Signing off

Lyn, a fellow call center agent who has been helping learn the ropes on our first month of being on the production floor is leaving the company for a greener pasteur. Her new job earns her about a quarter more than what she’s receiving today and she gets to go to the US for training. It’s just a couple of days but having been to a first world country, in this side of the globe is considered an achievement that’s like winning the lottery.

I happen to know about her change in career path just today, her last day of helping people who should not be owning computers, much more the Internet, fix it. It’s an OK job but it kinda takes it’s toll on you after several months.  She’s gonna work for a business process outsourcing firm but she will be taking less calls now and it’s just gonna be about printers. Printer’s are easier to fix than Internet connectivity and I think not a lot of callers there are irate or bordering on nuts.

Lyn finished a degree and got a CISCO certificate as well and now reviewing to get Microsoft certified which makes me envious. (Sigh!) It makes me consider going out more and explore Cebu and the number of opportunities for learning it offers to people who are willing to step up and stand out.I wonder what to do to kick my ass off into starting to get the thinks I want. I think it has to start with reading all those books on my reading queue. Arg!

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