a lesson learnt today

Never ever listen to your parents who tell you to take any job possible as the economy is terrible at the moment. It is a formula for disaster. The rule above works if you are just a blue collar worker. But if you are a white collar, without thinking much, then you shouldn't be a white collar in the first place (referring to myself.) haiz... remember, everything is transient, just DO NOT GO DOWN THAT path of self pity and hopelessness.

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psychologytoday:Envy is common and corrosive

envy derives from a complex cocktail of competitiveness, emotional insecurity, and situational dissatisfaction. Four factors favor its flourishing at the office: a highly competitive workplace culture, an emotional dunce of a boss, favoritism in our families of origin, and, of course, exceptional achievement that ticks off everybody else.

for enviers:If she can do it, write it, sell it, win it, dammit, I can, too!

for envied:suck up to the protection of the powerful or keep their heads down to avoid the potshots of the angry horde.

the number of globally available jobs is less than the number of globally working capable populations. Therefore jobs have always been a scarce resource. Economic recession just made it more pronounced. The question to ask is if you can blend in with the team and generate value sufficiently to make everyone well off. (remember you are paid in direct proportion to the amount of value that you can create. fixed assets like furnitures, laptop, air-con, training all cost money.)

Thus people who can create valued jobs are actually paid a high premium. (in optimisation, we reduces the number of steps, but in job creation, sometimes it is the insertion of more tasks with a lower frequency, for example replace manual work with robotic arms and an engineer.)