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Anonymous

29 Dec 2021

Career

Are all desk bound jobs meaningless? Feels like I'm not adding value in my job and a waste of time. However, i can't quit cause I'm supporting family and working towards financial freedom.

Tried applying other jobs but job market still bad. Currently an entry level worker with 1 year of sgunitedtraineeship experience. In a contract job currently.

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Value-add? maybe if you look at things from another angle, you may be able to tolerate it more?

Try to learn more skills from the seniors during the traineeship. It is the best time to adapt into working adult world. during this time, I am sure that you also have time to learn new skills from online courses.

Robin

04 Jan 2022

Administrator at SG

Being a millennial myself, I can identify with the struggles of being in a non-productive/non- progressive workplace. I was in such a place for about 2 years of my working life. It was well needed at that time considering the phase of life that I was in and needed more work-life balance.

What is your qualification like?

We should be thankful that we can be privileged enough to think about fufilment of work and not just an instrument to exchange your time with money. Many out there do not have such opportunities.

  • Jobs are meaningless, is just an instrument to exchange your time with money.

  • As u just come out to society to work, highly chance you will jump around a few companies.

  • All the place is the same, waste time, either you are doing other people shit + your shit, very stress or idling lot of free time.

  • You find it meaningless, becoz u are fighting for your boss, not for yourself.

  • Consider it as a blessing to be able to idle.

  • Once you able to align your personal goal with career goal it will become easier and meaningful.

  • The career/personal goal should be very simple:

How to make yourself more valuable so that you can exchange the same amount of time with more $$$ while doing lesser work

Hmm i think i work in a rather meaningful role (it’s also desk bound), but after ten years in simila...

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