Today, the 3rd February 2010 marks the date when I started this thing called ' reality of life'. Re: 'The Working Life'.
Syukur Alhamdullilah, it has been a year. A good, one unyielding year of working as a lawyer by profession. Much has been learnt and only Allah knows how much I have experienced so far. Although I expected bad occurrences were to outweigh the good at the very beginning of my embarkation, much to my surprise, the positive things overrode the negative. Iguess I've been blessed to be an officer from the Chambers, particularly being in the Research Division. Made new friends whom I call fellow comrades and some, partner in crime (not literally though), and of course being guided by bosses who're brilliant, competent and skillful to the truest sense of the word. I've learned that being a lawyer makes me a more meticulous person than I already am. It shaped the existing perfectionist that I have always been, in that I am expected to make less mistakes because mistakes means consequences and of course, repeated mistakes mean my work performance decreases. I have also learned that ever since I started working, it became a norm for me to come up with statements like 'maybe we should check the facts first' or 'where else can I find answers to these so and so..' or 'have I done a complete and thorough research before coming up with an opinion?' Trust me, my vision ain't getting any better. Besides that, working has taught me to be a more responsible person - financially and spiritually, although financial integrity can be quite a pain the a*se. Hehe. I have *note the significance of it being in italics* been managing, or at least trying to manage my finance pretty well. Haha. I pay bills on time. Able to save cash for the next month and the wedding, though I shan't deny that I crack especially at times when the words 'Discount', '30-40-50-60-70%', 'Sale', 'Clearance' are visible to me. Forgive me for this but I am only a woman. In flesh and blood, shopping is inevitable. Either I get it now or get it later. Lol. Spiritually, I learned that by earning the hard-bucks means self-satisfaction for putting blood and sweat into your work. Like we deserve every penny of it because we worked for it. Somehow or rather the words 'let the money work for you, not you work for the money' have yet to apply to me. I will get back to you on that once the wedding is settled. Remind me :) Above all, I believe that working made me a better person. I learned to let go of the high school-university mentality, grow up with age and embrace adulthood with much anticipation. I have no issues (so far) with growing age because I'd rather settle for normalism rather than whining day and night about how old I'm turning into and get depressed over nothing. I'd say, yes to Old but Gold and Young at Heart. You with me? Hehe. I aspire to learn more in the year ahead of me. I would like to polish my legal knowledge, research and opinion writing skills better than the previous year. May Allah shower His Grace, be with me (and you) through it all.
Syukur Alhamdullilah, it has been a year. A good, one unyielding year of working as a lawyer by profession. Much has been learnt and only Allah knows how much I have experienced so far. Although I expected bad occurrences were to outweigh the good at the very beginning of my embarkation, much to my surprise, the positive things overrode the negative. Iguess I've been blessed to be an officer from the Chambers, particularly being in the Research Division. Made new friends whom I call fellow comrades and some, partner in crime (not literally though), and of course being guided by bosses who're brilliant, competent and skillful to the truest sense of the word. I've learned that being a lawyer makes me a more meticulous person than I already am. It shaped the existing perfectionist that I have always been, in that I am expected to make less mistakes because mistakes means consequences and of course, repeated mistakes mean my work performance decreases. I have also learned that ever since I started working, it became a norm for me to come up with statements like 'maybe we should check the facts first' or 'where else can I find answers to these so and so..' or 'have I done a complete and thorough research before coming up with an opinion?' Trust me, my vision ain't getting any better. Besides that, working has taught me to be a more responsible person - financially and spiritually, although financial integrity can be quite a pain the a*se. Hehe. I have *note the significance of it being in italics* been managing, or at least trying to manage my finance pretty well. Haha. I pay bills on time. Able to save cash for the next month and the wedding, though I shan't deny that I crack especially at times when the words 'Discount', '30-40-50-60-70%', 'Sale', 'Clearance' are visible to me. Forgive me for this but I am only a woman. In flesh and blood, shopping is inevitable. Either I get it now or get it later. Lol. Spiritually, I learned that by earning the hard-bucks means self-satisfaction for putting blood and sweat into your work. Like we deserve every penny of it because we worked for it. Somehow or rather the words 'let the money work for you, not you work for the money' have yet to apply to me. I will get back to you on that once the wedding is settled. Remind me :) Above all, I believe that working made me a better person. I learned to let go of the high school-university mentality, grow up with age and embrace adulthood with much anticipation. I have no issues (so far) with growing age because I'd rather settle for normalism rather than whining day and night about how old I'm turning into and get depressed over nothing. I'd say, yes to Old but Gold and Young at Heart. You with me? Hehe. I aspire to learn more in the year ahead of me. I would like to polish my legal knowledge, research and opinion writing skills better than the previous year. May Allah shower His Grace, be with me (and you) through it all.
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