Who is me in Dubai?

I just moved to Dubai, I look back on those first days, and think to myself what did I do, and where I am going.

The reason behind the moving, is that one day I woke up and found myself unemployed, saw my future plans broken, and since my father is heading one of the Libyan Companies in Dubai, I decided to move with him, and try my luck in Dubai.

In the past days, I went for 2 different interviews, and both called back with the same reply, “you are just to qualified, we wouldn’t want to ruin your career”, in my head raised a huge, massive question mark “?WHAT”, I was willing to just take any job, but I wasn’t quite ready to beg for it, and what does “to qualified” mean anyway?, I was the one who applied for the job, so I am ok with it …dah !!!. I wanted to do this the normal, mortal way, no recommendations, no close relative or friend involved, but you know what I came to realize, it is not the way it works.

All the above happened within the first and the second week, half way through the third week, a great Idea popped to my head, why don’t I just open my own business, do what I know how to do, but this time, I will be my own boss, and my business will carry the human rights flag, will give support to all the charity foundations and free medical practice around the area, my business will not discriminate by, gender, race, religion or color.

The last couple of days, I spent night and day, brain storming, working on a business plan, creating my own logo, working on my website and preparing the ground that I will be working on, I am few steps away from being ready to face the crowd, and start running.

Ironically, just now that I got my motivation back and won the fight against discouragement, here it comes an unknown position in a Libyan company, it seems big and the pay would be good but, what about my dream company.

Now I am in a dilemma, should I go for my own business and risk being broke in few months if it doesn’t work out the way I planned, or should I go for this other position that will guarantee an income, and would secure my future in Dubai, I need help choosing!

Some probably thought “take the job and keep my business on the side, right?” yeah I thought that too, what if I neglect one or the other, that wouldn’t be fair.

What should I do?

MB