Profession

Last Thursday, my contract was renewed. It’s my second year (it should have been my third if I didn’t decide to go back to Philippines last 2006). Further, I just realized that I've been working for a decade and this must be the reason why I’m slowly losing my strands. LOL!

I graduated last 1999 and started working a year after. I worked in a manufacturing firm for two years. Everything was going on the right direction until one day, the company owner decided to permanently cease its operation. I will be jobless then. Oh, I was jobless.

I sent lots of application via snail mails. Believe it or not, online application was not an in-thing during those times. And while waiting for an interview or exam, I decided to be a part-time tutor. At first, it was fun and later I found it to be very exhausting. But it was for this part-time job that I was able to survive.

I promised to myself during those times that, regardless of what company it is, as long as it will be the first one to hand me a job offer, I will accept it right away. It may sound like a desperation act but yeah, I was desperate that time. But I didn’t tell my family in the province about this. I knew I can handle it.

Few months later, I was hired by an engineering design firm. Loyal to the promise, I accepted the offer even the salary was half that what I was receiving in my previous company. And a few days later, lots of companies were calling for job offers. But I decided to stay in this engineering firm. Less than a year of working, I was assigned for an overseas job in Japan. That was my first-out-of-country trip. I worked for three years here.

I quit and decided to work abroad. Obviously, one of the reasons was monetary. I was hired by a company in Japan for a year. Due to some problems back home I decided not to renew my contract.

I was jobless for four months (see, because of bumhood I started writing blogs!).

Out of nowhere, I got a call from a work agency asking me if I am willing to work in Thailand. (Perhaps this was one of my many applications that I have forgotten). I said YES! It was a one year contract and this time, the company decided not to renew my contract.

Back in the Philippines, I received another job offer from another overseas company. I was about to sign the contract when one of my former bosses in Japan sent me an email asking if I am willing to go back there. It wasn’t easy. I’ve been thinking the pros and cons of returning to an old company, the advantages and disadvantages of being in a new work environment.

Decisions. Decisions.

I finally returned to my former company. I am now working with my former company. There were chances and business opportunities given to me outside Japan. So far, so good. I have some personal concerns and issues but that would be another topic. Haha!

Anyway, looking from the very start of my professional life, I can say that those decisions I made, be it desperately or well-thought of, were spot-on. I can’t imagine the outcome of my career if I didn’t take that route. The same way if those decisions lead me to a not-so-okay outcome.

But as they say (clichéd as it may be), there’s should be no room for regrets, only room for improvements, no matter what.

Here’s for another decade of working. Hoping not as an engineer. Haha!

totomai
07/04/10