statement of 2016: work has sucked the life out of me.
It's true - very true - and probably one of the realest statement ever that most people can relate to. Work is something that seems so inviting at first (when you aren't working but either studying or doing nothing of importance) as it appears as if you finally get to do something useful in your life and get rewarded for it. Win win situation, right? You start to realise that you are absolutely and may I include, gravely mistaken two to three months into the job.
Unless you manage to land your absolute dream job with amazing staff benefits. That's a whole different story altogether!
I'm only a mere 3 (almost 4) months into my job and I've become a broken record - lamenting non-stop about how mundane it is and how much I've grown to feel indifferent or *gasp* even dislike it! For you readers who are currently working as well, I would like to ask you this important question: do you feel me??? If yes please proudly put your hands up, then place your right palm over your heart and solemnly whisper, "I feel you."
... Thank you and let's have a moment of silence to honour the hardship that we've gone through the past x months.
Work isn't easy. It is one of the toughest things to do continuously, ever! This is evident if you're stuck in an office bound job, where you sit at your desk and type proposals after proposals and have meetings after meetings. It sucks. And what's worse is that your promotion comes once in a blue moon - unlike schooling. Don't get me wrong. I know it seems pretty stupid and irrational to compare working and studying because those are two wholly different scenarios, which involves two totally different age groups. Studies* have shown that students yearn to grow quicker to be adults, while the adults yearn to be young again to go to school. It's an unfair, "grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side" phenomenon that I'm pretty sure you would agree with. Now that we are at this age (I am assuming that you are of the same age as me or somewhat similar), we are at this junction where we can experience working for longer amounts of time (months, instead of month) and, I believe, understand both perspectives of the spectrum. The kids, and the adults. What a dilemma. Which are you choosing now? Do you wish to grow quicker to join the workforce and... work it out? *snickers* (that's a HSM ref right there) Or do you wish to, I quote, "revisit the old days of studying"? Take a moment to ponder over this issue. What's your choice? Well, my choice is the latter. Where I would like to "revisit the old days of studying" and slog my way through in the library. Close your jaw and let me explain my stand.
Work is something mundane after doing for months as we simply don't feel like we are progressing. At all. Especially if we are working as temporary staff without any chance of being promoted. What do I mean? Well, promotions are basically a form of motivation for all staff. You do your job well in hopes of being promoted, in hopes of rising the ranks and in hopes of getting a better pay. Being a temporary staff has no such opportunities! You are stuck at where you are until you eventually resign and be a student yet again. Once again, let me reiterate that I am arguing about this issue at my current age and situation: where I am waiting for universities to send me their letters and emails of joy and for university to start. Are we cool? Okay, great. Let me continue. So with this glass ceiling which is perpetually there until we eventually resign and rejoin again with a degree, work is just merely something that we accept and go along with just for the pay. Yes, hard truth. But a truth nonetheless. Of course, my situation may be a little bit different. I mean, every part-time temporary job has its difference. Working at IRAS is somewhat different and may weaken my points (lol), but this is still an all rounded argument (am I even using this right I don't even know) so I'm going to share with you briefly about working at IRAS. IRAS has this system of rewards, where they hold regular meetings with you and encourage you throughout your duration of work. They determine who are the hard workers and the ones who shine at work and are absolutely amazing at what they are doing with something called the Key Performance Index (KPI). If you have a high KPI, you're great and you deserve to be rewarded with either a full paid leave or a certificate (for students). So technically, working at IRAS should make me feel encouraged and happy about working, right? ....Wrong. Okay, partially wrong. What if you're on the other end of the spectrum and you have a shitty KPI instead? How would you feel about that? When you see your friends (not going to use colleagues because it's way too formal) getting a certificate from a government body just because their digits are higher than yours?
On the other hand, when you are schooling, you have this sense of achievement every time you complete a test or complete a term because you freaking completed it and have gained something from it. You are constantly learning and "rising up the ranks" as you progress from primary school, to secondary school and finally to tertiary education. You feel like you're actually learning and progressing! You aren't stuck in this continuous and one-levered cycle throughout your years. And because of this sense of achievement that you attain after completing each check point, no matter how tedious or difficult your work is, you ultimately enjoy it at the (very) end. Your efforts may or may not pay off, but you've grown. You've learnt a lot from that experience and you've gained some insight. So yes - I would choose the latter.
This concludes the end of my short and pretty one-sided stand of working. Woop! This was so unplanned lol initially I wanted to just have a rant (again, sorry my outlook is just so bleak nowadays) about work and about my life but one thing led to another and I ended up typing words after words which eventually became a few paragraphs. My bad. Thanks for sticking through those badly argued paragraphs and reading this one! It's almost 8:20pm and it's time for me to tune in to Jiangsu TV for Chen Bolin and Song Jihyo :D Thanks for reading! :)
statement of 2016: work has sucked the life out of me.
It's true - very true - and probably one of the realest statement ever that most people can relate to. Work is something that seems so inviting at first (when you aren't working but either studying or doing nothing of importance) as it appears as if you finally get to do something useful in your life and get rewarded for it. Win win situation, right? You start to realise that you are absolutely and may I include, gravely mistaken two to three months into the job.
Unless you manage to land your absolute dream job with amazing staff benefits. That's a whole different story altogether!
I'm only a mere 3 (almost 4) months into my job and I've become a broken record - lamenting non-stop about how mundane it is and how much I've grown to feel indifferent or *gasp* even dislike it! For you readers who are currently working as well, I would like to ask you this important question: do you feel me??? If yes please proudly put your hands up, then place your right palm over your heart and solemnly whisper, "I feel you."
... Thank you and let's have a moment of silence to honour the hardship that we've gone through the past x months.
Work isn't easy. It is one of the toughest things to do continuously, ever! This is evident if you're stuck in an office bound job, where you sit at your desk and type proposals after proposals and have meetings after meetings. It sucks. And what's worse is that your promotion comes once in a blue moon - unlike schooling. Don't get me wrong. I know it seems pretty stupid and irrational to compare working and studying because those are two wholly different scenarios, which involves two totally different age groups. Studies* have shown that students yearn to grow quicker to be adults, while the adults yearn to be young again to go to school. It's an unfair, "grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side" phenomenon that I'm pretty sure you would agree with. Now that we are at this age (I am assuming that you are of the same age as me or somewhat similar), we are at this junction where we can experience working for longer amounts of time (months, instead of month) and, I believe, understand both perspectives of the spectrum. The kids, and the adults. What a dilemma. Which are you choosing now? Do you wish to grow quicker to join the workforce and... work it out? *snickers* (that's a HSM ref right there) Or do you wish to, I quote, "revisit the old days of studying"? Take a moment to ponder over this issue. What's your choice? Well, my choice is the latter. Where I would like to "revisit the old days of studying" and slog my way through in the library. Close your jaw and let me explain my stand.
Work is something mundane after doing for months as we simply don't feel like we are progressing. At all. Especially if we are working as temporary staff without any chance of being promoted. What do I mean? Well, promotions are basically a form of motivation for all staff. You do your job well in hopes of being promoted, in hopes of rising the ranks and in hopes of getting a better pay. Being a temporary staff has no such opportunities! You are stuck at where you are until you eventually resign and be a student yet again. Once again, let me reiterate that I am arguing about this issue at my current age and situation: where I am waiting for universities to send me their letters and emails of joy and for university to start. Are we cool? Okay, great. Let me continue. So with this glass ceiling which is perpetually there until we eventually resign and rejoin again with a degree, work is just merely something that we accept and go along with just for the pay. Yes, hard truth. But a truth nonetheless. Of course, my situation may be a little bit different. I mean, every part-time temporary job has its difference. Working at IRAS is somewhat different and may weaken my points (lol), but this is still an all rounded argument (am I even using this right I don't even know) so I'm going to share with you briefly about working at IRAS. IRAS has this system of rewards, where they hold regular meetings with you and encourage you throughout your duration of work. They determine who are the hard workers and the ones who shine at work and are absolutely amazing at what they are doing with something called the Key Performance Index (KPI). If you have a high KPI, you're great and you deserve to be rewarded with either a full paid leave or a certificate (for students). So technically, working at IRAS should make me feel encouraged and happy about working, right? ....Wrong. Okay, partially wrong. What if you're on the other end of the spectrum and you have a shitty KPI instead? How would you feel about that? When you see your friends (not going to use colleagues because it's way too formal) getting a certificate from a government body just because their digits are higher than yours?
On the other hand, when you are schooling, you have this sense of achievement every time you complete a test or complete a term because you freaking completed it and have gained something from it. You are constantly learning and "rising up the ranks" as you progress from primary school, to secondary school and finally to tertiary education. You feel like you're actually learning and progressing! You aren't stuck in this continuous and one-levered cycle throughout your years. And because of this sense of achievement that you attain after completing each check point, no matter how tedious or difficult your work is, you ultimately enjoy it at the (very) end. Your efforts may or may not pay off, but you've grown. You've learnt a lot from that experience and you've gained some insight. So yes - I would choose the latter.
This concludes the end of my short and pretty one-sided stand of working. Woop! This was so unplanned lol initially I wanted to just have a rant (again, sorry my outlook is just so bleak nowadays) about work and about my life but one thing led to another and I ended up typing words after words which eventually became a few paragraphs. My bad. Thanks for sticking through those badly argued paragraphs and reading this one! It's almost 8:20pm and it's time for me to tune in to Jiangsu TV for Chen Bolin and Song Jihyo :D Thanks for reading! :)
Situated in the sunny island of Singapore, Jolene recently (is 2 years considered recent?) graduated from university and is now working in a job she never expected herself to hold. Besides having frequent quarter-life crises, she also indulges in video games, anime, and aesthetic korean girls documenting their life in vlogs.
Although not as eloquent with words, she still aims to try her best to bring across her thoughts to the Internet.
