Are you Tired of your job and considering a change of industry?

Work life balance, does it still exist here? Singapore is a "global central hub", which means we are very busy at what we do. Competition is high while human resources are scarce given how vast an environment we lived in. Staffs who work at banks often stay back late, same for many else. Even at government jobs, you cannot deny how slow the services are due to the heavy work load. However, government jobs may have the luxury of taking it slow unlike private sectors.

At your current job, you may face the similar heavy tonnage of workload and do you feel the time to time urge to throw in the towel? Nevertheless, any jobs that are relaxing in Singapore are also often low waged. This creates another type of dissatisfaction. Of course there are exceptions with highly paid jobs and “reasonable” workload. These posts are usually niche or highly skilled.

Recently, my colleagues and I have pondered if we really want to remain in our industry. In the future, we will have a family and our own houses to maintain. Your parents may no longer be staying with you to clean your houses or wash your clothes. The already limited personal time will be further reduced. At that point of time, you will treasure your time more and question the amount of time you spent at work can better be spent elsewhere with your kids or chores. If one is still near its early working life , they still stand a better chance  to pick another career path. At most, you have to accept a pay cut or a same pay slip. Never forget that when age catches up with us, employers will rather hire young chaps who can learn faster, are more alert and willing to accept the lower start pay. When we are old and looking back, it will be then too little too late to change our fate while the resistance to change becomes even stronger.

We understand that nobody really wants to work. If you really hate what you are doing for 5/7 days of each week, it may be time to consider looking elsewhere like what I am pondering now.