Its never fun to talk about work – not when its dull and monotonous. Some people may enjoy the conversation if they want to eagerly relay to the next person what exciting escapades they got up to, but for most workers, a job is a job, and while you may not like it, you appreciate it for what it does – pay the bills, gets u climbing up the ladder.

So no, before anyone asks, I’m not suicidal or depressed, the job is fine – i’m settling in nicely, and the boss says i’ve hit the ground running, which is cool. Merely, what the job entails on a day to day basis, it doesnt interest me and i’m glad its a rotation. I’m not going to ‘settle’ at this point of my career – sure I might go down in flames in a few years time (perhaps I will have been consumed by greed and be jailed for embezzling thousands of millions of dollars in derivative fees), but I’m not gonna sit back and wonder what if, I’m gonna try and see where it takes me. And that means across country borders too – afterall, the Big Man didnt create the Earth just for everyone to sit on their arses in their own little patch. And if i can see the world whilst doing my job right, then thats cool.

Some people put other things, like love and relationships, above all else. I can understand that, but I can’t see how you can account for it and factor it into future prospects when you already have a drive to succeed at your career. Something like love is spontaneous, so attempting to account for it is already futile. I may look like a relentlessly career-focused capitalist but I’m far from it. I know to be well off, to take care for my family, to make my mum proud, I have to get a good job. And if im gonna get one of those, it will be one that takes a lot of hours of my day – and my reasoning is, well if im going to spend 2/3 of my life in this job, i’m going to find one which I enjoy. So before I start thinking, ooh what if..? I’ll take it as it comes, look out for my chances, and take it from there.

Work will actualy get incredibly busy to the run up to April. This is cos my line of business is in the Credit Market – and ok none of you will know what the heck that is. Anyway, since the China dip a few days ago, trades have been exchanged like crazy worldwide and that meant our systems were crashing, there were blockages, and everything was done in a hurry and a lot of it done wrong. So the trades have started flowing through several hundred trades at a time, and its up to our team to clear them up and make sure theyre done right.

Some day, touch wood, I’ll be working in SE Asia. Maybe i’m wrong about liking it, but i definitely wanna try even if i find its the biggest mistake of my life. I guess its an innate urge for people like us to return to the homeland. Falling leaves return to their roots. Even if you weren’t born there, you’re always attached to it, and you share so much of the values and principals even from afar. I think, if I adapt to the climate and grasp a bit of the lingo, I can be happy there.