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Friday 23 September 2011

Why I 'heart' my job so much Part 1

Before:

I had a wonderful job before. I had flexibility, an understanding boss, and salary yang agak boleh tahan best. I loved my job and I'm not going to lie.

Cakap pasal duit - Yes, money can buy you things, nice things - tipu, kalau kau kerja macam nak rak and dapat duit lebih extravaganza lepas tu cakap tak suka. Heh! Tak bersyukur langsung.

However, the cliche is true – money cannot buy you happiness, and having it doesn’t mean that you are a successful person - tipu jugak kalau kau boleh shopping sakan beli baju macam beli ikan kembung kat pasar but bila kau balik rumah kau rasa macam loser sebab kerja yang kau buat tu almost kerja yang sama and end up rasa bosan ya amat, hanya tuhan je yang tau kebosanan yang kau alami.

The most drastic issue yang membuatkan absolutely has ini berhenti kerja sebab 1 of the directors in the company assigned me to do a job which is not under my scope and yang lagi best that job is not in the agreement. This guy sangatlah annoying plus with his attitude yang suka janji macam-macam dan akhirnya janji beliau seperi tanam tebu di tepi bibir. So I quit.

After:

Few weeks setelah bosan buat the same routine almost every day: tengok tv-makan-tidur, I decided to join a flea market selling clothes with my friend. Why we join this kind of market to promote our stuff? This is my answer. A flea market is 1 of the best places in the world to see how people respond to your stuff. We've seen hundreds of people go on to use this as a platform to do what they really want to do. After several time, we got a better sense of how to build our business and we are very fortunate because, being at the flea market, we face to face with the customers and what they liked, who they were, and also they told us what they would like to buy.

funny tee's is my world now. woot woot !!
Now:

Here I am from penjual tegar di flea market and now planning to open our 1st store setelah mendapat good feedback from our loyal customer yang memang suka tahap meroyan bila dapat tahu we are doing a set up for our shop soon yang akan beroperasi di sekitar kawasan wangsa maju. Excited yang tak dapat dibendung sambil hidung kembang kuncup - sila jangan bayangkan - burok rupanya okeh.

Pasal tu la kitaorang beria-ria macam nak rak join flea market just to experience seronok ke berniaga sebab customer memang banyak songeh and sangat la suka merequest benda-benda yang tak boleh blah dan contoh adalah seperti berikut:

'Eh kenapa tshirt you takde kaler kelabu asap'? - harus ke kau mintak kaler sebegitu wahai Cik Markonah???


'Ala....(sambil buat muka manja) I nak tshirt gambar flamingo, tak nak la gambar binatang ni..tak comel la' - kenapa gambar flamingo jugak yang kau carik, kenapa tak cari gambar singa laut atau tapir jerr???

'Has next time buat tshirt ni besar sikit eh, tak muatla nak masuk badan i' - iyee...nanti you pun jangan lupa balik rumah terus diet yea sebab kalau I buat tshirt size XXXX L tapi still you tak muat tak guna jugak kan.

Dan soalan paling tinggi rankingnya adalah:

Suka la baju-baju ni. Ni beli 3 ni bagi la discount. I 1st customer you untuk hari ni kan? Lagipun tengah bulan la, so duit tak berapa nak ade' - 1st customer untuk hari ini yea?? Kalau dah datang beli pukul 5 petang dah sah-sah la kau tu customer yang ke 89 orang. Harus ke di discountkan tshirt-tshirt itu semata-mata beli 3 helai tapi kalau shopping sakan kat Pavilion, tangan kau laju je rembat 5, 6 helai baju yang sah-sah tak boleh mintak discount sambil bayar kat counter buat muka tiada sesalan tanpa memikirkan cukup ke duit untuk hujung bulan nak bayar yuran kelas menjahit langsir, tupper wear yang sudah di order melalui web sesawang serta gas dapur yang harus diganti hanya cukup untuk goreng telur sebijik. Hadooooooiiiiii..boleh kena demam malaria aku macam ni tau.