Before resigning from one of the jobs last year, I thought I would slow down this year. But an ex boss contacted me in early December 2019 and asked if I could help him out with a new project coming. He knew I worked for a Singapore-based media research company, and he was making a similar entity, so he thought I would be a good fit in his team. I went to his office and meet the other team members, had discussion about my daily schedule (aka my other jobs) and how we could turn the wheels around because we wanted this to work out well.
That meeting happened in early December, and he told me to wait. So I waited, and resigned from that job. Resigning from that one was never meant to put all hopes on this job. I just wanted to leave things that no longer make me happy anymore. December and January passed without any progress from this project. Then early this month, the ex boss called again to inform that I should start working the next day.
[Say whaaat???]
Boy, I am grateful that I have a strong heart. Otherwise, I could have a heart attack right there. The boss put me in touch with one of the team members, who gave me the step-by-step SOP for the daily report. The first day was a mess. But we are learning to find our dynamics as a team, and so far we are doing good. It has been three weeks and I am starting to enjoy this new project.
So, what is the project about? In general, it's also a media monitoring job, with the topic of environment, which was broken down to seven subtopics: direct mention of the client's name, climate change, forestry, lowlands, one map, palm oil, coastal&ocean, and biodiversity. I love the topics, which was why I said yes to this project in the first place.
The team provided the links for online news, while I have to scour six e-paper (Kompas, Bisnis Indonesia, Investor Daily, Tempo, Media Indonesia and The Jakarta Post) every morning. They gave me the passwords to the e-paper. Wow, this job is like a custom-made project for a person who loves to read newspaper and environment issues (read: me). All e-paper are already available at 3 am, except for Tempo (5 am), while I start working on the SG job at 5.20 am.
Basically, I have to finish 80 percent of this environmental medmon project before 5.20 am. I can edit and finish the remaining of the report while working on the SG reports. Fortunately, the team members have been very helpful and they adjusted the schedule to make things working out for me to finish the report on time. I think what makes me liking the project is the trust the boss gives to the team members, me included.
I will work on this project until February 2021. It's not even a month has passed, and I really hope it will be extended.
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