My Whereabouts and Lessons Learned
Eccentric… Impulsive…Stubborn… Crazy.
Those are the the usual words coined on me by my closest friends and for the longest time they are wondering where on earth am I for I’m sort of into soul searching again though this time not living on hermitage but rather completely detaching from them.
This brought question on why leave a promising career when I am already on a threshold of another career advancement and many would have love to trade places with me. My answer would always be absurd to some, especially for those who live a sheltered and structured life. Yes, I got bored and I always favored risk and adventure for it spices life and realized my work deprive me of it and much of my time to spent for myself which created a ripple and affect my personal life in a long run.
So, I’m packing my stuff, live like a bum and go to places. In short, I’m having the real vacation I always dreamed of and doing things like waking up late, grabbing the remote and still in pajamas ’til noon but living like a sloth has its toll for it become quite boring after some time and with your bills rising and savings dwindling I feel there’s a need to go back to the corporate world.
Where am I really on earth?
I’m not in Singapore as others thought for I try my luck in the middle east had a short-live job in a contracting company as L/C Accountant in Abu Dhabi and realized my passion is in the financial world and it is where I feel comfortable and happy– I guess my more than a decade experience has something to do with it. Good thing the market for financial personnel’s are wide and the financial world welcomes me back. Now I’m in Dubai and fortunate enough to be one of the pioneers in an american based finance company with worldwide presence who just started establishing its presence in the middle east.
What I learned from doing a sudden halt and crazy stuff?
Practically a lot… I learned that you need to work to keep pace with the earth. I learned that you don’t need to work to live. I learned that you need to take risk to open the Pandora’s box of opportunities. I learned to learn a lot of things simply by leaving the comfort zones. I learned to understand that the world is indeed small and one if you learn to respect each differences.
Though I have any regret?
Absolutely none and such eccentricity, impulsiveness, stubbornness and craziness once again prove to bring colors.
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