Last week was such a busy week with back to back holidays. First, we have Good Friday and then on Sunday, Easter celebration. In a country like Indonesia, I wonder sometimes why people have way too many days off. Since these days I am also following their calendar, I need to re-adjust my life on it & it's why I've been pretty busy with family as well as doing many work prep.

I celebrated Easter in church and the following days, I got busy with purchasing a motorbike and transferring ownership of it. In a country like Indonesia, people typically hire someone to smoothen their way to deal with government matters. These services charge twice the original price but we don’t have to be fully present at the site nor even think about all the little details that should be done. But for me, I always decide to actually do it for myself even if it means I have to sacrifice a whole day to also save costs.

It was my first time as an adult dealing with such papers and with all the confusions I had, I eventually just followed along and it took about 3 hours until the documents were done and it wasn’t as expensive as others made it out to be.

When I first counseled my uncle and others around me, they made an expensive estimate of it. They also mentioned things that sounded a bit too complicated. I was a little stressed because of it but once I calmed myself down, it wasn’t that bad nor as complicated as before.

From those lessons, I learned that sometimes it’s people who discourage us and make us afraid to step out of our comfort zone.

Had I constantly felt afraid of doing that, I would definitely try my best to just put off the task and never move an inch.

Sometimes, my other side of the family is too afraid to do things but at one point, I trained my mother to actually go against it. Now, when I forget that mindset, it’s not that bad nor too challenging, in fact, things are fairly easy now, it’s just that it requires half a day to do it.

In the end, it took me a day to deal with that as well as now, I am working on shipping the motorbike to my office (another extra work).

I also quit a job!

Technically, I found this job through linkedin to become a community leader for a language learning App. It has been about less than 2 months and the reward is incentives based. But they had strange rules all around it.

When I first accepted the job, I thought it would be an easy job and manageable because they said it’ll take 2 hours of my time and commitment daily. So, knowing that it is a manageable time, I decided to take it. However, as time goes by, it is no longer 2 hours commitment, outside of it, that felt like 5 to 6 hours commitment a day.

And the worst part of all, I had to aggressively sell membership to the users.

Despite all the time I put into it, I would label that job as semi-scam and exploitative.

A part of me didn’t realize is that now I have a company to manage and grow.

To be fair, I never thought my dream would come true, to finally have a company under my own name which is such a great responsibility. The seed capital and funding is definitely from the parent company and my responsibility is to keep it afloat.

The transition from becoming a regular employee to someone that manages a company is quite a stretch. I used to grow many businesses and failed but obviously, I learned my lessons.

This time,it is a lot less challenging because I got mentorship as well as funding. So, it’s not like I did everything by myself as before.

This is another new season in my life and I am pretty excited to build and grow.