Life In Transition

I must say, I started this year 2011, with a very empty start. For one, I started this year with ambiguous goals and objectives and somehow this year I have not really thought it through. Well, things like what I'm going to do, where I'm intending to go and how I want to improve my life.

My father said this is the transitional stage from the "after school life" to the "working phase". I would say its my entry to "reality" but all these while it has been real for me. I was pretty offended by words from a person a few days or a week ago where it said words like "good luck and it is about time you enter reality". Like I'm living in a fantasy? I've traveled to places and handled different cultures. Anyway, I guess I need to give it the benefit of doubt that it may not possess the state-of-the-art language.

With the rumors going around saying that the rabbit year is going to be a slow year, I guess I'm feeling the effects already. The news on job hunt has been very demoralizing but then again I don't blame them, because I have friends who stay unemployed for over a year. And it is all bull stockings, when they say EMPLOYERS ARE HIRING. Like hell, NO. It is more like employers are being picky!

The idea behind fresh graduates is to give them an opportunity to learn and excel in their job positions. If you are advertising and desperate to hire, can't you settle for fresh graduates, rather than hoping for people who have work experience? If you don't give fresh graduates a try, these graduates will never get to that level of work experience. So in other words, are you trying to tell me that fresh graduates should apply for low level entry jobs and employers would take this opportunity to exploit them by giving them lower wages? So are you saying fresh graduates should settle for lower wages? Where is the point, market value and returns for pursuing higher education? Then comes back to the idea that, the po1itica1 g0vern4nc3 is encouraging people to upgrade their skills and knowledge, and yet there's a conflicting element of graduates being exploited after their studies.

Anyway, half of my frustration has gone to these paragraphs. Argh. I'm not frustrated, not desperate but then again I just feel things could get a little faster already. Or perhaps I'm just feeling restless...

"Life in Transition" - frostdude