First day at work.
It was a great start to my first stint in office work. My new colleagues are helpful and quite friendly. Yes its only "quite friendly" because all of them once they hit the keyboard, they do not stop. Not a single casual conversation was exchanged during office hours. All eyes and fingers glued to the their respective desktops for the entire day only stopping to nibble on some snacks which they brought from home during lunch. By the way, their butts remain at their work desk during lunch and poor me being the only human there had to visit the canteen alone.I started the day as a computer caveman who count on friends to help me insert blogskins,tagboards on my OWN blog but ended the day equipped with some html skills to configure and edit a professional website. All due credits for my colleagues aka html teachers at NCS esp Florence, Yen Ling and another unknown lady whom I dun know your name.Another group of new college's Raymond, Jeannie and Mary that I would love to express my appreciation for your help. Thanks for treating me like a kid and always looking out for me. Although they wont know my blog addy for now but at least if they do drop by in future, that's the least I can do to thank them after my first day in the NCS Family.
Just like all other things on this Earth, the first day is not that perfect as it seems. One thing that I cant stand is the long hours in an aircon room. My body feels rather dry and uncomfortable. The presence of the all mighty Sun is sorely missed man.
Another thing is I dun really feel at home in office settings. It is #^$%@! compared to the great outdoors which most of us adore. The blazing sun, lush vegetation, smelly sweat and the moody raingod -------> that's my ideal workplace. Dull tables and desktops coupled with a quiet environment is a real test of my endurance and patience. I hereby declare that I pass the test of endurance with flying colours by clocking 12 hrs of worktime yesterday. Hope its not just a flash in a pan but rather a good habit for my "real" working life after my tertiary education.
So much for my first day of work, I would love to share one of my life principles with everyone that just comes to my mind. "There are many tasks in life even how much we hate them but we still got to get the job WELL done."-- Lee Yi Xin.
A simply reason for that its because, we don't live in a world of our own neither is any one of us the king of the world. For that, we simply cannot listen our hearts all the time. Just imagine, if one fine day all 6.2 billion people in this world decides to be a doctor and nothing else; who is going to be the patient ? Who is going to keep our streets clean and who is going grow the pineapples and bananas ?
No matter how many times I say I hate white collar jobs in office settings, in no situation will I give up or resign for I have given my word to work till the end of the project. Its not just for the salary but simply more of honoring a promise. In fact, I will choose to return to office work after my studies and slog on for decades to come. No more career as a park ranger, zoo keeper or TCM physician for me if all goes according to plan. Although deep down I do know I will definitely enjoy a lot more being a zoo keeper, Chinese physician or hawker than locked up in a building. For the sake of my dream to become an influential philanthropist and for the countless people I can potentially help in future; all the decades of doing what I dislike will prove worthwhile.
Oh ya Esther Ng, friday never rain at all leh. So my theory is correct! =p
" Someone got to do it. Why not me(you)?"-- some beer advertisement
~Nil Sine Labore
posted by the man @ 4:08 PM
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