Opportunities, how you handle it, will predict your future..

May 31, 2022

Seventh and I am still counting..I am in the nook of forgetting this challenge but since I started it so I will continue until the end. And for this time it will be with........ an opportunity I'm grateful for..

I did get a lot of opportunities that I am grateful for ever since but if I will tackle only one I can say that the opportunity to work in my present job is what I am grateful as of the moment.

(A little flashback story...)

Way back when I just had a baby and I was still feeding him with my milk, my mind is already wandering on any job opportunities that might be open for me once my baby can eat solid food, that's on my mind then.
Since I let the father of my son go home days after we go out from the hospital I am not expecting anything from him anymore as I decided to give the baby all he needs until he grows up. And since I was not using phone or any gadgets for months while breastfeeding, I was looking through newspapers and even following the news on televisions regarding job openings in my area, and to no avail I found none suitable for me. I'm not saying I am picky with the jobs, I'm actually looking for a job that my body can sustain since I am breastfeeding. And being a mother, most of us are at risk with fatigue and some after effects from giving birth. A job that requires extra physical strength is a no for me and also those job that had a graveyard shift since I need to be with my son during the night as I don't want to put a lot of burden to my parents.

When my son turns four months I decided to go to the big city and apply in an agency. Buckets of sweats, falling in line, collecting requirements, the usual things you do in finding a job. I did all of that for a day and then pass a lot of resumes to some prospect companies I want to work. I did hope I could get a decent job although I was having second thoughts since the people I was team up for the interviews came from prestigious universities with a lot of potentials to get the job easily, still I continued with the interview and other necessary things. At the end of the day we we're all promised to be called if we are hired while some were hired on the spot.
That was also the day I got a text from the father of my child(after four months) asking about our son and if he can see the baby. I was still hating him that time, but I just told him.
(Paghatag usag pang gatas ug diaper ni dodong, una ka makakita niya) Provide him milk and diapers first, that way you can see him.
But I was so angry with his reply.
(Di mangani ko kabuhi nako, maghatag na nuon ug support niya) I can't even feed myself, much more support him.
So I told him the he will never get to see the child ever, and I will do my best to provide him with everything I can offer. (So alams niyo na san ako nanggaling sa mga rason ko dati hihihi)

So I got home like nothing happened and told my family that we will be called if we are hired.

My co-servants in the community paid me a visit a week after I applied for some job openings. They brought gifts to my son and checks on me and even did bible sharing at our house. We we're talking about their job when one of them ask me if I want a job even though it was out of my profession experience ( I'm a data encoder on my previous jobs). I asked him what was the job and he said a timekeeper(the one who take notes of the workers time in and out and even the one who gives out payroll salary). The good thing is that the project the company's working is just in the main city so it's only a 10 minute ride from my home and back. And the supervisor is the head of the branch in the community I am serving at. I immediately said yes thinking that it will only be temporary as I am waiting for the call from the companies I am applying at.

I became a timekeeper in the project for almost a year, didn't receive a single call from the agency I was applying at first. In a construction a project will end if the work is done and you will be assigned to another project if you got a good performance. A week before the project's done, the company was holding a Christmas Party so we we're all invited alongside the owner and other staffs. I was hesitant to join since it will be awkward to face the President of the company I am working at but the workers wanted me to tag along with them. And to my surprise, the President even called me and asked to sit on their area during the party.

A little trivia is I only saw Big Boss and Lady Boss that time, and we are only a few girls in the party as most workers and staffs are men.

As I was in their table, Big Boss asked me about my educational background, the nervous I am stutter while answering him but I still manage to answer him. Then he offered to extend my work and sign a new contract not as a timekeeper but an admin staff. The supervisor, the one who let's me in, told me to accept it since I don't have any job after the project and it's an opportunity for me to be a regular employee if I will be assigned in the main office, to which I accepted it.

I can still remember it was January 08, 2018 when I started working here in the main office as an encoder, and after four months I became a regular employee. I was also entrusted to some projects and I even became an assistant to the manager now ( the salary also increase as my workload increases and when the government issues salary increase for employees)

I am an employee here for five years already and the learning's I had while working is a blessing for me. I never expect to even report in a big audience or even do some seminars with the workers( I also had seminars and trainings myself beforehand, and safety certifications). Holding big chunks of money like half a million and more to hand out to the sub contractors and the workers for their payouts.

Such opportunities we're opened for me ever since I worked in this company. A lot of trainings and even the most hated task(purchasing), I did get a hold of it now.

From being a timekeeper, to being a data encoder, printing, reporting, HR, costing, purchasing, billing and the latest was being a document controller for a certain big project, I can't quite imagine I did all those in a span of five years of being here and still counting.In short I am now a clerical admin staff.

I am really grateful that I said "yes" to this offer and I am thankful to the friend that God sent as a channel of giving me the opportunity to work up to now. It's amazing that I still cope up until now. A lot had change but I am still here. You know when your Boss will beep you up telling you that you need to go to work for you are needed to do this and that, it shows that you're one of the assets of the company now, it's what I always feels when Lady Boss wants me to come and do this and that for a certain project that we need to submit.

I became talkative again, sheeeeezzzzz

Thanks for reading up to the end...
@mommykim