{"id":796,"date":"2009-10-02T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2009-10-02T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:48:11","slug":"working-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"working in seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>nah.. i can&#8217;t work here&#8230; but i still &#8216;work&#8217; ya see.. my boss is BH and we run our company of 2&#8230; haha&#8230;just need to blog abt this b4 i forget..<\/p>\n<p>so BH and I will be going back to SG next year ( date not confirmed) as he needs to renew his visa&#8230; coincidentally, my NPL will end next yr as well&#8230; I was telling BH that i don&#8217;t think i wanna come back with him.. and I gave him these reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1) I am doing nothing to contribute to the society here.. everything is all about YOU! when i work, at least i contribute and make a difference to the kids\/pple i come in contact to<\/p>\n<p>2) I am so afraid of being isolated from the society.. coz I&#8217;m not working and I&#8217;m still so young<\/p>\n<p>3) The only thing I have qualification on and what I can do is TEACH!! And teaching is so not versatile&#8230; what i know\/learn in SG may not be applicable here&#8230; it&#8217;s not like computing&#8230; the computer language is the same all ard the world<\/p>\n<p>BH was quite upset and disappointed.. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see a point of you going back to suffer&#8221; awww&#8230;. so sweet *puke* ( he probably thought tt he wld suffer w\/o me.. ) so he reminded me about my &#8216;Seattle job&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p>1) Others work from 9am-6pm. I rest or do whatever I want from 9am-6pm. ( ya.. i work on Saturday and Sunday too.. coz boss is at home)<\/p>\n<p>2) Weekends now, we can go Portland, Vancouver, snoqualmie and everywhere else without worries!!! In SG, I go JB also difficult ( need to mark this, have to settle that..)<\/p>\n<p>3) I can buy anything I want here ( Boss pays).. in SG, I&#8217;ll be too &#8220;stingy&#8221; to spend my seriously HARD earn money<\/p>\n<p>4) Bonus here is 100% of my &#8216;salary&#8217; whereas IF i go back&#8230; it&#8217;s dependent on the economy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>BH was like&#8230; &#8220;eh&#8230; u wanna be CEO is it?? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>haha&#8230; aren&#8217;t I already one?? ;p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nah.. i can&#8217;t work here&#8230; but i still &#8216;work&#8217; ya see.. my boss is BH and we run our company of 2&#8230; haha&#8230;just need to blog abt this b4 i forget.. so BH and I will be going back to SG next year ( date not confirmed) as he needs to renew his visa&#8230; coincidentally, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;working in seattle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}