I am sorry. I apologize for having disappeared rather abruptly from digi-land and the digital scrapbook business. They way I left have disappointed a couple of people and for that I am truly sorry. The situation I was in at that time left me no choice but to hastily shut the door to my creative pastimes if I wished to hold on to my day job that enabled me to live quite comfortably. It was quite rude of me and I'm sorry. But a working girl's got to do what a working girl must do.
With a new "management" running things over at my workplace, we received our new marching orders at the start of this year, reflecting our new increased daily targets. There was a collective groan when the office memos were passed around. There was no honeymoon period, no moment to catch our breaths and reflect on our social lives going down the drain. We hit the ground running and we still are up to now, chasing down quotas and working round-the-clock, all week-long. Yes, it seems we work Mondays-Sundays now. In fact, I'm composing news items and catchy headlines in mind when I doze off at night.
Don't get me wrong, I love my job. Especially since I don't work in a normal newsroom like other journalists. Well, at least in my day job, I don't. When the boss of your boss is the president of your country, you don't tell your boss "Hey, these new targets are insanely impossible. There's no way I'm going to do all these plus work on weekends!" No you can't, unless you want to join the increasing ranks of the unemployed. And yes, I work for the highest government official in my country. Plus, I also work for my father as the editor and layout artist of our family-owned newspaper. Two journalism jobs, plus keeping up with the requirements of a digital scrapbook store? I need superhuman powers if I can juggle that effectively.
So when it hit me how crazy my work hours will become, I knew I had to say goodbye to my creative pursuits like designing digital scrapbook kits. It was on how I made my exit that I bungled up though. But I don't like to think of this exit as final, but more of a hiatus, so I'll have time to enjoy and live a full life despite my work hours. I might whip up the occasional digital freebies now and and then.
This blog will remain live, as well as the freebies in here (those that aren't time-sensitive). I opened a new blog, Chellelandia, where I can write freely about my personal life and also design-related things. If you have time, do hop on over there and say hello. :-)
It might be a temporary goodbye here, but it's also a hello over in Chellelandia! :-)
With a new "management" running things over at my workplace, we received our new marching orders at the start of this year, reflecting our new increased daily targets. There was a collective groan when the office memos were passed around. There was no honeymoon period, no moment to catch our breaths and reflect on our social lives going down the drain. We hit the ground running and we still are up to now, chasing down quotas and working round-the-clock, all week-long. Yes, it seems we work Mondays-Sundays now. In fact, I'm composing news items and catchy headlines in mind when I doze off at night.
Don't get me wrong, I love my job. Especially since I don't work in a normal newsroom like other journalists. Well, at least in my day job, I don't. When the boss of your boss is the president of your country, you don't tell your boss "Hey, these new targets are insanely impossible. There's no way I'm going to do all these plus work on weekends!" No you can't, unless you want to join the increasing ranks of the unemployed. And yes, I work for the highest government official in my country. Plus, I also work for my father as the editor and layout artist of our family-owned newspaper. Two journalism jobs, plus keeping up with the requirements of a digital scrapbook store? I need superhuman powers if I can juggle that effectively.
So when it hit me how crazy my work hours will become, I knew I had to say goodbye to my creative pursuits like designing digital scrapbook kits. It was on how I made my exit that I bungled up though. But I don't like to think of this exit as final, but more of a hiatus, so I'll have time to enjoy and live a full life despite my work hours. I might whip up the occasional digital freebies now and and then.
This blog will remain live, as well as the freebies in here (those that aren't time-sensitive). I opened a new blog, Chellelandia, where I can write freely about my personal life and also design-related things. If you have time, do hop on over there and say hello. :-)
It might be a temporary goodbye here, but it's also a hello over in Chellelandia! :-)
