- A new job! I moved to Visa from Smart last September, to take on a marketing director role, which sounds snazzy and fancy but really is just a title. It's different from my career in Smart, where I had a full team and an army of resources behind me. After all, what is Smart if not about resources.
Anyway, so this job is an individual contributor role and it's a matrix org so my functional boss is in Singapore whereas I am semi accountable to the Country Manager. Different, right?
It's a small team in the PH of 11 people and we function like that. I'm not used to this home-office-like setup as the physical space is small and we do have to care for the pantry as if it were our own personal space. Again, the army in Smart is a huge point of stark difference.
I've also been on 3 trips to SG in the past 3 months (my first 3 months on the job!) and that's a welcome difference :) I do love Singapore and hope to be able to bring Dennis and Griffin with me on my next trip.
I get home early now! Yahoo! Another welcome difference. A perk of not having a team is not physically being accountable to them, waiting on them, asking "Does anyone else need me or can I go home now?" Lovet!
So all in all, a big diff from what I'm used to but whenever I find something that makes me rethink my decision, like these work-culture differences with local Singaporeans, I think of my work life balance and remember why I made thjs change.
Another reason I've been absent from this blog is we have a huge trip coming up - a 24 day trip this holiday season to the US and Canada. I'm inwardly freaking out at the idea of us vs Gboy (and you know who wins!) without yaya. Good luck to me!
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