sabato, ottobre 07, 2006My own MUG, SPOON and FORK?
this post is dedicated to:
those of you who are very avid readers of my fanta-bulous sometimes outdated blog and are considered "tekie-KINETIC fans"--well, that was an idea for a name... hahahaha
my beloved relatives, who managed to do ear-bleeding "do-you-have-work?" question-and answer-portions
my parentals, who in their subtle ways managed to give me hints of my very annoying bum life by handing me newspapers and printed-out web ads with bold "wanted graphic artist/designer" in them...
my dear ate middy, who totally gave me a full length sermon on job-hunting when she came home 2 months ago...
my beloved baby sis, j.logs, for being very very very subtle... unlike my parentals, you managed to tell me straight that i'm acting like a totally ass-brained bum for not doing anything productive with my so-called "va-ca-zionne"...
mai, o dear mai, my fellow bum-mer i'd surely miss our "dibidi" (dvd) sessions, and mashed potato making... our crazy rainy monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday baths...
lai, my sis, who just laughed off my answering-essays-for-job-applications-phobia...
enough with the dedications... this post is turning into an awards speech...
why all this?
for 127 days i was on a hunt. i've searched through gazillions of classifieds. i've went through a number of unsuccessful and kinda crappy, nerve-racking interviews. i was among a sea of jobless newly grads waiting on an opportunity.
i had one job opportunity which was totally "in-the-bag". it was friggin' sure that i'd get in, but i managed to screw up and went on "vacation mode". just a week before i passed my resume, the company managed to hire someone else... i know, i know, i know i was stupid... and i never forgave myself for it..
but then, God taught me something..
while i was praying He gave me a word of encouragement in Psalms 37 and it was the same words i've been holding onto for 127 days...
"..Trust in the Lord, dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give the desires of your heart..."
Well i sure did "enjoy the safe pastures" of my parentals... and surely i delighted.. but i wasn't trusting in the Lord. all i relied on were myself and the people around me...
"..Commit your way to the Lord , trust in Him and He will do this; He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun..."
i did.. i surrendered everything to Him. each thing i lifted up to Him...
"..Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways..."
this was so hard.. especially when almost a half of my batchmates have already been hired and were totally starting their careers.. i can't help but become paranoid of what my future would become...
Oct. 3 = tuesday: i decided on testing "mai's newly hooked DSL" and browed through the net. i saw an ad in a jobsearch site. i passed my resume. i never knew what to expect.
Oct. 4 = wednesday: i got a call for an interview at 2pm the very next day. for the first time ever, in the history of my pre-interview jitters, i was calm and managed to sleep so peacefully. i felt like a granny for sleeping at 9pm...
Oct. 5 = thursday: interview day. the day of reckoning (eew where did that come from?). i was so nerve-racked when i got there. my tummy went past the butterflies stage. it was on a knot-- all kinds of it from french, bunny ears, choco knot? (nge corny). i felt like i was gonna hurl any minute..
but then i remembered Psalms 37..
i let it run through my head and calm me down.. i let God calm me down...
when i saw that the interviewer was foreign.. i kinda panicked and developed a vocabulary of a 4-year-old... but again i let God calm me down..
the interviewer told me that i didn't match their requirements (which weren't mentioned in the jobsite)...
* they needed a 24-29 year old.. heck i'm only 21..
* with 2 years of experience.. uh-oh
i felt my heart stop beating.. i let God calm me down...
yet, i answered every question he had with pure sincerity. i never planned on lifting myself up.. never told boastful claims.. i talked to him straight from the heart..
i went straight home after the interview, rested a bit and watched dvd's, ate a hearty meal of McD's chicken rice burger and diet coke--which was totally scrumptious by the way.. i haven't really settled in when the phone rang.. it was the company that gave me the interview. they told
me to report to their office on monday at 7:30am and to bring my documents, my
own mug, and my own spoon and fork.. then my jaw dropped and it sank in..
"MY OWN MUG, SPOON AND FORK?"
oh my gosh! I'M IN! I'M TOTALLY IN!
I GET TO WORK AND HAVE FREE FOOD AT THE SAME TIME!
OH GOD THANK YOU!
i sure felt like my smiles were "shining like the dawn and the noonday sun". all i ought to do was praise God... i totally flipped, i jumped like a maniac, told every relative that i'm finally out of the jobless-newly-grad species... and finally one of the working aliens.. hahaha. i've never felt such fulfillment in my life! i bet my parents were totally dancing and screaming loudly from the inside when they heard!!!
i managed to fix a couple of the papers needed yesterday.. and totally loved my dad for staying with me. he even answered some of my forms for me... i totally saw the joy in him that finally his daughter managed to land a job and that he's got one last child to worry about.. heheh love you, love you DAD!!!
so all the other "jobhunters" out there.. there's still
hope trust in God and keep in mind Psalms 37...
i end with a quote from daniel franco of project runway...
"may you find your bliss".. haha
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1. whoa.. finally, lights are back on.. it has been a 3-day so-called hiatus. horrible "milenyo" (we call it "milinyo".. hahah don't ask) did major damage to our house and to our whole village and the rest of the country for that matter. it cost us major clean-up sessions. we had no cable, no internet, no nothing.. not a zilch of thing to do.. man we were like cave men hahaha Primitive-O. i managed to finish three detailed drawings with only 3 candles as my light source. grabe, tok you owe me big time!!! pay me my 250 bucks.. ahaha.. i'm not kidding. well i'm still waiting on our cable connection to be fully restored.. so the blurry grainy abs channel 2 would do for now.
2. i was just told that my beloved sister, ate middy, wouldn't be coming home this month. she doesn't have a scheduled flight to manila.. and the only date that can fit to her sched was at december.. haaaay, kakamiss si ate.. eew i'm getting all mushy. i can imagine my younger sis, joy, rolling her eyes and flaring her nostrils with disgust.. haha what an image..
3. my cousin, mai, finally has dsl.. she's totally raving about it since she filed an application.. well, it's myspace galore for her now. she can also spare us from total ear damage and keep her melancholic tunes all to herself.. ahaha.. she knows how i hate some of her song selections..
4. i still don't have a job.. well i believe the most fit for me is out there somewhere.. God please give it to me na.. i super need the dough..
5. and i forgot i'm hear at my aunt's house in batangas.. hahaha.. and my thick-faced self managed to make a post using their internet.. ang kapal talaga..
eto naman ako.. i haven't posted anything that totally makes sense.. eew.. i'm totally disgusted with this post parang daily logs lang.. elk..
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