Doubts

It's been a while since I've been online, been a while since I've even opened my blog. I'm surprised I remember my password to it.

I've just graduated from, let's say, high school, and I just got accepted on Grade 1 LSPR (London School Public Relations) last month. I was tremendously excited and happy knowing the news and I started planning stuff for the future such as finding a part-time job for me to do at day cause' I'm planning to take night classes. Things went fine at first and I thought everything was going to be alright. But looks like it wasn't all a bowl full of strawberries, even though in my head...

At first I was interested in taking PR because from what I read, I get to take responsibility based on what I'm good at, which is easily getting along well with people and having a way with my words, and also good paying. It was love at first sight, at least until now. I don't understand why I was all jolly then and just completely bought that article I read and didn't do any research instead. Now somehow, perhaps an epiphany,I'm starting to question the average pay for a PR, a male PR to be precise, in Jakarta. And what I found, unfortunately, was not what I was expecting.

Compared to a diver in Australia that spends most of his time swimming in the beautiful Australian reef, spending his time with fishes and taking care of attols and corals, to living in the beautifully traffic-paradise, fresh polluted air, and perfectly KIND Jakarta, the comparison is way, and I mean WAY, out of range.

Think it this way, an average diver, with minimum requirements of "Could swim, minimum age of 18, fluent in speaking and writing English, and is willing to live in Australia", gets paid 5000 Au Dollars, plus food, a place to stay, health commodities, and visa, while here in this lovely place, Jakarta, being a PR with minimum requirements of "D3, good looking, age under 30" gets paid averagely 7 million Rupiah, without any commodities. Don't get fooled by the million, it's rupiah. Convert it in to dollars and you'll get yourself a comparison of, in dollars, 2631.57$:736.84$/month. INCREDIBLE ISN'T IT?

Yes you may think that this is Jakarta and that's the way it is and bla bla bla and maybe I should accept it, but no. The cost of LSPR itself is about 50 million rupiah paid withing 4-5 years while in other places other than Jakarta, Indonesia to be precise, gets way better salary than 736.84$ a month. Even a taxi driver at New York gets averagely a freaking 2 grand, a week!!! That's with public healthcare and all of course. I wish I could understand more about these things, that way I wouldn't have to be this curious.

Yes, anxious I am at the moment. Now I'm searching for a blog containing infos about PR's in Jakarta, yet I'm hitting walls right here, can't seem to find any. And yes I'm having second thoughts wether I'm going the wrong way or not... I FREAKING WISH I DID MY RESEARCH EARLIER!!! Then again... Oh well...

So... That's so far about my life, how's yours?