Supporting whole family.

{ 22/10/2009 @ 11:59 } · { Uncategorized }

It was a two months holiday when semester 1 ended. No projects, no assignments. So I went for a job hunt.

For the first week, all I did was flip through the newspaper and go out to look out for job notices. Finally found a job at Starhub as a sales promoter. Not at those main shops,though. It is an outsource company. Long story. All we need to do is to sell cable TV/maxonline (internet) services. No basic pay, but for every sale I make, I get 25 bucks in my pocket. Just need to put in 3 hours of your time daily from 7-10pm. We do roadshows and door-to-door sales.

And then it hit me.
I thought to myself, ‘What the hell am i going to do in the day?’. I then decided to find another job.

While working for Starhub during a roadshow, I approached a decent-looking man. “Hi sir, do you have any cable services at home?”, I asked politely. He asked me, ‘Are you a part-timer?’ and, well, duh, I said yes. He then introduced me to this job at Food, Drinks and Allied Workers’ Union (FDAWU). Damn long, right. Let me teach you how me and my classmate-colleagues read it.
Okay, read with me..
Fer-dah-wu.
Okay, let’s try again, stay with me,
fer-(That’s right, good, good)-da-(good, keep it up.)-wu.
Ah, wonderful. I knew you were geniuses, every single one of you. ^^
And so, FDAWU, being one of the unions under NTUC, I needed to go to places like Sheng Siong outlets and hotels to recruit NTUC members (5 bucks per member), and sometimes admin work in office (6 bucks per hour). The job was really easy. I liked it. A lot in fact. ^^ However, there is CPF deduction. Boohoo. People there were really nice and that’s why i enjoyed working there as compared to Starhub, where we do the same thing everyday. Boring shit.

I ended up holding two jobs. ‘Machiam’ (Malay for as if) supporting whole family or owing loanshark money.
Working from 9am-10pm daily is no joke! God damn tired. Weeks later, I started to get sick and tired of the Starhub job and so I, well, stopped turning up for the evening gig.

You know people, it’s god damn shiok to receive double incomes. -winks.

Till then. Loves.