Where is the finish line? | Am I lacking motivation to progress and improve in my career?

Having started work officially since I graduated university in 2019, I have changed job once and faced different bosses with very different working styles at both jobs. I have had to adjust myself and make sure that I am not pissing my boss off at work haha. And it’s tough when I changed jobs during the pandemic and have not met my current boss in real life ever since starting work.

Virtual meetings are the only way for her to communicate with me and it gets awkward at times because I am not someone who can talk a lot and I try to really keep my personal life away from work so I don’t share much. Seeing many articles about The Great Resignation makes me think is there really the perfect job?

Besides thinking whether I have the ‘perfect job’, I cam across this article from Rice Media which was titled, “ Everyone’s Progressing, but I Lack Ambition. Is That So Wrong?”. I really liked the article as I related to it.

Give me the tasks, I get it done and I'm off

I am exactly the person described in the article, you assign me the tasks, I get it done and that’s it. I am great at following deadlines and making sure that I get it done. I have read numerous articles that talk about how you shouldn’t just be completing your task but go beyond that to be recognised. Well, haha, I am currently not at that stage yet. I do hope also to be a great employee and to do the things that can give me a huge pay raise or a promotion but so far, not yet.

I am not sure if I should feel guilty about wanting to cruise along in my job in that I just go with the flow and not stand out too much. Getting my pay each month and hoping that the company doesn’t retrench me haha. It’s tough because technically I am not a best worker but I do my job, keep to deadlines and know my responsibilities.

I want to have a smooth sailing day, what are some expectations you have?

I actually just pray that there are no escalations or huge major issues at work. I love a peaceful day where I can just have the time to myself to do what I need to do. All in all, I work to solve issues and some times unique situations can get really frustrating when no one answers you or are not available to help.

Working made me want to achieve FI

After starting work and experiencing how companies function as well as learning that you peak towards age 40 and usually go downhill from there in terms of your compensation unless you are having a very valuable skillset or have tons of experience that people can learn from. Otherwise, it is very difficult for jobs like mine (administrative in nature) to last that long as a new wave of talent will be there and at a cheaper rate and probably more efficient considering how fast things change nowadays.

All these made me strive to achieve financial independence (FI) and this means having sufficient assets to still survive at the same level I currently am at even if I lose my job. It is of course, a journey and a long journey ahead as I build up my assets and hope that one day they will be enough for me to have no worries that I will be retrenched or fired. Work is definitely a great way to occupy your time if you do not have many things you want to do especially so when you are great at your work. Achieving FI is more of having an ease of mind, knowing that your lifestyle does not need to change even if you lose your job. I like how the Rice Media ended with, “The problem comes when we feel pressured to chase something for the sake of it. We’ve been primed to always aim for more. The narrative goes: Move fast, dream big, or lose out in the race. Sometimes though, less is more. At the end of the day, everyone should live the way they know best; in their own terms.

And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.” I like how it covers the current pace of life and yet provides another view that being different might be the solution, ending that it might not necessary be bad and that we should find the way we live best. Ending it here and hoping to cruise through my days and be grateful for what I have. Hope this episode has been informative, it is not so much on the finances part but it is a huge reason behind why I invest and buy assets that I believe will appreciate in value over time. Do remember to subscribe and like my videos!

References: https://www.ricemedia.co/features-everyones-progressing-but-i-lack-ambition-is-that-wrong/

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