My Second Career For This Year

I would have never thought this year I would change my job so quickly. I've never been comfortable working for a short period of time and making a move to change. Eventhough the pay is little, normally I would hang out a little while before I even consider making a move to change job. However, in one of my previous post an opportunity came by and I had to grab it before it is too late. Then again, all of my previous company that I've work with are all small start-up micro company with less than 10 employees.

3 months ago, I met the Managing Director of a company that hired my brother at Enterprise Asia Business Networking 2007 event. After he met me, he was quite interested to get me to join their team. I was a bit hesitant but after some negotiation and looking what they have to offer, I finally decided to let go of my Open Source Web Administrator job (primarily a Wordpress modifier) and take up the position of Facilities Management Specialist under the new company. It was a tough decision because I had to let go of the convenience of my 10 minutes drive to work with travel allowance with those fancy dual monitors and trade it with a 50 minutes drive (including hustling the traffic) since my new company is located nearly 50km away from my home.

Nevertheless, I find my new job more exciting and gives me a more broad view of the world. Here's why:

1. Today, I got the chance to join a product presentation to a local university. It's good to be back meeting people and communicate with them. They even give free breakfast after the meeting and it was delicious.


2. The company has more than 25 personnel, kind of a medium sized company. I even have my own web designer/developer under my belt. Now, there is no need for me to get my hand dirty with web programming language. However, I do have to train the person about Content Management System (CMS), PHP and CSS because she has no clue about it.


3. My job is more towards marketing so I don't really have to dig into the technical part and do it myself. I have people that can do the job for me while I just have to focus on research and prepare a presentation for the management.


4. I get more PAY!

Some of you might find that having to attend meetings and discussion is a kind of boring. Well, it is if you are not the one participating. I had to attend a meeting after office hour yesterday because of today's presentation. I don't really favour meeting myself but it sure is better than having to bang your head on a piece of code that wouldn't work after so many hours of tweaking it. I think the web designer that I'm mentoring is so lucky to have me because I've done all the crazy work of creating a website using CMS and now she can learned that in less time than I did on my own. Then again, it's all about leveraging your effort and most likely, you'll earn on what you deserve. If not, then you need to seek out other opportunities out there.