Hello everybody! It
was been a long time that I didn’t update my blogger because I was working as a
retail assistant of the Popular Bookfair event at IOI Mall, Puchong. In fact,
there were about less than 2 months till the Form 6 semester begins after I
receiving my SPM results. So, henceforth, I chose to do part time job before
the semester begins.
Why did I opt to do
that job? This is in light of fact that it can make use of my time rather than
just doing nothing. For example, I could learn a variety of thing such as
communication skills, working skills as well as good qualitites from my fellow
colleagues by doing that job. Secondly, I could earn an extra pocket money by
stepping on my own feet (without relying on others). Indeed, earning and saving
money are being a herculean task for each and every one especially for the
parents as the living costs nowadays rose as steep as a mountain. So, instead
of burdening our parents more, why don’t we try to earn at least some extra
pocket money by ourselves?
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| Fellow parttimers and the supervisors |
Okay. Returning to the main topic
again. I found this part time job before the Form 6 semester starts (P/S: This
is my OFFICIAL part time job compared to the previous one which I was literally
working in my mother’s working place…). I worked as a retail assistant in the
Bookfair. It seems like a simple job for me before I handling this job but in
the fact that it is really a quite challenging job after I doing this job…
Initially, I found this part time
job on the job-searching website (asianparttime.com).
It successfully attracted me to apply for this job when it said RM100 per day
and need not any working experiences. However, as a saying goes: “all that
glitters is not gold”, I realized I was being fooled when one of my colleagues
told me that actual paid for a day was only RM70. And some more we had to carry
on lots of jobs there… Eventually, It didn’t being a serious matter for me as I
managed to accept the truth immediately (because I wanted to gain more job
experiences only…).
My main duties in this 12 days book fair (From 9th of the
March to 20th of the March) were ensuring the selling place was
clean in all time, keep arranging the books according to their types and
keeping eye on the surrounding (prevent someone stealing items from there). The
most frustrated duty was to keep arranging the books in selling place (It also
counted as a major duty for the retail assistant). Why did I say so? This is
due to the reason that many customers choosing the books to buy until the
selling table was totally horrified and everything there were messed up ( they
literally like choosing the ‘groceries’ in a market or pasar). However, I got
used to it already as I kept calming myself down and took a deep breathe when I
saw this situation happened.
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| Loading the stuff for the event |
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| The mascot (That's not me) |
I did also overnight for the 1st time in my life. They
requested me to overnight during the interview session. So, what’s appears in
your mind when you are thinking about the overnight job? Apparently, all we
knew that overnight jobs were doing from night to the next day early morning or
dawn. Therefore, I just keep
transporting boxes of goods and the tables at that night. Besides, I also in
charged on decorating the book fair spot so that it would attract more customers.
Fortunately, they did provide us supper and a large bottle of mineral water
during the rest time. Due to it was so tiring and agony, we found a spot where
hidden from the supervisors’ and manager’s visions to take a nap. After taking
nap, we resumed our job until dawn… So, overall I didn’t sleep from the night
till the next day morning… haha…
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| My supper |
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| It was 2 a.m. in the shopping mall complex |
Well, I could describe my feelings at the time by using these words:
tired, agony and happy. As I mentioned above, I felt tired and agony was due to
the overnight job from the night (8th March) till the next day
morning (9th March). Besides, the duties of retail assistant were
also quite tough as you ought to serve the customers while keeping the selling
table tidy. Nonetheless, on the other hand, I did also feel happy as I could
learn lots of new things. For an instance, I learnt that communication skills
are playing a dominant role in our daily lives. We may hard to get along and
interact with others if we are lack of these skills. Secondly, I learnt that
your attitude will let others to define your first impression. You have to
possess a good altitude so that customers will leave a good impression on you
then satisfied with your customer services.
These are my experiences in doing that job. It totally teaches me so
many things as I stated on the paragraph above. Now, I am tempted to improvise
my communication skills so that my social circles will be widen. I hope myself next
time will be fit in the society and respected them. Lastly, back to the
conclusion, I can say this job has been broadening my view on how the real
society looks like. There many types of people we will face in the future. So,
let’s get prepared in order to face the challenges in the future!
Ok, that's all I want to talk about. I hope you enjoy this article and please follow me on my Google + account, twitter (@JiaZhe1) and facebook (username: Jia Zhe Wong)... If you have any comments or suggestions about this blogger, please comment below this blog post. Thank you, bye!
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