I haven't been taking cabs for ages... today is one of the few rare days that I took cab home.
Once abroad the cab, the friendly taxi uncle starts to chit chat with me... hmm ... not too bad... Feels good to be taxi home and have some friendly ppl to chitchat with.
He mentioned he used to be doing sales selling ads space, but due to old age, he was asked to leave the company. Think he is like 38 years old only and hold a district manager post. He has been in that company for 10 years and had spent some of his most precious time for the growth of this company. Nevertheless he was retrenched with one month salary. His boss reasoning were sales requires young, hot chicks and not tired old man. This makes one ponder, is it really worth it to be loyal to a company, to waste their life away fighting for someone else pockets.
At this point of time, he started mentioning the importance of having skills and so on, saying that his sales skill is pretty useless, can't make a living now, no coy will hire a old sales guy in their company. Then he asks me what I do for a living. So I told him software engineer... immediately he ask me bout IT stuff and hope I can help him.
His son was angry with him cause his son thought he had set password on the PC. But the taxi uncle is a computer illiterate, there's no way he knows how to set it up.
I told him its good mah, then he has more time to study especially the exam is around the corner. Well, he say that’s true, but now his son refused to talk to him and stay out whole day, coming home only at night. He worry he might meet some bad company at the cyber cafe. Plus, he was afraid being branded as the “BAD” dad!
Sensing his worries and anxieties and since I am a super helpful, kind-hearted,caring,courteous,friendly, polite,spiritual and full of righteous kind of person, I decided to offer him some advice. I even gave him some software and try to teach him to use it, but after sometime, I think its better to give him my number so he can call me back in case he has difficulties using it.
So after completing this wondrous deed, he wanted to give me a discount on the taxi fare out of gratitude, and of coz I kindly decline since I am not doing it for money, (I can claim back from company... LOL) and sincerely hope he can gain back his son’s trust. And it feels good to know my technical skill can actually helps others, even family bonding... that is something quite unexpected, since most of the time, my com skill is use for school related helps.
So I guess having a skill is really essential in this era... Can earn myself a living and help others. And in fact, I think that taxi uncle is not without any skill... his sales skill aided him in approaching me for help, imagine if he don't have a good communication skill, he wouldn't have ask me and if he didn't ask me nicely which is an essential characteristic of a sales personnel, I wouldn't have help him.
