Archive for the ‘ Career ’ Category

Increment or Not?

This month will be the month I find out if I’ll have a salary increment. I told the future missus that if I didn’t get one, I’ll be looking for another job. I don’t know if I will though. I enjoy what I’m doing, and it doesn’t take up too much of my time (overtime’s [ READ MORE ]

Changing Jobs for More Money

“Leaving for money” is, according to an article in the Harvard Business Review on career moves, called “Managing Yourself: Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change“, one of the major mistakes people make when deciding between jobs. Though not too extraordinary a finding in itself (surely you have heard people say, “it’s not all about the [ READ MORE ]

Getting a Job During a Recession

A program on the BBC about a week back talked about getting a job during a recession. “Graduates,” they said, “who got jobs during recessions were likely to be paid less than their peers who got jobs during times of prosperity.” I am, unfortunately, one of them. Graduating at the end of 2008, I went looking [ READ MORE ]

Persevering Through Difficulty

I am currently reading Seth Godin’s book The Dip, in which he mentions that well-roundedness is not the secret to success, contrary to what we learn in school. How often do you look for someone who is actually quite good at the things you don’t need her to do? How often do you hope that your [ READ MORE ]

The need for a car

“I think that it was the car,” my mom said over dinner, “that kept me going in my job.” When I first heard this I didn’t realise just how counterintuitive it was. My mom was referring to how important she felt the car was in for her keeping her job. It wasn’t that her job needed [ READ MORE ]

Love what you do, and the money will follow. Or will it?

I recently read an article on how an author went around interviewing rich people in an attempt to find out their “secrets to success”. What he found was that these rich people tended not to seek money for its own sake. In essence, the author found that you should pursue what you love, for the [ READ MORE ]

The Confirmation Appraisal

I think that I had neglected to tell you that I went for my confirmation appraisal just the other day (last Thursday). What that means is that I am now a confirmed permanent staff of my present company. Just like to express to my company my sincere thanks, and that I’m filled with gratitude that [ READ MORE ]

Entrepreneurship and Full-time Work

A couple of days ago I had a talk with a good friend of mine, also an aspiring entrepreneur, regarding entrepreneurship. Though we shared many similar thoughts regarding this subject, it was when we differed that I learned the most. At one point of our conversation, the reasons why we were so driven toward becoming [ READ MORE ]

Internal Talent Scouting

I went for an “interview” with a corporate HR person yesterday, from a department called Talent Management. Before you think how to yourself, “wow”, allow me to admit that I wasn’t exclusively chosen for it — I was one of the 200-or-so (probably more) marketing people who were. Though I must applaud the company for [ READ MORE ]

Without Goals

Due to a start-stop run-training routine, I completed the Army Half Marathon yesterday in what was one of my worst timings ever. I also ended up with terrible muscle aches and a recurrence of an acute pain in my left knee, and as a result I was forced to take medical leave to visit a [ READ MORE ]