Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Destiny

Life is weird. I'm living my happy comfortable life, enjoying my job, having fun with my colleagues, choosing furniture for my new flat, seeing my best male-friend again, planning flights allover Europe ... overall looking forward to 2009. And then, quite unexpectedly, everything is changed by one sentence. As soon as Ovečka told me about it, I knew I had to apply. Too much coincidence occured. You cannot escape the destiny.Well, I actually turned the offer down unknowingly in October, but as you see, it found another way back to me :)
To make the long story short, on 5th of January I put all my plans for 2009 on hold and on 27th they were all discarted and replaced by others: in the second half of March I am moving for 1.5 years back to my beloved Yerevan. I'll be working as Regional finance manager for Caucasus in People in need where I will be responsible for Armenia and Georgia.

The reasons why I decided to leave consulting and go back to non-profit are following:
- career: in my current job there are no interesting projects due to the crisis. Being responsible for finance within the organization will enable me to learn new stuff, that I can find useful later on when I return to consulting.
- money: yes, I will earn more there in a non-profit than here in consulting. Believe it or not.
- friends: right now, I have more close friends in Yerevan than I have in Prague.
So, as you see, my reasons to accept the job are purely rational. I did not go mad :)