A New Challenge. A New Career. A New Life

When I was already believing that I had enough of this life, then something comes up into my face and slaps me damn hard. With all that happened to me, I never imagined what was in front of me.

I was a struggling guy, who dreams of having his own restaurant and be a successful businessman, but I never really had the funds to support my dreams and is still now a dream. 

My career started when I worked in a hotel for a few months but it was really not the job I loved to do. I wanted more to prove myself. So, I looked for something that can build my confidence and talk to people. Then I found myself in a telemarketing job that was a good chance to do so. 

After a few months, I decided to leave the company and went into teaching. I thought that I was like my father who was a professor in a university. My nerves came up to me at first and it was noticeable, but in the end I pulled it off. I knew this is what I like, to share the knowledge and see how my students successful in their lives after college. The two years I spent teaching was phenomenal and I will never forget that experience... Maybe, I can come back to teaching before I retire.

With an offer I can't reject. I went to Saudi Arabia to take a new challenge, a new career and a new life. I was an operations trainer of a coffee shop chain. I gained lots of experience through all of these, not only in training but writing training materials and manuals. Those four years were not easy at all. Not only I am fighting from homesickness, but also the extreme heat and cold weather of the country. It was the toughest job I had so far, but I loved my job... in the worst environment I can be in. I could just recall after a project given to me, I would be called in again to be given another job. Asking me to do other people's job because they are not up to it and I need to step up. It angered me because their salaries are way more higher than me, but I had no choice.

I need to move on with my life so I went elsewhere. With a huge turn in my career, I landed a job in restaurant operations. I was not used to operations, but I handled it pretty well. There are days that I loved the job that I was doing, but most of it, was thinking I want to do something else... something that I love to do. Then the day came that I needed to leave and look for a new challenge, a new career, a new life.

Then now, I am waiting for it to happen and hopes that this would be a huge break that I am given in something I also love doing. It is cooking! Yes, I am nearing to land a job as a cook... then maybe a chef one day! But, it's not yet confirmed as I need to wait for the approval to get the job. I just hope and pray that this New Challenge, New Career, and New Life will be the New Me. 

Before, my friends and relatives would ask me... are you working as a chef? And I would answer with a big "NO"... but hopefully... someday... I can answer... YES I AM A CHEF! 

Praying for it to happen...