today...
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Take a chance
Today while going to work, I was thinking about how much time I spend in transit each morning trying to get to Curtin! I leave around 8:10am to get to work at 9:00am on the dot. That's 50 minutes in transit every morning!!! I guess it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't first week of semester, but still 50 minutes!!! Then some more I have to park in the woods because there's absolutely no parking space once I reach there at 9am!
Then I spend about 20-30 minutes is transit going home from work depending on the traffic.
Add that to the fact that a lot of my social activities are centred around Bentley with cell group and church also in Bentley and the majority of my friends living in and around Bentley!
So if you add that all up... I spend up to 10 hours in transit and that's only counting from Monday to Fridays and thats not including social activities or the weekend! That's 10 hours of my time that could be put to better use! I should start looking to buy a house in the Como area to save time and money!
As you all know I got a job at Curtin International Office. I'm just "ok" with the job. It's not a job that requires any degrees or specialised skills, aside from being able to know how to use a computer. But basically, everything else you can be trained on - and it's not exactly the career path that I would have liked to take with the position I'm being offered. I know that Curtin does give staff good pay and good benefits - however my mind began to drift today.
Then I started thinking about whether this is the job that I really want to work in. I don't exactly like the job description as it's not challenging at all, and not stimulating - it's pretty much routine once you know how to do things. The problem is I haven't signed a contract yet - so leagally if I suddenly quit - they don't have to pay me for the past few days that I've worked - if they don't want to (I think).
Then I imagined myself talking to the boss and telling her that I don't think I want to work there anymore! My boss is really nice by the way. I just feel so bad because when they first hired me back in October I told them I could work until the end of January - but then I went on a two month holiday right when their busy period was beginning. Now, after hiring me back, and after all the hassles of trying to set up and re-activate all my accounts and access and all the training time they've spent on me - I want to leave already? It hasn't even officially been a week!
Should I feel bad? Afterall, it's my life and my career that I should be thinking about. It shouldn't matter how many jobs I leave in the process of getting to where I want to be. Right? (Someone tell me right!) I just feel so bad, after they've been so kind to me, and I'm just getting to know everyone better.
Today I got a call from a landline. In fact I got a call from the same number yesterday too. Another job prospect? Well I called back the number after hours - so obviously they didn't pick up, so I went to google the number and it turns out that it was a job that I applied for with a good position and a career path that I'm looking to head towards. It's in Subiaco - which means more traffic jams and more transit time and more parking problems! But the job prospects and opportunities seem so much better and it's related to my degree - which means I didn't waste my money studying for nothing!
I wanted to call them back today but my battery was dying and I didn't want to risk talking to them and then cutting off mid-conversation, so I suppose I shall try to call them back tomorrow, and hopefully they're going to ask me for an interview. Though, how I fit that in while working full time - I don't know.
God spoke to me today. He said, "Don't be afraid for I am with you."
But I'm still confused as to what I should do?
What should I do? Take a chance? Take a leap of faith?
today...
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