Compatability – How do you define it?

I was watching Central Affairs II last night on 8TV. A woman who has everything; a good job, a caring family and a loving boyfriend started to question if she has found true happiness. I have all that she has and I also started to question if I am truly happy. Her boyfriend’s goal in life is to lead it simply, have enough of all the fighting in the corporate world and leave the wealthy family that he is brought up in. Her goal in life is the complete opposite. She wants to climb the corporate ladder, be the CEO and push herself to the limit. So she questions…are they compatible? Should she live her whole life with someone who doesn’t share her dreams?  But then again…they say opposite attracts. Maybe they are meant to be opposite. Maybe they are meant to support each other in their own way. They don’t necessarily have to walk the same path. As long as their hearts are entwined as one, why bother about their worldly differences?

Why bother about our worldly differences?

Job hunting…a full time job

I enjoyed university after I left it. Yup, just like everyone else. We don’t appreciate what we have until it slips pass us. We keep drilling ourselves to savour the moment, smell the roses, enjoy it while it lasts but they just don’t stick. While I was studying, bending my head over thick law texts and business manuals, I thought…wouldn’t it be great if I could stop having examinations, stop slogging over essays that I will never use in real life? Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could just get a job and work 9.00am to 5.00pm, have two rests days in a week, fend for myself and earn my own keep?

Fast forward four years, my Uni days are gone in a flash. The dreams of flashing my own credit card still floats in my mind. I gathered all my tools to go job hunting! Brushed up my CV, wrote a standard cover letter and cracked my head for my “biggest achievement”, “biggest disappointment”, “most controversial thing you have organised”. I went for every job fair and registered on a few famous web recruitment agents. I was confident that I will land a job in no time. I thought…hey…I have a degree in this, a Master in that, I was active in school, I was best achiever in this year and that, I have part-time work experience, I went for this internship and that internship, I studied in this country and that school; why shouldn’t I be rewarded with that “great” job?

Nearly 3 months of having a full time job job hunting, I was at the brink of despair. I cried my eyes out when I was rejected the first time. I didn’t want that job anyway. I went for the interview just for experience yet I cried. It is the bitter taste of rejection, I tell you. That taste, that bitter taste, lingers in your mind and your heart forever.

I continued my strive for success. I still had dreams of spending my own cash, having my own cubicle and wearing my crisp white suit. I wrote and spoke. I presented and even folded paper boats. Sometimes I lied. I magnified my minute achievements. I glorified my dull Uni days. I met many types of interviewers; some professional, some hasty, some women who behaved like men, some who were not on time. I told myself that this is my full time job, looking for a job.

Suddenly, when all rejections came gushing in my mail box and stuffing my phone lines, acceptance after acceptance came to wash them all away! Now my full time job is to pick and choose the fruits of my labour. Much better than arming myself for battle in the interview grounds.

Pick and choose, pick and choose…Pick I did. Choose I did. And I can only hope I did right.

Lots to look forward to in my next full time job!!!

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