Over past days, I’ve been trying to weigh in the factors I have from and with my previous and current job. The most common difference would be the people around you. I consider it a big factor as to how it affects your performance and ways you’d think about your career environment. Policies and purposes of companies are a given, unavoidable rules and missions to contribute to society in their own innovative ways, no matter how financially or morally rewarding it is.
Whatever our reasons would be that we’re doing a certain job is our drive that’s why we’ve applied for it and signed our loyalty to it. As I met and talked with new folks at work, their reasons vary from how they view their lives. My motivations would be lame for other people, while I see theirs as shallow.
There are chances where I end up thinking I’m doing things double-effort. When most of the people take things for granted, I pay attention into it quite much. Lifestyle and family, I would like to balance things from my home to my career. Give special attention to my wife and son, and focus on my work at its given time. I can’t just help, but to think of how other people takes their lifestyle for granted, screw-up other people, and still manage to do the same to some more. The sad thing about this is that they carry this through in building up (supposedly) their own family.
Throughout the past six or five years of my life, I learned to appreciate life from my work. Meeting people from different walks of life, knowing someone who is living their lives to the fullest in spite of their disabilities, went to places and learned how their culture affects how they go about society, having all these, it’s only the starting point of it all, the best part of it was to actually become a friend to these people.
With the current job, I’m learning how diversity is overrated being abused by people who likes to take advantage with how they are living their lives. Because on how they’ve watched it from other countries, movies, TV series, lame artists, they sort of create this society of a “diverse (as how they took the word and used it)” field where people can be whoever they wanna be for as long as they do their job and abide by the company’s rules. Sad but true.
Freedom is I think very different from Diversity. Being able to say, do, not caring what others do and show-off how you live to other people is different from being able to get along and understand why are others in a certain situation and have them aware of the society we currently have and how they could contribute to it rather than go-off-on-anyone’s-face-and-don’t-give-a-damn-about-it way of going about things.
