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(aged 75 to 80 years)
JWP doesn't care about your outfits.
Your dating life.
Your intense career.
Your lack of work life balance.
JWP doesn't care about Coronavirus
or the Delta
or Omicron strains
Or if you get sick at all.
JWP doesn't care if everything you love
And everything you've hoped for
Is gone by tomorrow.
As if it never even existed in the first place.
What a beautiful tree!
**All photos and poems are copyrighted**
As exciting as starting a new job is, getting a fresh start in a new place with new people, now that I'm literally a few hours away, rocking a brand new outfit, freshly cut and dyed hair, I can't help but have a wave of anxiety rush over me, and I think that's perfectly okay and normal.
I think I felt like this at almost every job I started, but this is when the questions start coming in. What if people don't like me? What if I don't do a good job and they start doubting me? What if because I'm being hired as a manager other people feel as if they're getting skipped over in favor of me and make it their goal to see me fail? What if something I think I know how to do right, I don't know how to do as good as I thought, and people start to think why'd we hire her when we could've had anyone?
I've always been a hard worker, a good worker, but it doesn't slip my mind that that hasn't always mattered. I never got a degree, I couldn't afford one, I had rent to pay and needed to support more than just myself since I was 18 years old. I always had to work a lot, but it also doesn't slip my mind that even though I spent 9 years at one job, this is still the 10th job I've had. Sure that includes a few quit after the first day bombs, but regardless being the hardest worker hasn't always worked out for me. So being as this is the best opportunity I've ever received, one that pays decent with room to grow, and people to learn from, and people that seem likeable with a healthy company culture and the work/life balance I always read about but never actually got anywhere, I still worry "What if I haven't learned enough yet?"
Regardless, I'm gonna give it my best shot, but in these final moments before it all begins again I just cant help but stress and worry a bit since it's easy to say "Yeah I can swim to that island" but actually getting there is a whole other story, and I just hope I don't drown because I really, really need a win this time.
A shiny cafe-table on Hindley Street, at dusk this evening. I had to resort to using my iPhone as my compact zoom camera was out of battery juice.
I’m thinking maybe a return to iPhone camera might be in order as it does make posting so easy. These days, my work-life balance is totally out of control and I need to get back to posting on Flickr.
Gangnam, one of the urban centres of Seoul with its name made famous by the 2012 Psy song "Gangnam Style", often has a somewhat trendy reputation as one of the most expensive areas of Seoul due to a high concentration of wealth there.
The tall and often glitzy buildings lining its avenues and alleys at night is often a showcase of just how far South Korea has become as a modern economic powerhouse.
Yet it also has become a sign of Hell Joseon, where intense competition and inequality has sometimes made many young South Koreans wanting to leave the country for a better work life balance.
Macro of an antique compass. Apt photo this for in 2018 as I’m looking for a new direction myself! I quit my job of nearly 12 years back in mid November to try and get back a respectable work / life balance and have a few opportunities lined up for the New Year.
Didn’t get the chance to participate in many MM’s last year so I’ve done a double redux of Candlelit and side lit.
HMM!
(And Happy New Year!)
Today the work day looks so much different than it did 10 years ago. Today you can take a call when you are sitting on a dock dangling your feet in the water. You can take a call while you are hiking in the forest. I think that technology has really helped the work\life balance for many people.
Searching for a new work - life balance ;-)
Plan to post only sporadically here on Flickr for the next few months
Taken through the car window with my smartphone in February
“Third day at Honister Pass” From Keswick to Buttermere or from Buttermere to Keswick. Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Honister Pass, Keswick, England, UK
“Buttermere Lake” Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Buttermere Lake, Cockermouth, Lake District, England, UK
“National Trust-Wray Castle” Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Wray Castle, Ambleside, Lake District, England, UK
“I think this one is fit for any aspect ratio, what’s your opinion?” Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, I’m really suggest to walk around the Buttermere Lake, Cockermouth, Lake District, England, UK
Yesterday I made the post "Another Friday". Turns out it wasn't, not at all. Reason why is because yesterday I had a job interview in the morning and after two and a half months of searching, after applying to well over 200 places, after having 3 separate times where I had 4-5 interviews from jobs that were followed by either being ghosted, or being told we had a great convo but I didn't seem like a good long term fit, or that I didn't have the specific experience they needed, after going from having 13k in the bank to asking for an extension on my rent so I could use the last 2k I'd saved for my daughter to survive and pay for her birthday party which takes place today, and after getting a letter from EDD 2 months after applying telling me my phone interview would take place in 6 MORE weeks... Something amazing happened.
The job called my recruiter back as soon as I left, and I spoke to them about more questions they had. I really pushed in this interview, between the recent ones and the dozens of interviews I did when covid first struck I'd been rejected a good 20-30 times, I've lost count. But this time I wasn't going to lose or wait for someone else to swoop in and take it from me. Then the CFO called me and I spoke to him. Then, the same day I interviewed and less than 24 hours after we even scheduled the interview, they made an offer and I got the job. One that pays right, one that's at a good company with a good work/life balance and good people, one where I'm working the title I deserve and can be part of a team instead of soloing it. Just like that, all my persistence paid off and seemingly my dreams came true.
Sure it's gonna take a few months to recover what I lost to get here, but it would've taken years to recover from any more abuse I would've put up with at the last job and I'm happier now more than ever that I bet on myself and took a stand and got out of a toxic situation and told myself I deserved better. When I asked to be paid fairly at that job and not paid below (Yes below) the bottom 1% for people in my position, and to just be paid the bottom 1% in the area I live in, I was told we don't think you're worth it. When I left that openly and proudly racist, soul sucking job I told them the truth is, they weren't worth it.
I came home and cancelled all my other interviews, told my apartment manager what was up and that I'd pay half my checks until I'm paid off and sealed it with a fist bump, and now today my daughter gets to have a happy 3rd birthday party where her mom isn't stressing about money or life.
Dreams do come true if you believe in yourself and push hard to get them, and to anyone who feels lost in their job or life, just remember it's never too late to invest in yourself and take a risk because the ones who catch dreams are the ones willing to chase them.
“April, the new season” First time to Lake District- Buttermere, at Buttermere Lake, Cockermouth, Lake District, England, UK
“The path never have the end if you never give up” Walked from Honister Pass, Keswick, Lake District, England, UK. Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
“First time to Lake District- Buttermere Lake” one of the best lake in Lake District. Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
"Everyday is Valentine's Day."
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Seafront, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
"Grand Pier in evening"
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Seafront, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
"Love your pet, they are your family"
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Seafront, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
“Walking at Grasmere in a sunny day” Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Grasmere to Easedale Tarn, Lake District, England, UK
Long time no see the sunset. I think it's one of the best sunset view place in England.
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
“ Try the new Aspect Ratio” Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Buttermere Lake, Cockermouth, England,UK
"Clevedon Pier & Heritage Trust-Return"
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Clevedon Pier, England, UK
For thirty years my guy was a salaried worker; this clock was my gift to him many birthdays ago. He's now an hourly employee, but old habits die hard...and this clock still has relevance for him.
Fortunately he married a gal with a different perspective on work/life balance (or lack thereof).
Have a good weekend!
Project 365-125
The caption credit goes to an irreverent Brit I "met" many decades ago. Stuart Wilde is no longer with us...or maybe he's driving a taxi somewhere...? If you want to challenge or even simply question the status quo, he's your man.
“Boat trip at Windermere Lake” Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho, at Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District, England, UK