My professional life is a bit "sucky" (there isn't a term but well it means "sucks").
My first full-time job in Singapore since my return is warming me up for a lot of future challenges, somehow I am prepared. I don't think it is the right place for me to stay. I've been facing a lot of obstacles and I need to overcome them before that something right comes along. Facing with finding my passion and goal, working with difficult people and handling a new, raw and disorganized project... so far it has not only taught me a lot of tolerance and patience, but today I finally resolved a work problem.
If you remember my past entry about an incompetent person, this afternoon I finally exploded. Not a fiery eruption, actually a mild but serious one. I have gathered my courage, collected my evidence, and walked up to this person. I told him I needed to talk to him and I listed all the things I was very unhappy about when he worked with me.
Surprisingly, he did not defend any or most of the things I have said. It seemed like he agreed he was at fault or well, is he just putting up a nice front and wear a mask in front of me? I don't know. The funny thing is that he wanted to keep that piece of paper where I listed the incidents. I sillily gave it to him, but later on I changed my mind and trashed it! I handled it the professional way - I'd like to reckon. There wasn't any bad air after the confrontation, well, at least I think so too!
My designer-colleagues were stunned by my upfrontness and courage, I guess a lot of us Asians do not speak up a lot so we ended up frustrated about things at work. Bury, bury, bury; accumulate, accumulate, accumulate; store store, store... and where is all these shit going to come out from??? I don't like the idea of venting the frustration on some innocent party! Now I'm beginning to see that work life should not be affecting my personal life!!!
So it's one down... Next, finding my passion :))))))))))))))
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