It has been a long time since I updated. I have been too damn busy this few days and I have little time to myself. What I realized is that it is all about time management and how you handle all the workload at work and home.
Work has been great fun and providing service is superb when customers are polite and appreciative of what you are passionately doing. Even though this job has not OT pay, I go to the extra mile to stay back late to ensure I know my stuff and that things are in proper order. The only bad thing is that my workplace closes at 6pm, if not I would have stayed back till late night like what I did back when I was in the Army.
When I first entered the IT industry, I was skeptical of whether I could cope with the demands as I was still a freshie my IT skills was all left in my Poly days. Heck, mine was more towards the Networking and programming side of IT, but my current workload is more towards system administration and MOE approved software like Lotus notes and VPN client. So the lack of knowledge and experience in this has led me to being insecured.
During the holidays there were not many students and teachers as well, and during such periods are the times when we could relax a bit. I found out that after school reopened it was much more hectic and multitasking is a need.
Apart from IT management, I also bakaliao everything that concerns technology, and that includes doing things beyond my jobscope like troubleshoot projectors and visualisers and I am providing this service out of goodwill. Searching for vendors, purchasing of IT equipment is also done partly by me. So in other way I contact with a lot of people and it is fun I must say. One of the vendors has also asked me to call him for work should I quit my job, and he gave me his number.
What I realized about students nowadays is that they are more rebellious and teachers are less able to control them. Teachers are slaves to parents and whenever parents complain on a particular teacher, he will have no say in anything but just keep queit like a mouse unless the big Principal intervenes, which I doubt so. Principal will in turn support the parents in fear that parents will complain to MOE, so as to safekeep their VIP position. Almost 70 percent of the students there have long hair and this is a shocking revelation for me as back when I was in Sec 4, none of this would be tolerated.
I have happy with my job right now, even though tiring. I face many difficulties here, but I take it as a positive challenge, so that kind of create a sense of excitement in it.
Last Sunday was the first time I ran since November last year. I wanted to try out how I would fare in my running, and it was not all that bad. I felt fresh and I want to start this regime. Comparing slow jogging and running 2.4KM, I would prefer the latter as frankly speaking it is more challenging than jogging 5 KM or so and I relish it a lot.
War is coming soon this Wednesday due to some politics that is happening at my workplace, and I will update on that whether it would be the deciding factor I quit my job or not.
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