Wah! It's been almost 1 month since I wrote my last blog! It's unbelievable... but it happened....
I could not LOG-in!!!!! Because, for some reasons, the site could not recognise my user name! It was scary.... Anyway, obviously, I was able to reset everything, and here I am sprouting again...
I could not LOG-in!!!!! Because, for some reasons, the site could not recognise my user name! It was scary.... Anyway, obviously, I was able to reset everything, and here I am sprouting again...
Back on track... For all of you who've read my previous post and commended it, THANK YOU!!! (It gives me motivation to write more...)
For those of you complaining that I haven't written my blog for so long... STOP complaining!!! I very busy one ok.... ( busy complaining that I am bored, busy doing nothing.... )
To reward all of you for reading, I shall write a long blog so that you will have more things to read about... And then you won't complain that I write too little, too infrequently. ( This blog should be able to last for another month!!!!
)
So, let me start this issue of blog properly, by telling a story.... ( sounds familiar hor... )
Last Friday, I met up with an old friend, also my ex-colleague, for dinner. During dinner, we started talking about what we are doing, on how his job is, where to go for holiday, and so on... (the dinner topics). He started commenting that I was taking things too easy, that I should work, and not take things so lightly, and that it is difficult for the man to take care of the family. (Having said that, it's obvious that he's also married lah...)
So I told him, I am bringing in the income, just that I don't have to work for a single day because I enjoy what I am doing.
The sad thing was, he replied, How I wish I can be like you...
Immediately, I asked him, "Why not?" He wasn't able to reply me. And if I was to ask most of the working people the same question, they won't be able to answer as well.
Even now, I'm thinking, Why not? Who states that we HAVE to work? Crawl out of Bed every morning? Follow rigid hours? Get Stressed? Spend more time with colleagues, bosses, office people than with the family? Pursuing a career is one thing. But having to work?? I can't see myself doing that anymore. The sheer thought of doing something I'm not interested in, wasting that precious time and energy - No way. It's like, once you've tasted the "forbidden fruit", nothing else will ever come close to it. (Also, abit like drugs lah... but I MUST declare, other than medicinal drugs, the social drugs I never take before.)
I remember someone once told me, "If you love doing what you do, the money will come." And I believed in that. I still believe in it. Even if the money don't come, the experience, the joy, the sense of fulfilment - All these money cannot buy.
Of course it wasn't easy for me at first. After I left my engineering job, I was "running" around for 1 year, jumping into everything else I could get myself into, instead of doing what I already knew I wanted to do. I feared that the money wouldn't be enough, that there would not be enough to sustain the household. I scringed on everything, food, clothes, transportation, leisure, etc.
Finally, I decided enough was enough and I took my leap of faith. The result today - I'm simply enjoying life. I don't work. I merely go out and have fun, enjoy myself, and bring in the income. Do I earn 5-digit income a month, NO. Will I get there - eventually. At least for now, I am making more than what my previous company would have paid me if I had stayed there for another 3 years. And I "work" half the total hours a month. Do the math yourself if you want. The income of a starting Engineer is about $2500 a month. Add in pathetic increments, pathetic promotions, maybe some loyalty bonus, in 3 years time, how much would it add up to?
For those of you complaining that I haven't written my blog for so long... STOP complaining!!! I very busy one ok.... ( busy complaining that I am bored, busy doing nothing....
)To reward all of you for reading, I shall write a long blog so that you will have more things to read about... And then you won't complain that I write too little, too infrequently. ( This blog should be able to last for another month!!!!
) So, let me start this issue of blog properly, by telling a story.... ( sounds familiar hor...
)Last Friday, I met up with an old friend, also my ex-colleague, for dinner. During dinner, we started talking about what we are doing, on how his job is, where to go for holiday, and so on... (the dinner topics). He started commenting that I was taking things too easy, that I should work, and not take things so lightly, and that it is difficult for the man to take care of the family. (Having said that, it's obvious that he's also married lah...)
So I told him, I am bringing in the income, just that I don't have to work for a single day because I enjoy what I am doing.
The sad thing was, he replied, How I wish I can be like you...
Immediately, I asked him, "Why not?" He wasn't able to reply me. And if I was to ask most of the working people the same question, they won't be able to answer as well.
Even now, I'm thinking, Why not? Who states that we HAVE to work? Crawl out of Bed every morning? Follow rigid hours? Get Stressed? Spend more time with colleagues, bosses, office people than with the family? Pursuing a career is one thing. But having to work?? I can't see myself doing that anymore. The sheer thought of doing something I'm not interested in, wasting that precious time and energy - No way. It's like, once you've tasted the "forbidden fruit", nothing else will ever come close to it. (Also, abit like drugs lah... but I MUST declare, other than medicinal drugs, the social drugs I never take before.)
I remember someone once told me, "If you love doing what you do, the money will come." And I believed in that. I still believe in it. Even if the money don't come, the experience, the joy, the sense of fulfilment - All these money cannot buy.
Of course it wasn't easy for me at first. After I left my engineering job, I was "running" around for 1 year, jumping into everything else I could get myself into, instead of doing what I already knew I wanted to do. I feared that the money wouldn't be enough, that there would not be enough to sustain the household. I scringed on everything, food, clothes, transportation, leisure, etc.
Finally, I decided enough was enough and I took my leap of faith. The result today - I'm simply enjoying life. I don't work. I merely go out and have fun, enjoy myself, and bring in the income. Do I earn 5-digit income a month, NO. Will I get there - eventually. At least for now, I am making more than what my previous company would have paid me if I had stayed there for another 3 years. And I "work" half the total hours a month. Do the math yourself if you want. The income of a starting Engineer is about $2500 a month. Add in pathetic increments, pathetic promotions, maybe some loyalty bonus, in 3 years time, how much would it add up to?
It's from Doing what I LOVE to DO!!!
Then, there will be those who read this and say, Cheh, that's you mah. You lucky, your case different mah. I got this commitment, that commitment, how can any how...
Everybody is different. Among the people who succeed, there are no two who were in the exact same situation. Everyone has their difficulties. But yet those people succeeded. If they can do it, why can't I and why can't you?
Know what you want. Do what you love. And everything will fall into place.
Everybody is different. Among the people who succeed, there are no two who were in the exact same situation. Everyone has their difficulties. But yet those people succeeded. If they can do it, why can't I and why can't you?
Know what you want. Do what you love. And everything will fall into place.
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