Sunday, July 15, 2007

My job... NOT my career...

... Where should i start...

I read a book recently call: Rich Dad Poor Dad and it gave me a quite abit of... Inspiration...

Ever since I've start having doubt bout joining the Navy, I've been looking for an answer as to whether its the right choice to leave... The only excuse I've manage to come up with till then was that I wanna go out to study... Sounds simple, ambitious yet not too depressing nor insulting to those who still wanna stay... Kindda sad actually that the fact I'm still trying to find ways to convince myself to stay cause its a relatively good career with promising salary... For my education level and diploma that is...

Through out the months I've been closely observing the people around, finding out the reason they wanna stay or leave and comparing both while keep on searching for my answer...
Thought the conlusion is still blur but one thing is for sure is that:
The reason for me to leave wins over reason to stay by a light year, the fact that I've been unconciously saving up the sum I have now is quite enough evidence to show that I'm preparing to leave... And now that the fog in my mind have been cleared up, I'm now trying even harder to save up as much as I possibly can...
Though its really killing my softly... Nevermind that...

One thing I've notice bout the people that wanna stay is that they are heavily burden with what I like to call the 'Death Contract'... It's liablity of some sort which singaporeans commonly get themselves into, sometime without even realising it... Typical example would be cars, loan/debt (credit card, gambling, etc...), apartment, and family (mainly kids)...
I'll say I'm lucky enough that my girlfriend is still quite young thus removing the necessity for marrage anytime soon, which also neutralise the liablity of apartment and family... I don't have the habit of gambling nor do I have any loan/debt... While I'm heavily in need of a transport, I choose to get a bike which cost only 10% of what car would, while it doesn't totally remove the liablity part, it still cost a damn lot cheaper than the installment of a car...


So, I'm fully prepared to leave and made necessary arrangement for it, just waiting for my bond to be complete...
Now the only thing left is how I'm gonna deal with the people in camp...


Wish me luck...


And so today's update:

Spend: lost count for last month (over shot quite abit actually), 600 to house, 200 for my girlfriend's birthday presents (Nokia 5700, etc), 500 to saving, 70 for farecard, 20 for cab and 60 for 2 Bike lesson... And some for food of course...
Save: 1ooo from my bonus...
Wallet: ???
Coins: ???
Current Bank: 400+
Saving Bank: 9000
Saving (2): 600o+
Saving (3): 9105.96 units