Congratulations! You have graduated. So now what happens? Do you continue to take higher education? Or do you start working? Or do you pack up and move to a totally rad city that you always want to live in? Or maybe take a year-long trip to explore the world? Advertisements
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For every employee, business owner, or head officials, work can stress you out; especially on instances where you are trying to meet a target or you are going to close an important deal.
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Work depression can hit anyone at any given moment. Recently, one of my friends was diagnosed with depression derived from work-related stress. Fortunately for him, his employers were alerted to his displayed signs of depression and managed to convince him to seek help immediately.
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Power hungry world is always leeching to those who are successful. The more successful you are, the higher you climb, the more people around you want to get you down. Why? It’s the only way they can climb up.
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Throughout my career, I am blessed with wonderful bosses that taught me so much about life and business. Many of them became personal friends as well as mentors. But the ones I learned the most from are the bosses from hell. For one, I learned to grit my teeth, simmer my anger, prolong my patience…
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Whenever I talk about my days in the corporate world, there is always a tinge of reminiscing about my colorful past.
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So, what do you do if you find yourself working in a company with younger colleagues? How can you adapt and get along with them considering your ages and ideas?
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Today, as my little one started to walk up a gentle slope for the first time on her own (without holding my hands), she gleefully clapped her hands together with me when she reached the top on her own, something dawned on me.
Read More*As told to Kally anonymously I am getting married in a month’s time and I should be happy but I’m not. I am downright miserable and there is nothing me or my fiancé can do anything about it. You see, I met my future husband in the current company I worked in. He is the…
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If you are moaning at the piling work on your desk and it just seems that you can never go home at the strike of 6pm, you might like to ask yourself if you are being productive at work.
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Hey Kally, I love that you have helped many readers with their career problems. Your bits of advice are usually no BS and straightforward helpful. As much as I always enjoy reading other people’s problem, I never thought I’ll need to ask you for help. But now I kinda have gotten me into a troublesome…
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Its been sometime that we have done an interview here in MiddleMe, so I jumped at the opportunity to have a conversation with a leasing specialist, Anne Beaudry.
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*As told to Kally from someone who wishes to be anonymous I wasn’t a nice person when I was much younger. Now in my thirties, I have learned a lot from selfish mistakes I have made in the past. Some mistakes that turned into deep regrets that I can never erase from my ledger.
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When I published the piece on workplace abuse, I did not expect so much sharing in the comments. One of the shares is by a talented author, Arwen and I have invited her to share her experiences in detail which she graciously and generously did so and here is her story. I have a longstanding…
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The thought of you ever leaving your company sends shudders through your spine. You rather spend your time at work than at home with your cats. As much as I applaud the fact that you love your job and your company, it is not healthy to have a fixation on your workplace. I know because…
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It is not easy to graciously accept constructive criticism. Many people struggle with receiving feedback even it’s completely accurate. For some as soon as the words critique are mentioned, their minds begin to race searching for an explanation for the seeming assault on their person. And they look for an angry reply to rationalize their…
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Being unemployed can be a major cause of stress for an individual. The anxiety of finding a job within the shortest time possible does not help reduce the stress either.
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If you remembered I took a short break in September, it was a long-awaited break for 18 months since I found out I was pregnant.
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Although Singapore is a much Westernized country, most of us are brought up with strong Asian values. Our teens may wear skimpy denim shorts that barely cover their butt cheeks and hum to the tune of Despacito (my 10 months old daughter’s current favourite song) but they’ll refrain as much as their teenage hormones allow…
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There is so much discrimination in this world, let’s not add another in our workplace. A place where we work 9 hours a day, where equality should exist and promotions and opportunities should be presented to anyone because of his capabilities, not skin colour, not gender and definitely not sexual preference.
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