"I came from Tibet. My parents still remain in Tibet and they are poor. I don’t want to depend on them. I want to be independent. So I finished my BA. But I am not an A-class student. With my BA degree I can hardly secure a great job.
I get up at 4pm. I ritually go for breakfast and have a chai, paranta and gold flake. This is how I start my day. Sometimes I have time to freshen up but other times I hit the snooze button all too often that I have to just get up and go- as the real me.
I get picked up by my BPO center. The car is congested and smelly especially when it is summer. I get an extra two hours sleep on there at least. Once I reach the center I go to the toilet to wash my face.
Then sitting on the same chair and calling people is the most boring part of my life. That is why whenever I hear a phone ringing, it kills me.
Sometimes you have good people on the other line but most of the time horrible people. So what I would like to urge here is if you receive a call from different companies, please be nice. They are not calling you because they want to, they don’t have any other choice, therefore please respond nicely. Just say ‘no’ politely. It really makes a huge difference to these peoples’ day.
I get lunch at midnight from the company. Then it is the same process. Pick up a call, answer calls, be polite, being shouted at and so on. It is such a mess. Seriously I am tired of this job. Then once I am done getting back home is another challenge. Wow! I can’t believe how I am living over here.
I know it is killing me but I do receive a better income than on average. However I feel like I am slowly dying while I am still living.
The place where I live in is one of the cheapest rooms I can find. I live with dogs barking nearby, ants everywhere in my room, crows shitting in my room, the loud sound of a fan is a part of my life. Wow, I don’t even know where to begin from and where to finish.
Yet with all of this, I am still ok. Of course at times I emotionally feel crushed but still I dare to rise again. Maybe this is my fate. Even though I hear that fate is not fixed, it is mixed with my past, what I do, what I choose, thus, I am looking for a better way to make money and make my family in Tibet proud.
When I send photographs of me in a shirt with a name-tag, with a desktop computer, my family believes that I am working in a big company, earning good money and living a great life. I wish that I could really make them proud by finding a good standard job."
Majnuka Tila/Delhi
Interview and photo credit:Kunsang Tenzing
Edited by Yasmine Tanwidjaja-Pajares
I get up at 4pm. I ritually go for breakfast and have a chai, paranta and gold flake. This is how I start my day. Sometimes I have time to freshen up but other times I hit the snooze button all too often that I have to just get up and go- as the real me.
I get picked up by my BPO center. The car is congested and smelly especially when it is summer. I get an extra two hours sleep on there at least. Once I reach the center I go to the toilet to wash my face.
Then sitting on the same chair and calling people is the most boring part of my life. That is why whenever I hear a phone ringing, it kills me.
Sometimes you have good people on the other line but most of the time horrible people. So what I would like to urge here is if you receive a call from different companies, please be nice. They are not calling you because they want to, they don’t have any other choice, therefore please respond nicely. Just say ‘no’ politely. It really makes a huge difference to these peoples’ day.
I get lunch at midnight from the company. Then it is the same process. Pick up a call, answer calls, be polite, being shouted at and so on. It is such a mess. Seriously I am tired of this job. Then once I am done getting back home is another challenge. Wow! I can’t believe how I am living over here.
I know it is killing me but I do receive a better income than on average. However I feel like I am slowly dying while I am still living.
The place where I live in is one of the cheapest rooms I can find. I live with dogs barking nearby, ants everywhere in my room, crows shitting in my room, the loud sound of a fan is a part of my life. Wow, I don’t even know where to begin from and where to finish.
Yet with all of this, I am still ok. Of course at times I emotionally feel crushed but still I dare to rise again. Maybe this is my fate. Even though I hear that fate is not fixed, it is mixed with my past, what I do, what I choose, thus, I am looking for a better way to make money and make my family in Tibet proud.
When I send photographs of me in a shirt with a name-tag, with a desktop computer, my family believes that I am working in a big company, earning good money and living a great life. I wish that I could really make them proud by finding a good standard job."
Majnuka Tila/Delhi
Interview and photo credit:Kunsang Tenzing
Edited by Yasmine Tanwidjaja-Pajares
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