Hello,

I hope you guys having a great day right now, I just came back home. I still not hungry at all so I have a small time to write what I have thinking and search. During these days, my focus only on living in Canada so I just canceled my yoga class today, I don't have any mood to do it right now. Still, when I feel bored I just kick some handstands right away.

Today the yoga teacher told me that the class is still open for those who want to take a teacher training class. I still have one more month to finish the payment before the training begin, which is on the second week of April. I consider important to take the training right now, whether I will be teaching in Canada or not, I will use the knowledge and alumni connection which I get from the training later.

I hope for the best in the upcoming month, i could have a deeper insight with human anatomy, how to reduce injuries during training by performing the right alignment, the interesting theory about yoga in relation with spiritual achievement. The curriculum will be teach heavily in how to giving the right instruction to the practitioner during class, as this will take half of the program learning an effective way of teaching yoga.

I will keep update with my yoga journey week by week since the training will be on every Sunday starting from morning until night. I have no plan for further teaching yet I already contact some of the friends who already taught yoga in the local gym or doing a private teaching. My real intention is not about business but more likely to let people know the activity that can heal and fix the posture gradually while enjoying the movement through breathing synergy between the bodies. The fact of yoga can heal a people drive my intention to introduce this amazing sport to everybody. I am one of the many who enjoy the benefit of yoga, I had better sleep before I was really hard to sleep on the right rhythm.

Now let's get back to my readiness to live in Canada. I questioning myself if I really ready to move abroad since i know the disadvantage of living in foreign country, far away from relatives and friends need you to adapt to variation of culture from different people. I felt a small homesick by the time i studied in foreign country, and this is not happen in the first semester. I just let myself felt sad since dealing with locals is resentful, the way of our thinking is different and my fatal mistake is i was thinking in my own subjective way that local is not friendly to us. Which sometime makes me want to leave the country but this only happen for a day, i always can found my escape by let myself going somewhere alone, which can ease the pain.

I personally ready to move overseas and find an opportunity right there. I also found the good and bad point of living in Canada from a different perspective in this website. I also had to consult with my parents and they are positive about my decision, they hope for a better living for me and I am grateful to be raised in such positive minded parents. I am aware that not every foreigner in Canada will be treated fairly by given a racial mind still work in the modern day so I also do a research from local website to learn more about living in Canada- The good and bad part, what is the main reason of them living in Canada. I am quite sure that positive mind is the key to surviving and living in Canada. It is so powerful that can break the bond of racism everywhere since you will not think about it, you just ignore what you can not change.

Let's get deeper to the works. The implication to career will either start new for a new career since most of the Canadians emphasize a Canadian experience more than having a credibility outside Canada. I would be good if i could work in the same field as my current job but I try to seek a new opportunity for my career. I don't mind to starting new if it is what it takes to go there. I also heard that my relatives who worked there need to be under contract with the company by given year and that's okay for me, I also need that to survive and saving my account before I land the specific job that I love.

Right now I try to gather the information regarding Canada, their policies (working, human rights, taxes), cultural expectation, social environment and politics. I will keep updating with my founding. I planned to stay there for 10 years, so my life is not just working and call it a day. I should found any social activities to keep myself happy, grow in personality and connection and contribute something to society. I will start from meetup.com; A Canadian niche website which can connect yourself with random person or community who share the same interest or hobby. to seek my personal hobbies such as yoga and healthy living, or outdoor clubs such as  hiking and nature walk in the weekend. From them, i could gather the information about new places in the surrounding, which is good for me when I want to seek my quiet time.

My first approach would be in nearest church, since getting along with people who have the same point with you enable you to blend the community quickly. I had listed the church that I could be reached by walking and if i have time, i will access their website and get to know with the people there. It is about gaining a competitive advantage to make a friend before i moving there so my path would be smoother.

Here is the list of church near my future place:

1. Toronto Harvest Missionary Church

The church nearest with my place and according to the website, the preacher mostly from West Asia. Please correct me if i wrong.

2. East Scarborough Church of God

The church with Pentecostal approach with The five fold purpose of ESP (Acts 2:42-47)
Evangelize the lost - outreach (verse 47)
Exalt the Lord in worship - worship (verse 46)
Encourage the believers in fellowship - felllowship (verse 42)
Edify the chruch through discipleship - discipleship (verse 42)
Equip the saints for service - training (verse 44-45)

3. Formosan Grace Christian Church

By given their website, it has a bilingual option for the reader. My opinion is that the church will be dominated by one ethnic group. I will try their youth group once i there.

For the question of citizenship or permanent residence, i know it is too early to answer that and by given fact that i might return to my country after 10 years, i still don't know the answer of this question, i really need to compare the differences and what I will lose if I choose one after another. It is important but the most important right now is to secure my visa to Canada.

I really afraid if i got rejected with my working visa, even my eligibility mark has passed their minimum requirement, there is a chance of failing. I have learned that if i fail during interview test, there are two possibilities. One is safe, you just lost the registration money in the process and may do later since it means your experience or reason doesn't qualify enough to live in Canada, so for the goodness sake, they also want to assure that my skill is in high demand there. The other one may result you a prohibition from entering Canada for two years, in Quebec five years. The second may occur if there is misinformation with the data I give to the immigration. Most of people fail from the background check since they will do triple check to our information, collected document from local government and maybe social media. I heard from an article that they really want to know what we are doing in our life by given a timeline, and even forgoing a trip for three days they also question it for their own reason. So I found from the trusted site about how your application can be refuse, for any of the following reasons:

1. Proof of Language skills

Your IELTS Certificate only valid for two years

2. Criminal issues (have criminal record in any country)

3. Security(failed background checks)

4. Medical (failed medical exam)

5. Financial reasons (have less than the minimum settlement funds)

According to this website, an individual should have at least 12,164 CAD on your asset.

6. Misrepresentation(failed to be truthful during the application or omitted information)

This one is dangerous, can cause you prohibited to entering Canada for certain years.

7. Non-compliance(failed to provide any requested information/ documents the immigration officer requested or failed to attend a Personal Selection Interview)

8. Inadmissible family members (the above reasons for any family member indicated as dependent on the application form)

All the reason above could kill your application or delay it so you really need to make sure to complete all document and giving the right interview. I will have dinner after this and see you tomorrow. Hope the best for me.
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Hello,

I am a bit free today since there is a no office task right now so i have much time for doing a research about the living cost and expenses in Canada. I had a research about living cost in Canada and it seems the price between province not vary much. However, the information still blurry and there is no exact price ranging in between 100 CAD. One article give a range of 400-800 CAD per month which is hard to be true especially this article is for student. Another article says that 600-800 CAD would be enough to live in Canada.

I a bit confused from the data given by the different sources from google so i just take the general data from Numbeo and list what i would be shopping at there. I eliminate the expense from my study or air ticket since that is a different thing of expense, i categorized them as one time expenses. In this living cost, i would be divided into three different categories (Meal plan as restaurant and cook by myself, transportation cost, utilities, and situational cost from events or activities, buying new clothes, in two different scenario.

First scenario would be staying in my relative place and the second scenario i would be independently rent a flat so the rent expenses would be added. All data calculated as monthly and round up to 0.5 to make it easier to count the total. The sums of a variable is a must buy for monthly expenses will be mark in yellow stabilo.

These data are based on 5563 entries in the past 12 months from 777 different contributors with the Last update in February, 2016.
Meal Plan

Restaurants

Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant for every weekend 15.00 CAD = 60 CAD
Express Meal, Junk Food in Tim Horton or McD 8.00 CAD = 80 CAD
Water (0.33 liter bottle) 1.50 CAD i try to refill the water at home and take the bottle anywhere just in case i really need to drink and i could not find my bottle, i will pay for it. I budget the water for ten bottles per month = 15 CAD

Markets (Cook by myself)

Milk (regular), (1 liter) 2.25 CAD = 9 CAD
Loaf of Fresh White Bread (500g) 3 CAD = 90 CAD
Bread Jam is not include in numbeo but essential for my survival so i search the data from here, i just go with the cheapest one from Great Value brand, that is 2.7 CAD per half kg. I plan to buy 3 bottles per month so it would be 8.1 CAD in a month. I might consider Skippy peanut butter which comes in 750 grams costing 3 CAD per bottle.
Rice (white), (1kg) 3.32 C$ 2.00-5.00 Not recommended to cook rice since it takes time to do the preparation.
Eggs (12) 3.25 CAD = 7.5 CAD
Local Cheese (1kg) 11.63 CAD
Chicken Breasts (Boneless, Skinless), (1kg) 13.5 CAD
Beef Round (1kg) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) 14.75 CAD
Apples (1kg) 3.50 CAD
Banana (1kg) 1.6 CAD buy 5 kg so 8 CAD
Oranges (1kg) 3.25 CAD
Tomato (1kg) 3.65 CAD
Potato (1kg) 3 CAD
Onion (1kg) 2.2 CAD
Lettuce (1 head) 2 CAD
Water (1.5 liter bottle) 2 CAD will buy it daily so 60 CAD
Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) 15 CAD will consider to buy it during winter time

Transportation 

One-way Ticket (Local Transport) 3.00 CAD
Monthly Pass (Regular Price) 141.50 CAD
Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) 4.25 CAD
Taxi 1km (Normal Tariff) 1.75 CAD
Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) 30.00 CAD
Gasoline (1 liter) 1.06 CAD

Utilities (Monthly)

Basic (Electricity, Heating, Water, Garbage) for 85m2 Apartment 200 CAD divided by 4, since the owner of the place has three persons so i would be paying for 50 CAD
1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local (No Discounts or Plans) 0.3 CAD calling is essential, i do 10 min everyday so around 100 CAD for local communication per month.
Internet (10 Mbps, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) 40-72 CAD depend on the provider.

Sports And Leisure

Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult 55 CAD
Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat 13 CAD

I don't need that since i can do yoga in my free time.
Clothing And Shoes

1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) 60 CAD
1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) 45 CAD
1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) 100 CAD
1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes 125 CAD
Rent Per Month

Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 1,500 CAD, ranging 1,200.00-1,750.00
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre 1,100 CAD, ranging 900.00-1,400.00

Unexpected Expenses

I put the budget from this expenses as 10% of my monthly wage. For example my earning at there would be 2,000 CAD after tax, i will spent 200 CAD on this budget.


I think that's specific enough to count my expenses and here come the first scenario, how much i should prepare for a month without renting outside. 

Expenses = Meal + Transportation + Utility + Unexpected
                  = (Restaurant + Cook by myself) + Trans + Utility + Unex
                  = (155+182.6) + 141.5 + 150 + 200
                  = 829.1 CAD

Therefore, second scenario would be around 2000 CAD since I need to cover other cost from living independently such as flat reparation and so on. I think this is enough to prepare myself in the first year of working in Canada. Hope my expectation is not went to far and see you next time in my blog.


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Hello,

Yesterday i don't have enough time to write the blog, at night my friend want to have a small talk which last five hours, my Goodness but it was a good time though since we discuss some important stuff, not to mention that yesterday i met up with my good friends, Jay. He just resigned from his old company because of better offers from another company, which enable him to work overseas that may polish his CV and there is an internal problems with his Boss makes him want to move away fast. My other friend, Jacob just graduate from his college, looking for a good company that can offer him a wide exposure and smooth career path.

We just looking for our solution, discuss it altogether what is the outcome of the choices and so on then come to my turn, i told them that i want to take the opportunity of working in Canada, if it is possible this year my working visa should be published and right now i preparing my English test which is IELTS to get a band of 6, or more i hope. They asked me the specific date of the day i start working there and since i had not any further conversation with employer, i just stick on this year. They surprised about my decision, and ask me to rethink my idea. Starting over in foreign country and surviving the job competition is not easy. One of them, Jay told me that since he know my daily work, he said that i had too much freedom to work at home and good salary makes me lazy to find another prospective local company which can give me a career path.

I really understand that my job has zero career path and i am get used with the system, that i build my own habit and become used with it so the other option that i need to find a competitive working culture in the local company is not interested for me. One said that i will spend my year again by starting over in foreign country, not to mention that if i fail to land in any job there, i will waste the money i had collected and also my time. I always respect their decision but yesterday it was different in my heart. I just nodded toward but my heart against their opinion, my inner voice echoing to dare myself taking this challenge. I know i will lose my job right now, which is easy to do and lot of free time but right now i want to challenge myself to fly to Canada.

They asked about my yoga teacher training which i just abandoned it. I don't want to split my focus and their reply is another objection. They said that i really want to be a yoga teacher soon but right now in front of them, i told them that i just cancelled my training because of this reason. They told me that i change my mind quickly, and it is true. I really need someone in my life which can know my best trait and direct my life since i really lost right now. Jay, told me that i will giving up my Canada dream next month. I don't know how to reply since i can be stubborn today and lost tomorrow. I just tell them let it be, i will follow what my heart will guides me. This left them in confusion and hope i will be okay and stay in my decision. After that, we decided to go home and make a promise that we will talk our personal matter by the next time we meet again. I head back my home and found that my mom still preparing of her presentation. She will be on church mission for a week in Mana island, which still outreach from the government. I hope for the best outcome and pray for her to come back safe and sound. I will be the one to take her to the meeting point on 2 am, and i prefer not to go to bed since i had a research to be done.

I think this is the best time to search since my parents and sister already fall asleep, so less distraction. I am looking for a student loan, so if my first plan to go there by a skilled worker is fail, i had another option which i already mention on the last post, by taking one year degree in master or certification. I am looking in this website, that my university selection must be specific since the rent cost in Canada is extremely expensive as 500-800 CAD per month in downtown for a single bed, i prefer to stay with my relative to save the cost. My relatives stay in Ontario, Scarborough so i should find the university near his place. I found 23 universities there and some of them get my interest. I have an interest in health studies and i ever study by myself about selecting a good food and counting my calories intake before i was doing gym.

In page one, the university that caught my interest is natural nutrition program, parallel with my passion in health science and teaching program. So here i list the university that i interested:

1. CANADIAN SCHOOL OF NATURAL NUTRITION - SCARBOROUGH, ON

They have three different programs; natural nutrition, holistic nutrition and elderly care. I will skip the elderly care since i have zero interest with them, i only like to chat with elder, not taking care. I will do a research on the differences between them and the certification since they have 3 different certification, C.H.N., R.H.N., and C.H.N.C.. The program will be complete in either one year of full time study or two year of part time and it will cover 1200 hours of study (632 hours plus approximately 550 hours for homework assignments and class preparations) with 51 hours of practicum.


2. NEW EARTH COLLEGE - INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL HEALING SCIENCES

This college offers qualifying educational programs that are specifically designed to provide or improve a person’s skills in a recognized occupation. Training programs are approved and recognized federally by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and tuition is tax deductible.

They have two programs which last 8 months for certification which i will not take it since i need at least one year studies or 36 months of diploma.


I found two universities which is not bad, there are another university in health science such as acupuncture study but i am not interested so i just skipped it. Other university mostly listed IT and business job so i also not listed here.

I found this interesting website about job market trends in Canada, which is being updated with last of two months, so if today was March, the latest data is in December. This would be useful to me to know which job is in high demand in Canadian job market. This website also supported with articles related to various job in different province.

The time already 2 am which i should wake my mom up. I am very tired and i had a small talk since she just woke up and me want to sleep badly. After i dropping her to the meeting point, which is her church, i did a small talk with her friend and throw some joke, hugged my mom and return.

Yesterday my uncle, the younger brother of my dad told me to come in his opening house in tomorrow evening. I have no plan for Sunday and since we are responsible to take our grandma, we just went to her house after church session. The street is quite empty so we arrived at her home fast and she prepared some food for us, which is cooked by herself. After she finish prepare for going to my uncle place, we drove to my uncle house and since it is Sunday, the road was empty so we arrived fast. I am not interested with the party and rather than i spend time talking to people there, which is mostly his friends and from neighborhood, i walk and looking around his home. After i satisfied myself by spending time alone, i head back to the house, and in a short time we just return home and my dad want to buy weekly groceries so i spend my time walking around shopping center and then we proceed to have a dessert then we came back home.

Since i promise to discuss about the other result of my passion test, here it is. The second recommendation from them is Doctor, i have a talent to absorb knowledge quickly and have a good memory since doctor need to remember a lot of theory. It shows that i had a passion to heal and serve people which i admit it and the bad part of it, i need to learn to control my stress since this job will produce stress and motivation to learn medicine. I consider this as a good option for me but impossible to take it now. I will spent another 10 years of my life to study in this field and i don't want to do that. I prefer a certification that related to health studies in given duration of a year. That is why i consider holistic nutrition as a substitute of nutritionist or yoga training as a substitute of kinesiology or sport science. The knowledge is not deep as i study in four years spent in university, but i can take the specific studies which is related with it.

There third recommendation, Teaching, specifically, teaching sports. This is connected with my yoga and i will consider this profession to do in my free time or as second job. The reason this profession is not going to be my main profession is because it is hard to survive as yoga teacher in Canada. I read various article about this and they require to be creative to get their client and expanding the business to anything related with health and positive mind. So among three of my recommendation, forestry, doctor and teacher, none of them is preferable for me. Forestry is my last option when i had enough with my life and take it as a last chance to be happy, doctor already too late and teacher as secondary profession.

It was a relieve to know that economy falls on the fourth place of recommendation. I had a background in it and all my working experiences is about this field so advancing to another economical studies is not steep as other recommendation route. One thing that i could not understand is all the job i took in economy field doesn't make me happy. I have tried data entry and warehousing for my first internship, i got burnout with data entry which all i need just to put the data to excel. My working house is not constructive and during this internship i seek an escape, after i finished with my job, i explore different part of the city. My boss teach me nothing about exporting and importing, just give me a short list of INCOTERM that i already know in Supply Chain Management class. Dissatisfied with the output from this internship and the Boss corrupted my wage since i only get one month salary, i asked him for another month but he said he will give it later but until the time i came back to my city he never try to give me back.

The second internship is i worked as marketing. I do a market research and another data entry from their prospective customer. I really enjoyed market research and sometimes i get bored with it since mostly i make the research alone (at this time i understand why a project of research need to be done by some people), it would be better if a small group of people working on this project so we could encourage each other. I am happy with this internship, and was hoping to be in part with them but i made a huge mistake by giving everyone a feedback which is too honest and yes this is the part that i regret it the most. Some people can not take feedback easily and this makes me in front of them as a comparing them with each others. After i finished with my second internship, i back to the country i studied to finish my thesis while the main reason of this is because of my roommate makes me uncomfortable and i don't want to explain why since it is not important and already happened.

I head back and finish my thesis, not to mention search my first job there. I threw a bunch of application and i got three calls from different company. Two of them offer me with local salary since the language that i will be use to communicate would be in their local language so there is no reason to pay me higher than other, they also say that it would be harder for them to take foreigner as their employee since the government regulations protecting local worker from unemployment. Two of the job is same, as a regional sales in consumer goods company. The other option is the best one, from multinational company that are frustrated to find foreigner that able to speak fluently in local (mother tongue), Chinese and English. This job is about call center staff. Their office is here outsourcing a local from my country while the company itself is headquartered in India, the specific customer is from my country that purchase a product which they produced here. The salary is competitive as i never expect that i will get a big number in my first job. They even asking for another local in my university since they need at least five to fill the position.

I was discuss this opportunity to my parents and they object to it. They say there is no future in career if i work there and i should be under contract for three years. It is better to continue my master and find a better job, so i told them that i had threw a bunch of CV and i am freshly graduated, my degree has not come yet so at least i need a real working experience here and i will move to another company after three years. They said that i would be better to return to my country and work there while preparing for my master. This is would be a long story and i just want to cut it here. I will write the follow-through later.

Currently i worked as a finance staff which is full of data entry and the only thing i had fun is about presenting the data. I really hopeless with my life since i had took three kind of job that had connectivity with economy and yet i still dissatisfied with my job. I know economy has a broad term of field and right now i still not found which economy path i love the most. In Saturday i had told the psychologist to find my "way" in economy path since i desperately need to change the job, while i don't know the right job. My time almost up since i would be moving to Canada in this year so i need to check on the university about the program that i will fit with my job. The psychologist agreed to give me the answer to my email in Monday. Hope i could get the answer and begin a research related with the answer to make sure that this is "my job" since i had spend much time and money to solve this matter.

Thank you for watching and sorry if the article today sounds depressive. I hope i could find my way. See you again.
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Hello,

How is your weekend? glad you have a good time out there. Today as what i had expected, the result from the psychology about my career test has come. I woke up a bit late for today while the meeting with the psychology is at 9. Today i bring my mom to accompany me and she also want to know about the result. She had cooked our breakfast and she already prepared everything the time i got up. I rushed my morning routine and heathen up my car since it was already nine years old. After that, we manage to go to the location.

We managed it to arrive on the car park at 8:45 while the office from our car park located a bit far, around one kilometer. We walked a bit fast since we will pay overtime if the consultation has not finished on time. Luckily, there were no a single person inside the lift so we just went straight to the place. We arrived on the seventeenth floor, where the room is joined up with music studio. We were greeted by one of their customer service and she bring out my result.

The moment i saw my result, i am not surprised with my intelligence since i consider myself smarter than other (i am not cocky), i scored excellent in logic, 2 dimension and 3 dimension imagination while others considered as above average or average in critical thinking, application and so on. The person told me that the result of this intelligent test is not to show how good i am but to maximize my true potential by linking my best strength.

Next come to personality, that is similarly like Emotional Quotient (EQ) in particular variable, which only related with work. I scored so bad in this section, the most point i can get is average and the others are below average. My motivation to work and improve bad, stress management also. The average is just about understanding others (empathy), planning, and able to deliver a constant work. She said that this is just temporary since we could fix personalities, by given time from thinking positively, worry less, positive and constructive friends and relatives will bring this point up. She suggest me to read an articles about anger management and make a plan for myself. Be able to hold your resent and think for the future outcome if you do it now. Make a small step about patience, once you can hold the problem and convert it to a solution, congratulate yourself. A very sweet advice from her.

Then come to the last page that i already waiting for, where is my ideal job located? It is written that forestry comes in rank one. I wasn't expected that. The reason of it sit in the first position is since had a good logical skill, the right application to apply my imagination through 2 and 3 dimensions, with the self-absorbed personality that i admit i like to work alone, cast-away from source of crowd means happiness to me and less exterpersonal skill need to use, she suggests me to take this job. My first reaction was a bit reject to this result, it is a nonsense job to work in my country, you know certain job has less income and small career development. I will consider this option once i financially stable, joining nature conservation group just for fun, to release my stress toward daily routines.

I want to post about the second result but by given time i am in outside and writing a journal in phone is tiring and i can't focus completely since i had a small meeting with my friends. Oh yeah not forget to mention that Canadian loves meet up in a group with a people that have a same interest, and this is a good opportunity for me to try this website, and found out that there is a daily acroyoga playing outdoor. So i have another great motivation to move there and since i was introvert, i was relieved to find such website that can organize group together without get to know each in real life to know the hobbies since that waste my time and energy. So, to be continue tomorrow and have a great weekend.
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Welcome,

Today is the last day of office day though tomorrow i need to attend a meeting with boss and some coworkers. Basically i don't have to do anymore for today so in the office i just continue searching information related with live and work in Canada. I discuss this idea with some of my friend and some of them suggest Sydney, Australia in comparison about the ideal living cost. Both countries are in top option for someone who seeking a lifelong settlement and international culture.

I heard some countries are on the top list of the most life-able or peaceful country which is Eastern Europe countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, UK) or closer to Asia continent (Australia and NZ) and Canada. By given many option to compare, i eliminate some countries which i will put them on the third option or last since I am not interested or the limitation for foreigner to start is big. Among all, i would like to compare Canada with Australia since both are the based on commonwealth and English speaking country.

I do a short research between them, with the living cost as the main variable, others are public safety and the level of pollution. To make it balance, i compare two capital with the similarities of trait, as the most contributor in its economic. For Canada, i picked Toronto while for Australia, i picked Sydney.

Later i found out that Australia has more expensive than Canada in term of living. Some product considered cheaper in Australia depend on the local agriculture and the trade agreement between those countries. In my opinion, both share the same value of customer purchasing power, the product you can buy with your income level. Both also share the same progressive tax, the more you earn, more number you will need to pay. In the lowest wage scale, there is visible differences as Australian earn 40% more in term of lowest salary per hour.

In a nutshell, almost everything in Canada is cheaper 30% than in Australia. Then comes to the high demand job between those two and surprisingly, retail job stay sit in the back since that the lowest salary from the job you can take. Australia more needed in hospitality sector (food and service) while Canada is in health sector (care giver and nurse earn big).

Then we comes to immigration process. Both of them has the same method to bring skilled worker to their country, judging their credibility from the point they could collect with given factors from what i had written yesterday (English ability, education, work experience, age, sponsorship and special qualification).

The research not too deep since i just want to know the number of differences and the cost of it. By the way both considered the best healthcare in the world so no need to search other factor related to job safety and country condition.

Now let's talking about my new found of Canadian student visa, which can grant you to permanent residence visa from PNP Program, Provincial Nominee Program. A program supported by Canadian provincial government. This program is an express way to have a permanent residency without getting your work permit and convert it to working visa, after that you need to wait for a year to apply your PR. According from this site, you are eligible in this program once you had a bachelor degree in foreign country and attend the university in Canada for a year. Different province offers different program for example in Alberta you need to attend at least one year of Canadian college without exception while in Ottawa much stricter that you need to have at least two year foreign experience and one year studying in Canada or two year in Canadian college. The next step is you need an employer to give you sponsorship working in his Company, that are certified as legal in Canada. The employer must met a certain requirement. For the company who established in Greater Toronto Area, they must at least generate 1,000,000 CAD of revenue within a year with 5 full-timers in the company and for those who established out of GTA but still in Ottawa, they must at least generate 500,000 CAD of revenue within a year with 3 full-timers in the company.

This is important information for my employer since her company doesn't look that big, well i am not underestimate with the business but that just a basic requirement to apply a PNP Program with company sponsorship. I will mention this information to her by tomorrow night and hope for the best outcome for both of us.

I will be talk back with my employer tomorrow night and hope the best for my result tomorrow since my life is depend on it. Have yourself a good Friday night and see you tomorrow.
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Hello,

Today i was very busy working with my job and not to mention, i did a research for immigration, study, work and settle in Canada. I gather all the information from this website, which i trust enough since the information circulate around the site is basically subjective since most of the site visitor and information giver were one interested with living in Canada. The forum has built by someone who is a Canadian legal agent which conducting immigration and settlement business for foreigner. It contains various information about Canada, and what i perceive from the site, the information was clear and not made up, nor exaggerated. I give a small preview about immigration process and suddenly i take new tabs a lot, maybe around 20 tabs at that time since i was hungrily seeking the truth of living in Canada.

After a certain articles, i felt that all of this information was written by an individual, who gain a commission once a person use his service. I am not skeptical with the information yet i still crave with unbiased opinion, from someone whom not related with Canadian government at all. Since i will work there and hopefully live in Canada, i need a trusted information based on someone who already work and live there. Luckily, if you see on the top of this website, there were a link which direct you to forum and once you click it, you will see a giant portal of foreigner, with the topic related with what i mention before.

I take a look deeper in the forum, to see if the forum are still active and some member contributing or not since the freshness of the information is necessary, a visa requirement for travelling to Canada in 2014 is not same as in 2016, it may cause misleading if the information already expired especially for working tax which change quickly between year. Anyway what i have found from this site is the last post is today, in different sections there were thousand reply thousand viewer, the name of the contributor were all different, give me an impression that this site is still active. The first article that i read is about minorities skeptical of getting a job in Canada, even they had already got a working visa through skilled worker entry. Such a demotivational article from the post and most of the replies in this site are also from different ethnical share the same experience with the first poster. There were seven pages from this site, one page full of two immigrants debating each other opinion (time to grab popcorn) and i wasted half hour on my time reading all those comments.

Another debating article from the article was the frustration of job finding in his expertise. This article is heavily on foreigner whom fall into the category of senior level in his past company, carrying bunch of credentials but what they got once they land in Canada is just a brainless job, working in restaurant or monotonous store clerk. This bring me another confusion about what happened in Canada, a country that in our perspective has own the benefits of every country envy about, free education in public school until college, free healthcare, retirement benefit and so on, not to mention with the most diverse race in the world, also has a hidden challenge.

As before, what do i afraid about Canada is getting there, to have some sort of exceptional skill to secure your work visa but now i am a bit scared about the job competition there since all the skilled and talented people move there to get a plate and preserve their sustainability. This is getting more interesting since most of the people don't know about this and i am truly thank you for the person who own and operate this forum. I dig deep down what is the main problem of them, is the economy crisis, racism towards applicant, corrupt government are the main source of why do they fail. I also read an article about a bitter experience of immigrant who before was held a nice position in his country, found that he could not get any kind of job until his account were forcing him to get any kind of job in order to survive. The ending was he fled back to his country once he got a one way ticket from his hard earned salary and leave the story bitter. I feel sorry to that guy.

So my eyes is a bit open here, that i need to be more realistic and lower down my expectation. This evidence based on true story since some replies also share the same experience makes me create a plan B: what would i do if i remain jobless for three months, do i fled back or find any kind of job to survive like others while finding the acceptable job which match with my skill? or as what i had think on the previous post, to bury my Canada dream deeply and continue to work here.

My research in this website got serious than ever, i almost skipped my dinner and yoga class to satisfy my curiosity however i am lucky enough since i have an appointment with my friend whose taking his first yoga class need me as acquaintance so i could stopped my research for a moment. During yoga class my mind distracted with this curiosity so today i do something different, no chat after class and dinner appointment since my friend want to continue with his workout. It was rain outside but i can't be stopped. I rushed through the rain and arrive home fast. I continue my research as my focus knocked in, my reading through article became faster and in a glance i know what post is telling the truth and what post is made with negative mindset. I try to connect the problems and here is what i found important to find a job here:


English Language in Canadian Standard

English, especially spoken English or French if you try to live in Quebec. What i learn from the site is not just a basic word of English; yes, no, eat, go. You need to be excel in English and from the various articles discussing about this, the Canadian standard of English by mean to fluently express your opinion, delivering a presentation, a clear instruction for managing worker, understand different meaning of expression and most importantly, your accent is prefer to be less of local accent, i am not against preserving your culture but this is more important for job interview. Immerse yourself with Canadian topics, if it is about political party to government regulation, national sport such as hockey or basketball, you need to keep your ear open with the information about Canada. If you want to live here, you need to be what it is like to be a Canadian. Some foreign guy got the job quick after having a chat with local in the club, and this require a dialog, while the content of the dialog must be connected with each other.


Cultural immersion with local community: Volunteer, Mentor, Network

Another major flaw from new immigrant come in Canada is they refuse to integrate with community. Instead of getting along with the local people, this guy just want to stay focused on his business and later on when he want to seek a help, he will try to find another local with the same ethnicity with him. Remember that Canada is multi-cultural country, famous for its diversity mean that this is the opportunity for you to blend with local community. Who knows some of them help or give you a job? and how do you reach people if you don't open up. Open yourself to the local society and offer them some help, if you have enough time you can do a voluntary job for those in need. Network yourself, that is the key to adapt in Canada.


You have to be Roman if you want to live in Rome

The government may give you a work permit to find a job here but to get a job that you want to do, it is not their job. It means that you are responsible for your job seeking, and finding the best formula which fit to your ideal. If you want to work as a electrician, attend a meeting of electrician engineer in the city which held annually, and once you got there get a nice conversation with people there, some of them are the employer and if you lucky enough they will give you the invitation for the job interview, also keep the relation that you got from there, be proactive and ask some information about it, where they mostly meet up, what is the effective way to be accepted in this field, study the tricks and keep practicing until you got there. You are Canadian and you need to follow their standard, no matter how high your experience is, if it does not matter or satisfy the employer, it means simply nothing.


Stay positive and ready to take risk

If you already did all of it and you still not getting a job, be patient and trust yourself. There would be a right moment for you. Always keep positive since it will make yourself strong in unemployment state. Positive is a state of mind, you are fully responsible for your own happiness so don't let others determine what is happiness for you. Keep yourself from negative people as they will turn down your hope while keep realistic with what you have. The last solution i found in this website is the willingness to take risk. Some job in Canada considered as a low demand but in a high supply, especially locals. You need to understand the basic game of economy, if you try to find job under this situation, most likely you will get beaten up unless you have something of what Canadian company needed and locals don't have, otherwise you will be no different with other competitor.


Have more than one plan

Your last resort, is your willingness to take risk, to start over new. Some company have a small requirement and job condition in a job that is most people less likely will take it. A lot of reason make this job less preferable; high level of danger, work at night to midnight, physical demanding and so on. To continue living in Canada you need to open your mind to ideas and possibilities. You can consider to work in high demand job even in the starting point, you can earn more since the candidate and competitor not much.

I think that is enough for today as i squeeze my brain much for today, i am so happy to keep my writing for eight day consecutively. I am hoping for the best in for 27th of Feb as the outcome will determine my first way to Canada. Thank you for reading and if you have an experience about Canada, please let me know so i could have some insight upon it, thank you.
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Hello,

Today i start the day with a small hacks, daily coffee, and just went straight to work. Nothing interesting to be talk about since it is daily morning routines.  Fortunately, my job today is not as much as before so i could write two tips today and one daily journal. Not just that, i also do a research about how to obtain a working visa through skilled worker. According to the information in Canada Immigration and Citizenship official site, there were 60 different immigration program, differentiate by its criteria. My personal aim is working in Canada, so this article will be focused heavily on the process of getting a working visa. I will keep an update in this site and this information might change by time. If you are seeking for study visa or internship in Canada, i am really sorry that this article is not for you.

So here we begin. 60 programs sounds huge but i will cut down into three different process based on the difficulties. Let me start with the hardest one:

General Immigration or Express Entry

For a person who has an international degree, international working experience with decent English and French speaking, especially for those who already get a sponsorship letter from the Canadian Company would likely get accepted through this way. According to the requirements, this stand the hardest among all. English language fluency is a must and in order to get their minimum requirement score, one should reach at least 67 points.  Points are share between language proficiency, international degree, working experience and age. There were another what i called bonus point since it worth less than those four but it could make yourself a better chance to get a working permit. Bonus point got from your recommendation and sponsorship letter and if you had friend, you could ask them to support your migration.

The real challenge lies in this way is the English test since you could add >20% to your total mark. The judgement is based on CLB (Canadian Language Benchmark) but since the applicants mostly are foreigner and took similar test, they can accept IELTS score by given an equivalent, which CLB 9 stand for the highest score while in IELTS, it equivalent to 8.0 on reading, 7.5 on writing, 8.5 on listening, and 7.5 on speaking. TOEFL has no place here since it only accepted in North America region. Those whom English is not their major language will suffer most in speaking, and no matter how great you are to mimic the American or British accent, you will blend your local accent. Another nightmare comes to reading, to score at least 8.5 in order to get the highest mark. Since IELTS grading way has a curve starting from 5, a 8.5 score means you only had three chances over forty questions (37/40). There is another point you can collect from French but if you are never learn about it, it advisable to acquiesce the points, it is not a big deal since you only loss 8%. The opportunity cost is higher and it is not worth it. If you want to learn the language that is okay but if it just for this requirements, it is not favorable. The fastest way to learn a language cost you a year and your time.

The rest is not as hard as you think, most of the applicants already been in job for three to five years, so if your English score is not high enough, there is another way to boost it up. Getting a job has an impact to your score, even if you only spend for one year, they will give you 9% and for more than six year, 15%, another way to score higher in easy way is from your bachelor degree, any four year spent in the university contribute 21% to your total mark, if you took double degree or master you could get 22 to 25%. Your age also important too, they demand productive young generation to contribute to their community. In age, if you be in 18 to 35 range, you get an additional 12%.

The bonus point has 20% in total. 10% you get from the sponsorship from the Company or your friend or relative studying or researching or living as citizen in Canada. While the rest you better ignore since the last 10% is outrageously impossible, especially you were well prepared to work in Canada so before in your student exchange program or international internship program you spent one year there, or you have been working in Canada for at least one year.

My personal score from all those combination, without taking English test is 52%,  9% from 1 to 2 year working experience, 21% from bachelor degree for 4 years , 12% from being in productive age (18 to 35), and 10% from the sponsorship of the relative and company. In order to reach the minimum requirement, i just need 15% to fill the gap. According to this site, i just need to score minimum 6.0 in every subject to get 16% of it. So currently i am working with my IELTS to increase the probability of success.

Since this Visa granted personally, one should be able to own some cash to show that you are independent. There is no perfect amount of how much money an individual needed since the information might be differ. My personal thought that they keep this as a secret but if you know how much it is please let me know and give the credible link about it, thanks. Another cost needed is 1200 CAD for the application and almost forget to mention that this program limited to 8,000 visas per year for all nationalities. According to this website, Starting from January 2016, there were 4449 of invitation were issued on this year. By given chance, a floodgate start to close down in the middle of February. a total of  My personal question regarding with that regulation is: For the unfortunate applicants who is not getting bench this year, do they need to take a new application (and the cost) for the next year once the floodgate already closed or not.

Special worker under classification or Business Visitor

You can work in Canada with your Visitor or Temporary work visa if you fall into this category or you are a businessman/ entrepreneur who invest largely of your asset in Canada. Otherwise you can not work without working visa. You can only issue your working visa once company in Canada already announce to sponsor your work and living here. The real challenge of acquiring this working visa is most of the job listed have a little involvement towards Canadian economy just see some such as performer, artist, researcher, music crew, athlete, military personal and on. You could figure out that i also abandon this option.

Certificate or Graduate Programs

Sacrifice describe the best meaning in this program. You can issue your working permit once you have been spending at least 8 months in the Canadian local college or university. The shortest way to obtain your visa is by getting your student visa for one year, attending your college for certificate or graduate degree (some finish in one year). Canadian system sounds fair since you get the work permit equal with the time you spend here for study. Lets take a quick example: One year student program will grant you 8 months work permit, two years program will grant you two years work permit and number change constantly. Imagine right after you graduate from your one year program and you got 8 months work permit, chance to getting a job considered high, especially if your grade distinguish from others. Right after you get a contract from local company, you can renew your working visa according to the duration of contract. The challenge from here is you need to spend at least 5 years to get your PR (Permanent Resident) to secure your position during lay-off or economical crisis period. The margin of error from this way is you need to go back to your country if any company don't want to take you before the visa expires.

If a person real intention just want to get a job in Canada, without dealing with bureaucracy and competing for skilled worker way and also have a saving to survive in one year and more, i would recommend to take the third way. Let's do a simple math here. One year of study for foreigner cost 15,000 CAD a year (may vary depend on the job, art student pay less than others) and for the living cost 10,000 CAD a year. The number may increase or decrease depending on the budget. If you got a job here, i just write the smallest pay job to make the number more realistic, i took the average of 37.5 hours per week, that is 150 work hours per month with the salary of 10 CAD (or more since you are educated you will score double or even triple) you will earn 1500 CAD a month, so that is 18000 CAD a year of rough annual income. However in reality i see on various google site that the lowest rough income individual ever got is 22000 CAD so in order to get a number beautiful, i just rounded to 20000 CAD. Canadian has progressive tax system, and you need to pay 16% of your income if you earn less than 41495 CAD. So in net you will get 17000 CAD. I eliminate the inflation and salary progression variable since the number mostly affect nothing in your account. There would be a bonus and overtime which could generate your income higher. If your net income is 17000 CAD, then you can save 7000 CAD, which your hard work will break even in three or less year.

Everything sounds good when it comes to expectation but one last time to be careful, you need to get a job before your work permit expires. I rode some articles that the racist still happen out there. Especially if your name sounds different (i will not write down since it's racist and you mature enough to understand) from the local, will likely harder to find a job.

There will be much factor to be think about, the economical situation in the country, which led to unemployment and government tighten the rule for immigrant to work inside for example Singapore, a company should meet a specific ratio of local and immigrant. The future economic of Canada since in 2014 the oil price went down sharply, resulting some field of worker need to be lay off and how big the economy rely on it. The competition from local and immigrant, who seek opportunity to get a job is important to think about, before deciding to work there.

I think that's enough for the background about the way to work in Canada, i know there is another way to consider such as Nurse or Caregiver path but i will not describe here since i will not take that way, which wasting my time to do a research in particular issue. I will keep on track with the working visa and will give an update about this. If you have any other suggestion please let me know and i would be welcome to any information. Thanks for reading and hope i could get accepted to work there. See you again.
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There is ever a debate between what kind of music is the best for study, writing, working and  any activity which require a person to stay concentrate doing his job. Others might suggest to no background music at all since music can cause distraction, especially if the person know well the lyric of the music. Which is counterproductive in this kind of activity, by slipping our focus into something differ which is interrupt our brain to stay focus on the job. It generally acceptable until you do a job that require an extensive time of focusing, long period of concentration and generating new ideas, that you will get bored with as time goes by, this quiet environment can make you end up in boredom and sleepiness. There is nothing wrong to have a quiet environment while doing your job but not every job effectively works in this method.

Is there any solution to solve this problem, in every kind of job that require concentration and focus without decreasing our force? No it is not, i will explain this later. By now I have all heard about the research of playlist that can be used as your playlist for doing this job. Most research recommend the usage of listening classical music may increase mental engagement and clarity. However, our brain also have limit so if your classical music felt not working anymore then it is advisable to have a break.

This sound generally acceptable and i ever heard a research about listening to classical music can improve your brain activity but this is not for everyone. Some people can't stand classical music and if they listen to this music, they just feel sleepy, especially when they picked a tune which is monotonic and boring. Well, relax and no need to worry since there is hope for this kind of people, which gain more energy if they listen to their favorite track with exception, no lyric on it since lyric is the major distraction on every music. Find your favorite song without vocal or instrumental only to help you focus on what you are doing without getting bored with classical music.

The good thing about listening to the music which can not be obtained from quiet environment is that a music will elevate your mood, reduce stress and motivate your brain to work longer. By given this advantage, selecting the right music should be extremely important. Different selection of music will affect oppositely, which lead to more stress and distraction to your work. So now i will giving some tips of how you pick your music.

Slow tempo

Slow tempo will keep your brain at pace, stay in your work and produce more ideas. There is a wide range of selection, starting from classical music, instrumental (saxophone or flute), ambient, and some lounge music in moderate tempo.

Peace music

Another option for the selection of music is from nature. Researcher found our brain works better if we spending some time listening to natural sound, a rainfall, a wave toasted, bonfire, it is not monotonous so it will not make you sleepy.

Low Volume

Make sure that the volume is not too loud. The louder it is, it will distraught you. Keep your music as your background so your work still be on the priority.

No Lyrics or Vocals

I have explain it before.

Using that four criteria will help you to build your own music. If you are stuck on idea and could not figure out what playlist you want to make, just take a look on this playlist for example. All of them exclusively chosen which met all those criteria. If you listen it very carefully, this music mostly played on a place that require concentration and focus most, for example: Library, bookstore, airport and yoga studio.

Hope you enjoy this playlist and have a nice time with your work. If you have any other playlist, just let me know, bye.

Disney piano music playlist


Study music project by Dennis Kuo


6 hours music by BMC

3 hours meditation nature music
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Everyone will ever feel burnout right after they do the same thing, either its an office work, study, exercise and even playing games. No matter how you love your job, if you do this repetitively, you will felt some sort of frustration and tired, affecting your mental and physical exertion.

Depending on the person, an escape route may differ from the other. Some people find to escape their monotonous lifestyle by giving themselves a quite time, meditation or pondering to the lake. Some may spend a little money for a short trip to area they never visited before, or do a charity work in ignored inhabitants, or having a hiking and camping with their partner. Some works wonder if they just call it a day and sleep, so in my opinion everyone has their own way to deal with routines.

For me, this escape has the equal importance than the routine itself since it has an effect towards our happiness and attitude. A person whom could balance their job with their break are found more productive and happier. A small escape or break bring excitement on social life and work and not just that, we also feel that in our inner mind we love with what we do.

There is no exception for everybody to get the escape, especially for the busy one. There is one small advice that will work for a person who is extremely busy and hard to find one free day is by changing their routine. It is not about quit your job or be absent for one day, you don't need to do that. Just changing what you are usually doing in your routine to something different. If you go to office by your own car, then the next day try to go by bus or train, see a new face and if you are lucky you could get a new friend. Dare yourself to try different restaurant and pick the menu you never try before, if you love cooking then try different kind of food, switch the habit of your sport routine from weight lifting to cross fit or yoga. Just a little change in your routines and you will feel happier.

So why we feel happier once we break some of our routines? Well, we are a human being and not robot. From the beginning we have freedom and always have it. Our inner self is curious and free, no matter how organize you are, you will feel sad and tired which lead to negative behavior and attitude. With a constant routine, which is lacks of curiosity, it will slowly kill our inner self to learn more and find out what is exciting. If a single individual stay in the same habitual circle day by day, one day he will burn out.

Everyone has different approach which i had cover already and how a person could determine how much time needed to spent in order to recover our happiness with escape or break and what kind of escape that produce to the most happiness in our life? The answer is lie within yourself. No one knows yourself better than you. Figure out what makes you happy, what you always think for during working, what you had planned to do, or if you stuck on ideas, then try something different, something you never had in your life, there is a website listing of 100 things to do before die and its a good start to generate some ideas and make your own bucket list. For me, the quiet moment works wonder. Once i felt that i need some escape, i would like to go somewhere alone, much better if there is no one around me so i feel private, turn off any communication devices so i will not disturbed during the time and then i just let my mind wander. It gives myself a quick recharge to the brain and sometimes it solve the problem of what i had stuck for a long time, develop different approach of solution, and bring out new ideas. That is my escape and i can do this anywhere and anytime (after office hour). There is any other way for me to keep balanced still this is the most effective one, and also one time i need to switch this solution to others since you can't apply the same method continuously.

I hope this suggestion could works for you and wish you all the best in your life. Keep motivated and live your life with fill of hope and joy.
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Hello,

As written in the previous post, the decision between working abroad or settle and find a good job after I finished with two year working here is confusing. Since those two are the important decision which lead my life differently, i should dig deep down the gain and loss between those two. I will cover the comparison based on career advancement, economical gain, individual preferences, culture differences, soft skill to develop, escape from routine options, love life and also what will i sacrifice in from the other sequentially so, enjoy!

I prioritize my career upon all variables since i will spend half of my life thinking about it and working on it. When it comes to my career, i just want to make the best of it, the one that i could work on it with less chance of getting burn out. My basic judgement towards my dream career is realistic, not based on how high income but parallel with my passions and personalities  so i could feel rewarded and motivated to taking part in the culture.

If i could figure out about my career right now currently i am not into it, just want to work so my skill could not have forgotten. My salary is common compared to the different field of job, not much since fresh graduate always treated as prospective worker with zero experience unless you score top on your class or work in certain field that has a big start for example medical and engineering field. My basic income ranging from 500 CAD roughly and this number might biased if you just count it roughly since the purchasing power in this country is also low, so i could make a living but not settling. If i gain more experience, i could give a try to apply on bigger company for higher position as supervisor or even manager still, i that position require at least 3 to 5 years of experience. Since the company i am working right now is not listed in the stock, I have a small career advancement in this company. They just want to keep their worker works in the place that we agreed in the work contract. I might be proactive to suggest myself mutated to other position but i am not really into this company so my work motivation here is low. I try to work on standard, not putting much effort to be better.

 Something i will lose from this company is the comfort that i had been developing among these years. Since I had much free time, i tend to play or search of what i found interesting. Nothing constructive though since the job is basically simple, and if i am not lazy enough, i could open a small e-commerce.

Now lets talking about my new career opportunity. So this company also works in the same field with my current, just different player. I could not write the job specification specifically since i still not decide whether i will stay here or take it. I gave the employee the deadline of my employer by the end of this week so i still have eight more days to consider.

New job always identical with different exposure, different work culture, opportunity to grow on your career and new skill you will get in the process. This stuff always sound sweet in the beginning but I need to think about it carefully. Is this opportunity better than my current job, or worse? I would like to talk about the bright part first to boost up my motivation.

Sure your environment will affect with your life. You will be far away from your native, even from your closest one, friends and families which you can connect to them anytime you want, now you can only see them from the phone, due to time differences, you might find them working while you just preparing your bed time. This is what should i prepare. The first trimester of loneliness from hometown, finding yourself lost in foreign country might be tough as i felt when study abroad for the first time. So this time i can cope up faster than before. Sometimes i prefer to be alone so this is not a big issue for me, and if i put this in a positive way, i could get more friend internationally.

Working culture in my current position is relaxed while some of my friends so hectic and have a less sleep time. I feel lucky enough with my job that does not require me to work overtime in order to end the project on schedule. When i was doing a research about Canadian working culture in bureaucratic, an American said that they value work experience, so the more i work there my income also would be higher. The office culture rarely competitive, everyone has their own tasks, easy to get a new job but also easy to get lay off, that they prefer a short working contract, just use the resource as what they needed. This must be taken seriously for someone who want to apply job later in the country that respect loyalty to the company for example: Japan and China (seniority). The three important point that describe Canadian workers are: communication, teamwork and flexibility. This will be an important value to add in my skills as learning foreign work culture and their business code may unlocking the way to work on specific market.

Is this company offer a new opportunity? Well, by given its size which is much bigger than my previous one, i am positive that means greater career selection and rotation. One thing that i heard from the employer that you could take one more job after i done with the tasks. It means i could have more job outside the market and gain more income or cooperate with this company by creating my own job complementary which support and integrate with company business. In my viewpoint, they still lacks of e-commerce, they do not work on retail, and the product variation only limited to one country while i know my friend that has been working in Thailand, so i just need to do a research if Thai's imported product have a market and competition.

Talking about loss, my first concern is toward my social life. I am not actively sociable but at least i need a person which is close enough and have the same life view with me. Finding this person would be challenging since i am very picky with the person i can get close with. There is a barrier, language and culture that may limit our communication. Culture shock also could not be taken easily though however i found myself adaptable so it will gradually over. Any great solution is to find a friend abroad is by attending communities gathering, church, festival and short group trip would be good to know a new friend quick.

I think i will end the writing now since i need to prepare my meeting tomorrow so i make sure to keep myself fit and get enough sleep. I still not cover with escape from routine options and my future love life but i promise to finish it tomorrow. This is just what i see objectively based on my viewpoint so please let me know if there is any mistake or other suggestions. Good night.
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Hello,

Back again to the previous topic last night and i still not cover the job that i was offered from far relatives since i only met the person twice in my lifetime. I consider this is the second life decision as if whether the decision i will make, it will affect my life path. This thing kept bugging me for two whole weeks, bring me confusion and uncertainty to my whole life once again. I, who already given up with my life and pick what common people would do suddenly felt an urge, that moves my heart to say "TRY IT".

You can call me a normal guy since i don't have any further plan forward in the next ten year, even five year. My day spent in the office while at night i do yoga, cyclically everyday. Of course some event happened but not affecting much with my routines. Sometimes i dreamed to be the one that chasing his dream but i know that i don't have what it takes, i even not sure what am i doing right now. My age turned 25 this year, a year that most people said about "first midlife-crisis".

What is this crisis of? well, during this period of time, individual should know where he would be settle and spend a whole life there, marriage or mortgage explain the best of why a person can't go anywhere, by given huge responsibility. Not just that, people perceive you as a fully responsible man that should be able to walk and stand alone, in a short word, independent. Independent is a state of mind so even you still taking care of your parents or stay with them, since you support them yet your mindset is i was able to make a living.

Have you decided carefully who you are going to marry with? or Can your career makes you a living once you will resign later and how long it will last? scares many people since we can't predict the future. Considering myself that the life plan i had built two years ago mean nothing in reality. My account just enough to support myself and leaving small account which is not enough to credit any property. Living with parents also demotivate yourself since you are considered as dependent person.

I want to escape from my job but i can't, my working experience is not more than one year, i need to wait at least two years that could polish my resume for my further career prospect. I counting the day, doing the job that is repetitively same, leave me in frustration. Since i live in the capital, getting into big company is not easy as what others think, even get a job in a small company you need a certain degree and work skills with the lowest pay you could never think for. I don't think this job can secure my life and have a future prospect so i just wait for the right time to jump and fly.

Seems God answered my pray, there is a call in the morning to my mom, that there is a job vacancy abroad for a person who is native and able to do some management stuff. Think that this is once in a lifetime moment, take it or leave it, my mom told and explain if i could giving a hand to that person. My mind went faster, i tried to find any information about the company as i don't want to lose this opportunity. I know there is another candidate so there would be a competition in order to fill the position.

I don't do as others, who think slowly and carefully with what it will affect towards life. I am not seeking an escape but i found better to live abroad once again. By given the condition in my life here, i don't need to argue which one is better. If it impulsive then yes it is. I am the one who take initiative to call that guy, and not picked up. I tried once again and not answered. There is a message left to my mom's phone that written "we could talk at 8 to 9, i am free on that time". So i called that guy again at 9 and there is no answer. I had not given up, the next day, i called her for the third time and yes she answers.

We are not talking much with working agreement or condition since she knows that i graduated and worked in this field, there should not be much hassles. I can learn the skill later, the job is quite flexible and mobile, she seems interested with my qualification and we agreed to talk with main problems. So here is the main problem, the unemployment rate for this year is higher prior to the past. The Canadian ministry of labor enforce every business company to give priority to the locals since some of them under lay-off, especially in the country that much rely on the sand oil while the oil price went down sharply from previous year and some United States policy to limit their budget toward oil spending which delay many construction there. It means there is no sponsorship to work there. I need to take skilled worker way in order to get into Canada and got a job there.

She explain that this way is what many people fear because it was strict and demand a high standard for individual to work there. I throw a joke about overstay and she didn't want to take a risk, it could close down her business she said. So i understand the situation and figure out what is the best way for us, by taking an express way of getting a certificate from college, so right after graduate according to Canadian student policy we will be given 8 months of working permit to find a company that can sponsor us to be a permanent worker to their company, so after that i could renew my student visa into working visa for what year that we still not deal with it.

Finding universities is the first step to work there, i am in the pathway of whether i will take higher education (graduate program) that last for one year or just certificate program with internship opportunity for one year. Both sounds good and later i will decide on the psychology test result that we will talk about it in 27th of Feb. If the result is i should continue for graduate program, then i will focus on the job she was offered there. I am giving two kind of profession that are resembles with my current degree, current job and job in Canada that is:

Customer Analytic Manager

I love to work backstage, not confront with much people and less chit-chat. Since i have a good ability to read data and can figure out the "red thread" in it. I had no interest to watching people but this job does not requires much of dealing with customer. In this type of job i need to analyzing various customer level in order to determine the best advertising method (flyer/promo offers/direct/guerrilla), product pricing, target marketing, and product assortment based on research.  Works on retail spend behavior patterns,store sales performance, and other analyses in support of customer centrist retailing.

I had learned all of that in college as Marketing Management program and i feel i can do it. This profession related with my quiet personality and passionate with making an analyze, by the way i am INTP so this job will blend with my passion.


Regional Sales Manager

This would be the last option since this profession is still related with the subject i had learn from years and i ever took this kind of internship (well, it went bored as i need to makes a cold call and data entry but my current job is likely the same, just eliminate that call stuff). So regional sales also need to make a research in sales function, how do they figure out the best way to reach customer and create a cohesive relation between them in basis of need. After that, i require to determining objectives on deciding when it going to be on sale or rush hour. Giving all the report collected to the Boss, managing business operation with customer (the local store, grocer purchaser, wholesaler) , our human resource and vendor management.

I learned Operation Management and Supply Chain Management so this simply understandable and require a small effort to relearn and applies to this job. One downturn with this career selection is maintaining relationship should be taken seriously while i had a small interest dealing with people.

Later will cover depend on the result so i still wait patiently, while maintaining the good relationship with the employer, so i keeping her on track of what i am doing, at least a simple communication just enough. I will tell her my plan at the end of this week, if i remember.

I don't think for any other job right now since the expectation and reality might be opposite. Logically, my job in Canada would be another trading company but in different work field. If now my company play as Collector with only one Buyer, the government company (since its under government regulation), this time that company play as Distributor of Imported Goods and Subsidiary so I have to deal with warehousing stuff and maintaining good relation among other chains.

So later on maybe in the night i will post about the opportunity cost and implication by given two options, to settle here and find more prospective job in domestic after two year experience or pursue my life in Canada. Thanks for reading and glad to realize that this is the sixth day of me doing consecutively writing in this blog, which i never done before. Hope i could have time and motivation to continue this journal this night or tomorrow.



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In day five of my articles, in the end of the note if i still have a mood to write i will talk much with the job that i was offered. So where do i start? oh i think it would be best to start with what do i make for a living and how is my career condition, before i could start talking with this opportunity.

Before i start, i want to let you know that my education is not really matter with what i want to be. The degree that i choose is just because i had no option while there is no better option and i don't mind to take it, who knows i will into this. After high school, i decided to get any kind of job, as long as i could learn the reality of life. For me, the best learning in your life is by experience, you doing it, you learn it how to improve or how to solve it, when you are in dead end, how you are deal with it, is it by switching to another direction or face it with different approach.

I don't know what is wrong with me but later i understand that a formal education is not for everyone. The time that i spent in school, a twelve years according to our educational system in a great measure, i didn't learn as much as i learn comparing from other student. I consider myself that i could not kept motivated as others, while other were busy with their competition on who score best, i just want to pass and as long as i keep get a acceptable mark, it's okay. So before my motive to stay in school is just to make my parent happy, the brainwashed subliminal message that had been taught by generation to generation. Go get a life, be the best in the school, office, makes your parents proud life pattern sounds not working for me.

If someone ask what subject do you love most? i would like to say sport. I am not interested with it technical or basic rules however i always more than average to other in any kind of sport. The one that keep me going to school is this, football. The time i spent 8 hours seems pay out with after school football. All student who is into it just form two groups and play together until one by one came back home. One day i dreamed to become a professional football player while in order to be that, i need to be talented and my parents own an acceptable amount of money to back me up before famous. Making football as a professional career is extremely hard here. Most athletes don't get what they deserve. Our minister of sport is completely corrupt to the budget and only cares with the sport that is famous in our country and also the selection of athletes is racist, as a minority don't expect to working in this field unless you are tough.

The person who know me said that i am a complete rebel, uncontrollable, pure troll, and other negative attribute that i don't know if i done that. I just don't like following the system, well today i can't be like this so i follow this system reluctantly. But now all of them are surprised that i completely silence and not active anymore. I used to be the last part of the team everybody wants, completely ignored in giving opinion, TWELVE YEARS sitting beside teacher's desk, even school consultant suggests my parents to take me to the psychologist if i had an ADHD disorder or not, one of English teacher whom i respected most in high school killed my dream by saying "you can't be a marketing since you can't convince anybody" is a brutal honesty after i know that marketing is not just about convincing, one of my teacher said that you can't be anybody, you just waste of society.  Being different is desperate especially during your puberty when you really want to be understand by somebody. Most people interpret me as unreliable, trouble maker, rebel, scumbag and so on. I don't know what image i had built during my school life and have no other way to fix this.

One of the hardest moment in my life is on grade twelve, last semester, once i already get used with class system, my real me craving for a true calling, that i want to stop this off, this kind of society makes me think myself what is my co-existence, where i should be and how i still stay here. You know what happen next, once you make the change in a conservative minded-like society, you know the analogy of monkey and banana, once monkey try to grab the banana, the researcher beat that poor guy up until he given up his effort, and another monkey show up, want to do the same stuff as the pioneer did, got beaten up by his pioneer and this cycle goes and goes, until there is a thousands of monkey in the cage but no one dares to touch the banana, afraid of getting beaten up by majority.

Since i was immature and still couldn't figure out what is my game, i just against them without having any solid foundation to stand still. Got disapproval until now, even when they're having reunion, they did it without me. I am not really care with that but i see how easy a tie of friendship could be broke. This experience has lowering down my positive attitude toward humanity but since i am an idealist, i still believe people are basically good until the second rejection on the university life completely trashed out my feelings, making out myself negative, skeptical and always questioning the true motive of someone who trying to get me.

The moment that supposed to be important for a human being, as the first step into maturity is selecting a right major. I didn't get that, how hard my dad to convince me to take higher education since the cost of it is not cheap. Not all people is gifted equally in every subject, that is what make us unique, we just need to figure out what is best for us. Most of my friend that took the same degree with me end up differently, not a small number of them switching major more than one times finding what work best for them, one desperately unemployed and had given up with life, giving a burden to his parent as this is not the one that he supposed, some graduated and still unemployed, want to be in freedom and finding identity what is their true calling, some just continued their parents business, everybody has their own choice and i respect that.

If anyone ever ask how do you get into this major, a business management? I am not. This is what my dad had chosen for me and at that time i don't have any better option except that. My hope is just i could make a living since this job offers a broad range of business field, you could be accountant or public auditor, tax, marketing, human resource, business operation, trader, importer, analyst, negotiator, finance, banking, business manager or even an entrepreneur. Imagine if i took a very specified major for example oil refinery or optometry and how if i could not find what i love in that major? i would be grounded. Well it just my thought that everything is getting better once i had a major to work on but this is another mistake, probably one of the biggest mistake i ever had because none of them works for me.

The first year and second year of university life is one of the best, new friends, new communities, new skills to learn and class is not that hard. I still could not figure out what work best for me so i think this is the biggest regret that i ever make. I always follow my friend, he is proactive for himself, but when he caught into problem, i sometimes to be the one who asked what is the matter, not him, i don't know why i become so proactive when it comes to someone problem. Some student know where they want to be, had taken some opportunity in working outside campus, one of us are lucky enough to quit the class before graduate but make a living in the way he want it to be.

I consider myself to be a late grown up, i always had no intention of using anybody and don't know if someone is using me at that time, i always be an object of people anger, yet i quickly forgive or forgot it. I never taking anything seriously since i don't want to live under control and full of stress. The happy moment that i thought this is my true calling by following my friend to start a business, and i give it a try, left we with frustration, i am not good at selling stuff and keeping contacts with customer, i hate to make a call and giving an order, deciding a right price for my product is my fear, as a businessman you should always think to maximize profit but my weak heart said that some of them can't afford, until i know there is market segment for them. This leaves me frustration as i walk deeply into something that i am not really into and i close the business in that year.

In the third year, my grade were depleting sharply since my focus was divided into business, another remark of my regret that causing my grades not touching 3.5, which later on hard for me to get interview in the best multinational companies. The major downturn of my life is in the last year, when i had a problem with someone that is very influential figure at that time, whom suffer a love problem, changing every community event from fine dinner into club all weekend, sometimes during the weekday too. I never really get into club at all, for me it just a complete waste of time and energy, the music that is too loud, you can't make any great conversation there, except hitting a love mate, the smoke, the overpriced drink yet kill your liver, getting around people draining my energy so much that in the next day i don't feel to socialize, or even go anywhere. This condition also compounded with my what i consider as best friend keep saying that my best friend will do this and this and much more, while he is dependable with me, always want to be out with me and do a stuff with me, i felt not free and constrained.

Until the time when my real self said that "cut this toxic out", i ignore their offer for party, first time it was okay, second also, until third time and i start to realize that they also cut the relationship with me. My relationship with my best friend also went rough, we fought for just a small jokes, maybe he taking this too seriously or having a huge problem in his life and need an escape, who knows and our friendship end here. It is hard, to let your friends gone, especially if you only had them in school, i found out that some of friends also a bit making a distance with me, this time, i met the lowest point of my life. I want to end it by finishing my degree and work so i don't have to be involve with them. This is the second time in my life, when you are in the lowest of your life and nobody couldn't help it. This is the moment of realization of my life that only you can make your own happiness. Nobody can't, friends can't, relatives can't, parents can't, even God can't. God gave you free will to choose the life you want and you should be responsible with your decision.

The last semester after i complete my first internship, i felt i really need to be gone from here, the atmosphere unfriendly and full of new students, some of the best, the senior just left and continue their life, while my feeling still unstable and our relationship between classmate went nothing better. In this depression, i started to dig deep down, invest time on myself, what is my true calling, i could not rely anybody, and no one will know except myself, what i heard from someone that you should asked your God what is your purpose of life is not satisfy myself enough, our purpose to life is to praise and glorify his name still, my life is my life, God has given me different talents, traits, skills, abilities, personalities, passions from other and to know what is it i need to figure out by myself. Most people don't know what they are doing because they never want to find out and i don't want to be that people. I want to know what is my strongest point that separate me from others. Some consider lucky when they found their "calling" earlier, especially when it is common and useful in today society. However there still be a hope, that turned to light when a person really want to spend his time to study about his true "calling".

During this period, i know business is just out of my mind. What it takes doesn't match with what i learn about myself. Maybe some of it's branches but not the pure business. I rode so many books about human personalities, trying different personality test, consult a psychologist, took other test and trying new type of skills. Everything what is seems to be uncertain gradually revealed. I made a big list of character traits and crossed almost 90% of what i think do not match with myself. I examine one of them very carefully, i don't want to live this kind of life that filled with uncertainly in my lifetime.

So i graduated, and i still not found what is my true "calling" which i should run for, protect it and keep it. Time always walks constant, it never waits and everyone is given equally. I consider that i need to find a job, some of us were taking higher education and i don't buy that. I need to know precisely what is my, calling. I just taking this job, for the work experience and gaining exposure in respect of business world so at least i know the reality in this field.

The experience of working in this field makes me sure that this is not what i should do, i work as a finance staff in a trading company that required to input the data entry (transaction) daily from the producer to prepare a weekly or monthly financial report that are being used for meeting, the payment process from the producer to the collector, basic administration and filling, plus workers monthly tax and if needed do a analyze margins and suggest the trends. Do i love the job? not really but i could pass it through since i always able to get the escape from any kind of job. It is my ability to adapt in a challenging situation that finding out how to recharge my energy back from the job that i don't like for example: football after school, gym after class and now yoga class after work.

Now i here working in the same position for one year, i am not surprised though since i am not the best in this field yet i still keep working, i also don't expect high on this career since once i already got what i should do (psst i make another appointment with psychologist for second opinion on 27th of Feb) i promise to myself, that i will protect it no matter how hard people want to took it. promise. This week i even talked to God that please guide the guy who going to talk to me to giving an fair statement, unbiased judgement and let your words speak upon him. In Your name I pray, Amen.
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