Updates!
To all my loyal, faithful blog supporters, I am back! Your patience has finally been rewarded!! Nope. China still bans blogspot. But I have my way of getting access to it. :P
Okay here is the update. I have been in Shanghai for 3 months! Things have been rough and tough. There are a lot of things that I have adapt and accustom to.
A new living environment where you have to put up with lousy food, crowded trains and uncivilized people EVERYDAY. Furthermore, I have to wash my own clothes and settle my meals myself. Most importantly, I do not have my darling and my family members by my side. It can get a bit lonely sometimes, especially when you have to go back to an empty house after work. Yup, I have made new friends in Shanghai. But then again, life is just different without my darling and my family members by my side.
The working world is very different from the studying world. In the working world, things move very fast and people expect you to pick up things by yourself. People have no time to teach you or to give you guidance. Furthermore, they are impatient and less forgiving. They expect things to be perfect and they do not tolerate mistakes.
And it does not help that real estate industry is a localized industry where you need local knowledge to do well, that my company has a lot of office politics and that I have a workaholic boss who 1) will always send you email at around 5.59pm 2) expects you to check your email at 9pm 3) does not hesitate to ask you to go back to the office during holidays and weekends.
It took me a while to get used to the working world, much longer than I expected. But I guess I finally understand what is required of me and I am slowly getting the hang of it.
Okay here is the update. I have been in Shanghai for 3 months! Things have been rough and tough. There are a lot of things that I have adapt and accustom to.
A new living environment where you have to put up with lousy food, crowded trains and uncivilized people EVERYDAY. Furthermore, I have to wash my own clothes and settle my meals myself. Most importantly, I do not have my darling and my family members by my side. It can get a bit lonely sometimes, especially when you have to go back to an empty house after work. Yup, I have made new friends in Shanghai. But then again, life is just different without my darling and my family members by my side.
The working world is very different from the studying world. In the working world, things move very fast and people expect you to pick up things by yourself. People have no time to teach you or to give you guidance. Furthermore, they are impatient and less forgiving. They expect things to be perfect and they do not tolerate mistakes.
And it does not help that real estate industry is a localized industry where you need local knowledge to do well, that my company has a lot of office politics and that I have a workaholic boss who 1) will always send you email at around 5.59pm 2) expects you to check your email at 9pm 3) does not hesitate to ask you to go back to the office during holidays and weekends.
It took me a while to get used to the working world, much longer than I expected. But I guess I finally understand what is required of me and I am slowly getting the hang of it.
Despite all these, I still have no regrets. I have learnt a lot from this adventure and I will continue to learn more. I am sure I will be become a stronger and more complete person at the end of this journey. :>
