By Ioana Stoica, Business Developer Custom Events Division

The other day I was talking with a friend about jobs. She was very enthusiastic about the changes, a conclusion she reached after many trips. From one to another, we get to the “classic question” “And how is it with you?” At which point I get stuck. “How do you mean how is it? Very good!” in my mind. Obviously days and days, days when you feel like you can’t do it anymore, but in the end, in the morning, you can’t wait to wake up and a new day will come. Not for others, not because you have to… But for you. You know that something wonderful can come out of your hands and you can receive feedback after the event that will once again reinforce the idea that “it was worthwhile!”. Really, I don’t know what will happen the next day, even if I do my to-dos on top of to-dos, whenever things can change like…that’s how it is in event sales (as someone once said “that’s how it is in tennis” ).

After some time, the second question that troubled me: “How long have you been in the company?” At that moment I started to count the fingers on both hands and I realized that I am not enough. I had already done 1 year and 3 months! When, how, where did the time go? I have not the foggiest idea. It flew by quickly, a lot happened and all so quickly. I think that if I started writing, I would finish the first volume of a bushy novel.

After the questions came over me like the waves of a hurricane (because I had never been able to do an analysis on this subject), she looked at me with her wide and curious eyes and asked me like an innocent child: “And you do you still like what you do there?”. Moment when I answer without much time to think “Yes, like on the first day!”. And I felt it. It was an answer from the heart. That’s when I remembered the discussion in which I was preparing to say “yes, I’m coming to them” and in which the answer of the colleague on the other end of the phone was “I’ve been here for 4 years”. I was thinking to myself “how 4 years?” “what happens to them in the team to stay 4 years” “for sure something good. I want it too” .

It didn’t take long and I ended up saying today “yes, I like it like the first day”. I didn’t say and I won’t say that it’s easy or it’s hard, no day is the same as the others and I don’t even know if I want that, but I know that in the morning when I wake up I’m happy to go to them, to I’m part of the team.

It’s good to be asked such questions from time to time.