part-time....
Sunday, May 06, 2007 at 10:22 PM

Looking for job. I think I am a very picky person when it comes to jobs.

- strictly no sales, marketing, on-the-streets, on-the-run, help desk kind of jobs. I'm not very good at social skills.
- no demanding/long working hours jobs. My main objective during holidays is not earning as much money as possible. It's to enjoy and relax, get a good rest so that when school reopens, I can chiong again. Every semester already gotta chiong like hell, I really don't want to continue chiong-ing during the hols as I work. I want "ME" time.
- of coz', pay is a concern, though definitely not the main one. If the job's not me or I don't feel comfortable doing the work, no high amount of pay would make me any happier. But I do expect an acceptable amount of pay for a job that suits me. At least fit the market rate lah... Unless I really love the job a lot that I don't mind the pay being a little lower than market rate. So ultimately, it's not about the pay really; it's the job and its compatibility with me.

I think I'm a very difficult person. How to find job like that. In fact I just had cold feet and chickened out of an interview for an admin job at a publishing company. I have no doubts about it being a good and enriching working experience. But the job kinda made me uncomfortable. In the sense that, I don't feel good whenever I think of the job scope and stuff. Besides, I cannot commit my weekends as well, though most of the time it's a 5-day work week. Normal office hours I guess. I'm not against admin jobs, but this one includes many other things like events and help desk etc or something along that line. I can't tell you how much I dislike events. The planning and coordinating... Just working at events is still o~k, but it still calls for much coordination and caution, so I wouldn' prefer events. But at least it beats doing the planning and stuff. Call me weird, coz' many people at the cafe wants to do events rather than normal working at the cafe. *shrugs* Well... I've never denied the fact that I am weird. I'm not the kind of person who will burden myself with responsibilities that I didn't take upon willingly on my own accord. Not that I lack responsibility, but I won't initiate and take up responsibilities, such as volunteering to be a leader or something. But if the responsibility has been placed on me, I will carry it out.

The thought of working in an office actually scares me to some extent. Coz' I'll be the odd one out. I mean, a teen (to me, 20 years old is still teen) among many adults of varying age groups. It wouldn't have mattered if I could socialise but I'm a person of few words except with some close friends and those who share similar interests and personality. It's just plain scary. Or put in other words, I'm just a plain coward.

Oh anyway, anyone looking for a 1-day job? It's actually a 1-day event and this company needs help. It's on 26th May, 9am-6pm. Interested parties, pls sms me.

rhapsody in blue.