If my memory serves me right, it was around last week of March 2004 when a friend from college sent me a text message about how he just got a job with a fat paycheck. And the sole requirement? JUST BE BUBBLY.
Reluctance was never entertained when I submitted an immediate resignation in handwritten to my first employer. I hurried to Cebu and I never even had a clue how to get to places from the port. But who cares, I was up for the 5-digit salary range.
True enough, you just have to be bubbly. It was the onset of the Call Center industry at the Queen City of the South. I was a small fish in the small pond back in my island who has big dreams and was unstoppable from chasing it. I didn't have my luck at first try. I shed tears for it. It was just out of the carefully tiled floor and the elite upholstery of their couch and the centralized air condition building. "Thank you for your interest" was the exact line I heard before me and the rest of the rejects headed the exit door. So I decided to reprint my CV and application letter and submitted it to countless of companies. My mom even doubted if I really haunted a job or just went to the beaches for a swim because I got so unbelievably tanned. Ha!
Fortunately, one afternoon a woman with an accent called me by the cellphone and invited me for an initial interview. That's when my Five years and five months journey of lip servicing, debating, troubleshooting and what not started.
I have proven to be more than just bubbly. From being a debater back in my college days to being an English talker 8 to 12 hours a day, five days a week, I was able to put food on the table and fed "mouths". It was the stage of my life that I am always proud of despite the struggles, rejections, tormenting clients. For it was the stage of my life where I met a lot of genuine friends, went to different places, discovered the best beaches, and the stage of my life where it honed me to be open, fearless and most of all BUBBLY.
Now I'm bubbling in a hope of making another fat paycheck. As a newbie in Bubblews, I intend to inspire, influence, connect, and just bubble out.
Thank you for opening your door. Lets rock each other's world! :)
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