It's long holiday here, almost all of my
friends go back to their hometown but not for me and my partner. So, I spend my first
holiday stayed in my dorm, watched all of Harry Potter movies all day long,
alone and I enjoyed it because of the daily task, I have no time to re-watch it
again. LOL
So, how about my second holiday?
The story begin.
I go to my partner's
boarding house and stay there for maybe 3 days. I didn't check my phone
recently and there's 3 missed call from unknown number. Then it's number called
me again at 2 p.m. I answered it, it's a girl voice. Owh, it’s the girl whom I met when my partner and I went to one of cafes in Prawirotaman. She's an artist and also a painting collector
(I think). She offered me a part time job.
Before that day,
I ever imagine to take a part time job when I have a free time. Like in Friday/
Saturday. But I can't find any of it. And suddenly someone offered me a part
time job. I just take it because I want
to try it. I want to challenge myself and proof to myself that I can. I thought
part time job is not too hard, because it's not full time job, and to be a
waitress, receptionist, (usually if you take part time job) is not that hard.
At 4p.m. I
arrived in that Cafe, then I met the woman who called me, and she introduce me
to all of her staffs. Then one of it's
staff taught me "how to do that
job" And I realise that......................
It is not as easy as I thought.
What kind of job that I took? I am a
waitress, I am a receptionist, and also a cleaner.
I thought, that
job put me as a recipsionist only, but suddenly the customers come more and
more, the restaurant's crowded with foreign, and some Indonesian. So, I have to
be a waitress too and also a cleaner
too. So tired honestly. I said to my partner, I almost gave up, I can't do it any
longer, I want to go home she said she
felt the same way as I thought.
It's my first
time to have a job. My first experience to work together with another- older-
people. Something bad happened and I just take it as a new knowledge and happy
to receive it. We (my partner and I) made a mistakes. Of course because its our
first time, our first experience, I thought it is okay to make a mistakes. As
long as we didn't do it constanly. And
they, I mean the other staffs, they're discussing it continuously. I didn't
like how they treat 'new staff' like me and my partner. Every time my partner
and I entered to the kitchen, We heard they're talking about our mistakes. You know
how it feels right?
My partner said, "Why do they do it? I
don't understand with people like them. They like discussing the other people's
mistake."
Yeah, me too honestly. I hate people who
talk about other people's mistake and forget to take their own mirror. They're
human too, they make a mistake too, and when other people's talking about their
mistakes, they get angry. So what then? Please stop talking about other
people's mistakes, it's fine to make a mistake, it will help us improve our
skill and start to take our own mirror and think about how other's feel. Talk
to yourself "how about if they put me in that situation?" Or
"how about if other people treat me that way?"
"I didn't like it." "I don't
want other people treat me that way"
So with that we can appreciate other people in a good way.
About the salary,
it's not that much but I’m glad enough to make my own money with my hard work and
now I know how it feel. Take a part in a part time job and how hard it is, to make our own money. I
promise to myself to spend my money wiser. I didn’t regret anything and I’m so
happy to experience it. If in the future there’s a chance for me to take a part
time job again, I’ll surely take it. I believe that new place, new people, in
any situation will teach me another knowledge that I didn’t know before. I’m so
proud now with myself because I am already won against the bad side
of mine.
/bee/
