SUBSCRIBEThe great move - point of no return
1820H and the plane started its cruise through the runway and eventually ascending to the dark skies. Slowly, the lights of Mactan International Airport started to get smaller and smaller as the evening skyline of Cebu came into veiw. Higher and higher, as the plane climbed to thousands of feet above, the city lights got dimmer and dimmer until it just faded away. Total, utter darkness outside the window.
We’re already at the point of no return.
About four weeks ago, while on training for a new technology, my manager called me and offered me a position as supervisor for this new group that will be based in Makati, a stone’s throw from the company head office. I didn’t really expect it. The group will be in charge of optimizing the network for VisMin and I’ll be handling it. While I don’t have much background on the kind of work, it was a challenge for me. I was both excited but at the same time unsure if I should accept it. But I was thinking: this is the opportunity that I have been waiting for. The big break that seemed to have eluded me. For seven years, I was with the Operation and Maintenance group first based in Cebu (Transmission and Wireless Access and BSC) then moved to Davao then to Cagayan de Oro (MSC) and back to Davao (general O&M) again. Seven years, and really, that’s a long time. Seven years, and you get to be too familiar with your work that one becomes too comfortable. While before, you look forward to the challenges ahead, this time, it just becomes routine. That, coupled by personal tragedies that befell me last year just makes it worse. Seven years. I am now ripe for the picking. Ripe for a change.
Change. If all went well as planned, I would have already been based in Makati as early as March or April this year. But unfortunately, it did not come into fruition. On hindsight, maybe, that was not really meant for me.
And now this. If I were to believe in an omnipresent, omnipotent god who is watching over me, then this is a godsend, an answer to my prayers.
Until now, I still can’t seem to believe that all these things are happening. I can’t explain what I’m feeling now. For one, its a start of a new work life. Getting to know new people, new challenges. But on the other hand, much will be expected of me and my group. Much work is to be done to lay down the foundations to make our new team deliver what it is expected to deliver. But I know myself. I can very much handle all these things.
