For my interview last Friday, I researched a bit about the company I was applying to. Learning more about it, I got to like the job and seriously consider accepting it if they would offer it to me. Until I had the interview.
The starting salary would be 33% less than what I received from my previous job. That would be net of benefits and taxes. However in this case, there would be a P50.00 COLA everyday. Still, that was way below my expected salary. I would have more responsibility and more involvement in the company I would belong to, but the salary would be less.
I was asked in what field I was interested in joining. In line with my objective written in my resume, I said marketing or business development. Prior to that, the company was considering me for a position in the sales department. Probably they were quite impressed with me that they then offered me a position in their marketing team, even if they knew (and I knew as well) that an experience in sales would be a great training before becoming an effective marketing person. Still, I was thinking of the quite low salary.
To try my luck in the private corporate world was a decision brought by my financial status and goal. I know I can't forever depend on my family or on somebody else to pay for what I need or want. Even if they would be able to afford giving me the life I need or want, my pride would not let me stay idle for the rest of my life. I have already experienced earning myself and I know how good it is to spend money I worked for.
If I wouldn't be needing lots of money to keep a healthy life, I would have already tried applying for the government. Then, I would be stressed physically, emotionally and socially since I would greatly involve myself in issues concerning the department I would be in. I have a passion to serve the society and the people, which would serve as my driving force aside from earning money to work more. Stress plus little money. Fulfillment would not be a guarantee depending on the department I am in, the political chaos in it, and the leadership of whoever's on top.
Or I would be teaching. To be able to teach, I have to earn a master's degree or get education units. Spend more plus a dedication to learn a higher degree of learning. I am not yet ready for a master's degree, but extra education units would be fine. This option is more realistic. So anyone shouldn't be surprised to learn that I would be teaching somewhere, no matter how shy, childish, or weak you think of me. Let me remind you that I am not weak.
Anyway, financial security is now an important criterion for me in looking for my next job. Maybe because I am getting old (I hate to write that, but hey I'm already 22 and I have just started thinking about saving for whatever purpose it may serve.) At one point in anyone's life, he or she should learn to be practical in something. It doesn't mean one has to forget the carefree attitude making him or her feeling so free. It is taking responsibility on his or her life. Financial security, I guess is just one of the many aspects we have to think about. It is not investing in stocks or acquiring huge sums of money, but making sure that one's lifestyle is appropriate or sustainable given his or her earning capabilities.
Having a lower standard of living than the lifestyle one has been accustomed to is extremely difficult. It is natural for people to aspire a higher standard of living, clamoring for a more comfortable life and simply improve or get better. It is easier to take a difficult job to keep one's current lifestyle than to keep an easy job and suffer from a less comfortable life. This not only applies to people from the A or B or upper C social class, but for the others as well, right? Just think about it in relative terms.
That's the reason that I would accept a rather difficult job that pays me really well. I just have to make sure that the difficulty involved would mean challenging me intellectually, which is what makes me get excited.
Oh, the life the with more responsibility. I don't have to make it complicated.
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