A Day in the Life of Mekari’s Chief Commercial Officer
If there are any lessons we learned from our conversation with our CCO, Sandy Suryanto, it’s that important to stay close to our family in our efforts to persevere and improve during these hard times.
We talked to Sandy Suryanto about how he’s been doing for these past few months during work from home. Just when we were starting our conversation, he sent us a picture of him smiling happily with his kids, Kenzo (5) and Keira (3), or Pam-pam and Pim-pim as he calls them.
How Sandy works from home
Sandy always starts his day the same way: wake up at 5:30 for a quick jog, join his wife and kids for breakfast, and spend some time with them before starting work at 9.
As most of us with kids already know, they are a huge part of our lives. During this extended stay-at-home period, he is grateful that he gets to spend more time with the family: lunch with them, getting to spend time with the kids before their afternoon nap, even play with them before finishing the rest of his work in the evening.
He told us he’s lucky enough that he’s already been homeschooling the kids even before this pandemic: the wife helps Pam-pam and Pim-pim with the academics, while he handles the sports activities. So, there’s not much change in their activities at home aside from the occasional meetings with other homeschooling parents, now done online instead of the usual meetups.
At the end of our short chat, we asked him the highlights of his work from home experience, and this is what he told us:
“I’m grateful I get to see my kids make progress in their studies while I’m working close to them. While that alone motivates me to do better, them sometimes bringing snacks to my workspace makes it an even greater motivation. During tough times, they make my days somewhat easier: Pim-pim with getting better at cognitive & motoric skills, and Pam-pam with his soccer skills & playing the violin”
Things we learned during work from home
When asked about what valuable lessons he learned during this pandemic, Sandy told us the same thing he told his team and his family:
1. We have to be grateful for all the challenges and blessings we receive from God
2. We all have our own uniqueness and potential. We can do great things only if we discard our self-imposed limitations and challenge ourselves to do more.
