I was just falling asleep holding my phone, listening to webinars or calls— I was just so exhausted at the end of the day.

Then I submitted a badly written story before leaving for the airport because I received a very early morning message from our APAC boss today that pressured me to produce stories from this trip. Like she instantly wants the scoops. How can I produce numerous scoops when I and my potential sources are just feeling each other out, whether or not we could trust one another or not?

It dampened my weekend.

Then I got scolded by my manager for something not my making. She jumped the gun early without properly reading the story. She then backtracked and said, yeah yeah, we will publish this on Monday.

I’m so angry, so exhausted, I just wanted to soothe myself. I went into a store in Jewel and there’s a 50% sale.

I bit the bullet. I tapped my credit card on the terminal. I realized my mistake—I misheard the sales associate about the final price after 50% and 6.5 GST refund. I was off by several thousands of pesos.

I wanted to return the item but here I am…I instantly felt remorse because I could have bought more ETFs and mutual fund units instead of a very expensive bag that I don’t have any use for.

I shouldn’t move when upset. I should stay away from stores when I wanted to feel good after being beaten down by my manager or our APAC boss.