Finally

Scarcity of better opportunity made most of the filipinos leave their country and try their luck in foreign land. Thinking of greener pasture and some how attain their dream of a better life. I'm one of those millions of overseas filipino workers who are struggling to cope up with life and I'm no different from them.

I must say that I am a product of an overseas filipino working family. The dollar remittances by our father sustained our existence and our studies. I know the feeling of having no father around specially when there are issues that cannot handle by mother alone. But I cannot blame him. He was just after our future.

Now that I have been experiencing what he has been through I can't help but to love him most and salute him endlessly. I don't have my own family to support but still the salary that I'm getting is not enough to fulfill the dream of every overseas workers of a better life. I have to seek an additional job.

Luckily after almost five years of working here in Saudi Arabia I was given a chance to work parttime. It was because of a close friend named Jam. He was part of the company when its starting. But because of his conflict schedules he opted to resigned and gave me the slot.

I have been working here for 7 months now and I must say that some how it gave me the opportunity to widen my horizon. I am not just an ordinary secretary because I also handle the network. Quite funny but we only have two computers. One for the boss and one for me but we are interconnected that is why we can call it networks.

Good thing that before my employment I had a crush course in networking. This thing is no longer strange to me. It appeared as my on the job training. Through-out the course of my employment lots of ups and downs coming in. Well I guess that is life. We have to cope with it and learn to live with it.

I thought of quiting since July. I just promised to myself that after installing the network I will break the idea of quiting. Comes July and we moved in to the new office building. It is quite far from the previous location where, if I don't have money I could just walk. When everything has been settled and fixed my boss became busy with out-of-town commitments even overseas. So, the thought of breaking the idea was postponed for awhile.

For the whole duration of August I have been thinking of ways to say what is on my mind. But again he had another 1 week commitment in Turkey. I said once he comes back I really have to say it. I don't know why when he is ready I can't find the guts to say it until finally last night when we were on our way home, I took the liberty to say that I'm quiting.

Off course the usual questions popped when somebody say such thing; are you serious? what's the reason? He deserves an answer so I answered him back it's health issue. I can't focus anymore and I don't want the office to suffer because of this.

He gave me one month to find for replacement. Hopefully after a month I will have a new life.