One thing I have always felt fortunate to have is the experience of having friends who are much older than me. Working individuals who have experienced full-fledged working life.
As I have yet to work, I often wonder how would it be like. The feeling of having to be on time to work, of having to work a certain number of hours, of having to consistently listen to someone else telling you what to do. They often talk about having this negative connotation when it comes to work, especially when they tell me to enjoy my college life and tell me that college life would often be a bliss if compared to the working world.
Of Being Miserable And Fearful
I often wonder why people often have such negative connotation when if comes to working. I always look at those working group and they look so miserable. They talk in such a way as if they have no choice but to stay in their field of work.
They seem to sound like they are being confined or stuck in a prison jail. I realise that these individuals who work often have this incredible ability to complain about their companies and their superiors, but don’t really solve any of their problems. They just love to whine and complain, but not do anything to improve the situation.
Somehow or another, I just feel that this is often a self-created jail created by themselves. We live in a free society. We could make the choices we want in life, to live the life we deserve and the life we want, not conform to want we do not want. It took me sometime to realise, but the huge change came after a life changing event I had a few years back. It taught me that life is precious and I could no longer be one of “them”.
My Choice
I choose not to be miserable in my life. I choose not to be in something that I do not feel happy at. I choose to not live my life based on fear. Based on pleasing other people to gain acceptance. I choose to live my life on my own terms.
It then began to dawn on me that there are certain things than I would want in my future career. I began searching for answers of the kind of career which I want.
Amazingly, I started stumbling upon different ideas upon it. I managed to learn about the speech Steve Jobs gave in Stanford University and I really liked the way he talked about “finding what you love.” (View here) Read the rest of this entry »
