After Storms
I changed company a couple of times so far and most of them happened around the middle of the year. Not that I tried to abuse 'notice after THR' trick, it's just happened quite often that I had contact with some recruiters around March, then having interview during Ramadhan, and sign the deal just before lebaran. I was once doing interview in rest area while travel for mudik.
Joining around the same time of the years multiple times means going the same onboarding pattern over and over again. First month is just trying to remember people's name. Second and third month starting to understand what needa to be done, what is the expectation, and how thing works. Then after that the real works began.
So it's usually around October when honeymoon period is over, people start expecting something from you, tickets are piling, and many things are coming at your direction. At this point I haven't really understand the whole thing yet but already need to get them done. The fact that this pattern comes couple of time already doesn't make me free from those anxiety and sleep difficulty.
But that too shall pass, now we're on December after stormy Oct and Nov. December is the month where everythings feels slowing down especially here in the Netherlands. People are taking vacation, management announced freeze period, and holiday gitfs are handed out. Surely we got parcel on the end of the year, unlike in Indonesia where it is on lebaran. But the thing thay I'm very grateful for is when my manager gave me this note.
A personalized handwritten shout out on December make up for all the hardwork during the previous months. Yes she gave everyone a shout out, but still this one boost my confidence and make me feels that I belong here. This is something similar to getting 46/51 score one the first Matematika 1A midterm back in TPB. Figure that make me believe I can survive S1 ITB.
Speaking about TPB, in those years October was also a stormy months because we, first year people, need to go to the campus EVERY SATURDAY morning for UTS as we have neither dedicated UTS week nor minggu tenang, also there's not enough room to accomodate all TPBers to take the tests during workdays.
One more thing about this holiday parcel, I noticed that there's no christmas greeting on it, instead it's celebrating holiday. I am not sure if it is company's way to appreciate diversity or generally a Dutch culture. Eitherway it's a good touch eventhough we (me and an Indian colleague) has said in a chit chat that it's not a problem for us if you guys celebrate christmas, there are also Christian in our country celebrating it.
Chandra
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