어제 면접을 보러 다녀왔다.
그 회사하고 2번째 면접이었는데, 첫번째 면접을 본 다음에 1달 동안 기다리다가 드디어 그 일자리를 잡았다.
현재 다니는 회사에 비교하면 그렇게 큰 회사가 아니지만, 내 성격과 적성에 잘 맞고 어울리는 것 같다.
여태껏 하던 일은 반복적이며 비역동적이어서 일에 지쳐 있었다.
다음 달 새로운 시작에 기대가 많이 된다!! ^^
Posts Tagged ‘work’
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새로운 시작
April 13, 2010 by admin
Category korean diary, work | Tags: happiness,work | 3 Comments
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a shaky beginning
December 20, 2009 by admin
this may sound incredulous (or maybe not) but i am actually speaking more korean here in singapore than i did in korea.
even when i lived in korea, i never had to speak korean almost non-stop for 8 hours per day, five days a week.
it’s good, of course, but the only problem is… because i have to really focus and concentrate in order to catch what my customers are saying (my god, i don’t even know how i managed to figure out some of their dialectal accents), i am totally drained by the end of the day. -_-
am not complaining of course, i couldn’t be more grateful to be able to get such a chance to use korean to this extent… and to land a job that seemed tailor-made just for me. (on a side note, this being christmas season and all, having to stare at the products all day is really not helping! i so feel like getting a new desktop, even though i don’t need it as my trusty macbook is still serving me well. but i love the new unibody design..!! and the new magic mouse…. i’m using it at work and it is seriously sexayyyyy.)
anyways, i am going to hang in there, and hopefully i’ll be able to improve my fluency in 3 months.
???!!!
on a random note, 2NE1′s i don’t care is stuck in my head now.
i don’t care, eh eh eh eh eh~~
Category 42, work | Tags: korean,life,work | 2 Comments
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i wish…
December 6, 2009 by admin
some wise person has warned us to “be careful of what [we] wish for”.
i did wish to get a job where i can use korean.
i did wish to land a challenging job.
i did wish for my workplace to be near my house.
and while a desk-bound job wasn’t my first choice, i didn’t mind compromising on that if my co-workers were nice and there were no office politics.i got all of the above (plus no OT, a 5-day work week and a decent pay).
when i applied for the job, everything happened too quickly for me to really process what i’d actually landed myself in.
i sent in the application on tues night, got a call on wed morning, went for an interview on thurs (with the recruitment agency) then had a phone interview in korean with the company itself; and on friday morning i had a written test in korean via email, followed by a face-to-face interview with the company in the afternoon. 2 hours later, i was offered the job.
i started work on 30 nov, and reality has started to sink in slowly over the past one week as i went through training.
the biggest worry on my mind is: I WILL ACTUALLY BE ANSWERING CALLS IN KOREAN.
*gulp*
my confidence has started to waver. am i really up to it? is my korean really good enough? my manager says that i am the first singaporean to be hired for the position, which kind of put more pressure on me… i really want to do a good job.
it’s nice to be working with koreans again, and the people in my team are really helpful and wonderful. being the only non-korean in the team does make me feel a little like i’m back in korea. ?????? ?? ?? ???.
i know that worrying does nothing, but sometimes it’s hard not to.
Category 42, work | Tags: life,work | No Comments