Opportunities don't always knock on the door so I need to grab them... So here I am, just like what I did last academic year, keeping four jobs while preserving my sanity :-). There's just something different this time.
Job number 1: Faculty at the Dept. of English & Comm. teaching six different subjects to over 50 students for each section. On MWF, I come to school at 9 am and leave at 7 pm. On TTh, I come at 9 am and swipe out at 5 pm.
Job number 2: Vice-chair of the Dept. of English & Communication. As such, I am in-charge of all student affairs and program development for AB Communication program. To date, I have almost 250 Comm. students to guide and monitor.
Job number 3: Freelance writer on three online writing sites but active only on one online research service. I was accepted in 3 companies online but I can only maintain one of them. It's because the papers to be written in the two are not in line with my field of knowledge. But I'm active in one. I make sure that I'm in the payroll every 15 days. I do write at night after dinner until the following morning if i have deadline to beat. This is not an easy job but it's a rewarding one -- both financially and emotionally. Really. By this time, I already have written 26 academic papers and had earned $510 from April 15 to June 15. Not bad for a part-time job, right? :-) Fortunately, I have 7 positive feedbacks and 1 neutral feedback with 0 negative feedback. Five of the papers I have written were submitted to a plagiarism-detection site and none of them contained any plagiarized content. Hurray! That's the power of knowing APA, MLA, Harvard style, etc...
Job number 4: Since yesterday, I started reporting again as ESL tutor at ILI. This time, I only have three Korean students. Two of them were my former students, Charles and Justin. My new student just came here in the Philippines a few months ago. His English name is Kevin. I intend to keep this job despite my busy sked because the students are easy to deal with. This is just a three-hour job that happens twice a week so it's not that difficult to handle.
Well, because of this very busy schedule, I gave up WOW which I learned to like last summer. I really have to keep my sanity so I can still spend quality time with my three lovely kids -- Stef, Cha and Dani.
And of course, I'm thankful because I'm so blessed. I know that some people, esp. here in the Phils., find it hard to see even just a single job. Mahirap makahanap ng disenteng trabaho dito so I am grateful that I have all these jobs to keep.
I think I owe all these to my mom who sent me to a great school where I learned everything I use to maintain my jobs -- the comm. skills, writing skills, management skills, and most of all, discipline. I'm also glad that my kids understand why I need to be out of the house or in front of the computer most of the time. :-)
Job number 1: Faculty at the Dept. of English & Comm. teaching six different subjects to over 50 students for each section. On MWF, I come to school at 9 am and leave at 7 pm. On TTh, I come at 9 am and swipe out at 5 pm.
Job number 2: Vice-chair of the Dept. of English & Communication. As such, I am in-charge of all student affairs and program development for AB Communication program. To date, I have almost 250 Comm. students to guide and monitor.
Job number 3: Freelance writer on three online writing sites but active only on one online research service. I was accepted in 3 companies online but I can only maintain one of them. It's because the papers to be written in the two are not in line with my field of knowledge. But I'm active in one. I make sure that I'm in the payroll every 15 days. I do write at night after dinner until the following morning if i have deadline to beat. This is not an easy job but it's a rewarding one -- both financially and emotionally. Really. By this time, I already have written 26 academic papers and had earned $510 from April 15 to June 15. Not bad for a part-time job, right? :-) Fortunately, I have 7 positive feedbacks and 1 neutral feedback with 0 negative feedback. Five of the papers I have written were submitted to a plagiarism-detection site and none of them contained any plagiarized content. Hurray! That's the power of knowing APA, MLA, Harvard style, etc...
Job number 4: Since yesterday, I started reporting again as ESL tutor at ILI. This time, I only have three Korean students. Two of them were my former students, Charles and Justin. My new student just came here in the Philippines a few months ago. His English name is Kevin. I intend to keep this job despite my busy sked because the students are easy to deal with. This is just a three-hour job that happens twice a week so it's not that difficult to handle.
Well, because of this very busy schedule, I gave up WOW which I learned to like last summer. I really have to keep my sanity so I can still spend quality time with my three lovely kids -- Stef, Cha and Dani.
And of course, I'm thankful because I'm so blessed. I know that some people, esp. here in the Phils., find it hard to see even just a single job. Mahirap makahanap ng disenteng trabaho dito so I am grateful that I have all these jobs to keep.
I think I owe all these to my mom who sent me to a great school where I learned everything I use to maintain my jobs -- the comm. skills, writing skills, management skills, and most of all, discipline. I'm also glad that my kids understand why I need to be out of the house or in front of the computer most of the time. :-)
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