Well, NJ Hockey has officially been handed down to the next generation. from now on, i no longer have any formal connection to it. i guess it's kind of a bittersweet feeling. on the one hand, it's simply a natural progression that all seniors have to go through which will give us more time to focus on our A levels, and quite a well-needed one too, considering how the homework has been steadily picking up its pace. but on the other hand, there's always that same feeling of sentimentality whenever you leave a place for good; whether it's ai tong, cat high, hockey, and even NJC in a few months' time. i guess it's inevitable that certain things will have to be given up for the sake of progress.
im getting that feeling again; that same futility over the fact that in a few months' time i will be seperated from all my friends in NJC. i know that people say there's facebook and msn and whatever, but i just tell them to stop kidding themselves. it wont be the same and everyone knows it. it will only be a matter of time.
yesterday's H3 physics test... well, at least the mark allocation was better this time. instead of having a 40-mark question, this time it was split up as 15-15-15-15-5-10-25. now, instead of losing marks in a few large chunks, i can lose them in many bite-sized pieces... but really it didnt make much of a difference, cos honestly this time was just as screwed up as the last time. i'd say that even aiming for anything above a bare pass would be ambitious for me now.
have you read the morning paper today? there's an article in the Straits Times today about gen y employees. apparently, the average gen y (about 20-30 years old) worker today stays in a job for about 18 months, and can shuffle through as many as 7 jobs in 5 years. it seems that the conventional ideas of job loyalty, job security and job stability dont really seem to apply anymore in the modern working world, at least according to the statistics. so am i an oddball by planning to stay in just one job? am i the only one in my age group thinking like that? call me old-fashioned, but the idea of job-hopping over and over again, having to adapt to new colleagues and environments all the time, and being periodically unemployed between jobs, is simply unthinkable for me.
i am reminded of an article i read some time last year, about how polytechnic graduates were having an easier time finding employment than their university counterparts in the financial crisis. i feel that the author really pointed out a few key points about how your work attitude can affect your employability. he said that while polytechnic graduates are willing to start off low in the hierarchy and are more likely to stay in the company, university graduates typically want to command a high salary right from the start and will barely hesitate before jumping ship to another job providing better benefits. i feel that we should all seriously question our own attitudes about a job before pointing the finger at employers or the economy when we cant find suitable employment; which employer in his right mind would want to pay more to hire a person who could very possibly leave the company at the end of the year?
