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John Chendra; father of Japheth Adriel & Jared Ezekiel, husband of Yenni. A learning Human Being who is interested in Information Technology: Internet, Multimedia, System Administration and Security.. And nowadays: Finance & Accounting! :)
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Learn Today!
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by john.
Categories: personal, work.
Things I learned today:
- Be prepared to interview someone or two at any day, they might just come when you least expect them to show up.
- Because there’s such thing as the 32 Forbidden Interview Questions, be more creative on the questions, and that’s hard especially with candidates with no previous work experience, fresh grads, or lower level workers (janitor, delivery boy, etc).
- Don’t write too much e-mail, focus on your main job.. I’ve got 3 contracts due tomorrow, and it’s way over my working hours now
- No matter how stupid the leader is, but when they win his/her followers heart, the followers would die for him/her.
It’s time to go home 
di Bandara
Posted on September 13th, 2007 by john.
Categories: Makassar, internet, work.
Pesawat Delay,
Makin malam tiba di Jakarta…
Untung ada Hotspot
Walaupun lebih mahal dari 11000
Kutebus saja 9000 itu dengan posting ini
Kurang konek detekted…
Quit Complaining About Your Job
Posted on June 28th, 2007 by john.
Categories: fun, internet, work.
Stumbled at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/quitcomplainingaboutyourjob.htm
F&A
Posted on September 4th, 2006 by john.
Categories: personal, work.
God works in mysterious ways. That’s a sure thing.
After my last post about a month ago, at least 3 significant job offers came up. None of them are similar, two are closely related but still very different. It will take me 3 pharagraph with about 200 words each to write the complete story. That’s too much personal information
To be simple, the 3 jobs are (listed by the time the job offered to me):
- Teaching job (ITC) at a very well known National Private School,
- Finance & Accounting Controller at PT. Tritanu Makassar
- A job as a System Administrator for one of the very well known Public Unviersity in Makassar, and that would give me a big chance to become a civil servant (PNS in Indonesian)
The one I take? Well, I think you know which one. Altough the salary and benefits in this new job that I decided to take is not as much as the others, but after a long and deep thought for about 3 days, I made my mind. The point of no return was last Wednesday, when I got all the keys and last cash balance for the new job/office.
Well, maybe I’ve got to change some things in this blog and many more places on my web, especially work related information
So, I have left the world of System Administration (at least for a week), but hopefully not leaving the computer world Thanks for 2 supports I got at the last post, they mean a lot to me.
Cut Off
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by john.
Categories: family, personal, work.
That’s the term, they said it’s a temporary thing, that in the future they might need us back on the job. Whatever. Maybe this is the answer to all my questions and wondering, my last post has received the answer. But I believe the decision is given to me, not taken by me. I believe that God has given a sign or correction to me through all this, to tell me “move forward, do something else!”
Hopefully it will bring me and my family to a better phase in our lives. Specially in this time, when my family needed me most, my wife being pregnant with our second child, my son is entering a new and more advanced school, and my parents need someone to help them do all their things.
A part time teaching offer has come and hopefully I am the right person they’re looking for. With the cut off news today, I’ve received a lot of offering from fellow workers, mostly my superiors in the office to work on various projects. I’ll just take it first as a sign that they all appriciate my work all this time. Which will I take, I’ll just go through it more specifically one at a time, later.
I’m now back on the hunt, job hunt, and hopefully I will get a new one soon, a lot better one, I believe.
Leave
Posted on July 26th, 2006 by john.
Categories: personal, work.
If i think it over, everybody just want me to leave. When they see me, they always ask me “Are you still there?”, not in a positive way, but in a negative kind of question. It’s like, “Are you crazy? I can’t believe you’re still there!”
It’s almost 2 years. Less than one month to go, by the 15 of August. Is this the end for me? I’ve been complaining a lot more than I can remember any great moment with this place. That should be a good sign that this place is bad for me. I haven’t been in this bad shape ever since the days my wife left me alone in Jakarta to go home at her hometown for about a month. Thank God I still have the people I love around to cheer me up. But I think they all also hope that I would leave this place and start something else.
Is the decision and the resignation letter is ever gonna come out? Let’s wait until the meeting is over, let’s wait until I reach the number 2. I’ve dreamed about this since October last year, so it’s have been about 9 months by now. Is the child gonna come out eventually? Please show me what to do, dear God..