Reality Bites!!!

I believe everybody knows it already, but let me just re-iterate it, life sucks! Not that everything about it is, but some of it really sucks.

It's been two years since I graduated and started working. And while on it, I realize something that I didn't know when I was still studying. Well, that's just life. You can't foresee things and no one will ever tell you what will happen next or what you should expect. All we know is that life is not what it seems. We know that living a life is hard, but we have no idea how hard it is until we are actually living that life.

So what's my realization? I realize that in our era now, we can't be too sure that we get what we really want, especially with jobs. I realize that aside from being lucky and unlucky income-raiser, there are four types of scenarios:

> One, if you are very lucky, you are in the right company with the right job. You get to enjoy what you are doing, then the very stable company is taking really good care of you.
> Second, if you are lucky enough, you are in the right company but with the wrong job. Why still lucky? Because even if you don't enjoy your work, at least you are assured that you're company is stable and is giving you the proper benefits with good pay. You are assured to live. Some may react saying that you must enjoy your work, but for me, at least I can feed my family. Anyway, I don't get so serious with my work, so whatever it is, I can still enjoy it.
> Third, you have the right job but with the wrong company? Is there such thing? Yes! You love what you are doing, but the company doesn't really care about you. All it thinks about is the production part. They don't give you the right benefits and the right attitude. In short, they are not taking good care of you.
> Lastly, if you are really ill-fated, then you are both in the wrong company with the wrong job. This is what we commonly call desperate measures. You just work in order to survive economically. You don't like the company, and worse, you don't like your job. You just took the opportunity, telling yourself, "kesa naman wala" (rather than nothing).

*sigh
In my two years of work, I've already been to second and third scenarios. It's hard, and what only keeps me going is my willingness to survive. But these days, it's really hard to reach scene one. With a lot of job-seekers on the loose, and lesser companies, it's really really hard. But at least I survive these two scenarios.

Now that I think of it, if my application in our hometown gets processed, then I will undergo scene 4. *sigh...this is really inevitable. :(