How can I re-focus my career path and move forward?

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Sunday, 14 March 2010 22:56

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Dear Career Doctor,

I am a BBA (Marketing) graduate from a local university. I have about 5 years work experience gained from PR, ad agencies and in-house marketing in education institution.

I started off as account coordinator with a PR agency and worked for almost 1 yr. With a strong passion in marketing communications and wanted to gain more exposures, I then switched to a 4As advertising agency as account executive to serve an renowned airline client.

Just when I was about to promote from senior account executive to account manager by end of 2008, there was an accident in my family. My father left and our whole family was in great pain, my mom was so frustrated that she even suffered from psychosis. Though I liked my agency job very much, I cannot but forced to look for a new job with better pay (agency-job is normally below ind. average) and more decent working hours to take care of my family.

Two months later I landed an post from a government subsidised tertiary education insti