We started working
Probably a useless thought, but I’m wondering if my job position is “Junior Content Specialist Editor”, am I supposed to be a “content specialist” or a “specialist editor”. Do they mean the same thing?
Anyways. So it’s been a week at the office. What’s my take on the job? I got to do some semi-creative writing in the middle of the week which required composing introductions and conclusions to ESL teaching articles, some editing/proofreading in the last few days that involved re-writing dating blurbs, and moderating and copying job ads everyday in a jobs/classifieds site that I think I’m now in charge of. In the coming week, I will be collating a hundred-ish Asian celebrity profiles and pictures after daily sourcing. It’s supposed to be fun, looking at idols’ bio and photos, but I have to work so fast I don’t have the time to read any of it. Appealing to fans of Taiwanese and Singaporean celebrities, if you have any good English sources for celebrity profiles and images, please contact me asap!
I feel like I’m somewhat on a (paid) “how to make money on the internet” course. Which is very useful, yes, but I think I would like my writing to be read mostly by people instead of search engines.
Nevertheless, I quite like what I’m doing/learning for now, and have some ideas of my own to either work on this current site or make another. For fun, not just for monetization.
On other news, MissY has started preparing curriculum for the kids in the kindergarten she’s teaching at. The kids keep her very happy there, which keeps me very happy too. Even though now I have to vie for her attention with 4-7 year-olds, and they’re hard to beat with their “sooooo cuuuuuttee” tugs at her shirt, and their puppy eyes looking (blink-blink-blink) earnestly at her begging for a spinning ride in the air, which is something I cannot get from her ever, obviously (but I will try asking for it one day when I weigh a bit lesser). It’s good to see her being so contented teaching these kids, and makes me wonder whether I should try it, despite my loathe towards most of them little monkeys, which probably stem from my wanting to be like them, haha.
ESL teaching is good money, but I’m not sure if my wanting to try it is for the right reason.
MissY sometimes comes home and expects me to be a kid too, though. She makes me sing along to her songs like “hello hello hello hello, hello teacher, hello friends, hello hello hello hello, hello!”, with the necessary hand waves and face turns. We do two versions, in English and in Korean, since my Korean is somewhere at the kids’ level of English. And her tone towards me is changing towards a more authoritative one, speaking to me as if I were her student, which I’m not sure if I dislike or allowing it to take on new dimensions in the relationship.
Then there are interesting things like this video she has incorporated into her teaching the other day:
I’m thinking she and I can become composers of kids’ songs too!
Ah, all these exciting project ideas.












