Into January
It's been over a week since the app went live in play store.
It didn't move much. My laptop broke down the day after the first version was published.
Its unfortunate i know but there might be a profound and unforeseeable reason why this happens.
I mean without it, I wouldn't have met people in informatics - a TESDA affiliated school. Who knows who I will meet and do while I'm in there.
Without it I couldnt have had this Interview in an acceleration program.
This is my first ever time I get to be interviewed by accelerator.
I found out about my own weaknesses during this interview. I don't know how to pitch. I don't know how to compose myself well while feeling pressured to do something. Truthfully I feel sorry for everyone because I feel like I just wasted their time because I didn't plan this well. I have a few days off before I get here and here I am still unprepared when I showed up. I don't know why I didn't plan much about it maybe since I didn't think they're serious I didn't research about them for long and I was a little busy thinking about something else.
I also thought that ill only speak to a Filipino representative and ill be able to speak in Tagalog. Unsurprisingly I know I have to speak English during the session because I was panicking at the sight that there would be 3 other participants in the invitation they were the founders of the organization.
I was so nervous in the call I fumbled everything I said, I come off incoherent and had many long pauses only to ask stupid questions just so I can prolong the interview to get it to where I wanted it to land but we didn't get there but thankfully I got through it. I hope at least I had a good last impression of saying goodbye thanking them for their time, advice and for what they do for filipinos. You know even though I wasnt able to articulate the idea to them, what gets me excited, what they can resonate with and stuff. Im still happy I get this experience. Next time I do something similar. I know better.
Moving on from the breaking of the laptop,school application and the interview.
These are the things that goes unexpected but more trivial:
Vynce cutting off it's bio word count. I have few things in mind and feelings about it what else, oh he has a new stamp!!! Ahhhhh greatly annoying.
Having an unexpected friend I guess?
From my decision to sign up on a tesda program. Today I also got rejected by the admin of the school to go to the school at 2pm or stay there until 3pm to conduct the interview. I also got my BIR card id today. Not to mention I also discovered a new route thanks to the new friend.
I also had 4 hours of sleep and let me tell you I stepped on a woman's shoes in front of me so bad I feel like she's going to slap me. I wasn't paying attention on the path ahead its wide and open meanwhile I still stepped on her shoe I feel so freaking bad. My friend and I we're both just heading home. We separated ways and I was alone feeling tired, disappointed and worried and freaking step on a shoe I felt like it almost came off her foot ahhhhh. What's happening this day.
This is a different day but falls into January. I created a new discord server and it grew to 100+ members organically because of a post. I made it quickly because people in the post are talking about looking for virtual assistant friends in the Philippines. No one was creating any way to connect so I set a server quickly. Just a back story; I was recently exploring virtual assistant things because specialised gigs / jobs like Web dev or design or anything of sorts are very picky. They wanted collections of great stuff on one niche making sure you're the best at what you do. I'm not best at anything I do. If I specialise at something it would be being a generalist. What do people call people who generalise and works digitally? Virtual assistants. For me i just don't see confined doing one thing but that choice comes with a price the job market punishes generalist by giving lower salaries or pay becuase to many you arent specialised and to many people specialization = education and education is = money + discipline + skill. If only I can also master one thing at a time but that's probably for another time.
But anyways I've wondered enough If you're curious to see or join the server; you can join by this link
https://discord.gg/hCvpJhpVSC
This month tho. The most helpful thing I probably did if I get it is applying to Google cloud credit program of google for startups. I never thought I would reconsider it I mean I saw it before but didn't think much of it because I thought it's going to take them weeks or months to decide if they'll give you credit, turns out it's just a few days to a week or a little more maybe. I was trying to save the bank balance on a new BDO account so I can get the card and use it for a new cloud credit. Unexpectedly the computer screen broke down so I have to spend the account balance on a monitor.
A lot of unexpected happenings this week since I published the official production release for the app on january 2. It's insanely frustrating but I don't know what I could've done without the computer's fall out now i have more to look forward because i had more time to wonder but I did feel lost and wondered if god ever feel excited or worried for people for whats about to happen or does he go through the motions with us?