• PAMBRI graduated from college with flying colors at the height of recession, 2009. Unfortunately stepped off on the wrong foot in her first job. In the transition from being an academic zealot to a real life nut.

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    The Dreaded Termination
    Sep8
    The word itself is awfully dreadful I couldn't imagine any Filipino employer capable of doing it for no just cause and without any formal warning. But it happens, it did happen (to someone I know). Termination on the spot. No second chances for improvement even. To pacify the situation, an option was available - to either “voluntarily resign” OR tarnish your reputation with the word “Terminated” for life. Is that even a “choice”? Sounds like subliminal forced resignation to me!

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    Stop looking for a job. Start looking for a company.
    Jul21
    What an interesting subject, I thought. So I clicked the link and added to favorites.

    It was exactly a month ago when this article made it to Yahoo’s homepage. I only took a glimpse of it and never finished it on purpose. Why? I knew it was going to make sense and I was worried it might urge me to start looking for a new job again when I’ve only been here for 6 months. My personal goal is to stay in a company for at least a year. A job-hopper impression on my resume? Imagine explaining valid reasons why you resigned. Nope!

    Anyway, don’t you think landing a decent job was much easier a few decades ago? Requirements weren’t too specific and demanding back then. You would be astonished to find out how some baby boomers’ educational background is a far cry from their career track. You could be a graduate of Criminology and wind up in a bank or not hold a degree (read: not finish college) and still get employed, overseas even.
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    Fancy Corporate Titles
    Jun1
    Guess what? Today marks my 5th month in my fall-back job! Better part? I don't have any complaints! I actually feel guilty about getting paid, knowing (or feeling) I haven’t contributed anything significant to the company yet. You have no idea how long I have been lax in this office and I can say I’ve had enough of it!

    Anyway, a new project was assigned to me a month ago but it only begins today and I kinda feel a tad anxious about working on it. Nonetheless, I was still excited to browse our project’s Sharepoint website to familiarize myself but mostly because I knew my picture would be up in the contact list together with other consultants worldwide.

    Look what I found after the jump!
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    Contrary to Popular Belief
    Feb10
    
    Im beginning to hate
    this dude
     “It's not where you started, it's where you're going that matters”

    Familiar?

    Full of crap. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to escape this infamous tagline that appears to be literally everywhere. Not only has it made its way to my Hotmail inbox but also in my default webpage, Cebu Pacific’s online booking website. These words are even plastered in every nook and cranny of Makati’s CBD underpasses. Get the picture?

    How would you feel if you were able to get your career-frustrated, unemployed-since-out-of-college, chillax friend a job at the Company you’ve been aspiring to work for?.. but not yourself?

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    A Scarce Commodity
    Feb8
    “The problem is that in today's economy, any job, even one that's less than ideal, is a scarce commodity.”

    I come out with this line whenever I get the recurrently Why question during job interviews. Thanks to Kate Burns, who couldn’t have expressed it any better on her published article featured on Yahoo entitled “Why Job Hunters Should 'Settle' for a Less-Than-Dream Job”‏.

    It was November 2010 when I came across this article, the same month I officially filed my resignation letter. My former imperious employer (I will now call XXX IT) required 60 calendar days notice, which made it nearly impossible to apply for a job within that 2-month period considering my schedule. Exam/interview appointments are normally arranged in the morning and since I was on graveyard, I could either grace potential employers with my zombie-ish presence or take a planned leave, which apparently is something that XXX IT did not allow when you’re a resignee. *surprise* Read: not stated in the contract.

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    It is a Corporate Jungle
    Feb1
    Hello there, nonexistent reader! :)

    You would be surprised to find out how long I’ve been meaning to put up this blog, a venue where I can vent out share my experiences since I began to explore the corporate jungle of my third world motherland.

    I recall drafting the sequence of the entries that would gradually unfold the story of my first working experience but I never found the time due to my graveyard working shift. Waking up to report for work and going home to sleep in a completely reversed timezone has been my only routine for over a year. I didn't even get the chance to drop by the mall after work, spend TGIF nights with friends or bond with my family! I really missed a lot and it literally sucked the life out of me.

    But guess what? The graveyard shift isn’t the only factor I felt so restrained in my previous job.. and that’s what I am gonna continue blogging about in the days to come.

    So im gonna leave you with this quote from some wise man:

    “Working at a job you don’t like
    is a lame way to spend a good portion of your life.”

    pambri
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