“What you study now might not be the same as what you work in the future.” Sound familiar huh? Yeah, most of the people say the same thing. This lead me to some questions.
Q1, What are we studying?
I am a Physics student, and I study Physics because I am very interested in Physics, since Form 4 (secondary 4). So, I could say that I am studying what I am interested in. But, this is not the case for many students. (Many, but not most). Some students, would like to pursue higher education, because they want to end up earning more money with higher professionalism.
They might not be interested in what they are studying. In fact, they are studying for a future career path, which could earn them money. This might bring two consequences: (1) students might getting more and more interested in that subject, when they found there’s bright future for them. (2) students might end up losing all interest of studying in the school, since they aren’t interested in that subject at all, and they can’t change during the halfway of study.
This leads to another question.
Q2, Interest & Occupation/Career, which comes first?
Just like a student, a student might look for a subject that he/she is interested in, or to learn something that is useful but not interested in.
An employee might look for a career that bring him/her a good income, but he/she might not be interested in; or he/she might be interested in but not a high pay. Of course, this is not always the case, some people end up working for what they like, and they get high pay too!
I would say, it depends on personal preferences, or individual’s perspective of what a ‘career’ should be. “Career” is one of the “C” in 5C series, (Career, Car, Cash, Credit Car, Condominium, or whatever it is, there are many version of it I know. Career might be replaced by Company, where we are the boss, not having any career to be paid, but paying money for people working for us.)
Career, some might think that it is a way to get income, to sustain life: eat, drink, transport, rental, blahblahblah… Some might think career should be our interests, because we might end up getting higher pay because we are interested in and we could develop a better future into it. It’s a very subjective answer, but one more question arises.
Q3, What if, we already have enough money to live, would we choose to work something with high pay but not interested? Or will we work for something we are interested in? Or would we even choose to work?
Let’s say, given we have enough money, says billions of cash in the bank that can sustain our life until we die, what would we choose to do? Three options: (1) work for high pay? (2) work for interest? (3) Not even work?
This is hypothetical question, many people dreams to have such kind of life, but what if it’s real? Many may choose option (3), not to work. That’s because, most of the people are feeling some kind of ‘suffering’ now, suffering in their job, suffering in scoring for exam blablabla… That’s because of the ‘suffer’ that we have tasted in our life, that lead us to choose not to work.
What if, this question is directed to a new born baby, given the baby can understand and answer the question, and guess what will the baby say? Because babies never feel the anxiety of the fast pace world, the reality of the financial crisis, they enjoy their life by doing on what they are interested in, or what they like. They doing non-stop on something they like or something new that they never see (curiosity). We can’t see a baby stop playing things right?
Here comes last question.
Q4, What is life about? Working for life? Or living to work?
Many people say, once a man who work for more than 50 years, and get retired after that, this man would be sick and life is shorten. Why?
One does not simply stop working suddenly, or one should never stop working. Here, I would redefine the term “working”.
Working, in term of my definition, is something that keeps our life goes on, something meaningful to us, but not necessary meaningful to others. In term of physics, Work = Energy done on something. We spend our energy and do something, that’s work. Even if we eat, we take the spoon, move the spoon from the bowl into our mouth, we have done work.
For example, an uncle who likes to plant. His interested is to understand what the plants need, how he can feed the plant to grow better, and how to make the plant more decorative. He spends his life in planting, and making the plants decorative. That’s what today we call them Bonsai. He spend his life in something he is interested in, although he does not earn money from them.
So, are you working for life? You are working to get money to sustain life?
Or, are you living to work? You live in this world, and you work as yourself? Work on what you are interested in?
My life = My interest
I like to learn. Life-long learning. I am interested in Physics, and getting more and more interested on it. Physics provides me a tools that analyse things or events happen around, qualitatively and quantitatively.
With the Physics knowledge, I could even understand more about what’s going on around me, scientifically.
I study physics, not because I just want to get a career that bring me high pay. In fact, I don’t expect studying physics will bring me high pay, but I would work for what I like.
Soon, I will explore into electronic devices during the internship next semester. The interviewer likes my learning attitude, and hence he accept me to work there, Temasek Laboratories.
Posted by Saw Giek Zhen
Q1, What are we studying?
I am a Physics student, and I study Physics because I am very interested in Physics, since Form 4 (secondary 4). So, I could say that I am studying what I am interested in. But, this is not the case for many students. (Many, but not most). Some students, would like to pursue higher education, because they want to end up earning more money with higher professionalism.
They might not be interested in what they are studying. In fact, they are studying for a future career path, which could earn them money. This might bring two consequences: (1) students might getting more and more interested in that subject, when they found there’s bright future for them. (2) students might end up losing all interest of studying in the school, since they aren’t interested in that subject at all, and they can’t change during the halfway of study.
This leads to another question.
Q2, Interest & Occupation/Career, which comes first?
Just like a student, a student might look for a subject that he/she is interested in, or to learn something that is useful but not interested in.
An employee might look for a career that bring him/her a good income, but he/she might not be interested in; or he/she might be interested in but not a high pay. Of course, this is not always the case, some people end up working for what they like, and they get high pay too!
I would say, it depends on personal preferences, or individual’s perspective of what a ‘career’ should be. “Career” is one of the “C” in 5C series, (Career, Car, Cash, Credit Car, Condominium, or whatever it is, there are many version of it I know. Career might be replaced by Company, where we are the boss, not having any career to be paid, but paying money for people working for us.)
Career, some might think that it is a way to get income, to sustain life: eat, drink, transport, rental, blahblahblah… Some might think career should be our interests, because we might end up getting higher pay because we are interested in and we could develop a better future into it. It’s a very subjective answer, but one more question arises.
Q3, What if, we already have enough money to live, would we choose to work something with high pay but not interested? Or will we work for something we are interested in? Or would we even choose to work?
Let’s say, given we have enough money, says billions of cash in the bank that can sustain our life until we die, what would we choose to do? Three options: (1) work for high pay? (2) work for interest? (3) Not even work?
This is hypothetical question, many people dreams to have such kind of life, but what if it’s real? Many may choose option (3), not to work. That’s because, most of the people are feeling some kind of ‘suffering’ now, suffering in their job, suffering in scoring for exam blablabla… That’s because of the ‘suffer’ that we have tasted in our life, that lead us to choose not to work.
What if, this question is directed to a new born baby, given the baby can understand and answer the question, and guess what will the baby say? Because babies never feel the anxiety of the fast pace world, the reality of the financial crisis, they enjoy their life by doing on what they are interested in, or what they like. They doing non-stop on something they like or something new that they never see (curiosity). We can’t see a baby stop playing things right?
Here comes last question.
Q4, What is life about? Working for life? Or living to work?
Many people say, once a man who work for more than 50 years, and get retired after that, this man would be sick and life is shorten. Why?
One does not simply stop working suddenly, or one should never stop working. Here, I would redefine the term “working”.
Working, in term of my definition, is something that keeps our life goes on, something meaningful to us, but not necessary meaningful to others. In term of physics, Work = Energy done on something. We spend our energy and do something, that’s work. Even if we eat, we take the spoon, move the spoon from the bowl into our mouth, we have done work.
For example, an uncle who likes to plant. His interested is to understand what the plants need, how he can feed the plant to grow better, and how to make the plant more decorative. He spends his life in planting, and making the plants decorative. That’s what today we call them Bonsai. He spend his life in something he is interested in, although he does not earn money from them.
So, are you working for life? You are working to get money to sustain life?
Or, are you living to work? You live in this world, and you work as yourself? Work on what you are interested in?
My life = My interest
I like to learn. Life-long learning. I am interested in Physics, and getting more and more interested on it. Physics provides me a tools that analyse things or events happen around, qualitatively and quantitatively.
With the Physics knowledge, I could even understand more about what’s going on around me, scientifically.
I study physics, not because I just want to get a career that bring me high pay. In fact, I don’t expect studying physics will bring me high pay, but I would work for what I like.
Soon, I will explore into electronic devices during the internship next semester. The interviewer likes my learning attitude, and hence he accept me to work there, Temasek Laboratories.
Posted by Saw Giek Zhen
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