Today I had to text my agent informing her that I would have to move out from my lovely studio. I adore the place but realistically, I could not afford to live there being an unemployed as I am now. I just crossed over the second week of the training, so there is another 4 more weeks to go and hopefully by that time, I am able to nail any interviews I might be going to within this time frame.

Last Friday I went for another interview as a personal financial advisor in one of the top banks here in Malaysia. The session went well except for the fact I was not mentally  ready for it. It wasnt my dream job but I believe it is essentially important for me to attend the interview and increase my level of confidence in communication. It was not a perfect session anyway, being unprepared, I did make a fool remark which is kinda embarassing having to recall it. Anyhow, what’s done is done. I definitely learnt new things by going to the interview and sure do hope in future I would do better.

Financial wise, I am still struggling, hence the decision to move out and fly back to my nest. Luckily my parents are alright with it, but since I have signed a tenancy agreement, I need to find another tenant to take up my tenancy to get back the deposit. So anyone interested in renting a studio right in Kuala Lumpur????

Long weekend is coming up just in 2weeks time, hopefully someone will generously take me somewhere where I can just toast away all these messiness I am faced with, even for a short few days..:)

I once vowed to myself that I will never be a student again (as in a formally registered  student)..at least not for a couple of years. I opposed to the idea of having to pursue a piece of paper as a symbol of recognition to one’s ability. Guess I have to eat my words now because currently, I am a registered student in an academy, pursuing a certificate in customer service under LCCI International Qualifications.

I had thousands of doubts coming over to the class on Monday. During the class, the same feeling still lingers around, hearing this and that from the trainee, I sometimes pat myself secretly saying that there should be something great for you here. I was scared, confused and puzzled. My classmates varies from different qualifications and various background. In short, lets just say the qualification that I have seems to top others and yet, I am there with them, pursuing the same thing. Sounds rather cocky is it not? Anyway, I am not looking down at these people (my classmates), there are just as I am, pursuing for the indefinite and attended the course in the hope of searching not just a better future, but a greater challenge in life.

The first day of the class was alright, my teacher is absolutely amazing; funny and a witty guy! He’s a foreigner, assigned specifically to teach us the American accent as in this industry, American accent seems to rule. For 3 weeks there will be an extensive language course, the class starts at 9 every morning ( I have yet manage to arrived any earlier than 9.10 am :P), and we have a 5mins break at 11, lunch is at 12.30 for an hour, another 5mins break at 3pm and it ends at 5pm everyday. So far, the timing has been accurate, easily put, the whole hours were really filled with activities and there could barely be a minute to spare on daydreaming! I struggled to keep myself glued on my chair on the first day, I have never been to any classes that long before, despite being in school for more than 18 years of my life. I yawned a lot too..sorry Sir, its not your teaching, its me and my unbearable self who just couldn’t sit properly in the same place for hours.

P/S: I went to class for half day today…I was sick. I really was..but I guess I got better at home, hence the time to write in a few things. Anyway, i should stop now, got few house chores to do. Wish me luck with my course people

Shortly after I applied for various jobs last Monday, I received an instant call from one of the advertiser, inviting me over for an interview for the post of a customer service. Customer service?? Am I going for it for real? That would be out of the list job that I have ever imagined I would be venturing into. But as of now, anything goes really. I have learned not to be picky particularly at this time when the economic is not at its peak and lots of people have been retrenched.

And so I went for the session yesterday at 10 am. I was late, arrived sharply at 10, which is not exactly the correct attitude to show to your future employer but luckily, the session that I went to was not with the real employer. It turns out that I was attending a session to determine whether I qualify to sit for a 6 weeks course sponsored by government, run by the academy that I attended the interview session.

I was first required to do an online test, a little bit of grammar questions, comprehension and fill out info about myself. After that, I was interviewed by one of the manager and then only I realized what the interview is actually about. Simply put, they are providing training for anybody who is interested and passed the initial stage. Thereafter, usually, some big companies who relies heavily on customer service officer will scout in for future employee at this academy. The fees are sponsored, we are not bonded in any way and  are free to go away anytime within that 6 weeks duration. The down side of this is you are not paid to attend this course Bugger, it is already a free course, of course they are not paying anything to you!

Anyhow, after the course there will be an exam run by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry International Qualifications (LCCI International Qualifications). Well that is actually the one thing that attracts me the most. It sounds like something amazing to spice up  my cv later on, and I could get it for free [at the expense of being  super broke for 6 weeks that is ]. So after the interview, I went to a mall, buy some necessities and a baby gift to my ex-colleague then shoot off to home. Later in the evening I received a phone call from the academy saying that I have been accepted and the class will commence on December 1st. This coming Monday to be exact. So…what am I supposed to do now? I need money, desperately, but I have yet to find anything else.

I should and have to survive the 6 weeks, running solely on my low reserve. This is a good opportunity that I may not stumble upon again, hence I will be going for it. School days again, for 6 weeks! I should be able to do it, hopefully something good will come along with this

And what about working from home? It is on…very much on. I just need to come up with some capital first and perhaps attending this course will be a huge help later on. Am praying hard to God to smoothen my journey in His world.

Last Monday I started applying for jobs online, posting my resume here and there, hoping for a quick response so that I can start work immediately hence, ending my income issue (at least temporarily). What about working from home now? Well…sadly to say, it is not a realistic option at this time. I agreed that the opportunities to make money online is huge and varies from one field to another but I am still unable to find one that I believe I can make a living out of it.

Internet scam is not a new thing. Lots of websites and companies promising easy money by charging a small amount of money, said to be as an assurance of our seriousness to do the ‘job’. I was more than just tempted to try it all, but luckily enough I have a soul mate who constantly reminding me of these scam bags who made money out of other people’s desperation to find money.

There is always a way to avoid from falling victim to these syndicate. First is to just simply google the company’s name over the internet and look for reviews from other people. The review has to come from an independent website or forums and not of the company’s testimonials itself. Plus, the so called dreams come true testimonials paste on these scams websites are the very first influence that attracted us to join in the first place.

Secondly, one can always check with the National Registrar Company on the validity of the said company, just to be sure that they are genuine and a registered company. Never ever believe the advertisements on the newspaper. When I first found out about this one scheme which advertised itself over a top nation newspaper, I initially have little or no doubt at all to be exact towards it. I mean of course its the truth, who dares to make up stories and advertised it over the national paper? Hehheee…wrong thinking. I almost, lets put it this way, my lack of confidence in myself is the only thing stopping me from depositing RM50 towards this fellow account which I later on found out to be a bogus. For some people who have been trying to find something to suit themselves, these schemes, no matter how bogus or too wonderful it is to be true, sometimes we put a blind eye to it and decided to give it a shot. To put it in a simpler word, we risks the chances of being duped because we wanted to believe that the easy way to make money without the need to step our foot out of our home is there, its real and not just a hearsay.

As pity as it may sounds, I wish that there are really some jobs or works out there that I can do at my own time, something which gives me a good return and end my sorrow of not having money.

It ain’t that hard to list down the wonderful experiences that people who have been working from home have been through. I was once had the opportunity to watched the young Internet millionaire entrepreneur, Irfan telling the audiences of his life routine.He has breakfast with his family, drive the kids to school, do some groceries with the wife, heads back home reading newspaper and off he goes to work. Goes to work in his term is sticking in front of his pc using the Internet that helped him to become who he is today.

I am craving for this kind of a lifestyle which allows you to put others other than work at front; family especially. I have no children of my own yet but I do have close people with me having babies and then facing the likeliness of having to leave their babies after confinement to earn a living. Yes these people have husbands but as I mentioned previously, today’s lifestyle makes it hard for the wife to stay home. With heavy hearts, these people drag themselves back to work worrying sick of their babies safety. I was worried for them too even though they are not my kids, Cant imagine how it is for me if I were to be in their shoes one day. I am lucky though I still have the time and the opportunity (hopefully) to chase for my ultimate dream career ; to work from home!

So here is the lists of many many wonderful advantages that I can think of by working from your own home sweet home:

1. TIME - your are the boss of your own time. Wake up at any hour of the day as you wishes, you may forever avoid the traffic you are constantly facing during early mornings and evenings to workplace, have your break as you wishes for.

2. FAMILY - Nothing beats to be able to provide everything for your family and to ensure that their needs are taken care of accordingly. Since rushing back and forth from work is no longer an issue, take the time to try on different special menus for your loved ones. Not to mention to have the opportunity of living every precious time in your baby’s lifetime, pick up the kids from school, have the time to talk about their days, monitor their homework and above all, rekindle the bond that have been taken away by the office-hour regime.

3. Your spouse - If you are working together under the same roof, time may not be an issue at all. Otherwise if you are not, just like the kids, you only have like about 4hours in total (excluding the time you need to do your house chores) to be with your soul mate. I sincerely believes that regardless of the length of your relationship, what measures or reflect the happiness is the time that you spent with each other. I have friends who has been seeing the same guy for over 6 years and broke up for falling for another guy. I thought being ‘tied up’ for 6 years should be enough to last the relationship but that was of course just a naive thought.

4. Yourselves -  When you have to work from early morning till evening, come back from work and starts cooking, spend the weekends to do the laundry and cleaning up the whole house, you barely have the time to take a pause and put your face or body until scrutiny checks on what is lacking. It would be really nice to be able to treat yourselves to a day in a spa, being pampered throughout and just lay back relaxing. If you want to save up, these can be done at home provided you have the time for it. Having working from home, it is in no doubt that physically and mentally one can improve their health and looks accordingly. Eyebags may be just a history then!

Of course you can

• Provided that you are born with silver spoon in your mouth and your parents do not mind taking care of your welfare forever.

• Provided you are married to a wealthy husband who can afford to care for everything without your contribution

• Provided you have just won a $2million lottery (My Muslim sisters dearie, this is not an option!)

• Provided you have a trust fund under your name in which you have full access to it

• Provided you are settled living depending only on natural resources i.e. you catch your own fish, breed your own chicken or ox, grow some vegetables

Sorry, that is not an option

• Your soulmate needs your hand in reducing the financial stress in the family

• Your family is depending on your help to raise your younger sisters/ brothers

• Your kids is growing and you need extra money to give them a more comfortable life

• Your expenses is hiking hence, more money is needed!

• Your taste for fashion and brands makes it almost impossible not to have an income

• You are a shopaholic who dwells on your own monthly income to satisfy your needs

• Your husband who you depended on just moved on (by many circumstances that is), so like it or not, gotta find a new way of supporting yourself!

It seems there are tons more reasons to have a job than vice verse. Well….that is the world we live in right now. Nowadays, it is almost impossible to hear that anyone could survive without having a job. Even doing your own business is considered as a job, only that you get to be your own boss and have your own rules at your own leisure!

1. To fill up free time

2. To earn a living

3. To help ease family’s expenses

4. To live a better life -

5. To be looked up to as a career women

6. To gain experience

7. To increase social network

8. To take up responsibility

Okey..so I do need money despite quitting my one and only source of income. I took up a lease for a year, so moving out is not an option. Besides I am extremely in love with my home right now (moving out means money too :p)

The plan:

1. Bake cakes = cupcakes, choc cakes, cheese cakes. Sell them on the web.

Problem: I dont have an oven or a complete bakery tools to kick start it and to buy it all also means money which I currently dont have much left

2. Be a part time tuition teacher

Problem: I have applied for some, apparently having a law degree is not an attractive feature to be called in.

3. Part time in Dominos?

Problem: Why havent I try this one? I guess i kinda know that working in food retail shop means hassle hassle hassle and hassle. Is it worth the money? Definitely will consider this anyway.

4. Forex trading

Hurdles: Sounds interesting and sophisticated kind of a job to do. There are lots of seminars on this as well as in The Sun , and its not free obviously. Also check this one out :Forex Trading

5. Opens up a spa

Hurdles: Need at least 25k, plus to apply for loans for about 250k as capital to build up the spa. Already made some pre-meeting with the ‘future’ mentor but financially, this is not the right time. This is my ultimate goal of reaching freedom in life (freedom from office-hour work that is) and do something not in the ordinary. Hence, got to find something descent which allows me to accumulate fund for this project

6. Opens up an online boutique

Hurdles: Been thinking about this for a while and have already googled few websites for ideas. Problem is again I need the capital to kick start this thing and I didnt exactly know how to get in touch with the right supplier

7. Be a babysitter

Hurdles: As far as I am concerned, I can only care for one baby at a time, and people dont make money by taking care of only one kid right?

8. Look for another office-hour job

Comment: This would be my first week of being unemployed. I am just gonna give it some time for myself to find something in an urgent manner that is suffice to pay all my bills

It sounds just like the perfect job; you wake up any time in the morning as you wishes, you starts on your work anytime of the day as you wishes, you take your lunch break or tea break at any time as you wishes, for as long as you wishes and gain the penny as much as you wish.

On August 1st, I started my first ever professional work. Three and a half month later, here I am, writing a blog as an unemployed. Why did I quit? I could name tons of reasons here but I guess I exaggerated the effect of these reasons towards my final decision to quit which is actually working from 8.30 to 5.30 pm from Monday to Friday! Ive been telling those that I need the green light from to quit my job (my other half and my parents) that I wasn’t given much job, my superior is extremely busy she didnt had the time to review my work, odd jobs becoming a major part of the job, my opportunity to expand myself there is zero etc etc… These are not total lies anyways, they are all the truth except that it wont normally cause one to quit her/his job.

When I finished my high school,I took up a salesgirl job in Parkson. I must say I was ecstatic to do it but later found it extremely suffocating. Facing the same small department I was assigned to, basically the work routine is flawlessly the same ever single day and we are not allowed to go around other than to stick to that small given area. There is not much to do as well, counting stocks from beginning to the end, helping out clients. And that is all. I took the extra effort of coming up with my own chart of clothing line that I was assigned to look after to fill up my time. Everyday, I woke up at about the same time, doing the same routine again, be at work till 5.30pm, off to home and repeat it all again the next day. It is like living the same day all over again and the joy and excitement of expecting the unexpected in life that we should all feel just fades away. The same suffocating feelings I had during these days, I felt it again during my real job. I was a salesgirl for only a month and I coax myself saying that I wont have that feeling again during my real job. And boy was I wrong.

I can’t really find a way to sooth myself to accept the fact that it is totally normal and a must to work on the same basis from day to day as business on my own is not really an option at this moment. Hence I shut off every single possibilities of consequences that might arise from not having a job and handed in my resignation letter.

Hopefully, in the course of rambling my thoughts here, I would stumble upon some opportunities that would allow me to work without having to feel such horrible feelings again.

We wake up in early morning, opens up the window, take a walk around while sipping the fresh air and thanking God for another opportunity to breath in this world and dushhh….got to get ready for work!

Why is it that working has become a life instead of the life itself? Since day one at school, we have been programmed to tailor our way in achieving the ultimate goal of having our dream career. The purpose of getting an education no longer lays on the content in it that would mould us to become a human being but instead as a stepping stone towards getting the needed recognition in a form of a piece of paper (a degree that is).

Basically, we are shaped towards entering ourselves into the working environment from the start of our education day. Be it that you’re studying to be an engineer, lawyer, architects or even doctors, the main point behind achieving all this is still to be a future workforce. The point I’m highlighting here again is the reason behind such phenomena. Why cant we have an education and becomes a full time housewives or becomes a full time social worker, giving something back to the community and our own family.

The answer is because we live in a world where money is everything. As i have mentioned in my previous post, money runs the world. Unless you are born with silver spoon in your mouth, you have to work and earn a living to live in this world. It is not an option but more to something that has to be done; you are to work after getting all the qualifications needed so that you can earn your own money to start paying up all the future responsibilities embedded on you. Well….the difference is only towards the way you choose to have your work life. Be it working on your own or being employed by some big corporations, not to work seems like a fairy tale which is so good to be true.