[Goal #2] Get employed!
It's been a year now since my contract ended with Hirono-machi. For one year, I could have made a cool tax-free $36k if I had re-signed. Instead I resigned, and for one year, I made $0. It's definitely not something I'm proud of or like to admit, but maybe admitting my shortcomings will empower me to overcome them. I feel the power as we speak. =/
And my next line would've been the predictable: "It's not like I haven't been looking, I've sent out 10 resumes already and no one's calling back!" (well, I guess it was). But now I'm reading this job book that says that THAT'S the same biggest mistake most job hunters make: "Just because you can't find them, doesn't mean they don't exist . . Take keys for example; just because you can't find them one morning, as you're about to leave the house, doesn't mean they don't exist." Well put. *golf clap*
So I'm gonna stop sending out resumes, which is apparently the worst way to get a job, and start going over to their offices and confront them face-to-face, which is apparently the best way. Because hey, if they're not calling us, we'll call them.
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In other job-related ponderings:
Most of my cousins and Chinese friends are in Business with the goal of becoming Certified General Accountants (a title so important that it must be capitalized!). In fact, if I do become a teacher, I would be a first in the family . . teaching just doesn't seem to be an interesting profession among the Chinese.
Then again, people tell me that economics and all that number-crunching is downright boring. So why make a career out of it? Frankly, I think they're money-driven. After all, a CGA can make upwards to $100k or more.
So I don't blame them. Vancouver is a very expensive place to live, and you probably need at least $800,000 to get yourself started in this city . . which would take a veeeery long time to get to on the average $40k salary. Heck, I'd probably be dead by the time I reach $800k on teacher wages. :P
"Happiness can't be bought" and "I don't care about the money." Or at least, that's what I wish I could say. But then I think about what makes me happy. And one big thing is freedom. To me, freedom is happiness. The freedom to go to point B on the weekends, to eat Quiznos for lunch everyday, to have broadband internet so I can blog whenever I want, download whatever I want. So maybe money really can't buy happiness. But money can buy freedom which brings happiness.
I think I finally made that link between money and happiness like my cousins have. And I think I'm finally developing the "Job Instinct," ie. like a killer instinct, except with less jail time. It took me six years longer than most people, but now I know how being unemployed feels. Without a job, I feel depressed.
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And I think if I don't get a job by the end of this week, I'm gonna be raving mad. ;_;
And my next line would've been the predictable: "It's not like I haven't been looking, I've sent out 10 resumes already and no one's calling back!" (well, I guess it was). But now I'm reading this job book that says that THAT'S the same biggest mistake most job hunters make: "Just because you can't find them, doesn't mean they don't exist . . Take keys for example; just because you can't find them one morning, as you're about to leave the house, doesn't mean they don't exist." Well put. *golf clap*
So I'm gonna stop sending out resumes, which is apparently the worst way to get a job, and start going over to their offices and confront them face-to-face, which is apparently the best way. Because hey, if they're not calling us, we'll call them.
.
.
In other job-related ponderings:
Most of my cousins and Chinese friends are in Business with the goal of becoming Certified General Accountants (a title so important that it must be capitalized!). In fact, if I do become a teacher, I would be a first in the family . . teaching just doesn't seem to be an interesting profession among the Chinese.
Then again, people tell me that economics and all that number-crunching is downright boring. So why make a career out of it? Frankly, I think they're money-driven. After all, a CGA can make upwards to $100k or more.
So I don't blame them. Vancouver is a very expensive place to live, and you probably need at least $800,000 to get yourself started in this city . . which would take a veeeery long time to get to on the average $40k salary. Heck, I'd probably be dead by the time I reach $800k on teacher wages. :P
"Happiness can't be bought" and "I don't care about the money." Or at least, that's what I wish I could say. But then I think about what makes me happy. And one big thing is freedom. To me, freedom is happiness. The freedom to go to point B on the weekends, to eat Quiznos for lunch everyday, to have broadband internet so I can blog whenever I want, download whatever I want. So maybe money really can't buy happiness. But money can buy freedom which brings happiness.
I think I finally made that link between money and happiness like my cousins have. And I think I'm finally developing the "Job Instinct," ie. like a killer instinct, except with less jail time. It took me six years longer than most people, but now I know how being unemployed feels. Without a job, I feel depressed.
.
.
And I think if I don't get a job by the end of this week, I'm gonna be raving mad. ;_;