As of today, I've been part of the corporate world for exactly a month. It's only been a month but I've learned so much about customer support, sales, and basically what it means to sit in a cubical for 9-10 hours. I'll tell you one thing, no matter how healthy you eat, the working life gets you fat. They call it freshmen 15, I call this employment 20.
I am definitely grateful to be employed. I know there are many people out there struggling to find a job (and keep one) in this economy, and I am glad I landed the job I have. But I realized, corporate America is not for me. Sure, it can pay well, but money and profit don't really drive me. Everything in the business world is a huge race to see who can obtain the most customers, launch the best marketing campaign, and who can knock down its competitors. When we only think about making profit, we forget the customer's needs and they begin to lose their trust. It's all a huge scam. Who knows, I can totally be off. I was a Sociology major, not a business major.
I've worked in several nonprofits and I'm really hoping after I find a rich husband who can support me and my two kids, I can ditch the corporate world and start my own nonprofit doing something for the APIA community. I love my job, coworkers, and the atmosphere, but I hope this will be something temporary. You watch movies such as Office Space where people are miserable at work. God damn, I can totally understand how that feels. I know my job could be a lot worse, but I feel like I'm getting so un-fun. I need to make sure I don't get stuck in the funk.
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