Random rants

This is an edgy week for me up ahead. My confirmation is due this week, or rather theoretically tomorrow is the 4th month anniversary of me joining the company. Funny how time flies in this job. After the first month, time seems to zoom by in a flash. Everyday it is meeting customers, monitoring the performances etc. Just like that, four months has passed. Can't say there's much to complain about this job apart from some people I am forced to work with. But then again, it is the same everywhere.
Statistics have shown that nowadays people leave their jobs more because of the working environment/people rather than monetary issues. Personally I can testify to that, this is my fourth job and my first job was the only one where I left because of money. I loved the working environment there, great boss, little office politics apart from a little bitching here and there but no back-stabbing. The only thing was that the pay was pathetic. In case you think I am a greedy mercenary, allow me to share what was my first increment ever received, the whooping sum of 1% and as I had not completed a full year of service there, this grand amount of 1% is pro-rated. Hence, my pay for the next year was $xxxx.60. Yup, the $0.60 appears in my payslip every month and my credited salary is $xxxx.48 because of CPF, great huh? I never found out what was the fantastic increment the next year cause I left before that.
To this day, that memory still hurts. Haha, actually I am just bitching for the fun of it. Life goes on........ I must confess I do appreciate the 1 and 3/4 years I spent there. That was the longest I had stayed in any job. Hoping that this will change however, I think I am too old to keep switching around, here's to more stability in this job and career.
Anyway, mid-week and I am dying for a drink. My friend 'pang sey' me today. Not that I had a bad week thus far, not bad actually. Apart from some things or rather people beyond my control, its a pretty good week. Thurs and before you know it, its Friday. I really think time passes by in a flash nowadays, before I know it I will probably be 30. And then 40, and then reading orbituaries to see if anyone I know has left. What a morbid thought.