Friday, June 23, 2006
Is the job for me?

Yesterday, after I finished my blog entry, I received a pleasant surprise from my friend. She sent me a msg from her friend, who was asking if she knew anyone, who was keen to work in Vietnam for a period of 9 months as administrator. Although I still dun have too much details about the job, it sounded rather administrative and the pay was certainly attractive! And the funny thing was that her friend stated that "qualifications did not matter", which was surprising cuz even with my qualifications, I doubt I can command such a pay at this stage in Singapore unless I were to slog like mad. However, one of the conditions stated that after the 9 months, the candidate would be based elsewhere and I dunno where. Since my sole purpose is to be here to be with my hubby, I obviously wouldn't want to be based elsewhere after 9 months, unless that "elsewhere" is Singapore. So I am not too sure if that's a condition they look for when they are assessing the candidate. And I also dunno if the 9 months period is a binding contract...

Well, I have prayed about it..so I shall just leave it to God. If the job is meant to be mine, it will be. If not, it probably isn't...and God probably has some other plans for me...

But whether I get the job or not, I wanted to bring up the issue of the pay. It was almost equivalent or probably higher than what Hubby is drawing here. So that's just another point to prove that he is really underpaid and overworked here! Cuz a mere admin job which does not require any qualifications can command such a pay, what more a job like his, which is supposedly more high-tech and important in nature. Shouldn't his bloody company be paying him more? I dun really care if his company's annual revenue is so high and so high cuz at the end of the day, so what? Their employees slog like mad and get paid like peanuts!

Then now, although he has pushed away his boss's request to fly to Manila next week, his boss said it's good for him to go..cuz he wanted hubby to go there and take care of the nitty gritties. So his boss said I could tag along but who will pay for my air ticket? His company is definitely not going to sponsor... and Manila is not exactly a safe place to be in at this moment...I really wonder why the other person going with his boss can't do the nitty gritties. Hubby said that that guy "dunno how to do anything one"..then why employ such a person? Isn't he a waste of the company's money and resources? And they are paying for his air ticket there!! I really can't believe the way his company works..to think that they are paying for another incompetent person to go along...

And I know that once this Manila thing gets kicking, it's going to be another neverending story. And if hubby gets involved, he will be flying there no end again like Taiwan...and now that they have deferred their plans of having a Singapore office, I think it's really highly unlikely that he will get to be stationed in Singapore anytime soon unless he quits this damn bloody job.

My friend once told me that she has a couple friend, who flew around all the time and even had to plan time for making babies. Yeah, but then do you know what kind of money that couple was earning? Each of them is earning like a 5-figure kind of income...at least if you reason it out, it is well worth the money, other things aside. But for the peanuts that Hubby is getting, they are expecting him to do everything at their beck and calling? This is absolutely ridiculous!

I know Hubby is tired and sick of this job too..and I know he yearns to go back to Singapore and have our own house, drive our own car too...but it seems like we dun have much of a choice but to be stuck here for the moment....sigh...

Kimmie scribbles
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