Work Life.

Sometimes, I cant help to just ignore ppl's thoughts. I know so well that we live in a world with some many kinds of ppl and none of us has the exact same thought or personality as the other one. None. Everybody is different. Sometimes you may think someone's taste and thoughts are so close to yours, but love, they are never identical. Am I the only one alone here who sometimes fathom, 这是什么世界？这样的人也有？, kinda thoughts?

I just read an article on GigaCircle this morning, talking about the differences between generations 70s, 80s and 90s. The article may not represent all 70s, 80s and 90s, but some, i cant help but to agree.

1. Work / Career
工作狂基本上都是70後的。
80後，拒絕加班！
90後：拒絕上班！

Time is ticking, I know this damn well. Sometimes I get the question and advices like, are you sure you want to start working this soon? Or, you won't be getting longer holidays once you start working! Or, you should just enjoy yourself and maybe at the meantime, looking for a job you really really like.

Dear friends, you are so damn right. I cannot agree more. Once I start working, I wont have so much holidays. I will have to look at the calendar every year to count how many public leaves I can have to plan for my vacations, getaways. Once I start working, I can barely enjoy myself because I am going to spend countless hours on work. Not to mention, life as a programmer. Its kinda like 24/7. That sounds awful! If so, can I just turn down the thoughts to not working until I find a job with interesting not cunning ppl around, higher pay, no OT, huge allowance and bonus, flexible time frame, minor workload and not stressful? Because that is the job I really really like. Can I? Can I? CAN I?!

I am 24, stepping so soon into 25. You can say I am still young, I have just graduated, take time to look into what I really like. No, I do not think I can even spare a few years more to relax and enjoy, before I start to think about how I am going to survive for the next 50 years. What are the 4 years spent in university for? To observe, to look, to know myself better. If you have missed it, start it now.

I am a fresh graduate. I graduated with nothing in my hand. I have nothing to prove of what I am capable of. We all were, at first. We are all at the same starting line. Take your time, spend a few years, you will see the differences between.

Do not regret.


2. FAMA sponsorship
70後有存款。
80後負債。
90後：我們有老爸！

We are all blessed when we are under their care. Love is something so wonderful that everyone would die for it. The first love we get ever since we were born is from our parents. And it is still lasting. And it will never end. I think it just makes my decision to leave home harder everytime i think of them.

I remembered myself being so depressed once, because I realized I couldnt give them anything at all. Every dime I owned that time, came from them. Every cent I spent, was their love. I was sucking them dry. I worked, earned a bit, in the end I realized I didnt even know where did I spend the earnings on. Its just gone. I gave them some of the earnings, but they paid for me indirectly tenth as much. Without realizing, without sense, without hesitation.

Do you pay for you meals at home?
Do you pay for the bed you lay on every night?
Do you pay for the clean and nice and comfy house of yours?
Do you pay for the wi-fi at home?
Do you pay for the air con bills, do you even know how much is it?
Do you pay for the nice shower everyday?
Do you pay for the loan on the car that you drive around everyday?

Then, I know it was inevitable, I know, and there was absolutely nothing I could do to help. I was convinced to do my part well, as a student, as their child, let them have one less thing to worry about, me. And now, I know and I wake up. It is time, already.

帖撒罗尼迦后三章10节说：“若有人不肯做工，就不可吃饭！”
Bible teaches us too, we must work to live. Nobody gets free meals, nobody gets free.

I do not know if you have already found what you so called the work you really really like, and I know everybody is different. For now, just make a change. Stop wasting any more time, you dont really have so many years to spare anymore. For me, it is not wrong to switch between jobs, but it is I who dominate over my job, I make it the job I really really like, and not letting the job defines what I like.

Wake up, princess, there is no job as such I described above.

Also, I dont mean you must leave home or you must leave your parents' care, no, i dont mean so. Be responsible of your own life. You are what it matters, after all. Your parents dont live for you, as how you dont live for your children. 他们没义务打着朝九晚五的工作来养你。

Now, if you find this post offensive, this does not represent all. This is just my thoughts, and this is how I remind myself in case I got numb of the life in the next 20 years, I shall always know how I started enthusiastically at the first place.

I just wish I wont turn out to be another 草莓族，啃老族. Do you? Are you now? Will you?