Feeling Stuck

You know how sometimes you feel like you are stuck in a rut. Doing the same things, day in, day out. Nothing much changes, you are just getting older.

These are mine right now.
Problem: I can't move forward with my PR application.

Reasons why I cant move forward: I keep encountering road blocks. Right now, it's the company who can't give me a payrise to the minimum wage level necessary for me to be eligible for an ENS application until Jan 2014, where all the others get their payrises too.

If I were to change company, that would reset the necessary 1 year that i would have to be in the role, before I start negiotiating if they would like to assist me in the application again. One step forward, three steps back.


What I should do now: Wait the two months. But how do I let it go? As in, I have been applying since Aug 2013. And it has been difficult almost the whole way. Now they want to put of the pay increase two months because they can.

2. Problem: I want to take the next big step. Getting a house. Not a big one, but just sufficient for me to know that if anything goes wrong, at least i still have a roof over my head to weather the storm.

Reasons why I cant move forward: This cant be done now without my PR.


Solution: Wait until the PR is sorted then go for house viewings.

Is it because the current things i want are in someone else's hands, that's why i'm feeling this way?

Nuggets of Quotes

1. "Always accept credit" ~ DDC

refering to accepting credit even when credit is not due in a work environment.

2. "People are not against you, they are for themselves"

3. "Employers may say that they value your opinion but the hard truth is, they simply want you to tell them how great things are."

Employers may say that they value your opinion, but the hard truth is, sometimes they simply want you to tell them how great things are. - See more at: http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2012/09/12/should-you-be-honest-at-work-not-always/#sthash.IviSGvXD.dpufEmployer

Employers may say that they value your opinion, but the hard truth is, sometimes they simply want you to tell them how great things are. - See more at: http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2012/09/12/should-you-be-honest-at-work-not-always/#sthash.IviSGvXD.dpuf

Don't you just hate it when

• you still have to be at work although there is nothing else critical that needs to be done for the day?
• the people you are meeting up with are chronically late?
• the last piece of the dress you have had your eye on ran out of your size?
• you give way to someone and they don't wave back an acknowledgement?
• you long to meet your significant other but realise you have to wait 5 whole weekdays until you can see him again
• your work colleagues keep talking to you about their personal stuff during work hours and all you want is some quiet time?
• you gave someone your word but in the end, when the time comes, you beat yourself up for agreeing so quickly in the first place?
• your alarm goes off even before you are ready to get up
• your roommate don't know what boundary lines mean?

What else?

Goals

I've got inspired by another blog to jot down some things that make up my aims in life.

Here goes:

1. Consistently make 2K profit in the stock market monthly
2. Read a book a month
3. Find my own place to purchase
4. Find a source of passive income
5. Be financially free by 40
6. Own a dog and be able to provide for it and make sure it has company so that it won't be bored stiff just waiting for me to get home from work. (Although... wouldn't 2 dogs be nice? haha!)
7. Be less stressed when driving
8. Try and not get pissed whenever someone is so delayed replying IMs (or I can really just stop using IM to talk to them really)
9. Constantly strive to be a better person
10. Go to Bright
11. Go to New Zealand
12. Get my PR at the end of 2013
13. Go to the Great Barrier Reef
14. Deepen my friendships with Shirley, XiuPing and Eriko (I would hate for our lives to drift apart)
15. Own a car 10/2012
    
16. Go for a Contiki tour
17. Go to Sunshine Coast
18. Meeting an Ozzy man of my dreams 05/2013
    
19. Parallel Park
20. Watch TED once a week
21. Go horse back riding
22. Car servicing 05/2013
23. Volunteer at RSPCA
24. Custom plate for my car
25. End my fight with MC