Hi, we are catching up after nearly a year in my blog!
I wish life were a Bollywood or Hollywood movie, where everything gets fixed at the end of two hours, no matter how much struggle the hero goes through in between. But reality is far from it! That’s my reality, a little than my previous blog but not a super hit climax.
For a quick update, my husband has finally landed a good job. He just started a week ago, leaving behind his casual gigs, and I must say, I have been trying hard to manifest seeing him in professional attire so much. I literally cried the day he got his offer, such an overwhelming emotion after a long.
About me, since the last time I wrote a blog, where I had recently landed in Australia and was as scared as a mouse, well, I definitely have a couple of interesting life updates! If I didn’t mention last time, I had started working in a construction company, Insuraplex, in the role of cleaner. The job was fine, paid me good, $31/hr is decent pay here recently. I worked 4 hours a day with 2 other girls from another university. Initially, a few Sri Lankan guys taught me how to use the big vacuum cleaners, scrub plasters, and mop without bending too much; they really took care of me throughout the training period. My heartfelt gratitude to them always exists. I later invited them to treat a dinner at my place and cooked rice pudding. I then discovered Sri Lankans are not very fond of sweet things. Anyway, work was going good until after some time, one of the girls started being too difficult to work with. The third girl returned back to her country. Neither land nor ma, and that girl, she is from Thailand, we stayed in the job. The Thai girl made my life too difficult. She would hide in the cupboard and never come out to clean, make me do difficult cleaning, take food breaks in 4 hour shifts, never did greetings or talk properly, leave the vacuum batteries uncharged so that I had to keep waiting, and more. And I remembered my mom saying, Do good to people even if they do bad to you. I stuck to my principles and hence started getting fevers just before going to work. I felt too bad for not being able to defend myself and make complaints against that girl. She would literally leave me alone to work in mid shift, and I never spoke to the managers. As we cleaned after officer hours, there were no supervisors either. One day, it was too much, and I just went to the office holding my tears, nearly spoke about it, but I controlled myself so hard that one of the ladies working in the office literally came to hug me. I still feel grateful to her for that day and her support. Later, the Thai girl went to Thailand for 2 2-week breaks, and I was happy again. I even got one of my friends hired, trained her, and 2 more new hires, and was finally happy. I did a course in aged care and started working in care facilities in the morning for 8 hours and 4 hours cleaning in the evening. My feet were sore and I could barely walk to the tram stop. I dragged my feet anyhow to the tram, and sometimes I had to stand all the way home. Those days were seriously pathetic as I remember now!
But! well, not all days are grey! One day my manager came up to me and we were just having a normal chat. I just jokingly mentioned to him that I should be promoted to cleaning supervisor now that I manage and train 3 new people under me, but he came up with a different proposal…a proposal to change my life! He asked me if I wanted to work in the office. I froze, my heart was crying, but my eyes were stone dead. I couldn’t believe what he just told me, and of course,e I said YES! Meanwhile, life gets more interesting! I had applied for a role in my university as well and I got selected in the role in the same week. So, I started going to office 3 days a week and uni 1 day a week. I made many new friends, Korean, Indian, African, Kenyan, etc. I made another friend of Indian, my classmate, Sonia, who is now my closest friend of life for now. I said for now as I have experiences this coming and going trend often, a normal part of life.
Well, I did many interesting things, participated in hackathon, won a SHS award in the uni and all. In June 2025, I went in mid life crisis again and started documenting my everyday life in TikTok. I then realised I feel like I work hard but I don’t in reality. This started giving me anxiety. I message Omar, a manager in Deliot through a colleague in my office asking him to be my mentor. He took me to his analytics networking event. These days, I am trying hard to work in my tech skills, network and find a good dream job. My office is toxic expect for my manager as people are visibly racist. Life gets too hard sometimes to work around with people knowing how much they hate you, all the negative energy soaks up my motivation, office days are my unhappy days. But the office had taught me many things, mostly about office politics, diplomacy and how badly introverts like me can suffer.
Been few days I finished my third sem finals and I really have very less time in life now. I am too scared thinking about my future, too scared that I will once again get trapped in this loop here I keep growing roots but never germinate!