I love my work! It may hard to believe but working 9.5 hours a day from 8AM to 6:30PM exclusive of overtime that goes until 9-10PM during Mondays and yes Fridays-is do you even have a life?! But I still find it exciting, challenging, and yes oftentimes..draining probably because it's Friday and I have to sum up all reports for my boss to read later on.
Work just like that
I've been here for like 5 years now. I started a neophyte Technical Engineer who only knows route from home to office and vice versa. It takes another year before I became accustomed to the norms and here I am right now.
Being in a job which deals in a I wouldn't really say "man's world" but I couldn't get any closer than that, skirt-loving males (also), plant visits and trips, also round trips, kahit anong klaseng trip and out-of-town trips is one tough job. Not only you have to appear pleasant looking after driving and getting through the crazy traffic. You have to deal with end-users, managers, owners, decision makers and sulsol-tants (what did I get myself into?) You have to be very charming without trying too hard to get the info you need, you have to be persuasive without being too pushy, you just need to get this project done by all means.
Being in a job which deals in a I wouldn't really say "man's world" but I couldn't get any closer than that, skirt-loving males (also), plant visits and trips, also round trips, kahit anong klaseng trip and out-of-town trips is one tough job. Not only you have to appear pleasant looking after driving and getting through the crazy traffic. You have to deal with end-users, managers, owners, decision makers and sulsol-tants (what did I get myself into?) You have to be very charming without trying too hard to get the info you need, you have to be persuasive without being too pushy, you just need to get this project done by all means.
Talking to self be like
I don't know why I am even talking about this now when my work seemed to consume all my good girl genes (like right now) but, just like 5 years ago, I remind myself to keep calm, face the mirror and say you could do it. Just go sleep it over the night, woke up bright, eat breakfast, have coffee and go back to work. We all have those times that we wish we had done things differently. We undergo a phase when we are all stressed up, and we tend to give up, and we wish we are in a better position because we can't take control of things.
Frustration makes me wish a normal 8-5 day job. No need for strategies, monitoring, deliveries, deliverables, payables, finances, meetings, and nosy managers and manager's manager but I am proud I somehow managed it (silent claps). When I get too tired because of out of town trips, I cheer myself that I am lucky I don't have to stay in the office to stare at my computer whole day. Yes!
Frustration makes me wish a normal 8-5 day job. No need for strategies, monitoring, deliveries, deliverables, payables, finances, meetings, and nosy managers and manager's manager but I am proud I somehow managed it (silent claps). When I get too tired because of out of town trips, I cheer myself that I am lucky I don't have to stay in the office to stare at my computer whole day. Yes!
My prayer
Just before I go home tonight at a little half past 11PM, I pray that tomorrow I will have the energy again to do what is needed to be done, and try hard to exceed what I have accomplished today.
So whatever, wherever, and whenever you feel down...I am also writing this to myself. Take a break right now! As in right now. Get some cold beer, yes.. pair it with some chicharon bulaklak you really enjoy, or fried chicken di ba? or whatever you feel like eating tonight. But please, please...do not give up okay?! Find the excuse to get drunk tonight, but please make sure to report tomorrow! Daijoubo! Daijoubo!
Stay strong and alive,
Stay strong and alive,
itsmelory (^.^)
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