Top EOY events (2011)!
11.11.2011
I'm looking forward to all these EOY events. I'll only be attending some though. I have no friends willing to join me :(. I don't have many friends interested in jap culture anyway :(.
  • KAIJI 2 Meet the fan session with Tatsuya Fujiwara (11/11/11)
    Omg I'm so excited to see him close up. My all time favourite japanese actor Tatsuya Fujiwara!

  • I love ANISONG (11-13/11/11)
    Many anime performing groups. Actually i don't care about any of them other than KALAFINA!! omg I really don't want to miss this 1..

  • Sundown Festival (27/11/11)
    I won't be going for this 1. Seriously I don't give a shit about the other performing korean, chinese groups =x. I only care about ViVid. Tickets are $138 despite having to stand.

    Meet the fan session: Friday, 25 November 2011 | 6.30pm | Square 2 (Novena)

  • HAP 2011 Mini Concert (27/11/11)|
    I'm going this 1! This is a Secilia Luna special live concert organized by Tokyo69 & Haru. It's really rare for an visual kei indies band to come Singapore to perform, therefore I don't want to miss the chance!
So many exciting things to look forward in this month :). Anyway I'm free until year ends. Taking a break from my last job which I left already. My next job begins in Jan 2012.

1yr 3mths in TTNI was enough to show me that I was not suited as a software engineer. I have been working as a Software Engineer for 2 years and I've decided to move on to other things.

Reasons why being a Software Engineer/Developer sux:
  • No work life balance - being expected to OT alot to deliver, meet tight deadlines, handle multiple projects at a time.

  • Arise to health problems - backaches and pain, migraines, headaches due to sitting down too much in front of the computer, gaining weight exponentially (I put on 10kg + ever since I started working as a developer)

  • Tired and stressful work life - Long hours of programming makes me super tired everyday even though sometimes I don't OT so much. Being "chased" by superiors and customers to rush out my work.

  • Too technical - I sux at explaining technical details. I can't say I have good communication skill at work. It is difficult to explain even though I can understand roughly why it happens. I am bad at smoking (making up other excuse to get out of the situation).

  • Low level job - If i liked my job I guess this wouldn't matter. Having to work 5-6 years as a developer to reach a lead position really turns me off. This is how it is like in private sector. You compete with a large group of developers work for 5-6 years in that position and hope to raise to a lead position. I'm not going to spend 5-6 years doing programming like that. I don't see any future in that. Even at managerial level, you're still handling everything from programming to system maintenance to managing people and project.
Conclusion: It's a tough job and not suitable for women. Changing to other areas in IT was a solution I thought about but if that was the case the only other area I could do was customer support. I already had a feel of that having to do customer support role as well as a developer so I know what it was like.

Being scolded and shot by customer and again explaining things was not exactly my cup of tea.

K0towari 08:20