Night Shift
Since the advent of call centers here in the Philippines, which was around early 2k, more and more people started working on graveyard shift. Since clients are on the other side of the world, we have to adjust to their time schedule. The popularity of call centers, plus their high-income opportunity, has attracted more of the working class to shift jobs. As more people sacrificed their day jobs for night shifts, major cities in Metro Manila are now “alive” at night. The year I graduated college, was the peak of call center recruitments. I never did take jobs that require night shift, its not that I don’t want to, but my body could not handle it. But why did I accept this job here at onegcc, even if I knew in the first place that my shift would include graveyard schedules. Many reasons comes to mind; (1) I just like to try it out for a change, (2) I’m was bored at my former work, (3) to expand my experiences and learn new things, (4) I want to leave my former work so that in time, I hope, I will forget that person most important to me but will never be mine, and (5) some other reasons I’ve already forgotten.
People work because they need to (to support their families) or they want to (because its their passion). I work because I’m just bored at home, and so that I would like time to pass quickly. I’m waiting for someone or something to happen whichever comes first. At least when I go to work, my mind is busy on something else and not on something that would bother me. At home I’m always alone, well I’m always alone since I was born. I didn’t have any brothers or sisters, except my half ones. That’s why I’m always outside, with my peers, with my barkadas, anything to make me busy, anything to forget what I don’t want to remember.
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yan. tama! gawing hobby ang job. yman mo na nga ruben eh. kahit di ka na magtrabaho!
hahaha. job hobbyist. wahh, kelangan kumayod para makapag unwind!hehe