A couple months ago I was catching up a bit with an old friend who is also a "rantau". We were in the same boat when talking about how boring it was having to leave our jobs just to be with our husband and all we did at home was just housewife's jobs. I am at my most now. I am bored to death, despite that I know I can do other things (and have facilities to support). I needed something to distract me 5 days a week from 8 to 7.
I started looking for a job about a month after I arrived here on my spouse visa. I thought I could change industry and looked for some supply chain or engineering job. Whenever I wrote my cover letter, I was never sure what to write because I barely had any experiences in that. Sometimes it got to the extent that making cover letters was really a pain for me. I don't know how many applications I've sent but I always end up with rejection emails, sometimes even within a day or just after a couple of hours after I clicked the "submit" button. I never got a call for an interview. Not a single one call back.
So, then when Ramadhan came, I focused myself in Ramadhan and committed not to do any jobseeking stuff. Afterwards, I changed my strategy completely. I tried seeking for jobs related to my previous experience in market research industry and also changed my cover letter and resume completely. Alhamdulillah, within a week or two, I was able to get a call for an interview with an agent and another one from a data collection services company.
I remember telling my "rantau" friend how stressful it was for me being jobless for quite a long time (I had to bear with no-work condition visa for 6 months until I was finally able to get that green light to start applying for a job). She was almost desperate as well. It was difficult for her just staying at home waiting for a miracle to come. Around 3-4 months after applying for a job, she finally got a call for an interview. And alhamdulillah, she got the job. One thing that I remember from her was her saying, "Hang on just a bit more...". And that sentence got stuck in my head ever since. Whenever I tried to be positive, I just remember that sentence... just a little bit more...
I'm still doing the sabar-ikhtiar-doa-tawakal routinity. Hopefully something will come up for me real soon. Aamiin.
