Professional Crossroad

While driving earlier to work, I kept thinking about my professional life/career. I love love my job and the company I'm working for. As it is one of the best and leading companies, it is such an honor to work here. Unfortunately as I am just a project hire, there's this slim chance of me being regularized (ever) and of course, be given a raise. I have been working here for a little over a year. I  have ups and downs but I manage pretty well. If I did not have fun as much as I am now, I would have been gone a long time.


As a worker or employee, you would want to seek a better opportunity. Far more better and greater than the last one. I am still holding on as there is a new project and there might be a chance I get promoted or be regularized with full benefits. While I'm all up for that, there's this long grueling process of proving yourself to everyone that you're worth that promotion so to speak. I really want the promotion and I know they're eyeing me because I'm a pioneer employee. The thing is, I'm not that motivated to really get it. Slowly, I've started to come to work early and initiated meetings and calibrations, etc but that's that. Well, we'll see how things would go. I haven't found an absolute or formidable fallback yet but I'll take each day as it is and test the waters then.

Xx,
L

First Two Weeks

Hi Guys! :)


Sorry I've been a little MIA for the past two weeks. I got busy with work and a few other things on the side. ;) For now, enjoy my week in photos. Will blog more soon. :)

Week 1 (April 1-7, 2013)

Had a date with my cousin//Received a wedding invitation from my office-mate//Met up with my cousin and hung out at her sister's bedroom//My office-mate needing a proper desk and chair (LOL)//My nephew's (from one of my 2nd cousins) 1st birthday//Saturday snack: homemade pizza//kids at Church.

Week 2 (April 8-14, 2013)

Looking up wedding giveaways online//Visited and cleaned my house//E-mail from my cousin on her new work//Funeral of my grade-school Science teacher//Me at work with clients (Fri&Sat)//At home with my boyfriend before going to Church. 

Happy Summer!!

xx,

L

Fruit of your Passion

I am close to working for 10 months in my current company. I have not stayed this long in any other job, except the one I got when I was working three times a week for a Church as their bookkeeper. There have been offers for me lately but I do not seem to be interested in them, even if they're offering me a higher salary and a regular post. You see, I am only a project hire employee which means that when this project ends so does my employment. I have had a renewal of four months and that contract is expiring by the end of next month.

I know I will be given another contract since I was the one who started or piloted  under the VisMin operation. I don't know if that will earn merit in terms of changing my status into a "regular" employee and that remains to be seen. I was just confident that I will be renewed for an extension/ another contract since I have fared well, based on my KRA.

Today, I was not expecting any good news at all. We had a meeting at around 10AM and ended up at around 2PM. We were not able to have lunch up until we finished with the meeting. Meetings are draining but the upside is that you learn and things get resolved. After lunch I was back to my laptop, checking e-mails and updating my monitoring list when my boss called me up. I was thinking "Oh great! There might be a problem..." since we just parted after meeting and lunch now she's calling!

To my surprise, she just called me to inform me that she has all the materials I need, my payslips, and I have a letter. I realized then that I was not able to inform her about my expiring contract. I then told her about my status and she assured me that a new contract is on it's way. I was so happy to hear that! I love working for this company and I have not had major problems since I started. And I love my boss. I have developed a closer relationship with her that she really looks out for me and takes good care of me. She's a great boss- encouraging, helpful and insightful. I wish I could be like her if in case I stay for even longer.

I am just ecstatic that I'm still here and I have a job to keep me happy. It truly is great if you do things with passion because it becomes fruitful. It makes sense to you, and does not make you feel like you are burdened or bombarded with senseless information and work. Construction, operation and customer relations may not have been my strengths but I acquired a certain respect for it and for people who make things/systems work. Passion fuels us to become better and in return we reap rewards. I have learned that whatever you may be doing, be it your strength or not, as long as you have passion, you will excel.

How about you, what's your passion?

xx,
L

Burnout

How many times can a person feel this way? I feel like I have a very very short fuse. I don't like what I'm feeling! This is the first time I am ever really passionate (well, aside from my accessory store) and yet I'm not feeling too good about it now. It seems like every time I work, at first it's something I'm very positive and so passionate about. Six months later, that same passion is nowhere to be found and work becomes, well... work. I do not enjoy it anymore. I am just getting by the day without being proactive. I come to work and do what they need me to do and not what I have to do.

I have a very complex job and being involved in operations is quite an interesting job but also too physically tiring! I do not have a lot of complaints about my job because I get to have time for myself and even time to go out with friends even on a weekday. However, things are taking slowly taking a toll on my body and I'm super stressed out with work. I think it's really different if you really love what you do and you visualize yourself living and breathing your job. For me, I came into picture because I needed a job and they needed someone to do the job.

I really need a break. :(

Hello, October!

Can I just say that the months have been passing us by like a whirlwind! CRAAZZY! Now October's here and the first week just passed by. Oh how time flies! Next thing I know I'm on a plane going somewhere far... *wink* Anyway, this post is about how my first week of October went through photos.

October 1st, Monday. Monday was basketball day. I went to watch PJ's first game with my sister and his sister.

Dordie, Me, and Doc Jet :)

Go BLUE!  PJ's team lost though.

October 2. Tuesday, no photos. Well, I was a little busy making slides for my presentation the following day.

October 3, Wednesday. Day of presentation and calibration meeting, visit from head bosses from Manila and dinner with family.

My sister and mom

with Cousins Cha and Joan

October 4, Thursday. The weather was crazy. And we were all lazy at the office. After my shift I went to meet with my mom and cousins again.

Elaisha's. Had breakfast here with my workmate, Fatima. It was pouring!!!

Intense rain juxtaposed to a beautiful sunset. 

ootd. LOL 

My cousin who wants to be a kung fu master by doing a yoga pose.  LOL

October 5, Friday. Yesterday was "beauty day" for me and my sister, we had our hair colored. :) 

Ready to become a RED HEAD! 

My hair's supposed to be all burgundy but... it's virgin hair so it looks brown! :P

October 6, Saturday. Today's weather is kind of crazy as well. Instead of going home around noon, I arrived at 2PM since I got stuck in the office waiting for the rain to stop! Today was however, the day I updated my software. I'm just getting used to ios6!

Is it the best there is?

How did your first week of October, go? 

Kisses,

larraineBee

Hello, Monday.

So I'm here at work and contemplating on what to do since I've done most of what I should. I'm currently here in our sales office, which I do every Monday so I can report to my boss. I actually like my boss. She's really nice and accommodating, also down to earth. She does not drive me nuts when she needs reports from me. I feel like I'm just cruising through this, which I kind-of like. But what I really love about my job is when I'm on site- construction site, that is. It gives me a different high especially when documenting progress of every house that's being built up to the time I have to turn the unit over to the owner. The first month I felt like I was a fish out of water. I was so clueless on what I needed to do. Now, I've been working for three months and going up to four and it feels like I've been doing this for a very long time. There may be times that I'm struggling with myself because there are times when I feel like I'm just dragging myself to work but I still like what I do. I still like that I have client/customer interface from time to time and most especially, I love that I'm on the field- literally, well,  construction field that is. Sometimes though, because my work does not entail heavy e-mails and physical work, I get really bored. Just like today. But today is Monday, everybody doesn't like Monday... I think. I need to always psyche myself so I can do even better. I just love it that even if I'm not really that trained in this field, I still get to please my boss and she recognizes my effort and always compliments me. Maybe that's the reason why I don't mind being stuck at this job even if my salary is just so-so.

Hello, Monday!

How did your Monday go?

Fresh Start

Time to... update!

So here's what I have been busy with lately:

for checking and making notes

Monitoring... EVERYDAY!

Usual kicks. #chucks

Nike trainers on site

THE LIST

Hello from me! :)

Just started...

Progress...

Aaaand yes, I now work for a real estate company and I always make this clear, I do not sell houses! I'm part of internal operations and this is what my life is usually. Monitoring lists, counter-checking, site visits, making reports...and that's just a fraction of my job. Part of it is making clients happy and well-accommodated,  and part of it is making sure deliverable goods are of good quality and on time. It's all very new to me since I haven't been really exposed to real estate. I learned now of how things really work. I'm so happy that I'm part of the operations because I am so exposed to a lot of things- mostly engineering which I was really so clueless when I started. Now, I have picked up a few things along the way. I kind of like it too, since they're making me go back and forth from Iloilo to Bacolod and vice-versa. I cannot wait when they take me to other places. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that. It seems like it was just a few weeks when I started but boy! I have been in this position for almost two months! Yikes! Time flies so fast! Good thing I love my job! It's more fun when I'm working on site. I get to go around the village and see the progress of each unit. I get amazed with things like that- especially when it's new to me. I really hope that I do not lose this passion and appreciation for this job because it doesn't feel like a job- well, sometimes it does. But it really is true what they say- if you're happy with what you do, it becomes less of a job.

Love what you do and be happy!

xx,
larraineBee <3