Entry: Lack of updates.... Monday, September 14, 2009



...here doesn't mean I'm dead. My teaching blog is pretty active, just not much to update in the snowparang's life as of yet.

Wait till my apartment arrive, and school holiday begins...hehehe...

Anyway, here's a gem website I found recently: http://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/

And this recent post from that website just sums up why I left the airforce and join teaching: http://emailsfromcrazypeople.com/2009/09/12/meaningless-work/

An excerpt from the post is pasted here:

"As many of you now know this friday will be my last day with PwC so I
wanted to say good bye and thank you for everything. My decision to
leave was not a snap decision as it may have seemed but a well thought
out process. It started one night in the audit room as I was helplessly
attempting to focus on some inane, completely irrelevant task so I could
leave when the green card carrying cleaning lady came into my cage to
empty my garbage when my decision was made. I realized that I was
actually jealous of her job. I would have gladly emptied the garbage
cans in the whole building over any of the nonsense I was doing on my
computer. See, at the end of her shift she has made a difference, she
has added value, be it minimal, of removing the refuse from the employees cubes. At the end of the day she sees the empty garbage cans and knows that she accomplished something. When trying to apply this mindset to my own work I found it to be impossible. At the end of my shift, I will have
documented a control, that was only created for the sake of having a
control, and my work will..."

:)

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