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My first 6 months in a call center

 I returned to this blog after almost 2 years, with a new job and new perspectives about my future, and today I want to talk about it a little bit. In November of last year I got this job in a call center, and so far it has been one of the most beneficial experiences I have had in my life. My English skills have blown up while I am getting money, and regarding my tasks, my salary is decent. Also the experience of communicating and dealing with native speakers es enriching, but sometimes it is not easy, and this is what it is about. The hard experiences are the ones which sculp us to be better than yesterday; if don't, they wouldn't be enriching and invaluable. I would speak about this more detailly along the next months.  Although one of the negative points about this job, at least at this point is that it became monotonous and repetitive, because I got to the point when I know my speech and all the customers' concerns are always the same four or five ones. This makes the d

About the New Year resolutions

In the beginning of this year I made a list with my goals for 2020. Some of the goals I carried out, some not. Two of the goals I didn't get were to achieve a B1 level in French, and to start an investment in a bank fund. Now I know why I wasn't be able to get those goals: one of the reasons is that I didn't keep track of my habits related with those goals, and another is that the habits adopted weren't the best. I didn't read anything about investment and interests, and I didn't search for a French speaker to practice with. Only those last three or four days of 2020 I have read something about compound interest or prices for French courses.  But I managed to far overcome expectations for some of my resolutions. For instance, about exercise and losing weight, I adopted good ways in feeding and gym routines, where I only expected to leave bread and jogging a few days a week. The other is to achieve a level in English with I feel confortable with. Therefore, I wan