Make the Best Out of It

Rather obvious my few previous posts were quite low on morale & enthusiasm. Not talking about my writing style but more towards the things i talked about.

It's always discouraging when you're out there working for someone. You're constantly hogged by your boss to do things that you feel is ridiculous, things that are always urgent but is in fact not really that important at all.

I learned that in real life, work is really like bed of roses, in a bad way. It looks good, smells good but when you're actually lying on it, you'll get hurt by the thorns.

I'm pretty sure each and everyone of us out there knows how important it is to stay motivated, stay creative, keep the hard work, be the best you can ever be. I'm pretty sure everyone knows that, but we often forgot how to do it. We're easily discouraged by hurdles, the flame of enthusiasm got wiped out with a splash of cold water.

When that happens, probably you'll ask yourself "What am i doing here?". You might think you don't suit the job, or you might think the company sucks big time. You might also think that your boss is stupid.

Well, at least i have quite a number of negative thoughts myself to begin with. But of course, when you're calm down and think back, those thoughts doesn't actually help the situation at all.

Lately, two elders spoke of the same thing that occurs to me, how negative i was just not too long ago. Both of them is from a whole different background, they do not know each other, they are from different place. The only similarity they have are they are from the same era, and they give the same kind of advice.

Maybe you might think that these advice is outdated already since it's near to years ago, but then haven't you noticed, stuffs produced way back then was more long lasting than those that you can buy from now?

Let's just keep it simple. I think you'd agree that way back to 20, 30 years ago, there weren't too many opportunities around. There wasn't as much choices around like how it is now. Even food nowadays are abundant i don't know what to eat because i can't make up my mind what to eat sometimes.

But i believe way back then, choices is really a luxury. You can ask you dad about this, "Why you choose to do what you're doing how?" and i believe 80% chance that your dad would say "We don't have much choice when we were young......" and so on.

Most of our parents work hard to have what they have today, and we as the children are enjoying these luxuries without understand how hard it was for them to achieve all these. We have all the choices we can have. We can choose where to study, where to work, how much to spend everyday, what to eat for lunch.

What makes a person successful is not only making the correct decision, but also by making the best out of what you can do now.

Stop complaining, stop whining, and start making what you can do now as an opportunity to turn things around to make yourself more successful.

And being successful does not mean you have all the money you can spend. For me it would be to be able to have enough of everything. Enough money to spend, to feed & to nurture the future generation, enough time for me to spend with my love ones and my friends, enough motivation to move forward everytime i meet a hurdle. Not too much not too little.

Rat-Race

It's the year of the rat this year as most of the people out there may have already known. It's rather ironic being in a rat year, and being stucked in a rat race at the same time. I have the whole year to feel sucky about this.

Well, perhaps not. I'm not that pessimistic guy my friends have known me of. I'm not too sure what my friends may think of me but then i'm pretty sure it's nothing near pessimistic.

Anyway, just rather disgruntled with what i'm earning in my life. It's rather sucky you know watching people out there enjoying all the luxuries in life, spending money like their dad owns the bank.

You see, being an engineer, a good engineer, you need to be passionate about it. You need to love your job, love being an engineer. You need to understand the structures, the algorithm, how it works and why it doesn't at time. And being an engineer myself, i'm pretty sure i'm not a good engineer.

It sucks you know, holding on to the belief that once you got an engineering degree, being one is just going to be easy. Guess what, that is such a big misconception. I'm just disappointed with my own decision to finish my degree in this field, and now all i'm doing is getting paid peanuts in a job i don't enjoy doing.

If you're already out there working, you may understand this. You work hard, day and night, but your boss don't think you cut out. Your boss don't think you're good enough, that you're not putting in enough effort into your work to make things work.

And then you stayed back at work, trying to finish up the stuffs he gave to you at 6pm, right at the time when you think it's about time to go home. And yous watch your boss leave the office in a hurry back to home to have a nice warm meal with his family while you stay back to finish the job he gave you. Simply because he needs it on his desk first thing tomorrow morning.

At the end of the year, at performance evaluation time, you were hoping you'd score some points with your hard work and diligence you offer to the company and in return hoping for a promotion or a better increment in salary. And then your boss calls you into his room, ask you to close the door, handed you an envelope. Then there it is, he told you the company is not doing too well, and he think the company is giving you how much you're worth.

Imagine peanuts. You're worth peanuts. Does that feel good? Peanuts.

Well, for my part of the story, it didn't went as bad. I mean i was expecting something really good from the company, from my boss. Although it was a total disappointment what the company had to offer, my boss was rather helpful, trying to get me a better offer.

Well, it's still peanuts after the negotiation, but anyway, i did feel better after his effort. It's the thought that counts.

But anyhow, with what i'm earning, there's no way i could live the luxury life i want to live in. So what are you doing in your life to make other ends meet?

If you're the first born guy child in the family, the pressure is there. You're getting older, you're single, drive a beat-up second hand local made car, stays with your parents still, doesn't have much savings and you still owe the government that study loan you took up.

The pressure is about getting married, starting a family. You may not know, doing that is not cheap this day. You need to have your own house before that, a stable monthly income that could feed yourself, your spouse, your parents, and when that cute little baby is born, you need to buy milk powder, diapers. Before you know it, they're asking money from you to go college.

See, all this needs money and getting paid peanuts is not helping. So, please tell me my friends. How are you making your ends meet on this?






ChiM

Long Time No See

It's definitely been a long long while since i log into bloggers. i almost forgot i have an account to blog. For that, i have to apologize for being forgetful & too busy.

Work is always busy, that's a norm. If you're at my age and your work is not taking up all your day time, then there's something wrong with your job. Well, this hold true if your dad is not f**king rich, or you don't need to work but there's someone feeding you or you're too f**king smart you invest your money & let your money find more money for you.

If all those are not you, but still you're too free, then it's time for you to think about your future. Do you want to stay so free when you're this young?

Apart from busy with work, i'm also addicted to facebook. If you're my friend, you can find my email address from friendster and add me in facebook. You're more than welcome with both hands stretch wide open to receive you with warmth & care.

I got a text from Mz A today, asking me how come i never call her back during CNY. Well, i'm very sorry i forgot about that too. Well, these days i blame it on my memory when i fail to do any stuffs.