A lament heard from time to time is that New Zealand does not celebrate its high achievers enough - unless of course they're on the rugby field.
Yet for a small country we regularly punch well above our weight when it comes to a range of fields such as business, arts, literature and humanities, to name a few.
It was confirmed yesterday former prime minister Helen Clark will join the race to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.
If she wins, Clark will have more than 40,000 staff under her and earn a tax-free base salary of about US$230,000 ($338,000) as well as accommodation in New York. Not to mention the influence and responsibility that comes with it.
Jobs don't get much bigger than that (albeit it having been described as the most difficult job in the world by the man who first held the role).