Excerpts from"Working For The Weekend: The 20-Somethings Edition"

I believe all of them is true. And I want to reiterate them on my blog after all my depressing moments in my career as a fresh grad last year and as an ideal dreamer before I came here to what I am now. :)

The only thing worse than having a job to go to, is not having a job to go to. This might be a difficult notion to conceive on days when work is extra uninspiring or frustrating, but try to remember that it is always better to have options available and an income to fall back on.

Your dream job won’t be all sunshine and rainbows. Or, so I’ve been told. Don’t get me wrong, here. I’m not saying you shouldn’t devote yourself to securing a dream job that you wake up every morning excited for. I’m just saying that, too often, we put our dream jobs on a pedestal so high up that we manage to lose sight of the fact that it’s going to take a whole lot of hard work — not to mention compromise, to get there. And you know what? We might not love every single bit of it once we do get there. We might even miss some aspects of the job we currently hate. It’s the “grass is always greener” syndrome. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go check out the other field, it just means maybe you shouldn’t piss all over the one you’re on now.

There are worse situations to be in …than having a job where you likely sit back in your swivel chair beneath some cool AC and regularly commiserate with you best friend on Gchat. Take, war, for instance. That is a worse situation to be in

All in all, life ain’t so bad, but it sure is short — so get a grip and smile! As CSNY’s Stephen Stills once put it,

“Well there’s a rose in a fisted glove,
and the eagle flies with the dove,
and if you can’t be at the job you love,
honey, go to happy hour after.”