faith springs eternal.....
what's with the title? it's just raining really really hard for several days now in manila...no, it's not the reason. well, this is related to the opportunities that has been coming my way since the birthday month started. i was able to close the a project, start of may that now covers around 30% to 40% of my extra income. it was a good deal or it was a good strategy for me, when i started handling consultation for it related work with some good old corporate friends, i just did it to maintain a good relationship and knowing that they trust me that i understand what i do. it was never really about the money from the start, i just love what i do and i am happy that people trust me. however, along the way requirements become to time consuming. sometimes i had to spend weekend working on networks and softwares away from my family and sometimes i will report to work dead tired from a consulting work the other night, but i never complain i am just too happy delivering systems and assisting users. from this i've learned that i am a people person (however quiet i am) and that i have some marketing and sales skills that i can developed further.
well where am i going with this explanation of how i love my job? it seems that with this love, i was able to establish a network of not only good friends but good customers as well. without knowing it i was able to build a good foundation for what i can call a future business opportunity for me right now. why future, this extra business as of the moment gives me around 25% of what i earn a month as an employee. that 25% is actually is more than the salary of a newly hired team member and i am planning to grow that 25% to 50% next year. that extra earning will be invested on assets like stocks and a business, take note i did not say "small business" but business i will try to refrain from using the word "small" when i talked about business.
ok, going back, this love for my job not only created those opportunities i was also able to help others financially and professionally. moonlighting is not a bad thing i now have this concept that compares moonligthing to being an entrepreneure and if you are an entrepreneure you are more aware that you need to maximize your time and work efficiently during office hours cause you need to leave early to work on an extra project. this means you do your job right as an employee and probably better than others since you tend to deliver ahead of time and in IT try to learn more new ideas that you can both apply to your regular work and also to your extra project. it actually build character, makes a person more of an achiever.
on the first pharagraph i mentioned those things that i learned about myself since i started consulting work, i also discussed how it took sometime away for my family. since, i have started enriching my financial knowledge by reading books which an article states that only 10% of what you read is retained after two weeks. i also realized that if it will take away some precious time from my family it might as well pay good. and since i have attended some seminars which again study says 30% of what you learned from seminars are retained after two weeks, i also learned that you need to be paid right, appropriately of what you think you are worth otherwise you might not perform well on that job. so when those opportunity came i was firm in asking for the right price, the amount that i will be happy to perform my tasks and the amount the customer is also confortable paying especially this trying times. and you know what i got it as planned and without any hitch, before it was really hard for me to ask the "happy amount" i was too shy that i was asking for too much it is only now that i realize that i should have done that in the past. anyway i was really surprised that everything went well, there was not even a bargaining. so what i did with this latest deal was again to ask for the "happy amount", of course i did research and made some documentations to justify the cost. i am now currently practicing what i have read from the book and learned from the seminar, and according to the study 90% of what you learned in your practice you retained.
i certainly hope that i dont annoyed anybody who read my post for lack of layout or pattern on how my story goes. i have been creating post almost instantenously or impromptu. what comes out in my mind i write. so my apology
