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i'm back!!! and i just quit my job again...

So it's been three years.

Looking at my last post, it seems that i have a pattern of abandoning my job.

3 years ago I left my job of six months to join another company in the same industry. this time around i lasted three years. those were fruitful three years though. from a manager trainee, i led my office to 2 Office of the Month awards (out of 160 offices) and then finagled my way to becoming a District Manager. It also moved me back from SoCal to Sacramento. but the grueling pressure of making budget and goal and hitting them no matter what just kind of made me realize that there must be some other way of turning a profit without screwing with your clients. it's just insane what we do to make the most out of every procedure we do. and the added unnecessary subjunctive procedures were tacking to the bills of our clients. i swear my last company was an Anthur Anderson waiting to happen. should i be the whistle blower? if they were publicly-traded, they could be the next Enron. anyways, they can still turnaround their practices but i can no longer partake in this scam. so i left...i just decided never to show up for work again. And now that i've left this company, i am back in the City of Angels. it's been three weeks but finally i landed my newest gig. yup same line of work in the same industry. i'm hoping my newest supervisor(s) would at least have some ounce of ethics in them. i'm ready for my meteoric rise in this company again...hopefully there wont be a burnout this time.

so what about you? what's happened with you in the last three years?

So I quit my job...

"The Call To Sacrifice"

from a forwarded email...

"The Call to Sacrifice" by Juan T. Dela Cruz III


One call we often hear today, when people ask
President Arroyo to resign, is the call to make the
ultimate sacrifice for the good of the country.

Now that is a call that we can endorse. No,
not the call for the President to resign, but the call
for everyone, not just her, to make sacrifices for
the good of the nation.

. Loren Legarda: you are challenging the
legitimacy of Vice President de Castro. If and
when the President does resign, de Castro will
ascend to the Presidency. That is the
constitutional process. Your continuing
proclamation of his illegitimacy can become
destabilizing. Can you make the sacrifice of
withdrawing your suit and just allowing him to sit
as President?

. The 10 Cabinet members who resigned:
many of you are known for integrity. Let your
record speak for itself. Can you make the sacrifice
of just shutting up now and not defending
yourselves, for this contributes to further instability?

. Frank Drilon: your salivating for the Vice
Presidency leaves a bad taste in the mouth. You
manifested extreme hypocrisy and political
opportunism in extolling GMA to high heavens and
then stabbing her in the back, within the space of
one week. Can you make the sacrifice of stopping
all moves, including those of your Liberal Party
cohorts, of political maneuvering?

. All traditional politicians: kayo ang tunay na
SALOT NG BAYAN! Can you make the sacrifice of
resigning your posts and fading into complete
oblivion?

. Activist bishops and clergy of the Catholic
Church: we appreciate your concern for the good of
our people, but we do not appreciate your being at
the forefront of political activism. Can you make
the sacrifice of sticking to your pastoral duties of
ministering to the spiritual needs of the flock and
leave the political posturing to the lay people?

. Brother Eddie Villanueva: God has blessed
you by giving you a big flock to take care of. That
is your calling. While many disagree with your
entry into politics, we leave that between you and
God. But what is difficult to take is your
insistence, and that of your apologists, that you
won the Presidential elections. For goodness
sake, you were number FIVE! If you were cheated,
it was not only GMA who did so but Fernando Poe
and the others as well. Can you make the sacrifice
of leaving partisan politics entirely and focusing on
the Father's business?

. Imee Marcos, Jinggoy Estrada, JV Ejercito:
is it not enough that your parents plundered the
nation and you were part of that, and now you have
not only kept all your loot but are also back in
power? Can you make the sacrifice of removing
yourselves from the limelight? In reality, you are
the major reasons why the middle forces are not
responding positively to the call to a change in
government.

. Big business: many of you really just care
about having a positive environment where your
businesses will thrive. Can you make the sacrifice
of some of your profits to give more to the poor?

. The poor: we understand that "sapagkat kayo
ay kapit sa patalim," you allow yourselves to be
exploited and brought to rallies of unscrupulous
politicians. Can you make the sacrifice of a few
pesos, of bearing with your hunger, and not allow
yourselves to be exploited, so that you maintain
your dignity and you help sow the seed for true
liberation and well-being, in God's time?

The call to sacrifice is a wonderful call. God
himself showed us the way. Jesus sacrificed his
life on the cross in order to win our salvation. Such
a call is pure, noble, worthy of emulation. Let us
not use it for selfish motives. Let us not prostitute
its purity by polluting it with the filth in our
HEARTS and our SOULS!

no visitors

i was away from blogging for a good six months, and now it seems like nobody visits this site anymore. i really don't blog to attract visitors but it sure is nice to check your counter and see that people still visit. well, if there's no new entry then there's no reason to visit. i just hope i'll find more time now to start posting more frequently again.

*****

so i'm permanently in Pomona now. i moved here in March to be here for the birth of my daughter. i found a new job doing the same thing I was doing in San Fran but in a bigger setting. unfortunately, i inherited a lot of problems left by the previous manager. it's hard coming to work every morning. i just know there'll be problems coming along from clients and staff. i also have a Regional director who i feel is always looking over my shoulder. she's not really micromanaging me but... i guess it's just different for me to be working for a corporation this time. and we have superiors in the corp office that have no clue as to what's going on in the field yet they still feel they know what's best for the local offices. anyway, let's see how long i'll stay with this company.

*****

i'm a proud dad! but i'll refrain from talking too much about my daughter or about fatherhood. i don't want to turn CafeAmapola into a gushfest over my daughter. i love her and let's leave it at that. i'll just post about other insignificant occurences in my life...