A few days before I departed to Japan, an office contacted and asked my availability to join them in July. The offer came totally unexpected as the interviews were done in April, I thought that they had moved on with another candidate, which was why I took the opportunity to go to Japan.
I told them that I already had an appointment until the first week of July, and the fastest date I would be available was on the second week. Would you wait until the date, I asked. The office was about an entrepreneur project, in which I would be a consultant and did not have to come every day, or come a full day. Lo and behold, the office said that they would wait for my return.
This meant it would be my fourth job in this year. Wow. And alhamdulillah for everything.
The reasons I applied for this job were (1) I needed to see other humans beside my parents and preferably about my age, and (2) I believed this project would make a good CV update. The remuneration did not exactly in my favor. I did try to negotiate, but they said they could not raise the budget. So I guess, I should see first if the remuneration matched the work load.
Anyway, I had been working for around three weeks in that office as of today. So far, the job has been quite manageable. I am not really sure how the job would evolve in the next few months. I will give update in this space. And next week, that office would assign me to attend an event in Blitar, East Java! It's been a while since I was last assigned to another city, so I am excited.
Apart from that Blitar trip, I will also travel to Yogyakarta-Solo-continuing to Blitar-before finally embarking on the last leg of the trip: Malang and Semarang. The Yogya-Solo legs would be with my high school friends, the Blitar trip was from that office, the Malang part was an assignment from my professor, and the Semarang would be a quick transit before going back to Jakarta.
The reasons I applied for this job were (1) I needed to see other humans beside my parents and preferably about my age, and (2) I believed this project would make a good CV update. The remuneration did not exactly in my favor. I did try to negotiate, but they said they could not raise the budget. So I guess, I should see first if the remuneration matched the work load.
Anyway, I had been working for around three weeks in that office as of today. So far, the job has been quite manageable. I am not really sure how the job would evolve in the next few months. I will give update in this space. And next week, that office would assign me to attend an event in Blitar, East Java! It's been a while since I was last assigned to another city, so I am excited.
Apart from that Blitar trip, I will also travel to Yogyakarta-Solo-continuing to Blitar-before finally embarking on the last leg of the trip: Malang and Semarang. The Yogya-Solo legs would be with my high school friends, the Blitar trip was from that office, the Malang part was an assignment from my professor, and the Semarang would be a quick transit before going back to Jakarta.
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