Understanding what you really, really want in this world is probably one of the hardest things to do...
It took me many, many years until now to find out what I really want to do in life. My line of work, it kept on changing over time and I am sometimes puzzled by what I have been through and the routes I took to bring me to where I am now. Honestly, I am not the best person to speak on 'Career Path' or 'Loyalty In Your Service To A Company'...
What I can impart though is a sincere depiction and interpretation of a typical working man, striving and struggling hard to fit into the rat race in order meet the demands of our daily lives... I am not rich, certainly not in comparison with the current standard of wealth... I am not the most intelligent of men, certainly not a Mathematical genius nor a portentous and profound scientist... I was never a child prodigy... and I never aimed to be the best in the world...
What I really, really want is... a SIMPLE LIFE. A good career, a good income to earn a living, a good family to live with, and plenty of time to spare for myself...
I have come to terms with the many frustrations I faced in life and I have grown accustomed to the stressful ordeals of a corporate world...
I think it is time for me to start charting my own growth based on my own accord. Plenty of sacrifices, perhaps, but ultimately worthy...
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Contemplating...
I have felt this urge within me to start stepping out of this "working for people" cocoon and venture on my own, probably doing what I like to do best and having the time of my life spent fully with the people I would really want to be with.
That sort of feeling was in me ever since Mama left us on Christmas Day last 2 years (God, bless her soul) and since we jumped into the New Year.
People say, New Year - New Resolution. Naah!! This thought of mine is not new. It's a rejuvenated thought that came from a deep intention of wanting to have a freedom in career, and a freedom of choice.
Life is too short to be so stressed up and all tensed with unwanted problems i.e. other people's problems.
But one thing is stopping me... THE MONEY!
That sort of feeling was in me ever since Mama left us on Christmas Day last 2 years (God, bless her soul) and since we jumped into the New Year.
People say, New Year - New Resolution. Naah!! This thought of mine is not new. It's a rejuvenated thought that came from a deep intention of wanting to have a freedom in career, and a freedom of choice.
Life is too short to be so stressed up and all tensed with unwanted problems i.e. other people's problems.
But one thing is stopping me... THE MONEY!
SLEEPY EYES
Lately... I have not been having enough sleep.
Blame the work... blame the additional part time income merriment that I have been continuously seeking for... blame me for time mis-management... all there is to blame.
My right eye has been clicking egregiously non-stop - indicating a symptom of perennial mental and physical exhaustion. My back is aching at all times... begging for me to stop all the hazardous stretch and stressful motion.
The faster the communication... the more things are required. The bigger the amount of work.
WORK + MORE WORK + AD-HOC PROBLEMS + DAILY ISSUES + OUTSTANDING ISSUES = STRESSFUL LIFE
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Filling In The Gaps (Gasps...???)
Strange things happen to the utmost normal of people or situations.
E.g. in the early bustling period of January 2010, it is indeed strange that we, at Y&R JB have nothing much to do apart from trying to get new businesses out of the richness of the corporations and companies in Johor Bahru... mostly thriving over the years due to its closeness with Singapore and lately due to the propensities and intensified emphasis on Iskandar Malaysia.
It is indeed strange that a company as established as Young & Rubicam a.k.a. Y&R had to resort to stranger method of pulling some strings and extreme persuasions in order to gain the extra mileage and added trusts granted by the ever-so-difficult Johoreans.
Johoreans are strange compared to KLites. Here, when it comes to business, COST comes first, not values... not designs... not anything else... but COST.
Advertising Agencies in KL would sell off their ideas first to Clients and try hard to put in many different ways of manipulating the same old thing. But here, such tricks would not bode well among the decision makers who would end up asking the Client Servicing Slaves how much 'damage' would such 'flamboyance' cost them... i.e. it all boils down to DOLLARS & CENTS. And in this case, it is often RINGGIT & SEN.
Hard to sell? Harder to convince... It is indeed the price you pay for wanting to be Creative... Does 'Creativity' carry any value at all in this marketplace?
Sometimes, I am confused myself...
E.g. in the early bustling period of January 2010, it is indeed strange that we, at Y&R JB have nothing much to do apart from trying to get new businesses out of the richness of the corporations and companies in Johor Bahru... mostly thriving over the years due to its closeness with Singapore and lately due to the propensities and intensified emphasis on Iskandar Malaysia.
It is indeed strange that a company as established as Young & Rubicam a.k.a. Y&R had to resort to stranger method of pulling some strings and extreme persuasions in order to gain the extra mileage and added trusts granted by the ever-so-difficult Johoreans.
Johoreans are strange compared to KLites. Here, when it comes to business, COST comes first, not values... not designs... not anything else... but COST.
Advertising Agencies in KL would sell off their ideas first to Clients and try hard to put in many different ways of manipulating the same old thing. But here, such tricks would not bode well among the decision makers who would end up asking the Client Servicing Slaves how much 'damage' would such 'flamboyance' cost them... i.e. it all boils down to DOLLARS & CENTS. And in this case, it is often RINGGIT & SEN.
Hard to sell? Harder to convince... It is indeed the price you pay for wanting to be Creative... Does 'Creativity' carry any value at all in this marketplace?
Sometimes, I am confused myself...
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