Today is my 4th day back in PNG for Rotation #17 after a relaxing break mainly playing PlayStation 5 game "Dragon's Dogma II" (Ision is now playing too in my absence). During my break, I also applied for another FIFO job based in Egypt where my ex-boss is working now. This is a funny story because he left the company and took over my current's boss's previous job (they were back-to-backs before).
When my ex-boss departed, I did ask him to pull me into whatever company he ended up at, as I really enjoyed working with him. That was at a time when my old company just got taken over and I was extremely unhappy with how the re-organisation was managed. But fast forward one and a half years, though there's still unresolved frustration, things have eased as people inevitably resign to fate when there's nothing they can do to change things around. Hence, I'm not desperate to leave now but he did ask me to apply for the job, and since I did ask him to pull me in, it's only right that I put in an application.
This would be a step-up and a much more difficult position as well, so I asked for a pay rise and quoted a seemilngy impossible number to test the waters as I really don't know what the current "market rate" is for that region. Let's see if I hear back from them. This is not a new position but rather they are back-filling someone who has transferred, so the recruitment process won't be a protracted one.
In the meantime, let me settle into this new hitch and leave you with the next installment of my busking-in-busy-Chinatown series, where I covered the song that drew me to my all-time idol Faye Wong (in the original key no less), and it's titled "我愿意" or "I Do" (the magical-sounding and crystal clear-voiced original is here). Also, do check out the other entries in this series (here: 1 2 3 4 5) and I'll see you all here next month!
