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Because of the problems and issues I faced at the company, my health and mentality deteriorated. I easily caught sickness and my nerves were always on fire. This was reflected upon my relations with friends, family and wife.

It was hard for me to seek another job, because of the long working hours. The only time I was managing to go job-seeking was during sick leaves. Even if I was unable to walk or move, I forced myself just for the sake of leaving this damn job.

But the method of printing out your CV and wandering around companies did not seem useful at all. I had to know someone in some company to let me in!

Until one day a co-worker came to me while I was working and she asked me to send her CV to her friend’s email address since I was the only assistant consultant with an internet access! Yes, we were not given internet access nor emails!

So I said to her: “No problem, I will send it right away”. Few minutes later it was sent to her friend’s email. When we approached the end of the day she came back to me just to make sure that the email was sent and I confirmed that to her. Then she suggested that I sent my CV as well if there is the slightest chance, especially knowing that it is an engineering and manufacturing company ( I am an engineering graduate.). At first I didn’t feel like sending it. I felt that her friend would say: “He is only sending his CV because he sent my friend’s one”. But upon her request I accepted to send.

Next morning, my colleague came rushing to me saying that her friend wanted to talk to me. There is an opportunity for me that I might be interviewed by her Regional Manager. I was not that much happy, because of couple of reasons:

1-     I went to many interviews, some rejected me, some offered me a job but with a lower salary while others said they will get back to me very shortly and they never did.

2-     This was company #1 in its speciality and there is little chance they would hire a Bahraini with very basic work experience and worked for a while in a field away from his academic background. They would better hire an expat who spent the last 13 years in another competitive company.

However, I called her friend and she invited me to an interview the next day at 10a.m. I accepted without hesitation and directly went to my former manager and it was the end of the day. I told him: “I have a job interview at 10am and I am going.” I was like not asking for his permission to go. I was rather telling him that I am going whatever the consequences are. He replied by saying: “Don’t you get tired?”. He knows that I have been to couple of interviews and he’s been sick from me wanting to leave this crappy job. He said: “OK, you can go but don’t be late”.

End of Part 3

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