Saturday, February 25, 2012

Education, is it matter for Ur Life?!..

Waktu jam - jam kantor 3 temen gw yg masih satu department dengan gw lagi ngobrolin tentang karir satu orang temen gw ini yg baru 1 bulan join di kantor tempat gw kerja. Gini percakapannya:

N: T, lw kan tinggi kenapa lw ga coba jadi pramugara aja?,, lumayan tuh kumpulin uangnya abis itu baru kerja kantoran.. ( si T nyahut, tp krna suaranya kecil gw ga kedengeran )
A: Ih, sayang kali S1 nya, masa S1 jadi pramugara..
N: Oh, iya ya..
( setelah itu gw ga denger mereka ngomong apa lagi deh tuh.. )

Saat denger omongan A dalam hati gw bilang "duh, sempit banget sih pikiran lw,, emank pramugara pekerjaan yg rendah banget ya,," Kebanyakan orang Indonesia masih punya pikiran yang terbatasi,, menurut gw pendidikan adalah sebagai alat, pengetahuan, dan ga terpaku untuk menentukan pekerjaan & hidup kita.. Klo keinginan temen gw itu emank jadi pramugara dibanding pekerjaan kantor so what?! toh banyak banget keuntungan yg didapet dari menjadi pramugara, selain penghasilan yg tinggi ( udah pasti.. ), bahasa Inggris dy jadi terlatih hampir setiap hari, melatih public speaking dy, travel ke beberapa tempat & negara, bisa belajar tentang penerbangan secara langsung, or siapa tau ke depannya dy dikasih beasiswa pendidikan pilot..who knows?! klo pun dy ga seberuntung itu kan uang dri dy jadi pramugara bisa dy kumpulin untuk buka bisnis, right?!

So, friend kenapa sih hidup kalian masih terpaku pada cara berpikir yg kaku gitu,, coba deh hal baru & jangan malu mencoba sesuatu hal baru yg ngga sesuai dgn pendidikan kalian tapi klo kalian suka & itu membawa kebaikan untuk hidup kalian then why u don't give it try?!.. Jangan ragu klo kalian udah yakin, sesuatu baru bisa jadi mengubah hidup kalian. Jujur gw ga begitu suka kerja kantoran, knpa? krna kita ga belajar secara langsung, terlalu pasif, kadang suka ga ada kerjaan, jatuhnya ya diisi ngobrol, bercanda2 ga jelas, browsing  internet menunggu bel pulang ( itu yg gw lihat di kantor gw ya,,) which is menurut gw itu kaya anak SD aja.. pikiran & wawasan kita jadi ga luas, ga berkembang. Ga selamanya kerja kantoran itu bagus n ga selamanya pikiran & wawasan kita lebih baik dari orang yg pekerjaannya yg menurut masyarakat lebih rendah dari kerja kantoran, mungkin kalian akan dipandang "wah" oleh orang lain, tapi buat apa kerja cuma untuk dapet pujian dari orang lain klo pekerjaan itu ga mengembangkan diri & ga menambah wawasan kita,, Jadi menurut gw pilihlah pekerjaan yg bener2 mengembangkan pikiran & wawasan lw dan pastinya lw menyukai pekerjaan itu. And i'm on that process..^^

Friday, February 24, 2012

Aupair.. oh aupair...

Fiuuhh... finally i have mood to write again.. :D Yea, i can't write without mood, i choose to waiting that mood rather than make its mood.. haha.. :D

My last posting i wrote about my wish list i 2012, and now i'm close to realise one of my wish list which is Living in one of Europe country for some months..^^ yaayy... i'm so excited but gambling in waiting that time come. Maybe you wondering how i can be living in Euro,, ok, i'll explain.. Firstly, i must say thank to my friend, Raisa who already told me about aupair. Being an au pair is part of an one year cultural exchange program. An au pair is someone between the ages of 18-26 and can work a maximum of 30 hours a week divided over 5 days. The au pair is responsible for taking care of the children and can also do light household chores. A big advantage of having an au pair is that she lives at your house, her support is flexible, and receive a small monetary allowance for personal use. Moreover we can travel around the country.. :D Well, but the important is to learn other new culture, new people, new environment in purpose to explore my limits, build my independence, make friend in international environment and many things u can name it..


I tried to signed up in many aupair websites,, some families came but u know what?! they're all scammer,, i know from the way they write mail to me, asked me to contact immigration agency they choosed, asked me to send money via Western Union to arrange visa,, wueeekkksss... i ever almost being scammed by scammer who introduced as an UK family, i believe what they said, but then my friend who is UK citizen told me that visa must be arrange in embassy not agency and many scammer who tell good things about UK.. oh, damn.. so stupid & shame i am that time! 

Then finally i decided to join as aupair in delft_aupair. Before decided to register in delft_aupair, i don't want join as aupair via agency, why?! because the FEE. Then after faced some scammers in internet & find that all aupair and family in NL needs agency to get each other so i come to that agency. I met with K Haris & K Tony, they told me about Netherland and their aupairs who they sent to NL. I sent my CV & dear hostfam letter to K Haris, he checked then if all ok he forwarded to agency in NL. I was waiting and waiting,, after 2, 3 days i asked him whether there're hostfam who interested in me but he said not yet,, ;( and no need waiting for so long 1 week later after K Haris submitted my CV & dear hostfam letter he emailed me that Rosalia ( aupair in NL ) email him told that her hostmom already found indo aupair who's name is Helena Mranani and she found that name in delft_aupair facebook firendlist and it's ME!! Haha.. what a coincidence,, but for me it's not totally a coincidence, God answer my pray, choose that family for me.. :D

After passing twice interview with hostmom, and hostmom interviewed other girls too ( Phil girls i think..^^ ) she & hostdad decided to picked me as their aupair... yaaayyy!!! :D Now i'm in preparing all documents needed and agent in NL in preparing my visa too. Even though the documents quite difficult and needs times & efforts to get it, i trust God will help.. Hope all is going well & smoothly till the time come.. amen..