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This is just a very boring post. I’m not into writing now but I felt the need to share my boring experience.

I’m not used to waking up early in the morning because of my job in the call center industry. It’s my rest day last night and today and on leave until Friday, and I’m very happy that I can get enough rest, which in my line of work is very hardly to come.

Last night sleep was so good, I don’t know what made me rise, maybe it’s the mild headache that I incurred because of too much sleep.

I also need to call my significant other and wake her up because she needs to go to the office and assume her work again as a corporate slave, just like me.

Taking my morning coffee and its partner in crime, the pandesal, I took my hearty breakfast and exercise and lift weights, which I haven’t done for a very long time, and it dawned on me to write again. I hope this will be a regular thing again for me.

This is one sensitive topic that I for myself will surely need to be aware of. I for one, is currently working in one of the top call centers here in the Philippines and one thing that came to my mind right away when I heard and read the news regarding the financial crunch in the United States is…will call centers in the Philippines be affected by the current financial crisis in the Philippines?

Actually if I’m not that kind of worried when time comes that I be forced out of job because of the current economic situation in the United States, because I know for myself that can easily adapt in this situation because I know that I didn’t put in all my eggs in one basket.

However, this problem will surely affect our country bigtime because we all know that call centers is one of the lifeline of our ailing country now. It provided jobs for our youth today. It does not only provide jobs but provided a really high-paying career. Many families depended on this industry and became the bread and butter for so many of us.

All of us definitely would not want another great depression to happen in this age. But when worst comes to worst, the United States, which would be hit hard might go into recession and lay-offs will surely follow. And it would not take a rocket scientist to expect that their working population will need every work they can get, and of course big companies in the United States that employs our fellow men in the call center industry here in our country will definitely need to pull off in their offshore sites like here in the Philippines and elsewhere in the world where they provide cheap pay in the workforce in order to provide the jobs in their home country.

We may not experience the problem now, but who knows, maybe next year might be a bleak year to some of us or to all of us! We do not want that. We don’t want that to happen. So, I hope and I think all of us will hope that everything will weather down any time soon. We all want to sleep soundly, right?