Career
My previous jobs
I have never mentioned anything about my previous jobs before, have I? Well, before I had my current profession, I’ve done so many things, not so ordinary I guess, at least for bloggers/computer professionals.
When I was still a kid, grade school I believe, I used to have a weekend work where I get extra allowance for school day recess. That job, I am proud to experience. I worked with my dad whenever he has projects. He was a carpenter, and I help him together with other kids get sand and gravel, and mix with cement. I get 1.00 Php for every big bucket of sand, 1.00 Php for every big bucket of gravel, and 5.00 Php for every sack of cement I carry from main road to the building site.
My Dad is coming home
After 7 months, he’s coming back. He’s been emotionally harned all those months and he decided to come back home for good. Everytime I call him, he always sound stressed. I always hear him complain of the way he’s being treated by The Boss. He understands that The Boss is running on some personal issues. Really BIG issues because The King of one country is hunting them down. What he don’t understand is why does he always get the side-effects. And he’s the only one getting them. Well, I experienced it too, for 2 secs. She answered one of my calls and when I asked if I can speak to my dad, she told me “Masyado maaga and tawag na to ha”. It was 6AM there so I just apologized then said goodbye.
My Dad doesn’t know what to do at first but then decided to tell The Boss his concerns. He asked her why he’s getting ill-treated and The Boss said she just have a probem. She even tried to apologize but in the end my dad still decided to fly home instead. Few days later, she told my dad the he can fly home by January. And then today, she told my dad that he’ll be flying home this week. And few minutes later, the drivers were already outside waiting for my dad to bring him to the airport. This is according to my mom who is really worried about what’s happening. And I, together with my brother will pick him up from the airport tomorrow night. And we don’t even get the flight number.
My dad gets a monthly salary, 58% less than what he signed on the contract. And this has not been a problem to him since he know it from the start that the contract is just for formality purpose. Something for him to show to the embassy so his Visa gets approved.
No matter what happened, it is still a blessing that for 7 months, he earned few grands to sustain our family. Thanks God.
Quote of the day.
I was making the presentation for a meeting and I need to provide an inspirational / professional / managerial quote but I don’t know where to get one. I looked from quote sites but I can’t choose a more appropriate quote. Huh, I need to create one on my own.
Management makes your work harder to do.
And makes your goals easier to achieve.– Mr. Nice Ash
It’s very self-explanatory, eh? But I think I won’t be able to explain it very well. I came up with this quote, based from my experience. Based from what I observed. Tell you what, I’m sort of a guy who doesn’t like managerial stuffs very much. Or I am not ready yet to learn about it. Like one of my friend said, I’m a kind of guy who just go anywhere the waves push me. I know I am. It’s not that I don’t know how to swim against the waves. It’s because I don’t want to swim against them.
Let me open this topic here. Would you prefer to fast-phase your career, with a lot of struggles to achieve it? Or take it easily but will also take years for your career to grow? Right now, I prefer the second one but I think I need to do the first. Now that my family is growing, I need to make my career grow as well. I think I will have to force myself to do it but I tell you what, I think I can’t do it right here, right now. I think I need to move somewhere else, where I can have a new start. I would think it’s easier to start anew than to change the way you are right now. I’m not sure if you’re getting my idea correctly or not. I will appreciate advice.