Leaving the Familiar

72% of us dream about living life on our own terms, escaping the day job, breaking down the cubicle walls and adventuring into something for ourselves. Since you’re reading this blog, I’m going out on a limb here and guessing that you are part of this overwhelming majority. I was too.

Two months from now, I'm approaching 5 years at my job. Nine years for my entire stay in the BPO world.

I managed to make almost a 2 hour commute through traffic to Makati City where I have been working all these years.

I spent an average of 9-10 hours at work daily.

And then another 2 hour commute through traffic back out of the city in the evening or vice-versa, because living in a BPO world means getting your body clock prepared all the time for shifting schedules. "Once you're a call center agent, your life turns 180 degrees. First of all, you do not anymore like the normal employee like the rest. Or rather, the rest of them, [those] who wake up in the morning and sleep at night."

I am comfortable from where I'm at now, but it doesn't stop me from dreaming about what it would look like to live life on my own terms 100%.

I enjoyed my work, my coworkers, my compensation (to consider) and quite honestly being in the BPO world is not as bad to work for at all. I have this desk that I sit at every day I get to wear jeans and t-shirts everyday. And you have a lot of freedooms here- name it. We experienced a wholeness as a family, and wholeness as individuals that we’ve never experienced before.

But sometimes you reach the end of the road where you think of leaving your comfort zone.

Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and important decisions. Leaving the familiar and going somewhere new can be hard — it’s the unknown, you don’t have a routine there, and it can be daunting.

There are people who leave jobs with nothing but glee, but I think for people who really care about their work, there’s usually at least some anxiety and missing-it-before-you-leave.

But the more you push yourself to do things you wouldn’t normally do and experienced uncertainty in a controlled manner, the better you’ll be able to deal with un-expected situations as they arise.

Bottom line is: You have to deal with uncertainty and keep your perspective high that everything will work just fine.

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere."

Till next time guys.. I hope one day our paths will cross again. =)

So don't be sad and always know we'll come back soon to say hello. –Donald Duck