Office Birthday

Time does fly really fast.

Tomorrow, June 16, I commemorate my first year in the office. I can't believe how much I've been through in my first year at work! Truly a roller coaster ride, a 360 degree shift especially for a girl like me with ZERO percent background of export sales and marketing. (For those who don't know, I'm a communications graduate working at the export sales department... where's the connection? hehe) A few important things I learned in the past year:

1. Don't believe you know EVERYTHING. When I stepped out of college, I felt like I was superman (or super girl), ready and set to conquer the world. I thought I knew enough things for me to say that people should listen to me, but I was wrong. When I started working, it was as if I was back in school, learning more and more things that I could not get from the four walls of the classroom.

2. NUMBERS matter. It's easy to come up with ideas, but hard to justify if you don't have numbers to support it.

3. "Go lang nang go". As cliche as it may sound, I learned how to keep my determination going and going. To get through problems at work, you have to face it and learn to toughen yourself and be determined to stand up for your problems. I realized that in order for me to get to where I want to be, I should never give up. Go lang talaga nang go.

4. There will always be Sh*tty days. Truly a fact of life. That's why it's also important to take note of my no. 5 learning....

5. Make sure to have time for your loved ones. They can be your refuge after a long day at work.They make sure you keep your sanity intact.

6. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, just make sure that you learn from them. My boss actually encourages me to make mistakes in my first two years at work. You might think, "what a boss!", right? But he actually makes sense. If you don't make mistakes, you won't realize the gravity of those certain things because it won't stick in your mind... That's why you just have to make sure that you learn from them.:)

And last but not the least....

6. Never get in a job just because you have no other option or just because you're "pressured". It's important to think through your offers and make sure that this is what you really want. Don't think that this is the only opportunity you have and that if you miss this opportunity, it will be doomsday for you. At the end of the day, you will still be the one to face the consequences of your decisions.

Happy office birthday to me! :)