My 6th year in Sykes (and counting)

I woke up today with a feeling that there was something I need to do. I was thinking that since its a Monday, I do have a lot of things in my list, send reports, touch base with my team read and reply to emails and other things...

Then it suddenly hit me, its February 28 and 6 yrs ago i signed my first contract with Sykes. Wow time really flies, was that really 6 years ago? I can still remember the first time i set foot in the premises of this successful company, i was nervous because it was not in my plan to work in Sykes...

I roamed the streets of Makati and Ortigas for job interviews hoping to land into one...out of the 8 (more or less) call centers i applied to i never tried my luck with Sykes because I felt that it was way out of my league, being the pioneer in the call center business in the Philippines (Ads all over Ortigas), I told myself that they would never hire me. A month has passed i was still jobless and i was really about to give up, pack my bags and go back to Iloilo and sulk hehehe. So i told myself, i will give it one more shot, so i spent two weeks in a "call center training center" I polished my accent, talked in English all the time (even when i'm buying stuff in the wet market; my friends thought that i was crazy) and i was even thinking in English. That was a very long two weeks for me. After the training, I was told that i passed and the training center will endorse me to Sitel, but the day before the endorsement, the account i'm supposed to join pulled out...how unlucky can I be? but God always have a buffer, when one dloor closes He opens a window for you and boy what a big window was that...SYKES, the complany i never applied to hired me..how lucky can I be???

Sykes, has helped me a lot not just professionally but also personally. The trainings they provided me developed my confidence. My growth with Sykes has been pretty fast (in my standards hehehe). Promoted twice in 2009 and again in 2010. I have several offers from other company, but the grass is not always greener in the other pasture. I'm happy here, my colleagues respects me, my bosses appreciate my efforts and i love the perks. Again im a person with simple needs, so with this kind of work that pays well. Sykes knows how to make its people happy, where else can you go?

So its my 6th year here and im still looking forward to more fruitful and happy years...Who am I? I AM SYKES!!!