I have a strong will. I fall, I get up and move on. Life is too short to stay put in the past. There are things I like, people I want to meet, goals I aim to reach. To some, they may be trivial, but to me, it means a lot. My life goals differ from others. Who are they to compare?
I work towards them step by step. There is no straight path. I lose some, gain some. Like my recent resignation. To all, it is a huge sum especially when I still have debts to pay. To some, I am a bad employee and who knows if I would do the same again? To me, it is something that allows me to cut ties from all the bullshit I went through in the place. Anyone can tell me "Work is never easy. There will always be challenges."
Are you kidding me? Do you think I'm an imbecile who lazes around and expect an easy life? Do you think I don't know that?
I picked up a job that's way below the expected salary a university graduate is supposed to have. I learnt to multitask, to do everything. I made mistakes along the way. I was an unorthodox instructor who simply refused to follow the conventional route to teach my kids. Perhaps I got more complaints from teachers than my colleagues in such a short period of time.
I left because I disagreed with company practices. I left because I didn't want to participate in fraud. I left because that place was killing my passion for music, eroding my belief in educating kids to be able to think for themselves. Every word said, every action, just screamed nothing but money. Money at the expense of the employees. Money at the expense of education.
MY life doesn't revolve around money and money only. I agree, we need money to survive, but earning it via such nefarious means? (If you want a list, feel free to PM me. Most I heard from colleagues, some I witnessed for myself.) Again, to you it doesn't seem that way, to me it is.
They painted a lovely picture of the events planned for 2015. They tried to use my passion against me, saying that kids loved me, I enjoyed teaching them. They tried to justify why MC claims weren't given - workers insurance when we travel from school to school. (It is clearly unrelated, as you can see.) Two hours I sat there, listening to them attempt to butter me up.
The words that finalized my decision were: "You want Saturday off because you want to teach more private students right? It's okay if you say no, I know how you feel about needing to support the family."
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For those who don't know, I teach piano on Sunday. So essentially, I AM working everyday. All I want, is to have one day off. One day to rest. One day where I don't have to go back to office in the morning, teach piano in the afternoon, and leave only nights free. I'm not a workaholic, but as of now life made it that way.
Those words were an insult. Those words, based on assumptions and their own thinking, clearly showed that our views differed by a wide margin. They think about money, how to earn money, how money is the only way to survive in this competitive world.
Anyone can disagree, but it will not change my opinion. Shove your pride aside and be humble! Stop being an attention whore! The world doesn't revolve around you! Dude, you're way out of point. How wrong is it to not want to participate in fraud?
