A friend of mine recently accepted a job offer, paying her 1k per month for 6-day week as a kitchen assistant just because she has no experience in that field.


But because she has already accepted that offer, i have nothing to say to her. However, i do feel the urge to share about this to my other readers.


This thing called passion.





(Just let me side-track for a moment. I thank God i went to jc instead of poly. It was only after jc that i discover my field of passion. If i were to choose a course in poly at a tender 16 years old, i'd have almost definitely chosen a wrong course, one that i'd later realize i have no passion for.)


Now, back to this thing called passion.
There's nothing wrong with being passionate.
In fact it's good to be passionate about your job.
It gives you the drive, the motivation to be excellent, the dissatisfaction of not doing well.






But there is this other thing called wisdom.


This friend of mine wants to be a chef. But she has no relevant certificates and no experience in it. She went for an interview a few days ago, and was offered a 6-day week for 900 bucks (which later rose to 1k), including cpf.

Seriously, that pay is pathetic.
To me, the boss is obviously underpaying her on the excuse that she has no experience.

(Robert, this friend of mine who graduated from fass with honors strangely decided to take up a kitchen job as well and he got way higher than 1k per month! With lesser working hours too!)

My friend got nagged at by her parents for not entering a field related to her course of study, and for thinking of settling for such a low pay. She sulked for the next few days thinking that she's only worth 900 bucks.





And then my advice to her was...
to go for more job interviews at other restaurants.

There's more than one restaurant in singapore, and definitely more than one korean restaurant in singapore. Definitely there would be better job offers out there! If she can find a job with a better pay, she'd be able to both please her parents and pursue her passion as well.





And then later the next day she told me she accepted that job offer.
I almost flipped.




There are just so many things to look out for in a job.

Things like...
Career prospects -- where will this job take you to after one year?
Learning environment -- will the job allow you to learn more or will you remain as a veggie chopper for the next five years?
Pay -- at least it has to be reasonable.
Working environment -- how are the colleagues there? You'd have to face them every day for the next 1000 days!


There are just so many things to look out for in a job. To only go for one interview and settling for that first job offer (a lousy one at that) without giving other companies and even yourself another chance, to me is just stupidity.






Rants.