I have always planned for my Monetize Your Blog (sasha.akoni.info) to be transferred to this blog. Unfortunately, I am enrolled in several programs that make it impossible for me to just do a transfer without seeking their approval first. I can just do the transfer because it is my blog, anyway. But I have to suffer the consequences which will be loss income.
Now, though, after having issues with the akoni blogs, I figured I might as well transfer now, with or without the approval of the program instead of losing all the posts I’ve worked hard writing down.
So, welcome to the new home of Sasha.Akoni.info!
I worked for a business process outsourcing (BPO) in Makati City. It was grueling, to say the least. There were days when sleep was only for an hour or two. And then it’s off to work once more. I would have stayed behind and not go home if the office didn’t kick me out. It was that tough.
What I treasure the most during those days were the after-office drinks with friends. I remember that on Thursdays, I made it a point to be out of the office by seven-ish to meet up with a college buddy and her two co-workers. We would then walk a few blocks to the Cable Car. On Thursdays, back in 2000 when Cable Car was still open, it was Girls Night Out. Drinks ordered by ladies were buy-1 take-1. I forgot the name of the drink my friend and I always ordered but it was a bit strong. I always went home tipsy from those drink. And those Thursday nights are forever etched on my mind.
It was a lot of fun!
And I am hoping I will be able to do it once more when I go back to the corporate world.
I love chatting in the early morning, 1am onwards. There’s just something more intimate in that setting. It’s like in those hours, you are prone to divulging your innermost thoughts. And expressing your emotions…
I remember hanging out at Eastwood City after midnight just to take a break from figuring out where the darn millions of dollars of assets were recorded. I would ask one of the staff to come join me and we would stay out and chat for at least an hour before going back to balancing the books. I did it for a year: the first few months balancing the books, the rest of my stay in the company I stayed overnight doing the financial statements. It was one of the memorable parts of staying in that company for me. Chatting, hanging out, people watching in the early morning, discussing moral values of kids these days…
I am hoping the new company I will be joining will give me more than that.
Business Holiday Invitation
Have you gotten your Business Holiday Invitations already?
When I was still in the call center industry, I think I have heard all sorts of gimmicks for Christmas parties. Just to be different and appealing to the young crowd. Even the Christmas business invitations needed to be one of a kind. It took us, the Christmas party committee, a lot of time before we were finally able to get a really special design.
If I were still in the same company, I would have told them about Invitations-Shoppe. You can have any business holiday invitation design personalized by adding a photo, picture or logo to it. They can also modify any design or color as per request. Within one hour, the proof will be emailed and can be viewed using their patented Instant Preview Features. And the invites can come with business holiday thank you cards!
I am ready for the coming parties. Are you?
Let me apologize to all of you because I always fail to update this blog. I must admit that I have other blogs i update more regularly. This one, since a specialized blog of mine, gets to be updated when something’s happened that will fall under this category. Or I recall something from my past experience that I would like to share.
While I was talking to my cousin, I realized that I might as well mix in another topic to this blog… personal savings! No, I won’t be starting a frugal blog because I am far from frugal. But I want to focus more on a person’s savings, account and all that.
I had this blog about money matters. I lost track of it. Since it’s now homeless, I might as well fuse that blog and the content of this blog together.
That’s the new 9 to 5 blog!
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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.
I was off for the whole month of October. I apologize for that. I have some other things I needed to attend to. Coupled with the fact that I didn’t feel like blogging, thus, no entries for that month.
But now I am back. Hopefully, I can sustain this comeback. I have a lot of entries ready to be published now. I hope I still have you to rely on to read it 
