because i'm a work lover.

i guess this is still i'm-awed-by-steve jobs-hang-over of some kind.

he said in his address, "your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. and the only way to do great work is to love what you do."

today, i like to dwell further on that.

i started working early in life. and if my work as student assistant in our university library is part of the count, i can claim that i started working since i was 18. and i know from that point on, i am a passionate and a dead serious worker.

for obvious reasons (one, that i am great), whenever i join a company, my goal is to be an asset. i don't wanna be a typical employee working ordinarily and waiting for payday as if it's the only reason why i work.

work, for me, is more than just my bread and butter. the satisfaction i get is not limited to every peso (and now, dollar) that the atm dispenses. it means more than just a source of my siblings' tuition and college allowance, more than the answer to our monthly and piled-up bills.


work. it's something that inspires me more to wake up every morning with cheery talk and upbeat walk.

so it disappoints me, bigtime, when i hear someone talk and see someone act as if work is nothing but a money source.

and i heard one today.

i just think, if you don't care enough for the company you're in and the job that you're doing, might as well leave and channel your energy someplace else. surely, you'll do better somewhere, and surely still, someone will do better in the position you're filling.


life is just that simple. don't settle. never waste your time doing something you don't put your whole heart into. and never waste space by staying to a place you don't thrive in.