today is wednesday

November 25, 2009 2 Comments

99% of the working population hates Monday because it is the start of another tough week of working. My husband is a good example because he so often complains about Mondays every Sunday night.  He’ll go on and on about why does Monday come too soon and why does it keep on coming.

I personally don’t like or hate Mondays. For me, it is just a day but same is not true with Wednesday. I hate Wednesdays because it is such a difficult day for me. I wish that I could skip two of my three classes on this particular day because these classes have kids who are just too damn impossible. I wish that I don’t have to teach in three different places on this day. I wish that I my students on this day were respectful and disciplined children and not the rich, bigheaded brats that they are.

Sorry. That is very un-teacher-y but I suppose it happens to every teacher. I love teaching and I like most of my groups but there are just some groups with students who have no positive chemistry to me and to each other at all.

Anyway, those are just too many wishes so I will summarize them in one final wish. I WISH I COULD SKIP WEDNESDAYS.

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day job over blogging

September 16, 2009 2 Comments

I am really happy to get a teaching job here. When I got the job about a month ago, I immediately started to prepare even if the start of the semester won’t be until the 14th of September (yesterday).

Before we came to Austria, I thought that I could do blogging full time. I wasn’t earning a lot but 400-700$ each month was enough. I had like three PR4 and four PR3 blogs. I thought if I really sit in front of my computer for at least five hours a day, it is possible to earn at least 20$ each day.

But towards the end of last year, I lost my PRs because of google-slapping and I also neglected my blogs. I needed to attend a German course and there were also other things that made me busy. In short, an income of 400-700$ each month from blogging is no longer feasible.

When we got here in April, I decided to go out and find a day job. There are actually a lot here in Austria if you are not choosy. Jobs as a clerk or a receptionist were among my choices but I said to myself that if I can’t have such jobs, it’s also okay for me to work manually… like… be a chambermaid, kitchen crew and the likes but my husband disagrees. He wanted me to study and practice my profession later on.

I really don’t like to go back to the university. Maybe someday I’ll do that but right now I don’t have the energy for it. So anyway, I tried to look further. I sent out hundreds of applications and I also got a lot of rejections. It took me three months until I finally found a teaching job in a private learning center.

I honestly wasn’t aiming high. I just wanted a simple job that I can do well and that will give me the feeling that I am able to help my husband with our finances. It took me three long months but the job I got is really more than I asked for so it is definitely worth the search and worth the wait.

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How’s Your Business Doing in this Downturn?

January 30, 2009 Leave a Comment

Obama has been inaugurated and many believe that he can turn the economy from its current situation. I, too, personally believe that Obama will do everything he can to stop the rapid decline of the economy and twist it to face better direction but he needs a lot of time to do this. I have read somewhere that we should be out of this downturn by the first half of 2009 and I want to believe that but experts in economics said that that is simply unrealistic. According to them, getting out of this recession could take years.

When it first came out, I didn’t give it a thought. The economic crisis in the US didn’t get my attention until recently. Now I am deeply concerned mainly because we ran a small business back home and as tiny a business as it is, it is affected by the crisis. My mom said that the business could still struggle a few more months then after that she might be forced to take some sort of a loan to continue it until the economy starts to pick up again.

A lot of people who run a business are now facing a dilemma. They have to choose between closing down and seeking some sort of financing. Those who have faith in the economy and their business take small business loans but even if such is very tempting at the moment, business owners should be very careful about where to get loans. They have to choose a loan that will help their business cope with the downturn and not push their business further to the ditch.

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Enduring the Financial Crisis

January 29, 2009 Leave a Comment

If you haven’t felt the effect of the financial crisis, you are quite lucky because I don’t know anyone who isn’t affected by it. My mom who runs a small shop that subcontracts jobs from big garment manufacturing companies noticed that job orders don’t come as often as they used to and her contractors are boldly begging for her to lower her quotations to the limits. In her despair to get some job contracts, she gives in to the demands of her contractors barely leaving her with profits. My mom’s business is too small compared to the company where my husband works but both felt the collapse of the economy.

My husband is in automotive industry so they are among the top businesses that are badly hit by the recession. He, as an employee, felt it too specially in the last two months. A designing project which normally needs 10 engineers to work on it is now forced on lesser number of engineers so that means my husbands and his colleagues will have to work more because their company cannot afford to hire additional staff.

Business owners this time are paddling so hard to fight the currents but what would work if your business is already way down the bend? Would a business loan help it cope with the slump? Maybe. But before you even consider getting a business loan, it is better to consider another source of funding and that is personal savings. If you have faith that your business can get back on track, why not use your own money. In this manner you won’t be worrying about interests and monthly payments. But if personal savings is not an option then get a loan but just be careful to choose the one that is for your business’ interests. Go for loans with lower interest rates and no closing cost or fees.

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Short Update

October 20, 2008 5 Comments

So I got back from our trip to Austria and I’ve been busy since then. I needed to do some things despite the strong jetlag like updating some of my blogs and enrolling for the next German course and attending it. Yep, I am done with my first intensive German course so I am on to the next level :D and because I am amazed by my German’s progress, I am starting a new German blog . I also had a surprise job interview last Sunday. When I came to Shanghai last June (so I was surprise to get an answer this late), I tried to look for a teaching job and sent out my resume to a bunch of foreign language schools and I got two replies but both are not exactly what I am looking for. So still no teaching job for me.

Last night, I worked on Blogxi and tried to tweak some of PHP files to allow the users to put a chat box on their sidebars. After four long hours, I made it so I am please even though I am lacking so much sleep (hmm… that rhymes).

I’ll try to work more on Blogxi because everybody knows that that community needs a lot of work.

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Thanks to Ruthi

August 21, 2008 1 Comment

I think Ruthi has done a great job writing articles for BizarreMarriage.com. All her articles about intercultural marriage, intercultural relationship, and online dating are very straight forward and at the same time entertaining. I really can say that it was a good decision to hire her to write for that blog.

I like all her articles specially the online dating series and I have one favorite and it is where she said the following:

Mail-order Bride is a thing of the past. But intercultural marriage is still the thing of the present. Intercultural relationship defied discrimination against race. Intercultural marriage challenged cultural barriers. And intercultural union disputed geographical obstacles. Therefore, there is nothing that can change or alter it because of one important reason – it is acceptable. Two people of different culture, race, tradition, orientation and background are bind together with common understanding, dedication, acceptance and commitment. And with these facts, our society has totally recognized its existence if not the significance of this kind of relationship.

Ruthinian Orona-Gregoire

It’s a very direct and honest statement and I completely agree with everything in it.

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No-Worries Hubby

August 20, 2008 Leave a Comment

Managing your own business can be really stressful especially if you don’t have enough capital to finance it. The financial aspect of any business is very important to be able to achieve its goal and with that it needs necessary means to be able to prosper and function well.

Hubby is a carpenter and he is self-employed. Aside from working with a small building company, he also does a lot of carpentry jobs on his own between jobs and with that he needs some capital to be able to build houses for his own clients. But with today’s economic condition he is struggling between the cost of building materials and the number of jobs available. With that he needs flexible funding options to be able to purchase materials to build houses for his clients. With that he has to make sure that his capital is sufficient enough to be able to finish the project. And with that he needs to know that he can sleep well too because he needs his strength to finish the job. Good thing he knows that when he needs instant capital for his business, there is OnlineCheck.com where any small business owners can get small business loans in an instant.

With OnlineCheck.com, small business owners can get a quick and hassle-free loans or working capital without the trouble of putting yourself into tedious paperwork like any bank loan providers require. With OnlineCheck.com, loan application is easy. There is no collateral, application or closing fees needed to get approved. It only has minimal requirement and you can get approved even with poor credit history. With OnlineCheck.com, loan approval can be processed within 24 hours and Merchants have 90% approval rate. Loan will be deposited directly into your bank within 5 to 7 business days and loan approval rate is 90% guarantee.

With OnlineCheck.com, Hubby is no way worried about the flow of his small business. There is no way he will be worried where to get the fund to pay for his materials. And there is no way he will be worried if he can get his job done.

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Getting in the Flourishing Construction Industry

August 4, 2008 1 Comment

We had a little debate yesterday in our class. The debate was about whether or not it is practical to pursue higher education. Most of the girls said they agree that the only chance to get a better job and earn a lot of money in the future is to get in top universities and finish a degree. Surprisingly, most of the guys in the class don’t believe so. They said that nowadays a lot of manual jobs that does not require university degrees are paying more than white collar jobs. True. A very good example is my brother-in-law who holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering but is now working as a tower crane operator in Dubai. He got the job not because he has a university degree but because he has training on operating heavy equipments.

Since there’s a big need for heavy machine operators, I personally think that getting in a heavy equipment operator school works for a lot of people who don’t like to go through the academic life but who want to earn decent salary. And for these people, there is Associated Training Services (ATS). ATS is a distinguished institution that offers heavy equipment operator training on a variety of heavy equipment and construction related trucking like backhoe training, bulldozer training, excavator training, front end loader training and a lot more so if you are amongst those who believe that decent salaries don’t necessarily come from white collar jobs then look no further. Associated Training Services is your key to an exciting and rewarding career in the heavy equipment operator industry.

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