2 more weeks and it will be the end of the long 3 months vacation. It means school starts and also means I will be flying for 10+ hours to faraway land for my exchange. Ok, not that far actually. 2 more years and I'll be graduating. 1 more year before Miss Bong graduates and 0.5 more years before Miss Tan grads. Gosh.. to think all of us seems to enter uni like not too long ago.
People have always said that being a student is better than working but to me I always maintain the stand that both are not easy and I have to suffer but at least I get paid while working while I pay while studying. As time goes by, through personal experience and through listening and reading about the experience of others I can't help but think 'The working world is so much more complicated!!" Especially in my industry. If you want to be in brokering / operations, there is no escaping the entertaining of clients. Everyone knows I can't drink to save myself. And I hate to do networking for the sake of networking. I find it so so fake. But apparently it is needed. Network and contacts, not degree or honours, are the buzz words.
I never call up people for no apparent reason. I always thought you call when there is a reason to. I never even called Ms Bong juz because I'm bored. I always called to either scream to wake her up or to tell her something...ahaha. Even if it is just gossiping, this is also a reason. So I never understood why people call up another person just to say
"Hello! How are you?? I didn't call you for a long time already so decide to give you a call. So have you eaten? What are you doing? Blah blah... (after 5 mins) Ok, I have work to do, call you again!"I would be left with ??? in my mind if someone were to call and say this to me. But then when I left one of my 4 temp jobs, one of the collegues actually insisted that I write my contacts for her and also insisted for me to write down her contacts. She actually keep repeating herself that I must must email her, must call her. But in my heart I was actually going "????? But I'm really not that close to you and don't really have much to talk to you about. So what am I suppose to call you and say?" I was really damn amused and puzzled. My mum says that this is a way to just keep in contact and I can just call up occassionally and say all the above lines red. (p/s: my collegue is in her thirties and quite auntish.)
Must I really really do that!?? Can someone please enlighten me on the rational of doing such things!!??
Bonkers @ 7/22/2007 10:13:00 PM
