2023-05-29T2058H UTC+8: Money Decision
According to my mother we will be needing another 10k PHP approximately to complete the cottage construction. Now here is the problem with this.
In terms of job hunting no other company is contacting me recently apart from Satellite Office and IBM Philippines on initial contact.
The expectation when I came home to my mother was to stay here for good and to build a cottage as my home but within the allocated budget because of the constraint that I am still looking for work. Shedding another 10k PHP will deplete my remaining savings and that is not good news considering that I still don't have a work.
The problem right now is money and I have to make a quick decision. For the cottage construction I have decided to stop the construction and will continue it once I got the money. For the job application I have lowered my asking pay by removing 30k PHP from it. I think me being away from work for 8 months now has affected my value as a software engineer.
Though my mother gave me a small piece of land it requires that I spend for it but is all worth it considering all the benefits of moving away from the city and settling down in Dayang Urduja's place. Also, taking a long break from work has paved way for my rebirth in terms of health, well being, spiritual growth as a Muslim, and combat conditioning but has impacted my market value as a software engineer and led to deal with an unprofessional client that facilitated the early settling of my scholarship obligation and temporarily halting my engineering schooling.
Every decision comes with a cost.