Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~Confucius
I see my life is like in a stage of clay waiting to be molded. The clay has been put together in one place ready to be used, but I am not sure what shape I should mould it into. My academic study will finish next year with my graduation. Without a doubt, that and my industrial trainings will ensure that I can get a job after that.
There are many things that I want from a job. My highest priority: it has to be enjoyable.
I remember having to go through the subject with the worst lecturer in my life (that bastard). It was just too hard for me, no motivation whatsoever :( so: zero enjoyment. I admit that it was not just his fault, it is mine too for not trying harder. I’ve learned my lesson: I will do anything to avoid that situation again. So if the basis of the job is not conducive enough to enjoyment, forget it.
I find another aspect of enjoying a job lies with the people I work with. I want it to have work colleagues like my life-long friends. People always says two brains are better than one - I’ll simplify: more brains are always better. That is why I think motivation to collaborate is the most important thing to make multiple minds work together as a giant clock. Just like grid computing can only be a ’supercomputer’ when all the interfaces are specified properly within each cluster.
I would not be able to go through my uni achieving what I have done so far without pyko and Chii. I found many common grounds with them, thus walking (3 of us) together makes me feel a lot stronger than standing by myself. Sharing is caring, so what can be a better idea than working with them as work colleagues? :D
Challenging work will be another one I want from a job. At this point in time, I honestly don’t know what I want to do, but I DO know what I do NOT want to do. Before in my first industrial training, I will be happy to do anything that I can help other people with, bearing in mind that it has to be useful (not just a shitty job they gave me just because they don’t have anything to do). Now though, things are a bit different. Life is too short to be spent on doing crappy job.
I’ll give you one example I thought of, people who has to write technological code of conduct for the Bank; The code of conduct I meant is basically the piece of paper that I have to sign when I got employed. The one that outlines that ‘employee cannot open personal email, cannot use the Internet for anything else than the work supposed to be conducted’, blah blah blah… It is obvious to me that the piece of work is very important, especially to set the benchmark of security for the Bank. However I cannot set myself to work on it (and no one ask me either, *phew*), simply because it is there just to cover other people’s arse when bad things happen. It is boring, shitty job alright.
The last thing is money. Even though money cannot buy happiness, not having enough money will definitely make my life a lot harder. Most probably I won’t be able to get the kind of lifestyle I want, if I don’t have enough funds to keep me going. A good job is a job that pays off fairly. What kind of job will allow me to get enough money to live, without sacrificing the quality of the job measured by the previous two priorities?
I think this is the $1,000,000 question. And I hope I will be able to answer that as soon as possible.
Wow! Nice summary of your thoughts.. quite deep and personal :o I like it… well, it is much more interesting to read compare to some Wiki-Copy-Paste websites I have been reading (re: enggies)
I think enjoyable job is certainly desirable.. To me, most important thing for my job is something I can eventually finish (very counterintuitive to some people, like I want to get fired? what?) Like in my first (and only job) at a researching firm last summer, I couldn’t stand reprogramming the same damn code for a month! There was no end to what I could add to it, so frustrating sometimes… But again in the first few days of the new task everything was as exciting as…. meh
Anyway good luck will finding your ~perfect/enjoyable job, and loving it when you do.
BACK to sleep :p
Comment by glam — 30 August 2007 @ 11:46 pm
Well, I want to be your work colleagues like my life-long friends hahaha if you want me to.
Well bagi gue sih, apalagi first job, bersyukur aja deh dapet aja. Lu mungkin tahu gimana susahnya dpt kerja di Amrik. Apalagi buat orang international. Harus cari company yang mau sponsorin kita visa kerja, itupun paling cuma 25% company yang mau terima. Pokoknya klo gue sih kerjaan pertama itu ngapain ya terima aja deh.
Have a nice sleep :)
Comment by Jeff — 31 August 2007 @ 6:21 am
to glam:
Lols, you re still taking enggie? not bored of them yet? :D
Yeah true, it is very nice to be able to see your work / project / program extends and grows. It is very hard to have this opportunity though, usually some hacky crappy programmer would have made the design out of straws and it’s waiting for you to tumble it :S then you can start from new :) how lovely.
to Jeff:
I think getting a job is important, but liking it is a lot more important. I’ve seen people around me who are not happy with their work and they don’t really do anything about it. Their excuse was ‘ah I have put up with it for a long time, it won’t hurt now at all’, I think that is wrong because if you actually have a choice (and you always do anyway, as long as you live) to not experience that, then don’t. It is a silly thing to do. The fact of the matter is that those people are still not happy now, and I don’t think that will change anytime soon.
No matter how hard it is to find a job now, you will get bored of it pretty soon (I can assure you that) if you don’t enjoy it. You may hide it from yourself by running to food, games, church, or other activities that you enjoy more, but remember, you will spend huge chunk of you time at work compared to those other activities. So it is worth thinking at the very least :)
Comment by marty — 31 August 2007 @ 12:10 pm
Yeah true true liking a job is a lot more important. But as you know like I said, in US at least you must be happy with your first job, because you don’t have many options to choose. My dad said you will get bored with your job, but if you always try to change / improve / new idea than it you won’t get bored *well he is a very professional businessman so I believe him*
I think you might not like your job but you can try to like it, even tough it’s not going to guarantee you to like it, but at least you try. You know sometimes you stuck in a place that you don’t actually like, but you have too, not because you don’t have choices, but you just have too hahahaha so confusing.
I need to start writing my resume for the biggest Job Fair in my campus in two weeks. Well, need to look for internship, so it helps me to have more choices when I want to work after I graduate right.
Comment by Jeff — 1 September 2007 @ 5:33 am
hey good luck :D
Comment by marty — 1 September 2007 @ 5:36 am
iya…sama tuh, gue juga nyari kerjaan yg gue enjoy. Tapi soal uangnya…gmn yak..hehehe
Comment by boim — 2 September 2007 @ 8:29 pm