Letting actions speak
I got my first paycheque this morning. Hard to believe I've been in this company for a month already -- feels like I joined only last week!
People keep on asking me how work's going and I keep on telling them I'm still getting used to the different job scope, which I am. Sometimes I feel very blur and unsure of what I'm doing. On the plus side, that's caused me to pray a lot more! :P
Also trying to improve my work ethic. Let's just say that this is one area in which I feel continually challenged to do better...
But at least I have more or less managed to refrain from blogging at the office. Some days I write the posts the night before and schedule them to be published the following morning. Other days, when this is not possible, I simply don't write anything here.
My boss knows I have a blog. When he interviewed me, one of the questions asked was about the hobbies I have, and since, as I've said before, I don't have that many hobbies -- and the ones I do have are boring -- I blurted out that I keep a personal blog.
Truth to tell, if you Google my real name, you would be able to find my blog anyway, so there's really no point trying to hide. Plus, I'm not ashamed of my blog (although I don't flaunt it either), and I've always tried to be discreet when it comes to writing about work & other people whom I know. So I thought there was no harm in mentioning it during the interview. Maybe I figured the boss may as well find out about it sooner rather than later. I don't know what I was thinking!
He didn't ask for the URL and I didn't give it to him, but like I said, the blog's pretty easy to find, so I don't know whether he looked it up later. Knowing that I write about my relationship with God and my journey of faith on this blog further spurs me in my desire to be a good worker in the office. There's no point talking about my religious beliefs and sounding all "holy-moley" if I'm going to be a terrible worker with a lousy work ethic. That would simply make me a hypocrite.
Talk is cheap. 'Walking the talk' is hard, but necessary. I'm still trying. Still working at building discipline and getting rid of laziness & procrastination. I've seen small improvements... but there's always room for yet more!