Thursday, November 25, 2004
Career Change

Sorry,allow me to indulge in this for a moment.I love this S.H.E song...

笑就歌颂 一皱眉头就心痛
我没空理会我 只感受你的感受
你要往哪走 把我灵魂也带走
它为你着了魔 留着有什么用

你是电 你是光 你是唯一的神话
我只爱你 You are my super star
你主宰 我崇拜 没有更好的办法
只能爱你 You are my super star

手不是手 是温柔的宇宙
我这颗小星球 就在你手中转动
请看见我 让我有梦可以作
我为你发了疯 你必须奖励我

你是电 你是光 你是唯一的神话
我只爱你 You are my super star
你主宰 我崇拜 没有更好的办法
只能爱你 You are my super star

你是意义 是天是地 是神的旨意
除了爱你 没有真理

火你是火 是我飞蛾的尽头
没想过要逃脱 为什么我要逃脱
谢谢你给我 一段快乐的梦游
如果我忘了我 请帮忙记得我

你是电 你是光 你是唯一的神话
我只爱你 You are my super star
你主宰 我崇拜 没有更好的办法
只能爱你 You are my super star

I really have no idea why I put these lyrics here...besides the fact that I like this song like crazy and can keep spinning it over again and again and again.I can't really envision myself being so enraptured by three bubblegum cuties (I don't normally) but I am...so well...

Yesterday,I went out for dinner with my three good pals from my university days.Bishop is,of course,one of them.He seems to be involved in every group that I go out with,except my JC group of friends.It's the unfortunate result of knowing someone for over 20 years and sharing many aspects of my life with this fellow.The other two,I will respectively name as Deadpool and Gambit.Deadpool is a section manager at Takashimaya while Gambit is a corporate banker from a Japanese bank.Ok,remember my NY resolutions post,it was borned after I went to Gambit's baptism ceremony with Bishop.Deadpool was also invited but since he's doing retail service,weekends are essentially workdays for him so he couldn't make it.Gambit is getting married mid next year and the three of us are probably going to be part of his bridegroom wreaking crew.Yup,that'd be nice.After all,we are also great friends with his girlfriend too.

Anyway,yesterday,the four of us went to Thai Express Esplanade to have our dinner and just have our monthly (it's a bit more like three weeks but let's not nit pick) catch-up session.I am not going to talk about all the things we talked about because hey,we stayed there for about four hours,you can imagine how long we talked but one of the topics we touched on was,of course,our present jobs.

Again,everytime I talk to people,it seems that people are not satisfied with their present posts and want a "new challenge" or to get out of "that sucky place" (if every place is sucky,name one place that is not...simple...it's the places where you are NOT working).Gambit told us that he's planning to quit his position real soon and take up an insurance agent post.Bishop has been talking about changing his job for a long time now but in his current circumstance,he does need a stable income so he can't really move.But one could say that with his experience,he's a real valuable commodity in his line of work right now.Deadpool?I don't know about him,he was strangely silent on this.And me?I have been talking about this since forever,right?

Truth be told,I was rather surprised by Gambit's confession that he is quitting soon.He had talked about it but never really in such concrete terms.It seems like he has made up his mind,more or less.But in a position where he's to get married mid next year,I asked him on the wisdom of planning such a move at such a point in time.But apparently,he had got his gf's consent on this so well,God bless him.There were various push factors which prompted him to move and those were valid (in a way) but I won't go in depth into them.

Anyway,the talk centred on how although we all wanted to move,it seems that three/four years in the same industry,doing the same job have all rendered us immovable objects to other industries.Mainly because it seemed that what we learnt,our skills,are entirely untransferable to other jobs.Gambit and me are basically marketing students.He went into finance because it was the first job opening to him.He always wanted a marketing job and would love to land one on his lap...but at this stage in his career,it'd mean he'd have to start from scratch again...something he admitted he was reluctant to do.

This is probably the same case for me as the things I do here,my so-called skills,are even more untransferable than his.I have always told a lot of people that unless I get a move into other job capacities,I will end up always doing work of a similar nature like this.I have to admit this was never really what I envisioned myself doing when I graduated.It still isn't.Is it my ideal job?I don't think so...the problem is that,through the years of dulling my senses here,I have even forgotten or lost direction on what my favourite job might be...or was.

How bad is this?I wonder.I recently looked through Saturday's calssifieds and could find almost nothing that I could use my present experience to leverage on...except for a post in Mindef.Mindef?!Think about that.Of all the things I looked through,the only thing I could suitable is another civil service job.Hahah.Once a civil servant,always a civil servant.What kind of a roundabout dead-end job is this?

Will I be able to go out there and do a good marketing or HR job?Will I be able to accept that my experience here could be as good as wasted (if I wanted to do something completely different)and start from ground zero in learning everything again?Including accepting a level of pay that I received three years ago...or even less?Questions questions questions.

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