Chores of a Mktg Assistant

Ang bilis ng araw at tapos na ang second week ko sa trabaho! :D

Ano nga ba ang nangyari sa akin sa mga nagdaang linggo?
Madali lang yan ibreakdown... (in order)

Tumulala
Tumulala
Tumulala
Tumulala
Naglibot ng iba't ibang branches ng appliance centers (parang trip to jerusalem lang yan)
Umuwi ng maaga (dahil hindi na kailangang bumalik sa office kapag may trip to jerusalem ka)
Naging audience sa mga meetings
Nanigas sa lamig ng conference room kapag may meeting
Nagstay ng mahigit dalawang oras sa meeting nang walang kausap at naninigas ang utak
Nag-lunch out with the bosses
Naglunch ng 2pm (pero ok lang kasi libre naman yung lunch)
Tumulala
Nagtype ng konti
Nagcompute at nagbalance ng sales report
Nagcomplete ng forms
Nagbasa ng files and folders nila
Tumulala
Tumanggap ng mga memo para sa department namin
Tumulala
At tumulala


Pero next week naman mababawasan na for sure yung pagtulala na routine ko. :)

Back in Ciao.com

I was able to enter ciao's site once again! :) Click me for the technique that I used.

And if you're interested to join ciao, you can always help me out and join under me! Refer to my previous post on how to join ciao.com. :)

Fruits of my Labor

I am not talking about the first paycheck of my first job. I am talking about ciao.com!

I just received the money I earned from my ciao account. This is actually unexpected since ciao.com has been blocking their site in Asian countries for the past few weeks and there are rumors that some accounts are being deleted by the admin. That's why I thought the very first money that I requested will just be gone. But when I checked my email a few minutes ago, I received an alert from paypal about the money sent by ciao.com. Haha What I need to do now is to withdraw the money and send it to my bank account. I just need to figure out how I would do this since this is going to be my first time to use paypal's service. And I actually created a paypal account just for my ciao.com career. Haha

I haven't checked my ciao account. I even lost hope that I could still try to earn some money from it because of the issue/problem I mentioned earlier. But after receiving the money I requested last month, I suddenly got a little piece of hope and would try to log in to ciao's site and continue this career! Haha Well, according to fellow Filipinos who are also into ciao, there's an internet browser that has a European IP address which enables people to enter ciao's site. I'm gonna try that next time! :)

Naligaw ng Landas

Marketing assistant ako sa isang appliance distributor company. At kahapon ang unang araw ko sa trabaho.

Sinabi sa akin na pumasok ng mas maaga sa office hours para daw ma-orient ako. Hindi naman excited ang lola mo, pero 7:30 pa lang nasa office na ako. At 8:30 ang pasukan. Na-overestimate ko lang yata yung travel time kaya ganun.

Hindi ako na-orient ng alas otso gaya ng sabi ng HR. Noong umaga, naghintay ako hanggang sa pumasok ang mga tao sa office. Tapos nagkataon na meron silang parang bible study noong araw na iyon. So naki-bible chorva ako until 11am. Tapos I did a little more waiting hanggang sa maglunch time na. Sana nalaman ko na agad na pinapasok lang ako ng maaga para maghintay sa lunch. Naihanda ko sana ang sarili ko.

Pagkatapos ng lunch, siguro mga alas dos na ako na-orient. Pagkatapos, dinala na ako sa temporary table ko dahil hindi pa yata nababakante yung table sa department ko. Kaya napadpad ako sa R&D na nagkataong may bakanteng table. Ito yung bagong lungga ko na paghihintayan.

At around 5pm, mukhang hindi lang ako ang naaawa sa sarili ko. Kaya pinatawag ako ng sales head ng department namin. Sabi niya wala pa yung immediate boss ko dahil onleave pa siya at yung head ng department ko ay nasa isang provincial visit, kaya pwede akong jumoin sa sales team for the meantime para na rin maging familiar ako sa industry ng business.

Today naman, sumabit ako sa ahente ng company. We visited 5 Abenson branches. Observe observe. At commute commute. Nakakapagod. Buti nalang wala pang 3pm tapos na kami. Haha Dumeretso na kaming umuwi... Woops. Haha 6pm kasi yun dapat matapos. Di ko alam sa kasama ko kung bakit natapos kami ng maaga. Haha. But no one's complaining. :)

Did u know?

Hindi ito galing sa show ni Kuya Kim na Matanglawin. (Okay, the show's song suddenly played in my head.) Pero when I was in MRT a couple of weeks ago on my way to which I call the "far far away land," sinabi lang ang fact na ito sa MRT radio nila. Sabi lang na, at bigla akong nalito haha, ang whale (or shake ata yun), ay ang nag-iisang hayop sa mundo na hindi nagkaka-cancer. Alam ko na dati na nagkaka-cancer nga ang mga hayop. At first, dahil sa CSI ko nalaman iyon, akala joke lang siya. Kasi nga, TV show lang naman iyon di ba? Anyway, baka napanuod niyo rin yung episode na yun. Iyong pinakatay ng bata yung aso niyang may cancer dahil ayaw niyang maghirap ito at pati ang pamilya niya? Kasi pag hindi daw niya pinatay, syempre dahil love niya yung aso, papadoktor pa niya ito, eh naghihikahos na nga ang pamilya niya financially. Just to prevent any additional financial burden, the boy killed the dog. Ayown.

Back to the whale or shark thing, sabi sa MRT radio, nagrereseacrh daw ang mga scientists kung anong meron sila na wala tayo. Para syempre, ma-improve na ang cure for cancer. I bet everybody wants that. Sana malaman na nila kung ano ang meron sa big animal na ito... :)

In need of barangay hall... and officials

One of the requirements for my first job is the Barangay Clearance. I asked the HR personnel if I could submit a barangay clearance from our barangay in our province. It was a stupid question, I guess, since I really don't know what the clearance is for. Anyway, the HR personnel told me that I should submit a clearance from the barangay of the place where I am staying here in Manila since the clearance's purpose is to prove that the address I wrote on the forms I have filled up and submitted to their company is valid.

So this morning, I asked the caretaker of the dorm about the barangay which the dorm belongs to. She told me to ask the vendor outside the dorm since he happens to be a barangay tanod. The baranagay tanod/vendor then told me that there's no barangay hall in the barangay I happen to belong to. But he told where to get a barangay clearance. At sa bahay mismo ng barangay captain.

When I went to the barangay captain's house, wala naman si barangay captain. And someone from his house/barangay hall told me he'll be back by 5 in the afternoon pa. And this is his routine--leaves at 10 in the morning and comes back at 5 in the afternoon--everyday.

Correct me if I am wrong since I don't have much idea on politics, but don't barangay captains have to be physically present in barangay halls (or kung saan mang opisina nila)? Well, at least in our province it works that way. And if the captain is not available, some other tanods or assistants are there to serve. I just find it really weird. And ridiculous.

Mukhang Pera

I am currently reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I've read until chapter two. And while reading the book, I actually thought that I was the one being described when the author was telling in the book about the poor. Mejo swak kasi sa akin yung descriptions, and I feel guilty and, at the same time, sad about my pathetic personality and life. But alas, meron din namang tumugma sa akin na description ng rich. Sabi nga sa book, "it's not how much you make, it's how much you keep." That's so me. At least, being kuripot is not that bad after all. Oha, I am a step closer to being rich. Haha.

I usually highlight the lines from the book that I find significant or just nice. But since I just borrowed the book, I just took note of some of the quotes, which I know I could lose in time. That's why, I am sharing it you guys and maybe remind me of these lines one day.

"My dad used to say, 'if you want something, work for it.' We wanted things, but there was not much work available for 9-year old boys."

"Opportunities come and go. Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill." (This I really have to learn. Being with a very conservative father, in terms of tradition, values and in business, I have grown to be a very decisive person.)

"Most people want to change everyone else but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else."

"Assets put money in your pocket."

"If you find that you have dug yourself into a hole, stop digging."

Nga pala, how much money do I really keep now? The answer... barya na lang ang natira. Hehe. Nagastos ko na kasi yung perang inipon ko all my college life para sa dSLR which I consider to be an investment. Asset, ika nga ni Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I, at least, think of it as one. Sana lang, it would really turn out to be an asset someday.