Back Home, with a New Job

May 31, 2020 at 10:43 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: employment, jobs

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Those who have followed my blog for some time know that this blog started off as a portfolio. It was started by a fresh graduate who was figuring out her way in the world of employment. It shared her CVs, her first job experiences, her struggles with her job, her burnt out, and trying to find her footing again during her career break, and soon it will chronicle again her journey back into employment.

I have currently found a new job, requiring the skills I have honed over the past ten years of my working life, but in an industry I am passionate about – work and employability. As you know, this blog started out with the title “A Job Hunter’s Guide: Helping the Fresh Graduate Find Their First Job” – and served to help the unemployed navigate the confusing world of work. I enjoy encouraging people, especially the unemployed, in their search for a job. I also enjoy encouraging people to change their “boring” jobs, to something they find more meaningful, whether environment-, passion- or skills-wise.

I think it’s the greatest shame that one gives up the joy of work and settle into something meaningless to one, merely to sustain a living. Sustaining a living is important, but never should one become stagnant and unproductive in the process of doing so. If you find yourself hanging on to your job, no longer contributing in a meaningful way, even becoming a burden to your colleagues and workplace, it is time to self-reflect or find another job!

I sound so idealistic but this is what I believe – work is meant to fulfill you. You don’t have to change your work if you don’t want to, but you need to change your attitude and expectation that work is nothing more than something that sucks your life out of you.

Don’t waste your time and don’t waste your life. Use your work to learn about yourself, about others, about the world and become a better person because of what you do. You have no choice but to work, so make the most out of it.

Don’t lose hope that you can find meaning in work. Bring to work your best, your talents, your efforts, your enthusiasm and your love. When you do, you can rest without shame and give yourself the self-care and work-life balance without any guilt!

Even if this crisis means that you need to settle for something less, do it with all your heart. Uncertainties need not imply only anxieties and challenges but it also suggest new opportunities and surprises!

Embrace work and embrace the whole of life!