Comments on: My Panacea for living http://uncannyphilosophy.com/people/my-panacea-for-living/ A blog on just about everything Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:43:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: sabrina http://uncannyphilosophy.com/people/my-panacea-for-living/comment-page-1/#comment-3075 sabrina Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:11:18 +0000 http://uncannyphilosophy.com/?p=316#comment-3075 it's good that you have developed this thinking now. i'm working for a chinaman, albeit a kiwi born and bred chinaman, but still their thinking and working ways is nonetheless of a chinaman. and i find it very struggling to cope with it, because my values and his are very different. our expectations are very different, and most nights i come home feeling depressed and stressed. a lot of times i feel like i want to just throw in the towel and just dump my resignation letter. but i can't because the economy is horrible at the moment, and jobs aren't aplenty. so i just have to stick with this one to pay my bills. and like you, i have to tell myself that i won't let my work affect my personal life, though i admit sometimes it's very hard to adopt such thinking when you simply just have a crap day. but i guess in a way, we strive NOT to be like these people who make work their whole life and whole soul. it’s good that you have developed this thinking now.

i’m working for a chinaman, albeit a kiwi born and bred chinaman, but still their thinking and working ways is nonetheless of a chinaman.
and i find it very struggling to cope with it, because my values and his are very different.
our expectations are very different, and most nights i come home feeling depressed and stressed.
a lot of times i feel like i want to just throw in the towel and just dump my resignation letter.

but i can’t because the economy is horrible at the moment, and jobs aren’t aplenty. so i just have to stick with this one to pay my bills.

and like you, i have to tell myself that i won’t let my work affect my personal life, though i admit sometimes it’s very hard to adopt such thinking when you simply just have a crap day.

but i guess in a way, we strive NOT to be like these people who make work their whole life and whole soul.

]]> By: LC Teh http://uncannyphilosophy.com/people/my-panacea-for-living/comment-page-1/#comment-3073 LC Teh Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:57:22 +0000 http://uncannyphilosophy.com/?p=316#comment-3073 Seems it will do you a lot of good that you realize such things early. I was through three quarters of my work life before I could put a finger on it. But then I guess things were so much different then and now. And then again, it was half my work life gone before I joined an MNC. Here is where performance is measured and calculated on paper. And data interpretation is more important and trusted than personal assessment and judgement. Creativity, dedication and passion for the job is one strength (or now considered weakness) that can be exploited. And whatever happened to the dignity of labor? Seems it will do you a lot of good that you realize such things early. I was through three quarters of my work life before I could put a finger on it. But then I guess things were so much different then and now. And then again, it was half my work life gone before I joined an MNC. Here is where performance is measured and calculated on paper. And data interpretation is more important and trusted than personal assessment and judgement. Creativity, dedication and passion for the job is one strength (or now considered weakness) that can be exploited. And whatever happened to the dignity of labor?

]]> By: pelf http://uncannyphilosophy.com/people/my-panacea-for-living/comment-page-1/#comment-3071 pelf Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:26:20 +0000 http://uncannyphilosophy.com/?p=316#comment-3071 I was once the I-must-go-out-and-save-all-the-turtles grad student but of course like you said, however hard I tried, it was never enough for somebody else. So I have chose to take one day at a time, tackling the issues as they come to me, spend more time with my family (since I live some 8 hours from home) and be productive without killing myself (with stress and depression). And a quotation that I later stumbled upon just reaffirmed my choice: "Nobody lies on their deathbed wishing they had spent more time at work." There is no end to work. The more you do, the more it comes to you. I was once the I-must-go-out-and-save-all-the-turtles grad student but of course like you said, however hard I tried, it was never enough for somebody else. So I have chose to take one day at a time, tackling the issues as they come to me, spend more time with my family (since I live some 8 hours from home) and be productive without killing myself (with stress and depression).

And a quotation that I later stumbled upon just reaffirmed my choice:

“Nobody lies on their deathbed wishing they had spent more time at work.”

There is no end to work. The more you do, the more it comes to you.

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