Chi Le
Since I lived in the U.S., I have had a lot of changes in my life. One of changes has been effecting to my life that is my work’s schedule. I have worked from the evening to the morning of the next day instead of normal working hours because I have been still keeping up my work as a programmer in Vietnam. When the twilight in the U.S. is the dawn in Vietnam, I start my work.
My work is to maintain software that I attended developing, and I also attend a new project that my company needs. For example, I attend to analyzing a management system before it is programmed. All the works, I do through the internet which I am authorized to connect to the company’s server directly. Through connecting the internet, I can talk or chat to my company's customers and coworkers to deal with emerging problems.
When I am living in a place far away that has a difference of time zone and without a contact face to face at work, to do well all the assigned works is really difficult. Moreover, I also like to go to school to learn English and to get a degree because that is my goal. From all those requirements, I have had to work hard to complete them as well as possible.
I like to take online classes to able to be more proactive to arrange my study time because I want my work to be completed on schedule and homework to be done well, too.
Because of going to school in the daytime and working at night, I have a little time to go out. I rarely go shopping, and sometimes I only go online shopping to buy some things are needed. I have lived in the San Jose for five years, but I have never gone to a place that is farther than San Francisco Airport.
In every summer, I have had to come back Vietnam to approach my work and to meet face to face with my colleagues in the company. In a travel to come back Vietnam, some friends asked me to know New York, Washington DC, or the Status of Liberty. I said that the Golden Gate Bridge is near my house, but I had not yet stepped on it. They had been really surprised, but I had not been surprised!
I have to work at night and go to school in the morning, so I have not had time to go out. I must accept the situation as my selection. The difference of time zone at a working place has changed my life.
