. I chose internship. I did some analysis of pros and cons of both options vs. my long and short term goals. It occurred to me that internship will realize them better. These were not only professional goals. Thanks to internship, I will earn more money, have more free time for simple things like traveling, meeting friends, learning languages or going for dancing classes (I’ve been having salsa for around one month now and it’s just so extremely great that I can’t describe it. I enjoy it so much!).
I have recently discovered that for the past 4-5 years I’ve been investing a lot in myself and resigning from many other things. One of my assumptions for the period of my studies was that my activities should first of all bring me knowledge and experience. Money was on the second place. That’s why I went to Morocco and not to UK or Ireland. I preferred to develop myself instead of earning big money because I knew it would be better for my future. Applying for another year in AIESEC would mean continuing this assumption. And I figured out that now it’s time to capitalize on my experience that I have been gaining throughout the past years. And gain new experiences too (but other kind of them). Now, it will be much easier to have better money and a great job at the same time. And it’s something that I do need right now.
But! Before I get the perfect job I will have to go through the awful process of applying for different companies, being interviewed etc. I really hate it. Today, I had my first interview. I didn’t know how it went. Logically thinking, it seemed ok but I don’t feel satisfied right now. Maybe because I hate phone interviews. Last year and two years ago, the process took really much of time. It was long, hard, exhausting. But in both cases, I eventually got what I wanted and always the final outcome seemed perfect (in 2006 getting NST position and a great internship in Poznan, in 2007 going to Morocco). That’s what keeps me positive. Sooner or later I got what I wanted.
A perfect relationship – hard to asses how far I am from achieving it. I don’t have to much data. I suppose I should just have the attitude of “come what may”.
So summarizing – I have an apartment (not a perfect one and only for the next few months but still I have it), I have a job and I’m looking for another one and I don’t have a relationship. The summary doesn’t seem positive. I shouldn’t be pessimistic though – sooner or later I’ll get what I want :)
And besides doing our best to have it all there is nothing but believing that it will happen exactly as we see it!
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