October

This week was supposingly my last week in Citi if I stayed on.

Sometimes, oh well quite often I look back at those few months. I still feel scare thinking about it. My heart still skipped a beat. And whenever a job is situated at shenton way, I immediately skipped it. (Its funny how when I was a school girl, I love to spend hours there, people watched and day dreaming bout my future)

The corporate world experience was a very horrifying one for me. Maybe it was just a one off experience because of the boss I had. But that aside, what I see and hear scares me. I felt and still do like a little girl in a big big world. I think maybe banking is much more scary than other industry. I guess the scary things people tell you about corporate world occurs more in banking than in anywhere else.

Yet sometimes, I think about how I would be nearer to making lots of money if I had stayed on.
But more often than not, I am happy to leave the fame, the environment, the cruelty.
No, not everywhere is like that. Everywhere has its own form of such stress, politics and culture, some more, some less. (0r not everyone is so fainted hearted like me)

In any case, I probably sworn off the corporate world even if not for the rest of my life, at least for now.

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