Another colleague in my team tenders her resignation yesterday. This is the 2nd resignation within 2 months – says a lot about the environment here.
While I am trying hard to stay positive, there are the overwhelming negative factors that will constantly discourage me or demoralize me. Keeping my head up and believing that somehow, in time to come, things will be better at work. One of the good news I have received yesterday is an offer for transfer. Although it ain’t really my preferred department, but still, an offer is definitely better than no offer at all. Have discussed with my folks and a few of my close pals, will have to consider it carefully before I made a decision. Lord Jesus, grant me wisdom.
On one hand, I am tempted by the monetary gains that this new offer might bring me, yet on the other, I am acutely aware of my own dreams and goals, a vision of where I would desire my life to walk into. While I do believe in the fact that no one can never be too old for anything, yet I am also aware of the harsh reality that society may not be as willing to accept a newbie in say, her thirties or forties, in another new line of work. At least not within the Asian culture.
Which brings me to a much talked about topic. Just how willing are we Singaporeans to take in older workers in a new line of work? Just as there are two sides to a coin, there are also the good and bad sides of employing an older worker.
The advantages are obvious. Experience which can only come with age, a wider exposure to the general working society and definitely ideas that may improve or even revamp the current work structure. The disadvantages? Ironically, experience too. For an older worker who has loads of working experience in his or her life, that may actually prove to be a handicap, especially if he or she is too set in his or her mindset to unlearn the old ways of working and relearn the new ropes of the trade. Which pretty much applies to all of the human race. We are less susceptible to change as much as we like to think we are. Humans, in general, are not big fans of the “CHANGE” word. We are, after all, creatures of habit and routine.
Bringing that into my personal life, I wonder – just how much is Lina willing to change? To step out of my own comfort zone into a new arena requires much faith and courage no less. While I like to think that I am good in what I do, to venture into another new line of work altogether is quite a different story. Am I willing to be uncomfortable? Am I willing to be re-mould again?
Honestly, I have no answer to that question.
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