The Journey. It’s Mine. [My personal take on love, life, parenting and blogging.]

The family I’m staying with at the moment went to Tagaytay for a day’s outing. I was invited to join and as much as I wanted to go, I need to rest and nurse some awful muscle pains. Muscle pains incurred from the Christmas party’s parlor games on Thursday night and from a week’s worth of laundry that I did yesterday. Top that with the daily running-after-buses-and-jeepneys kind of muscle pains.

Not that I’m complaining. This job came at the right time and it’s an opportunity that’s hard to come by, considering my age, the ’shift in career’ and the 4.75 years of not being employed. The daily commute can get too tasking and I’m still physically adjusting to it after years of working-at-home. I’m just grateful that the job doesn’t entail tweaking of industrial bearings. Else, I’d really be in big trouble.

All in all, this new job is both a challenge and an adventure. It’s definitely something that I have blogging to thank for.

Now that it’s been a week, I can comfortably talk about it. I’m back in LB and I’ve started on a new day job. It’s a project-based (documentation and writing) gig for a pharmaceutical and nutritional goods manufacturing plant nearby. At first I thought I can still blog at night. But now it looks like I can only do so on weekends.

My first week was both fun and funny. Fun because I’m working with a bunch of young, hardworking and happy folks. Funny because I realized I’m too old to run after buses and jeepneys. Well i”ve been working at home for more than four yeas and so my legs and knees are ‘complaining’ about the daily commute. Oh alright, I’m not as young as I used to be, that I admit! He he

Anyways, it’s my first weekend off and so it’s back to health blogging, htc desire reviews and all that stuff that I do online.

As far as day jobs are concerned, I’m still looking. With no luck though. Entomologists, plant breeders and agricultural economists are more in demand than chemists…

Maybe I should really change careers? He he. Health care jobs are always in demand.

While I’m always swamped with blogging on a daily basis, sometimes I feel like going back to school. I’m contemplating on more practical shorts courses such as care giving, nursing assistant or even hospitality management.

But then I have to enroll Raine in Kumon first… after that is settled, it’s going to be my turn.

(Updated 29 June 2010)

At Creative Weblogging, I am updating all of the English blogs and I have just been named Network Editor.

Also, I must be crazy to take on more blogs, but I did. Check out the English blogs in the following networks (all Creative Weblogging-related):

Bluusun

Episcale

Fastweblogs

Golden State Media

TwoThirtyMedia

Xcellerate

Reisen Ganz Einfach

I am updating them all as well!

We still have employment problems. Good thing that this thing I do has been picking up. Honestly, I almost gave up on it. I’m just grateful that I didn’t let go of it altogether.

Anyways…I still wish I’d get a day job. It’s just that it’s been difficult to make it even to the short list. Maybe it’s my age or competition is just so high these days. Besides, there are too many energetic, unemployed fresh graduates these days.

But as long as writing jobs keep coming my way, I’ll be fine I  guess. There’s just one thing that I don’t stop doing. I keep praying that I’ll be able to provide for my family.

After all, I always believe that you won’t be given a load you cannot carry…

Just a job prospect and I’m already dancing with joy. He he he.

Who needs the best wrinkle cream when I’m smiling ear to ear? I’m that desperate, huh? Yes I am.

I need that job so badly…I wish I’ll even get shortlisted. Please pray that I get it.

It’s not for me, it’s for Raine.

Besides, I really need a regular salary so badly. It’s been years and I’m raring to go back to the grind. Is that asking too much?

It’s time to edit once more and send out resumes. In March, it will be four years that I am outside of the employed world. The freelance world, while lucrative in the first two years has turned sour and really boring for me. I need something that will activate my brain in a different way. Or just a job for security’s sake.

Also, I miss dressing up for work and having a rather structured day as far as schedules are concerned.

So it’s time to really get serious in job hunting. I really wanna be employed once more. Any leads?

To make the long story short…I made it home in one piece on Saturday afternoon. All I did on Sunday was eat and sleep.

Today I wait for further notice as to when is te interview. Hopefully Wednesday or Thursday. With all these moving around??? Who needs a Solo Slim??!!

I’m both nervous and excited. I realy hope my next blog post will be about my first day at work. Hehehe.

The past month I have been in close consultation with a guy who is going to grow rice in nutrient solution in a large scale. He hired me to become the project manager. (At the moment consultant!) I did that kind of work for some three years but on a research level, under a nice small glasshouse. Now we are on the planning stage of making it on a large scale production. Think 1 acre. Later, other crops, such as some veggies will be ventured into as well. I’m dreaming and breathing the project already. I can’t wait for January to come!

What career?! Hahaha. I have always believed that my career went up in smokes the moment I became a mother. Not that motherhood is to blame. It’s just that my priorities have changed since then.

Well anyway, I’ve been wanting to come home since I got pregnant. First to hide my ‘demise’ (read: pregnancy out of wedlock) and run away from it all and from everyone.

But I didn’t for practicalities’ sake. I needed the job after all. It was then I realized that my old job has just become that, a job. No more fire and excitement burning to do it. My heart was somewhere else. I didn’t know where and what. I still don’t know at this very moment.

I just know I gotta reinvent myself, find a job nearby so I can come home at day’s end. Nothing hifaluting, nothing of grandeur, nothing for a bigger cause. Just something I can live with in all honesty and put food on the table. And oh, something that will pay my SSS contributions.

I’m not looking for jobs in Manhattan, a job in Sorsogon will do…for now.

I can’t remember the last time I wrote a cover letter with success (read: landed me the job) — I guess in those days application letters as I remember them being called were still handwritten. Ha ha.

Since I got pregnant with Raine, I’ve been wanting to leave the lab and so while still on board my last day job, I’ve been scouring for other jobs. It has been more than two years since I left the last job, wala pa ring kapalit.

Hmmm…maybe I should get serious in writing those cover letters.

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There was a time I was a real estate agent ! Sorta. Believe me, I never sold anything. What I was able to do never went past a site visit.

Then this reminded me, I never sold anything. Nothing at all. I have never been a sales person. I’m still not.  My principle remains that if somebody doesn’t want to buy anything I’m selling, then don’t buy. I’m not going to insist.

I guess the most difficult job in the world is convincing people what you believe in. Like in sales, you must believe in the product you are selling, before you can convince anybody to buy the stuff from you.

Maybe that’s why I was drawn to lab work/research. Because whatever I produced wasn’t exact. It has always been relative to anything, a correlation of not just one parameter, but at least two.

Ahhh…like in what I have been doing in the last two years, I need not convince anyone right? Anybody is entitled to either agree or disagree. After all, that makes a lively discussion.