"Are you naive or what?"
"Are you naive or what?"
This is what my friend, who is also a colleague of my, asked me when I told him about my decision not to vie for the vacant Officer position and be upgraded to a Senior Specialist instead. Am I really naive? I guess not? Perhaps it's just part of self discovery? I seriously do not have an answer. After so much that happened, be it in my love or work life, I am just feeling tired.
I don't see a point of fighting for this position when I can sense that my immediate bosses do not have faith and confidence in my writing. The consolation is my Deputy Director, a scholar with pretty high standards in written English, has no qualms over my writing ability. Ok. I got to admit that I do not have a good command of English, but I must say that my English is still pretty decent.
Was told the main reason why I did not managed to get the Media Relations Officer position was largely due to the organisation's Human Resource policies, which will happen to me again if I go for this position - I do not have a degree from a 'recognised' University. But this is what I have found at the Civil Service Job Portal:
"For graduate positions, we accept degrees from all universities accredited by the home government of the country where the university is located. This applies to degrees obtained full-time or part time, through distance-learning or twinning programmes, etc."
Anyway there is one thing that I am very sure of - my boss value my contributions to the organisation and has been a very supportive boss. I ought to understand that his hands are tied too. So for the moment, I shall just focus on the tasks that have been delegated to me and till I am more settled down, I shall not be hunting for jobs.
So... why did I get myself a copy of The Straits Times today?
Edited: Kelvin just informed me that I had keyed in native instead of naive. LOL!