mind-of-minds

Sunday, March 18, 2007

To stay or to quit?

Decisions, decisions, decisions. I hate making them.

The time has come for me to ask myself seriously, to stay or to quit.

Why stay:
  • Good salary that comfortably funds my car, overseas trips and other material expenses.
  • Stability.
  • Good prospects with increasingly lesser competition, it seems.
  • Repay superior's time and faith.
  • Free year of course-cum-holiday overseas. Another free year of course-cum holiday several years down the road.
  • Work-life balance, close to absent now, may not be better elsewhere.

Why quit:

  • If need to start elsewhere, start young rather than wait till middle age.
  • If need to suffer pay cut, suffer young rather than wait till middle age. May well be able to make back the difference anyway.
  • Pursue interest in field of psychology. Still relatively current now, whereas if wait till middle age will no longer be.
  • Prospects not guaranteed, especially with new structures.
  • Not enough distinction between the average-good and the better-good.
  • Get back at superior for unwarranted bad treatment.
  • Leave with a good reputation, to avoid falling from grace in a few years' to come when limited abilty shows through.

Wish I could be how I was once upon a time, deliberately guided by emotions and not rationality, doing what I like to do rather than what I should do, being selfish and less thoughtful of others and not being bothered by it, making decisions based on the now rather than consider twenty thousand years down the road.

Sigh, in sum, being a boy and not an adult.

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