Work to live or live to work?

 

More and more people in the workplace have realized: "Work is to have better life, and life is not only for work." This mindset pays more attention to the quality of life, and enjoying such a life especially with family members.

 

It is indeed our job to make money, but if we spend every five days at work from 8 in the morning to 6 in the evening, we can’t even have proper meals. It only means that we chose the wrong job."

 

The pressure of work is often very heavy in our modern lives. It is understandable that a person in the workplace always puts his work first. However, don't take your work home. Think about how a person who is still working can integrate into the atmosphere of home, how can the family members who live with you feel your care and love, and how can the family produce the warmth it needs? If things go on like this, home will not be home. And because of the imbalance between work and family, it is difficult to ensure that you can devote yourself to your career, which will also affect your work. Marriage and family are the most direct support systems for individuals, and they are undoubtedly very important for the release and relief of personal stress. The support and recognition of family and family members is an important way for everyone to gain self-esteem, as well as a source of confidence and strength.

 

You should hurry home after getting off work to have dinner with your family and enjoy the family happiness. Some people always think that family and career cannot be balanced. In fact, there is no contradiction between the two. How to take both into account and treat them in a balanced way is an issue that we should be concerned about. In terms of importance, family and career should be equal. Blindly pursuing a career can easily lead to a disconnection with the latter; on the contrary, a certain degree of disconnection with the latter will also bring a certain counter-effect to the former. You can’t just look at your family from the perspective of your career, and you can’t always look at your career from the perspective of your family. While building a family with a perfect atmosphere, we should complement each other's career with this atmosphere, and let the family become the backing of the career. Relief yourself appropriately and take free time to enjoy the warmth brought by the family, so that while enjoying the ambience, the pressure brought by all aspects of the career will also be reduced.

 

Facts have proved that people can have a successful career and a beautiful family at the same time. Only if you are passionate about life and work, this is then a beautiful life. In fact, whether men or women, the key to having a good life lies in our attitude and satisfaction with material life, career and feelings, as well as our own skills and maturity in role-playing.

 

Everyone has different goals at every stage, and the order of career and family is also different. Taken together, the family is the backing of the career, and the career is the assurance of the family; once you try to get out of the labyrinth, understanding the essentials of various roles, striving to be a "good actor" and working smoothly between the workplace and the family are naturally the only way to succeed.

 

As long as time permits, we must try our best to make family life meaningful, and some details should not be missed. No matter how busy you are, no matter how late you go home, you should go to your child's bedside and hug your child every morning. There will be understanding and love between you and your family, and happiness will come for a long time.

 

In short, work conscientiously, live happily, and use your own efforts to make career and life fly together.

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8 workplace experiences summarized by veterans in the workplace

8 workplace experiences summarized by veterans in the workplace

1. Don't tell your colleagues that you are planning to leave.

Don't tell anyone in the original company before leaving your job, so that you can protect your interests.

Resignation is a big event for the company. After telling your colleagues, it will get to the ears of leaders or supervisors. Then you eventually will have to leave.

 

2. Sharing too much with colleagues

Almost all people know that it is a taboo to share too much about ourselves, and the problem is that many people have not yet understood that their friendship with some people is actually very shallow.

But because they have the same views or practices on one or two things, they feel that they are very close. They get acquainted with others in a short period of time, say everything, and finally hurt themselves.

So the best way is not to tell any secrets to people who have known you for a short time.

 

3. Usefulness

In the workplace, the more "useful" you are, the more "restrained" others are towards you. If your boss can humiliate you in front of others, your colleagues can instruct you to do trivial things, not because you are not good. It is because you are "useless to them".

 

4. Devote your time carefully

Energy and time are limited. Often those who succeeded earlier knew at a young age that a person can only do a few things or even one thing well in his life. Thus they find themselves the right thing, concentrate all your energy on doing it, and then accumulate experience, and the compound interest effect of time allows them to be ahead of their peers.

 

5. Lose your temper at the right time

When you need to lose your temper, you have to lose your temper. Maybe you are not angry at all, but you can pretend to be angry. Although it will become a little awkward, but others will be wary that there is a threshold of you that needs to be respected.

 

6. Learn to have multiple income streams.

Learn a few more skills even if you are unemployed in the future, you will have a competitive advantage over others.

Just like if a salesman is developing multiple customers at the same time, he will not put all his hopes in one customer, and he will not be nervous about the gains and losses, so he will have more confidence to negotiate the business.

 

7. Don't tell your colleagues that you have other sources of incomes.

Be sure to keep confidential with your colleagues, to ensure that he will cause trouble to the entire company. Leaders think that you are not doing your job properly, since that you have other income anyway, so they will give you less promotion and pay raise.

 

8. No one is irreplaceable; people will be queuing to take your place.

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Predictions in 2022

Time flies and we are in 2022.This comes a bit too late but well never too late as long as 2022 has not end.  Here are some of the predictions in 2022.

01     Pandemic to Endemic

Although there are further mutations of the virus, mankind is inventing vaccines and booster shots to produce immunity against the virus. No one knows when the viruses could be wiped out but one thing for sure is that the pandemic could become just like common cold for more developed countries with high vaccination rates. Countries will not enter endemic phase at the same time. The faster the country enters the endemic state, the faster it can get back to pre –covid standards. It will create a larger economic inequality between the richer and poorer countries. Richer countries will be able to allow travel much earlier and this will get the economy back up.

02     Future of Work

Due to the pandemic, people realised that they have the flexibility to choose their working hours. Employees prefer work life balance which they know that they can work more productive remotely. It is also a win win situation for the employers as they can scale down their office spaces for substantial savings. This might lead to more people resigning and reprioritizing their lives goals.

03     Inflation and Rise of Cypto

Inflation is running at a nearly four decade high in the United States and Singapore is not spared from rising inflation rates. Higher inflation erodes the value of money in your bank account. Gold has been used as a hedge against inflation however crypto has been gaining popularity in recent years. Non fungible tokens (NFTs) and the metaverse will continue to boom into 2022. Even Facebook is taking a claim in the metaverse. The blockchains and its impact is definitely a thing to note in 2022.

04     Travel worries

How many of us have not been travelling due to the pandemic, I think all of us are looking forward to being able to travel to far and exotic countries. However due to the impact of the lockdowns and travel bans, a lot of the travel related industries was impacted. Jobs are lost and reduced, time and money is required to attract the talents back into the related industries. Not only increased salaries, rising oil prices will cost travel fares to go up. Thus people will go and hunt for shorter trips within the countries or countries nearby instead.

05     Potential Business Opportunities

Online retail will continue to prosper, however due to the disruptions of the supply chain caused by the pandemic, there will be further delays in shipments, resulting in scarcity of resources and goods. This will give rise to the second hand economy.  Consumers do not mind using second hand goods to save some money and to wait for new products to reach the shopping racks. The rise of the second hand economy is also fuelled by the consensus to create a more sustainable future to deter the impacts of climate change.

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