And the clock starts ticking...

Since i graduated in May, everyone around me has been asking me the same question. Well, different ways of phrasing it but it all boils down to the same question - 

"What Are You Going To Do Now?"

I know everyone has my interest at heart, and after being stuck in (different) schools for 17 years, it seems natural for me to start going for job interviews, land a job in probably the Life Science industry since that's what i majored in, save money, think of my future, either get married, or become single and earn enough money to move out and get my own apartment and life goes on.

However, i had something different planned - I've decided to go full-time for Yventually, giving myself one year to make something out of it and work part-time in the lab so that i can have enough to survive. 

Im 24 years old this year, im not really that young anymore but im not ready to lead the lifestyle everyone in the society expects me to either. I've seen people around me settling for a job but they have absolutely no passion in it. And i know, for me, job satisfaction ranks high up in my job hunt.

I quote Steve Jobs "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. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle."

Alot of the adults from the older generation don't see online biz as a stable job, or even a job. Perhaps it is with this mindset that i always have uncles and aunties asking me "so apart from Yventually, when are you going to find a real job?" even though i did say SPECIFICALLY that "im working on Yventally now". Even my lab boss calls Yventually "an IT job" in my face -_-'' I know they fear that I might starve with the meager earnings i get each month or i will regret not looking for a job sooner and im losing out to my peers. However, im not ready to settle for just any job. Not now. Im not ready to be trapped in this dogma. 


There's alot of things i want to achieve in the next few years - Get a MBA/Private Degree in Business/HR Management...Pick up a new language or brush up my Thai and get a language cert for it...Earn enough to travel each year...and the list goes on but focusing on Yventually will be top on my priority list. 

If Yventually were to fail in 12months time (which apparently everyone in the family likes to prep me for), i'll take it in stride. At least i tried. At least i did whatever i can think of to try to take it to another level. At least when people asked about Yventually in the future, my ans will not be "oh, i gave up without trying".

There is no way to go right now, but upwards.