Day 14 - some misconceptions??

i'm a week old with Giordano and i'm doing good. or at least, i'm enjoying what i'm doing at this moment. despite that i get really physically shag-out at the end of the day, i'm happy. however, i don't understand those questionable looks i get from some people, including colleagues, who happened to ask about my educational qualifications.

yes, i'm a proud diploma holder. so? doesn't mean that i'm a dip-grad i have to look for white-collar jobs y'know. i've been there, done that.

i guess, i understand where these people coming from. after all, all of our folks pushed us to get our certs are purely based on "you study more so you'll get good jobs in future and earn big bucks". i came from that kind of upbringing as well. seriously, it's time to change these opinions. it's really degrading despite i'm holding a decent job.

worse still, i've heard from my trainer that one of her staff got verbally abused by a lady customer who got pissed off by some of our "inflexible" policies. that lady pointed at our staff and said to her daughter (in front of her), "girl, look at that jie jie? if you don't work hard, you'll be like her next time..."

of coz, i also agree that you don't require a dip-cert to do what i'm doing. but how many young or experienced working adults out there enjoy what they're doing? i guess, if it weren't for their responsibilities to put food on their rice tables, they would have throw in the towel a long time ago. given a choice, i believe most of them would in turn do other things instead of slogging out their guts for incompetent bosses who backstabbed them.

anyway, that's not really my point.

i know some of my friends also couldn't get it (even though they didn't put it across to me) when i've told them about my job. i can feel it lah. i'm from the sales and right now, i still have not managed to get away from that. i hated the feeling of chasing individual figures and being competed and compared among colleagues. maybe i'm incompetent from the start, that's why i felt the unnecessary pressure. however, at this moment, i don't have to bother so much about the figures because the load has been evenly distributed to the rest of the team. each and every members are responsible for the overall results, which i like it!

there's no much to meet the eye in every job. then again, even before the public gets to understand anything, they began to judge and discriminate the role.

Singapore, it's time to grow up.