A Letter to a Workaholic

To my beloved workaholic self,

Please be reminded that you have to change your lifestyle or at least take a breather once in a while. Work is not the most important thing in your life and you know it. You have got to remember how it feels like to go to a party and just let those ounces of responsibility off your shoulders. One of these days, I’m going to lead a rally with a campaign against overtime.

Just because you can easily clear a night shift unlike other call center agents in the office, doesn’t mean that you should blow this nocturnal crusade out of proportions. Remember, there are a lot of other agents working on night shifts in any Philippine call center. Clearing five consecutive nights doesn’t make you any tougher because insomniacs can do ten without them even trying. I do believe we still sleep.

There is nothing wrong with being proud of what you achieve; in fact it is a healthy sign as you are energetic. You should be proud of your salary considering that other people are already satisfied just getting through the day. However, your work is about talking to the voices of random people while facing the front of a monitor for eight hours, with you usually not taking a break. You may not break a sweat but you’re also not blinking enough, or so the optometrists says, and that is why you have to wear those wonder specs that would make even the blind see. The world is not created by three blue squares, a wooden desk and a headphone. It’s not made up of an agency or any Philippine call center for that matter. There are your parents, your sisters, your friends, your co-workers, your cats. You wouldn’t want to say on your deathbed that you wish you could have joined that family dinner at Gumbo or that weekend party with friends at Dolce’s. Besides, who would take care of the cats if you’re in the hospital?

You are not a soldier at war. Therefore, you deserve a lot of peace of mind and hours and hours of relax time. Don’t you think? Don’t we think? We don’t want our friends to forget us nor do we want to be left out of the group. We don’t want a divorce in the future and we don’t our cats to die unattended and alone on their deathbeds. You wouldn’t want to be forgotten. You wouldn’t want the only attendees in your funeral to be your co-workers, who couldn’t attend because there’s work to do. There’s still a lot in store for us. Let us live life to the full.


Yours,
Yourself

How to: Affordable Barbados Travel

Barbados Apartment Hotel

Is it even possible to get an affordable Barbados travel vacation? My friends and I have always wanted to go to Barbados since one of our friends spent their honeymoon in that island paradise and has been constantly gabbing about how wonder the place was. We couldn’t stand her gabbing actually. We just want to shut her up by going to the island ourselves and experiencing everything she keeps bragging about.

The problem was of course, the money. But it seems to us that the word expensive and Barbados would always go hand in hand. But we were wrong. Through careful research and planning, we were able to formulate a great way to save a ton of money.

First of all, we booked out tickets super early. Lots of airlines give away cheap tickets for people who book early. We made sure to book it directly at the airlines and not through some travel agency that would add their cut to the ticket price. Also, we chose a low cost airlines which saved us half the price for the usual airlines that had stopovers and a lot of in flight frills that we didn’t really even want or need which made this an affordable Barbados travel.

Next, we decided to rent out twin condo units. This was one of the biggest factors that helped us save money. Booking a hotel though great for honeymooners is extremely expensive especially since there was no kitchen. We couldn’t believe how much money we saved. And since there were many of us, we were able to split the pay. Also, we just bought food from the market or from seaside fishermen and cooked our own food since we had our own kitchen. If we had bought food from restaurant or from a hotel, our bill would have been astronomical. This is the key to affordable Barbados travel.

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