your dream job

I got a job offering from our competitor, a local travel agency. So, if I take this job I will be working as an in-door sales representative.

Honestly, the pay is not bad, and you get to receive your bonus every three months. The only thing I am concerned is the annual leave, which is very important to me because I HAVE TO travel abroad twice every year. For that reason, 7 days are definitely not enough and that's why I am still struggling.

Then again, it is really, really hard to have a good boss...along with a decent salary.

To take or not to take, that is the question. So let's stop here.

I finally started drawing after a long, long time, annnnnnd I had not "officially" given up on portrait, so here it is.

graphite pencil + colored pencil

It's Cara, I know I did not capture her good enough but thank God my friend Jen recognized her from this picture. Maybe it is easier to take a magazine photo as a reference. 

Seasonal drink from Agnes b. Cafe. I liked the minty flavor.

Everybody's crazy about the giant rubber duck here, but well, it is not something new to me. Here are my collection of rubber ducks. 

And everybody's crazy about the Aranzi Aronzo cup lids, mugs and coasters collaborating with FamilyMart.

I was miserable, so I treated myself with some fancy ice pops. 

And I decided to buy something I really wanted with a little part of my severance pay. 

Well, this is an early birthday present for myself...

My dream job? I just wanna be a freelancer.

back to the reality, aka, hell

Yes, I am back from Singapore. I had a blast during my stay, but right now I am not in the mood for travel notes here because I HAVE NOT got a job yet.

Job-hunting is something really, really exhausting and frustrating I know, and you know it too. It is even harder for people in their late twenties.

Fyi, I am 29 years old.

Ambitious yet confused, people in this age are always proficient, however, most of them do not have specific life goals and enough experiences. So, when it comes to job-hunt, they are in the group labelled "incompetent".

Last week I had an interview at a big-name PR company for a project manager position. Not sure if it was just me getting old, this 3-hour interview was extremely exhausting , that consisted psychometrics, English test and a dialogue with the HR executive.

When I told him I only used the basic Excel functions making reports(because our BSS did most of the work), he paused. It looked like they needed someone who could executive immediately, i.e, they did not want to spend any time training a new staff. If it is just like what I figured out, they had better have some head-hunter recruit a candidate that meets their qualifications. Come on, I was not applying for a director position.

This is pathetic, here, creative(and hardworking) people are not always given chances to dedicate their life to things that they do not just work for live. It is hard to think positive, really.

FML