New Year

Happy New Year to everyone!

Now that's got off my chest here's what I have to say about 2004, it is such a turbulent year or at least to the last part of this year. Not only to the country but to my personal life as well.

I had just quit my job in Manila and had gotten home, adjusting to the fact that I am unemployed. I was in my 2nd month studying caregiver and so far I like the feeling of studying again. I even thought the idea of leaving the country is appealing. So most of the year was spent on studying.

I saw an ad in the local paper about a call center job. Actually, my sister showed it to me and I thought that they are looking for people in Baguio to work for their call center in Manila. But I was wrong, it turns out that they are opening a call center in Baguio. I decided to apply even if I was still studying then. I did and what happened was they put me on active file. That left me really depressed, realizing that I regretted quitting my previous job.

By July 2004 after finishing my competency exam in caregiving, I got a call from that particular call center asking me if I wanted to drop by and take an exam by Monday. After dropping by at the EPZA admin building (the building wasn't completed then), the exam was fine and so was the final interview. By Friday we were already signing our contracts.

So my life as a Technical Support began. The training was fun at first but after that it was real hard work. I contemplated quitting my job a lot of times and I still do because of the way they treat their employees. I know we need money but this is ridiculous.

So I will welcome 2005 answering calls from idiotic customers since we are queing.

What a life.