Bratless
I’ve been working for the past 2 years upon graduation; I should consider myself lucky that I found a job within a short span of time, but what may I ask constitutes good family time? Does it mean enjoying your time with your family? If that is so then how a Saturday off would be any different from any given day?
I’m in the PR sector btw, even though I don’t work Saturdays even before the new ruling, my weekends are chock full other engagements. On weekdays my office hours are so irregular, I see a glimpse of my family only in the mornings before I rush off to work. My main gist is, having a balanced work and family life is total BS.
You can’t have either, unless you wear totally white uniforms and draw salaries that could easily allow you to purchase 3rd world nations in 5 year installments. You can’t enjoy your money because there are bills to settle, cost of living is on the rise, car installments, housing and a host of nitty gritty items. You can’t enjoy your family because, after a dreadful day at work, you drag yourself back home only to be confronted with domestic issues which ply on the stress.
The human body has only a certain level of tolerance, beyond that and most of us will snap. I believe the majority of us will not have the luxury of actually experiencing what it is like to live like certain politicians. I am sick and tired of this routine. Wake up, go to work, return home and sleep. There’s almost no room at all for anything else.
I am fortunate I guess to have met my other half while I was still a student, but what about those who are still single and want to find partners? Will the current environment support this? NO! There’s really no chance at all. You need the money to feed yourself and you sacrifice your social life to do that.
And how about egging us on to have offspring? Please, even with financial bonuses like that dangled infront of me, I wont even consider procreation. Already free time for yourself is a rarity, left alone free time for your child. Try paying me $500K over a period of 5 years I might consider, otherwise why burden myself? I would rather live with my partner childless without the financial taxes of bringing up a child.
And don’t get me started on how fulfilling rising a kid is, that’s utter crap. If it can make me a fuller person, I want a full demonstration and statistics to prove it. Does that make me less human if I don’t have kids? Bringing up one is no mean feat. And I’m sure our “leaders” have at least a platoon of care givers to look after their white horses. How many of use can even afford a maid? Big deal with the discount in levies. Why not abort it in the first place so all of us can have a battalion of them?
Just look at it this way. As a couple, you get to do all the things that you have always wanted without worrying about baby. You want to go Venice? No prob! Just pack and go, no hassle about worrying who’s going to look after junior or whether the hotel has child care services…It will be a Extreme load of your mind too whenever your shopping, dining, or even just relaxing.
You might counter and argue, but what about when your old and lonely? Whose going to care for you? Well, with the money you spent saving not having a little brat, you would have more than enough to spend your twilight years holidaying, pursuing interests and ultimately check yourself into some retirement village. I mean come on, having kids as a means of security was what my grandparents thought of, those days they neither have the education level nor financial backing to plan ahead for the future and thus would be reliant on their children when their old.
I wouldn’t be in the same category. Thanks to our markets opening up, people nowadays are more well read, readily accept modern technological advances in medicines and other services. I wouldn’t need my children to call up some doctor to book my appointments in English. I can read, write and so on! Why the hell do I need a younger replica of myself?
Another point, “seeing my friends looking so happy with their children makes me long for children of my own?” that’s the biggest mistake your ever going to make. Like I said people are all different, what makes your friend tick might not necessarily tickle your fancy, so don’t be so absurd as to adopt this me too policy. You will live to regret it.
To conclude, work and family time can never be fulfilled. We spend so much of our time chasing the corporate ladder and trying to ascend it, we sort of ditch everything else. Balancing family, relationship is tough enough, but a baby? That’s like committing suicide. Sure our island state is a fine place to live in, but its not a place to bring babies to the world. Don’t expect to have a comfortable live when your children are grown up. In fact don’t even expect anything from them if you ever have them at all.
One rule applies till this very day. Survival of the fittest. You would want to keep yourself at the most profitable, issues like children will only serve to bring down your market value in this highly competitive world.
I’m in the PR sector btw, even though I don’t work Saturdays even before the new ruling, my weekends are chock full other engagements. On weekdays my office hours are so irregular, I see a glimpse of my family only in the mornings before I rush off to work. My main gist is, having a balanced work and family life is total BS.
You can’t have either, unless you wear totally white uniforms and draw salaries that could easily allow you to purchase 3rd world nations in 5 year installments. You can’t enjoy your money because there are bills to settle, cost of living is on the rise, car installments, housing and a host of nitty gritty items. You can’t enjoy your family because, after a dreadful day at work, you drag yourself back home only to be confronted with domestic issues which ply on the stress.
The human body has only a certain level of tolerance, beyond that and most of us will snap. I believe the majority of us will not have the luxury of actually experiencing what it is like to live like certain politicians. I am sick and tired of this routine. Wake up, go to work, return home and sleep. There’s almost no room at all for anything else.
I am fortunate I guess to have met my other half while I was still a student, but what about those who are still single and want to find partners? Will the current environment support this? NO! There’s really no chance at all. You need the money to feed yourself and you sacrifice your social life to do that.
And how about egging us on to have offspring? Please, even with financial bonuses like that dangled infront of me, I wont even consider procreation. Already free time for yourself is a rarity, left alone free time for your child. Try paying me $500K over a period of 5 years I might consider, otherwise why burden myself? I would rather live with my partner childless without the financial taxes of bringing up a child.
And don’t get me started on how fulfilling rising a kid is, that’s utter crap. If it can make me a fuller person, I want a full demonstration and statistics to prove it. Does that make me less human if I don’t have kids? Bringing up one is no mean feat. And I’m sure our “leaders” have at least a platoon of care givers to look after their white horses. How many of use can even afford a maid? Big deal with the discount in levies. Why not abort it in the first place so all of us can have a battalion of them?
Just look at it this way. As a couple, you get to do all the things that you have always wanted without worrying about baby. You want to go Venice? No prob! Just pack and go, no hassle about worrying who’s going to look after junior or whether the hotel has child care services…It will be a Extreme load of your mind too whenever your shopping, dining, or even just relaxing.
You might counter and argue, but what about when your old and lonely? Whose going to care for you? Well, with the money you spent saving not having a little brat, you would have more than enough to spend your twilight years holidaying, pursuing interests and ultimately check yourself into some retirement village. I mean come on, having kids as a means of security was what my grandparents thought of, those days they neither have the education level nor financial backing to plan ahead for the future and thus would be reliant on their children when their old.
I wouldn’t be in the same category. Thanks to our markets opening up, people nowadays are more well read, readily accept modern technological advances in medicines and other services. I wouldn’t need my children to call up some doctor to book my appointments in English. I can read, write and so on! Why the hell do I need a younger replica of myself?
Another point, “seeing my friends looking so happy with their children makes me long for children of my own?” that’s the biggest mistake your ever going to make. Like I said people are all different, what makes your friend tick might not necessarily tickle your fancy, so don’t be so absurd as to adopt this me too policy. You will live to regret it.
To conclude, work and family time can never be fulfilled. We spend so much of our time chasing the corporate ladder and trying to ascend it, we sort of ditch everything else. Balancing family, relationship is tough enough, but a baby? That’s like committing suicide. Sure our island state is a fine place to live in, but its not a place to bring babies to the world. Don’t expect to have a comfortable live when your children are grown up. In fact don’t even expect anything from them if you ever have them at all.
One rule applies till this very day. Survival of the fittest. You would want to keep yourself at the most profitable, issues like children will only serve to bring down your market value in this highly competitive world.
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