My life: Nine to five

When I was still conceptualizing this blog, I thought of a blog that will chronicle my 10-year stint in the corporate world. Not too many years to draw stories from but I’ve been to different (diverse) companies. Different industries and difficult situations. Office politics, which I was naive enough to think as competitiveness, played a big role in my early (if not, temporary) goodbye to the rat race they call work.

I’ve worked for…

• a recruitment agency
• a BPO/Accounting firm
• a trading company (buy and sell of home items)
• a manufacturing company (clothing)
• an online store company (ecommerce)
• an investments company focusing on talent management
• a graphics company
• a call center company with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska
• another investments company this time focusing on real estate (horizontal) development, a Science park in the South, and an eco park in the North
• another call center company this time with headquarters in Brisbane, Australia.

Can you now say that I’ve been there? Right!

I’ve had ups and downs like an ordinary employee. I’ve had my fair share of gossips, intrigues, politics, bad bosses, bad co-workers, and almost every thing that happens in an office environment.

There is a big possibility that I will go back to that world I left behind three years ago. I have goals for the next three years and it involves a lot of funds. Going back to the rat race would mean an additional income for me. So I have to bite the bullet and brace myself for the onslaught of office negativity again.