I Want to Singa!

Yes! Im shouting it now! I want to go to Singapore and work there.
If things are only that easy..

I have lots of friends who are already there.
There is Juvy and her husband Jan who promised they can let me stay for a while in their apartment while Im still looking for work. Ate Belle and Joanna, one of my closest friends are also there and offering the same. Kenneth and his wife Jessica whom I met while working in Manila is inviting me the same.

If all goes well I have no problem with where I'll stay.

Now to the core problem. Will I be accepted at a job? And for how long will I be idle?

This scares me to the bone! Yes, you heard me, I'm scared to apply. It's never been easy applying for a job. For starters they ask you this nasty technical questions nobody really cares to do in the actual job, but you have to know it for the job interview.

Then there's the question of skills. How skilled am I now? I've been working as a programmer for almost 8 years now. You might surmised that I'm that skilled worker. Actually. Im not. I've been a jack of all trades, master of none type.

If I'll be totally honest in my interviews I would say the following:

I've been working as a programmer for 8 years now. I've coded web applications based on php, javascript with database (mysql). I was also a Java Certified programmer (if that still matters today), but I've got only 2 years of solid Java industry programming. Currently my project is in C++ but it's only maintenance and I only got to modify little code (no creation of classes much more design).

And can you not ask me those what is transient, volatile stuffs? I mean who use those in real life?

That's why Im not that confident because I'm not good enough. Even for me. Though some of my friends think that Im good to go.

But even though I really wanted to go to Singa ASAP, I will have to wait. I have to prepare myself because this is a big leap. Literally and figuratively.