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I met up with my best friend today. We were both in our late 20s when we started in the same team at the same time back 8 years ago. We left the team around the same time. His dark hair has turned all grey since we first met.
I know where his grey hairs come from as I have witnessed how hard he always works. He is bit younger than me but he looks 10 years old.
I recall my conversation with one of my colleagues one day. She was a Tax Manager from Hong Kong. I was asked if I had any expectation with my children. I replied: “No. They can be electricians if they like”. She agreed with me. No wonder she did. Look at us in the industry. Many of us work for long hours and are constantly under stress. She used to leave work around 6pm to pick up her child. Then go home and cook. After dinner, she started dialling up to the bank’s system and work until late. My ex-boss did extract the same and quite often on the weekend as well.
I can’t recount how many late nights I had over the last few years and how many work related nightmare I had. The deadline, the Reputation Risk of the bank hung around in your mind during the day and night, during the week and the weekend, sometimes even during your holidays, even though I have tried to learn how to switch off these days.
I used to deal with the lawyers in the states. When I called them early in the morning, it’s about midnight over there. Guess what, most of the time they were still in the office. When we structured a deal, some of our lawyer sleep for 3 hours a day.
Besides the Aussie culture, one of the reasons the bars in the city are always full of office workers on the Friday evening is due to the stress. I used to do lots of that.
Nevertheless, most of my Chinese friends want their children to be Doctors and Lawyer, especially those blue collar ones.
I have to ask myself: Is professional life really that attractive? |
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