Does Profession Really Matters?

When you finished your college degree and started looking for a job, which is mostly in a Corporate world, having that profession that you always wanted is the most important thing, could even be more important than the salary maybe?

I was the same back then, I wanted to have a profession that sounds so good in the ear, and keep wanting for more and more higher positions, good profession and of course salary increased. It could be for a different reasons for each person, it could be so you can brag it with your friends or with other people? it could also be to have that professional image that can gain respect from others? or it could also be a help in gaining credibility for yourself...

But as I grow up, not only in age, but in life itself, I started questioning myself, does profession really matters for me? I mean will it make me less of a person if I don't have that professional job title? will it make me look unsuccessful? and most of all will it make me and my life less happy?

Then I realized, maybe not, I'm maybe used into having a professional title that always comes next to my name, but without it, will my life be torn into pieces? will I loose all that I have earned in life?

If you have questioned yourself the same thing and answered "yes", then please please... keep on reading, then maybe I can help you, but if you answered "no", then congrats, maybe you're just like me, but yo are still welcome to keep on reading from this.

I am just a 26 years old, just like most of you, I got my college degree at the age of 20 and started looking for a corporate job immediately, there's a tight competition but I managed to get myself my very first job as a Research Analyst in one of the "Fortune 500" company. It was fun and challenging at the same time, I was able to gain a lot of knowledge and job experience, salary is fair enough for an inexperience fresh graduate like me, but the location is quite far from home. After 4 years of working for the said company, I got tired of spending a total of 4 hours on the road daily just to get to and from work, so I resigned... 

And since my main issue is the location, I tried looking for a job that has a nearer distance from home, and guess what? I was so lucky that I was even able to get a home based job as a writer, I have no formal training about being a writer, I just got so lucky that I discovered to myself that I can write and earn from it. I was hired as a full time home based writer with same salary, even higher but without any benefits. It was fun at first, duh!? who wouldn't like to work at the comfort of your own home and earn the same? But after a year, I realized that having no benefits is not a wise option, specially for a mom like me, (yeah I am a mother of an 11 years old boy, you do the computation, but I'll probably write about that too later). So I quit being a writer and look for a "normal job", if you know what I mean? And I landed here on my current job, near to home, fair salary, good benefits and tolerable shift even though it is night shift.

But guess what? I am now on my 30 days notice again... short story short.. I resigned again.

Why? Because I always have this feeling that I am wasting my life for something I don't even want to do. For something that I am only doing because I need to be financially secure to support everyday life and my obligations too.

No offense as it could be different for everyone, but I don't want to be that person who stays on a company doing the same thing without realizing that they spent 5? 10? 15? and 20 years of their life working for a company that won't even care if you are or have been happy with your life and will easily just replaced you when you resign.

Until such time that you realized that you can't do the things you always wanted to do anymore, for such reason that you are already too old for it? it outgrows you already? or your eagerness to do it passed away already? Whatever your reason is, surely there's a part of you regretting and hoping you could turn back the time and do those things that you've always wanted to do.

So what's the connection of this with our main question - "Does Profession Really Matters?"... I'll say, I don't need that much time to realize that I need to do something in order to live the life I want, I want to travel and see the world, I want to experience life thrills, I want to go on adventure, I want to be a make up artist, I want to be an event organizer, I want to own a business, I want to have a beach house..... there's so many things in life I want, I may not get all of it, but one thing is for sure, I won't get any of it if I keep spending my time working on that same 9 hours job everyday. And Yes! it doesn't matter whatever job title or profession I will have or even if there's none, as long as I can still support our daily livings (of course in a legal way) while doing the things I want to do, doesn't matter how long it will take, as long as I am able to do it.

I'm not saying you should leave your job and settle for less, that is not for us Filipinos, we have a lot of family members counting onto us, what I'm saying is you should start thinking of a way where you could still leave the life you want without leaving your obligations behind, do the things you want and save yourself from regretting for the time you can't get back.

I am not yet in that position, so I can't share much of my journey aside from what I have shared already. But one thing's for sure, I'm making a move, and whatever happens next, it will never be a failure, just either success or an experience.