JOBs. The Rat Race.

After school and doing whatever best job you can get, you try to continue to upgrade, put in extra hours to get ahead of your colleagues to move up the ladder. Ask yourself, why do we do that? I wanted to do that to get into a higher level to get the so called easier life and better pay. Remember this ‘EASIER LIFE, MORE MONEY’ Isn’t it the ultimate aim of everyone? Don’t you want it? Are you working hard so that you’ll get it? Mum always tell me, “You have no choice. You want money? You want a better future? Like it or not, you got to do whatever job that pays well or have better career prospects” I will always argue with her. I have always believed that the future can’t be that bad. I should be able to land myself a job that I like doing, get paid well and gets easier as I move up. Duh! Reality check. That was only a dream. I would really have to work very hard, get lucky breaks, study for another 10 years to get a Degree, MBA …. Where am I going to get all that money from for all these? My brain was getting tired from all the continued studying over the years just to get some Diplomas. My body is getting tired from all the work, overtime, learning & studying and exams. When will this end? I was really tired everyday. Are you experiencing the same thing? It then dawn upon me that getting to the top is not that easy. Everyone is doing what I’m doing. Some of my company I worked for hired someone from outside the organization instead of promoting from within. Do your sums here. For every department, how many employees are there? They are all waiting for a chance to get promoted when the department head resigns, retires, gets promoted or retrenched. If you are the head, you will want to move further up or stay there for as long as you can. So what are the chances of all the employees? Very slim. Maybe 1 or 2 will get promoted. The rest will reach retirement without realizing their career aspirations. Job hopping will not help much too. Wake up NOW! Get out of the Rat Race. Like a race there will be only 1 winner and lots of losers. Please! I beg of you. For your sake and your family get out of the Rat Race, unless you are 110% sure you win the race. It might be too late when some people realize that their dreams will never come true. They will be too old to challenge the younger and energetic ones. You will have to work for the rest of your miserable lives just to survive. And what do we teach our children? What we’re doing now. 100% failure. I got retrenched after working faithfully for 5 years. My spouse got retrenched twice. Can’t blame the company. It’s you or the survival of the company. You will surely choose the latter if you were the owner of the company.