Alhamdulillah. Finally I've gotten a job after not working for 2 weeks. Exactly 3 weeks from the date I've resigned, I'll be starting my course. 31st July 2009. That was the date I've resigned from this post. 1st August 2012. This is the date I'll be starting my journey back into the world where I came from. Same job. Same working location. Only difference is the company and the position I'll be holding, which doesn't matter to me. I'm happy enough that I managed to get back the job coz that's what I've wanted so much for so long. After lots of disappointments and struggles, I finally got it.
For now, I just want to start slow. As long as I can earn enough to support my family, that will be more than enough for me.
The news about my dad was quite a heavy blow to all of us. I know its not easy for us to go through it but with God's will, hopefully we can manage. Right now, I have to concentrate on supporting my family financially and morally. After going back to the shifts I used to have, I can spend more time at home. Even if I choose to do overtime on off days, I still get to be at home half of the day. Better than spending 12 hours at work, leaving early in the morning and only come back late at night. And not enough with that, they expect us to work extra 2 hours, making it 14 hours. Plus we have to come back for overtime on one of our off days. And we only get 1 off day to rest, in which will be spent sleeping the whole day. Making us having no life at all. With the pay being so little, it doesn't match up to the times and energy we've spent slaving for them like dogs, and that too with no break time. At least, with the "new" job, we'll get our break properly.
I seriously can't understand what they are trying to do to the staffs. They promised that they are topping up the staffs in huge numbers, but in the end, they only top up with a figure of less then 2 digits. The number of staffs leaving is more than the number of staffs coming in, and yet, they still have the cheek to implement idiotic rules that, instead of making their staffs wanting to stay longer, wants to leave as soon as possible. And when the staffs resigned, they still have the cheek to ask for the reason, whereby the reason is so clear cut right in front of their eyes.
Anyway, all that is now in my past. I'm happy to leave the painful memories behind and start my new journey afresh. I'm thankful to God for making my plan runs smoothly. I knew I was taking a huge risk in resigning before getting another job. I didn't know why but I was kind of confident that I will get the job I wanted. Even though, at the point when I resigned, I didn't even know when the next interview will be. Even when I contacted the agent, they didn't seem to be so helpful or eager like the first time they contacted me about the job. But my patience paid off. Even though I did scout around for other jobs and went for other interviews, deep inside my heart, I was praying and hoping that one way or another, someone will contact me regarding the job I've been waiting for. And true enough, they did. The best part was, the interviewer was my ex-Manager, whom I looked for a lot of times in the past, just to get back into the company. But at that point of time, there's nothing much he can do about it. Even though I went up and down for the interviews and the medical check-ups, its the HR's decision not to accept me. Its a good thing they have another company who supplied them with staffs. And he, being the interviewer, accepted me back readily.
Sometimes I think that that's where my rice bowl is right from the start. Its just that I was simply too blind to see it at first. Part of me regretted leaving the company in the first place. But another part of me tells me not to regret coz after I resigned, I went on a "learning" journey. I get to have a taste of other experiences, like working in the media industry. Although it didn't really pay off, I've learnt a great lesson from it. No doubt I enjoyed working in the media industry but I'm beginning to realize that maybe its just not for me to make it into my career. I also managed to get some experience working in the security line. I've learned how to screen people using the hand-held metal detector. I've even gotten the chance to learn how to look through the images from the x-ray machines.
Now, its time for me to continue my journey back from where I left off. To me, the dates really meant something. Its like a sign but I'm not sure which way I should decipher it. To leave on 31st July, and to start back again on 1st August, its like I never left the company at all in the first place. But when we looked at the year in which each situation happened, we knew that in between, there lies a story. I cannot tell what lies for me in the far future, but I do know that I want to make full use of the opportunity given to me. There's a saying, "opportunity comes once in life". But to me, this opportunity comes to me for the second time and its up to me to really grab it and appreciate the opportunity given to me and not let it go again.
Some people say, "you might think that the grass is greener on the other side". That's not the reason for me to leave my previous company though. But it was the reason why I left the first company. But after realizing that the grass wasn't greener on the other side, I started to find ways to come back to the first company. It was like doing a U-turn for me. And I'm thankful for having that chance to do that U-turn and get back on track.
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