The exit

I have mixed emotions towards my decision in finally resigning from my job of 4 years. Well, 3 years and 7 months to be exact. I worked as a Quality Specialist in a BPO company. It's my dream job 4 years ago when I still thought that QA tasks only consist of listening to and evaluating the interaction between the customer and a customer service representative. I didn't realize that there are also some nauseous politics that comes with it...until now. Don't get me wrong but I was happy with my job. I was kicking butt! Not literally,though I wanted to. But then again,it's most of the time,if not always,who you know and not what you know that works in the call center business. I've seen people resort to butt-kissery if they can't hack it using their brains. I thought this practice is only apparent in government offices - no pun intended. So I said to my self, it's time to check some other people's lawn. It's time to check if the politics there is less nauseating and the if the grass of opportunities is much greener.

It's kind of surprising that eventhough I don't earn as much as I did when I was still a QA, I am much happier and content now. I'm just not sure if it's going to last or how long it will. Maybe the stress was too much that's why the compensation didn't matter anymore. Darn, I grew white hair on my forehead in my 2nd year on the job. At first I didn't mind until some officemates of mine started calling me Rogue, a character in X-Men. It only grew on one area. Like a square inch. That's when I decided to had it dyed. When it started to show again, I had my sister pulled it out one by one. Good thing she enjoyed doing it. However, white hairs kept on coming back. A friend told me my stressful job can be the culprit. So I started taking long leave of absences, plus, I was also hospitalized due to hypertension for a week. Amazingly, the white hair started to not grow back from the last time I had it pulled out.

There's also one more thing that came out good about my resignation. Unlike before, now I appreciate the value of P100. I usually spend that much for my snacks alone every day at work. Maybe this is also one way of making me realize and appreciate the value of money no matter how small the amount is.
Sigh! I am surely gonna miss my girls. They're the second and last QA team I was with, and I have been there OIC for the last 7 months of my stay. Surely, there were some of them that I didn't meet eye to eye at first but in the long run I was able to adjust to each and everyone's type of personalities. I guess I'll just be writing about each of them in my following posts. I owe them that,at least, after putting them off guard with my resignation. Long sigh......