As you march your way to get a hand to that diploma, a man in corporate clothing flashes in your mind. Carrying a suitcase, he proceeds to that glass door joining the swarm of people hurrying to the jam-packed elevator. Finally he enters his office with all familiar faces greeting him good morning and his secretary right behind his back briefing him of his schedule for the day. Subconsciously, you are already prepping yourself for the corporate world!
You have a pretty clear vision of what you want. All you have to do now is submit your applications to several top companies, take the exams, attend interviews and choose from the job offers that come your way. Suddenly you wake up and realized that you haven't received any JO's yet. You then open your email and send your resumes to the companies you consider next in rank to your priority list. A JO finally came your way and since it has already been 2 months since you graduated, you accepted it right away.
It's your first day at work and your work place looks nice and the people seems very accommodating. Day in - day out, you get acquainted with the norms of your work place - some things you like, most you hate. You now find yourself looking for another job. Now you finally had the chance to get thru one of the companies in your priority list. You survived the first day but on your 3rd week, you already find yourself struggling to even breathe amidst the people surrounding you who looked like Mr. and Ms. Nice guy/girl at first but now you consider bitches and monsters.
You now find yourself turning into one of the monsters you hated. While playing Plants VS. Zombies, you imagine your boss face who seemed to have mastered the art of delegation being ditched by frozen peas. You even ask God why wasn't he/she included in the bus bombing or the one caught shipping drugs and sentenced to death or even ask God why of all creatures create someone like him/her/it. You find your tested and proven assertive-style not working anymore - you're now more comfortable playing the role of the devil yourself.
This is reality. It’s a matter of looking at things. The satisfaction of a person depends on his attitude.
You now flood your head with quotes that should work to motivate you but aren't. So as to give it a better try, you read books. Maxwell... Coelho… but the only one that seems to work is Bob Ong's comic-relief booklets that makes you laugh your ass off.
(Light bulb! Moment) It's time for me to sit down and re-check my priorities and create a new career map! Maybe I should venture into becoming an entrepreneur! I'll create my own company and have things MY WAY. When I'm already the boss, I dictate how things will commence and shout at people who disobeys. IT'S PAY BACK TIME!
(Black-out) You don't have the capital. You don't have any business idea to start with. You don't have the right motives, right?
So what do we do now? Perhaps go to the high lands, play a role of a strawberry farmer or better, be a barista in one of the prime coffee shops up there while you are trying to figure out what you want. THIS WILL TAKE FOREVER!
This life is meant to be lived by trial and error - that, I would like to believe. So now it's "the more mistakes you commit, the more you learn" - NO. That's "over-positivizing" things.
Take a look back at your vision, what is being characterized in your dream? Basically two things, satisfaction and professional growth - if you happen to disagree with me, fine! Stop reading. Moving forward (I so hate this phrase!), these factors are determined by the nature of your work VS. your dream and the people surrounding you VS. yourself.
So it all boils down to me now huh?! Apparently YES. When you don't feel happy anymore with the things you are doing and with the people you're dealing with, you always have the option to move out. Then why are you still there despite all these bitches and monsters surrounding you? Factor number 2, professional growth - FACT: You know that there's a rainbow after the rain! You still believe that if you survive this chaotic, hell-like environment, you will become a better person. Someone who is more equipped - more than the technical knowledge, you now have the attitude to make it BIG out there. So be patient, take full control of yourself and your dream. As for the nature of your work and the people you are dealing with, just remember that at the end of the day, we just have to get things done at the highest level of quality possible and oh! We also have the freedom to choose who to befriend from the bunch of people we work with.
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