You would never know where you will be ended one day or
even tomorrow. I used to be a student and then I worked as website content
writer slash SEO specialist, currently I’m working as a personal assistant for
a plantation company. The unique thing of those career paths of mine, nothing
is really related, I mean could you imagine an English Language and Literature
student could ended up as a SEO specialist and then dealing with crop and
fertilizer application? Well, me as the subject here, never in the million
years expected that, but here I am, writing to you in my blog about my
remarkable jobs.
However, there is one common thread from those career
paths; it is English. Well, as an English Language and Literature student, I
was eligible to work as a website content writer and then learned a bit here
and there about SEO and as an English Active Speaker, I was also recruited to
work in a Sri Lanka Plantation Company, though in the beginning I don’t have
any single experience of working in a plantation but with all the hard work and
willingness of learning new things, so far I’m fine because as a website
content writer, I read, learn and write new things every day, and as a personal
assistant, I also read and learn new things every day.
Perhaps some conversations or emails I used to deal with
could tell you how different my jobs are from one to another:
This is the email I’ve sent this morning to ICT Team due
to some errors found in my JDE:
I used to have access to input PR for code OH, OR and ON
for PT BMS - GMO (10401011). However, now I could input PR for code OR only in
item Purchase Requisition Processing. While for OH and ON the options are not
available.
Besides, I cannot access the waiting approval in item Order Approval for PR
with code OR, OH and ON at all.
Do you understand that? Well, it is full of technical
term which only ICT Team and JDE user would understand.
Weird conversation about Crop Budget might make your
forehead wrinkled.
Finance Guy :
How could you break down the year budget into monthwise?
Me :
I’m using yearly trend to see the actual production of crop every month in
every estate.
Finance Guy :
Well, that’s possible but how about block harvested which is not yet full
harvested in a year.
Me :
That’s could be a problem, perhaps we could take the majority block only.
Because I’ve tried to do the next year crop budget by month, instead of by
year, but the result is surprisingly too high.
Finance Guy :
Would you please do the month trend first and I’ll see what I can do.
Me :
Sure…
When I was still in university:
Friend A :
Have you done the report for Western Philosophy class?
Me :
Still don’t get it how Plato’s cave theory related to The Matrix. I just love
watching Neo and Trinity in that movie. I don’t want to know at all about Plato
and his cave.
Friend B :
Could you guys stop talking about that philosophy class, it gives me headache.
We have important problem here. Book Report class. What’s book we should read
this month? I’ve done with all those classic Shakespearean novels. I’m not even
a romantic.
Me :
Haha… how about David Copperfield, you could learn a lot about industry revolution
in that novel as well as autobiography of Charles Dickens.
Friend B :
Nah… too depress.
Friend A :
I’ve been reading To Kill A Mockingbird.
Me :
I love that book. You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes.
Friend B :
The one with slavery history in America?
Friend A :
Yup. But reading history from Scout Finch’s point of view won’t make you fall
asleep. Instead, you will enter her little world and enjoy her adventures and
as a bonus, learn a lot about the history itself.
Me :
Just like Rick Riordan and his Percy Jackson series. He is practically my Greek
Mythology teacher. Sometimes, learning history could be fun.
Friend A :
Yeah, as long as you know which book you should read.
Some people once asked me a lot about what SEO or Search
Engine Optimization is and how I could make money from Search Engine.
Me :
I believe you’re using Google as your search engine.
Friend :
Yup. The only search engine I know.
Me :
Just imagine you have an online store selling handcraft. You might using social
medias to advertise your products, however to look more professional you need a
website or a blog. It could improve trust from your customers and at the same
time widen your target market.
Friend :
But the competition will be hard.
Me :
That’s why you need me as your SEO specialist. I have methods to make your website
or blog listed in the top 10 of Google rank.

Well well well, those are all the career paths I have
crossed. This December will be my last day to be a personal assistant in this
plantation company.
I’ve decided to move on since I have more priorities than
before. Since my husband decided to be a teacher in a remote place, instead of
becoming a CSR Assistant in the same company where I’m working right now, the ‘us’
time is becoming lesser and lesser. That’s why, resigning from my position
right now is the best thing I could do because sometimes life is not only about
making money but much more about making more high quality time with the ones
you love.
So, what I’m going to do after this? Should I be worry
because I will become unemployment again? Surprisingly, I don’t worry about
that. Why? Because I always believe, that we were born to do more than just go
to work, pay bills and die. Besides, there is always a way when you have a
will.
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