It’s been almost two months now since I started working as a Live Voice Response agent in a contact center here in the Philippines. We serve American customers, so we work nightshift (my schedule is 3am to 12noon). So, I am awake in the evening and asleep in the day.

I’ve been one year married (last July), my son’s almost one year old also (do the computations). My work eats my time for my family. At least I have saturdays and sundays for my family. But it is really hard since I have to sleep during those days… I don’t sleep and it affects my brain (not functioning correctly, hehe).

This day, I have to sleep in our office because we had a change in schedule (just for today) for updates in our system. So I didn’t go home. I tried to sleep in our sleeping quarters, and you know what, I can’t sleep. I feel I want to go home… but time bounds me. If I go home, I won’t be able to get back to work in time (due the sched).

When I fell asleep (after an hour), I dreamt about my family.

I miss them…. even though I see them everyday, I don’t have enough time for them… and it hurts me because my boy is closer to my in-laws than me.

It saddens me.. But I still thank God because I have saturdays and sundays for my family and ministry. Other contact centers don’t have those….

Soli Deo Gloria