work
okay another update after a while!
today, i was just telling someone that i actually missed working. as in doing the office job kind of work, like my past internships. haha, was at vivo and while looking at the lunch time office crowd, i suddenly missed the routine of going to work everyday, ironing and wearing my office clothes, and squeezing on the train every morning during that mad rush hour. i think i’m a closet workaholic! but then when i met up with some of my coursemates in the evening for dinner, as i talked to them, i was thankful that i didn’t have to do an internship this holidays somehow. maybe i might have felt that i was missing out on something especially when most of my friends are doing theirs this holidays, either for clearing the modular credit or the experience. but i know that this time, i chose not to work because i want to give more time for other things, and to really spend my holidays meaningfully instead of going through a routine which takes up more than half of my time of the day, leaving only those few precious hours of evening time. and then just now i came across my brother’s blog, and he wrote something related to work which i feel makes a lot of sense too:
“If you look back the few years you’ve worked, what is memorable? Staying late to rush a project timeline? What in the end has the project done? Has it helped anyone? Has it ever made a difference to anyone’s life? Answer would likely be no, it would only add to the revenue which came back as a number, cold hard number on the P&L, balance sheet, cash flow statement.”
reading this, it makes me think twice about going into the finance and investment sector. i know that most people in my course are aiming for that because of the glamour and the pay, but seriously, what difference are we really making by doing those number crunching? currently, i’m still quite unsure of my niche field in real estate.. whether it’s marketing/development/valuation/finance/urban planning.. somehow i feel that my interest lies in urban planning, it’s been an interest of mine because of its aesthetics side (used to like to draw floor plans since very young and loved design & technology in sec because i could conceptualise and visualise 3-d images very easily.. haha used to want to be an interior designer actually). however, i know that it’s very hard to get into URA to be an urban planner, and they accept mostly architects because of their specialised knowledge. haha well, the other option is marketing which is also my passion since jc days because of a marketing internship i had before, i would love to be designing the tenant mix of a shopping mall and come out with marketing campaigns to ‘revive’ the mall but i know that retail marketing requires a lot of time at the malls especially during weekends, and i definitely don’t want to give up my weekends for work. which leaves me with finance and investment.. which is something i’m not that comfortable with, facing huge sums of money. hmm.. i guess the only satisfaction derived from being in the sector is knowing that you brought in a lot of money to the company, adding to its bottomline at the end of the financial year.
oh well, work is really something that i’ve been thinking about suddenly, but i still have some time to think about what i really like to do before i graduate in a year. hopefully, by then, i’ll be more clear about my strengths and passion in real estate! =)
