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Article from The Straits Times, 14th July 2002
Find the right balance
Still looking for a job? Use the time to count your blessings.
When you are looking for a job, you may have a wish list. You may want a job with lots of challenges, one which gets you long plane rides to exciting destinations, or one with a harbour view in the Central Business District. Just dont forget to add a good life and work balance to your wish list.
Many corporate employees are actually disgruntled with their work life. One reason is the lack of a proper life and work balance, that is, executives are spending too much time at work, travelling, e-mailing and training that they do not have quality time for themselves, families and loved ones. Another is the lack of time to even exercise or care for the less privileged.
In fact, as part of a typical career counselling programme, executives are put to work on an exercise that focuses on their life and work balance.
Stay positive
Remember two things: First, if you are in a position to give, give. Giving always results in a good, positive feeling within us. Giving doesn’t mean always donating money or in kind. You can give someone a smile or give a helping hand to a lady who is struggling to open her car door with a ton of groceries in her arms.
Secondly, most things in life are relative. Not being able to find an appropriate job for the past six months is not something to cry over there are others who are suffering from major illnesses and who could simply die even as your are reading this.
So as long as you have worked hard in your job search, don’t blame yourself for the lack of positive results. There are many things in this world that you do not have control over, so being angry and despondent is no use.
Use this period of your job search to focus on issues you have not had time for when you were hard at work in the corporate world. You may never have time for these again when you start on your new job!
Mr. Paul Heng
President
Asian Association of Career Management Professionals
Website: www.aacmp.org.sg
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