In the first part of our Series, we were discussing about how to land yourself a job.  There are deeper ramifications of the proposal writing portion for getting yourself a really good stuffy job.  But the effect really depends more on the writer.  You.

But there is a discrepancy since sister is already inside a Spaceship called WERK.  We will skip mentioning the refinements and all that bull.  Instead, we will integrate it into the below improvised part of the series.

So you are suddenly part of the community of the Taken.  You are among the 4400.  Victim of the Invasion.  Involved in the Third Encounter. Whatever.  You landed a Job.

The best Guerilla on the Job has to be the most admirable diplomat and a Jesus Superstar person.  In real life, during their life times, the personalities of an Alexander Haig kind and a Jesus type could never have melded together well.  But what the heck.

A diplomat, to a particular country’s President, is most often a Savior, Redeemer, a Rescuer.  Not that diplomats do the impossible like Superman, Wonder Woman and the XMen.  But there is grace to mutating in a job, if you can get my drift.

The goals in surviving inside Spaceship WERK are:

►  Penetration

►  Legitimization

►  Personal Navigability

►  Look to the Future

Like the Forensic (please don’t misspell last two letters with e, x, it sort of alienates the meaning) , Investigator or CSI, a Guerilla inside  Spaceship WERK needs to know something about everything.  This is not difficult for you, I know, I know.  But still, do brush up about fruits, veges, cereals, leaves, paints, textiles, papers, inks, make ups and lipsticks, wines and other beverages, patis, toyo, suka, stains, roach... er, thingies, love and affection, vitamins, herbal slimming potions, alchemy and witchcraft (just a little), physiognomy (reading your bosses’ and other werkers’ faces, dumb dumb), paranormal, etcetera, etcetera.  (Hay naku!  Kakapagod naman to!)

But the most subtle style you should ever ever show, is when you are using your intelligence and intellect.  Never let others feel, you are on to them.  That is a mortal sin.  (Of course, another mortal sin in Spaceship WERK is inviting your good or best friend to: Come!  Join in my Spaceship!  That’s absolutely the shittiest thing you could ever do.  Not to anybody, but to yourself.)

Now, for those who love the other arts and the hardly known obnoxious sciences, good for ye!  Keep dabbling in those things.  Might save your ass someday.

Penetration

Although you have been recruited into the Army of the Taken, the 4399 plus you, there is no guarantee that you can culturally penetrate the Spaceship’s eclectosphere.

Every Spaceship has its own culture, of course you have an appreciation of that.  But ain’t this new one’s, more special because you happen to be in it?

It’s not really a case of Being in Rome and Doing the Habit.  NO, NO, NO!  It’s simply being able to find a little opening, a small gap – mind you – and learning how to crawl on your belly inside that shithole into the crummy idiosyncratosphere and learn how to breathe there.  When you are able to, then you can see clearly, the mildew and cobwebs in your eyes loosen up and suddenly everyone is visible as they really are.  You see them like they want themselves to be seen.  Manage your way around that.  Self-image is hard to build.  But if you keep practicing, planning and plotting to the very last drop of your blood, to be able to construct the best Sybil formatting of your personality and psyche make-up do it.  Shrinks say, we are only normal when we are able to integrate our various masks and not lose ourselves completely each time we are in one and then another, and then another. (Whew!)

Legitimization

Once you have been able to navigate through the air vents into the idiosyncratosphere and found you are still alive with all that hair, sweat, spit and blasted ignominies on your face coming from your lovable fellow Spaceship WERK crew, your problem is being able to get an unwritten certificate of having been accepted as a player.

Someone invites you for coffee without the plastic face concomitant to drawing out someone who is considered the “enemy”.  In short order, the explanation for legitimizing yourself inside Spaceship WERK is not being considered a threat.

Therefore, the worst thing that one can do inside Spaceship WERK at any time of here or his werking life is to strut around with a smoking gun.  Never do that.  (Oh, you can carry a “gun” but do it secretly, and never telegraph to anybody at all about your intention to shoot her or him.  I know you have mastered that already.  Just a reminder, eh he eh he eh he!)

That brings us to the next, goal:

A good survivor is invisible.

A good manager is one who is able to gather people around who are way much, better than her.

Maneuverability

To be maneuverable, to be able to have navigable space inside Spaceship WERK, one must be able to drive oneself in a defensive manner.  When you separate with a mobile thing that you were in a near collision with, don’t honk your horns.  Always say the best things about people you don’t have affections for.  When they are not around.  That’s a hard and fast rule.

Especially during the very first days inside Spaceship, be careful about your choice of language.  Hebrew is cool and Latin is quite safe.  Modern French and Italian are somewhat hot tempered.  Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindu are supplanted by the tempered Thai.  Make a good choice of what tongue to use when talking specially to the bandillos or the fast talkers and broadcasters who were able to hitch inside Spaceship.  They are destructive organisms.  They ruin our chances of navigability and can even trim down to nothing the pathways and alleys available to the newcomers and even the oldtimers who happen to mention a salacious tidbit of scoop into their willing albeit greedy ears.

Once you have navigability, maneuverability, you have inter-operability.  You are now a walking negotiable.  You can go from one division to another, chat with everyone from everywhere, but still be careful about the walkway and bridge Claymore mines.  Ok, of course don’t step on shit.

Look to the Future

To achieve a level of transcendence from all the other members of the crew in Spaceship WERK, Do not be a Fearsome fellow.  Always be aware of their silent stares, their imaging, scanning, digitalizing your person inside the hard drives in their minds.  That includes everyone, from your bosses to the lowliest crew.

Have something on your original agenda for accepting to join the Spaceship WERK Crew, to develop.

Do it secretly, without fanfare, without expectation of thanks and gratitude.

It is another proposal:  it could be one, or a set of proposals.  These could be done very leisurely, but with a little secret hard work thrown into it.

The driving spirit behind the proposal(s) is/are:

1.               savings – think up ways that the Spaceship could be minimalistic, economistic, frugal, without stepping into the extra incomes of some corrupt personalities.  (Never fight City Hall until  you are one millimeter near to receiving your retirement pay)

2.               improving the morale, etc. – go to The Exchange Corner 6th Floor at Legazpi Village Bolaños and hook up with the Insurance people and change your company’s ID with their product that is a simple ID card but with minimum insurance coverage on top of what your company is already offering.  Or it could be health insurance.

3.               getting more clientele. (some of this can be done by praying hard, but if you are in a position to work for it, by all means do it.)

4.               enhancing profits – read about it somewhere.  i’m tired explaining.  (eh he eh he eh he!)

5.               backing up your company data in case of a 911 hitting your building

6.               learning search, rescue and life saving inside the Spaceship