meow peeps,
Alrite this entry has to do with my career. It's almost a year I worked at Creative Technology. I can still remember the first week working at this place, I mentioned that I don't want to work anymore, bam! A year has past. I thought I would have sticked to freelance life as I'm getting to used to it. Those days when people are working their hard ass off, I'm actually having a dip at Bishan Swimming Complex. Frankly speaking, if I can, I would prefer to go back to those days. It has it's pros and cons.
As much as I love my freelance days, I have to weigh the pros and cons though. Just 1 bad thing about being freelance is you can't get the money on time and you have to chase people for money, and as I chased, I tend to get worked up and get frustrated, worrying whether my savings is enough for me to pull through the next month. This con outweighs the pro and there, I'm a full time senior graphic designer at Creative.
As I've mentioned initially I didn't really enjoy working there partly because I couldn't get used to the 9 to 5pm kinda of life and my bf married someone because he did something so wrong. That was like the worse period of 2009. That period was a challenge to me and for me to start afresh. I accepted the job offer mainly to make my parents, my grandma and my auntie feel better. I can't bear to let them worry for me without a proper income.
The first 2 months at Creative was tedious shit, I OT almost every night and everything I create is like sooo not nice. I try and try and kept trying... Then my boss took over the image and made a few amendments to the graphic. I was amazed and there I told myself I would stay for I know I've much more to learn. Months passed, my colleagues and I clicked really well and my boss is one hell of a great one. patience and best part, I can disturb him. wahahhaahha...
As we enter 2011, I'm pretty positive things are going to change for sure. Because my last conversation with the big boss tells me something is going to change... not as in the products or service. I'm talking in terms of the organization. I hear it from my big boss, I get hints from my boss that I'm stepping 1 level up. Well, nothing is official yet. However, I'm already feeling the weird aura around me. I'm getting tasked to handle so much shit. I'm totally feeling it. I like to work. I love to work, in fact, working keeps me really disciplined and focused on what I want to be and what I foresee to be in this organization. One thing is worrying me, is the team. We got so closed, I'm getting the creeps being 1 level above the rest. I wished things remain the same but at the same time, I wished to see myself advance to another level so that I could see more and learn more.
Life is always so contradicting. These few months is the crunch period. Meaning we will expect to see more OTs from everyone. As I see more and more people stressing me out for the final output, the more I feel that this place seriously need a proper system to get things finalized and this place needs a stronger marketing team. Working in organization is totally different from working freelance. Working freelance, because I'm an designer with a fierce attitude, usually the clients are afraid of me more than I'm afraid of them, therefore I can always shout at them anytime I feel like it. Working in organization, it certainly trains my patience a lot. I feel that I've swallowed so much shit just like a porn star swallowed so much cum. ok the difference is the porn star enjoyed swallowing the cum but i certainly dont enjoy swallowing the shit. pui.
i'm giving this place another year, whether up 1 level, down 2 levels or kana retrenched, I certainly dont want to see me doing dummy products for 2 years and nothing is being launched. Aite, got a call to pick my sis up. till then.
love,
monmonchichic