The After-Life list

So now that I am clearly not in college anymore, and I clearly don't feel like being in one anymore (not yet at least), there are few things I would like to talk about the after life.
It's been way too long since I made a list, and this is my list for the after life, or some things that I realized (I sorta knew them on paper before) after finishing almost a month at work

• Weekends are sacred. Friday nights and Saturdays are the only two days where you can truly just do anything without wondering about tomorrow so much. You cherish them even more because you get to see your friends rarely, and those are the only two days you really get to see them
• Alarms are your best friend. You can never mess up with them, and I mean NEVER. The more alarms you have, the better it is for your time management skills to improve
• Watching your mouth becomes pivotal. No matter how chill your workplace is, you gotta cut those curse words out, you never know who gets offended and that habit eventually creeps in your personal life (not drastically, but somewhat)
• You make more dentist appointments and now you can afford to more than ever. Work benefits package are the best thing to happen to people in USA. Dentist visits are almost a part of your calendar and accepted very nicely at the work place
• You have new drinking friends. Happy hours exist for a reason and the reason is for all those people who work together and bond outside of the office with the help of alcohol, because nothing brings your guard down like some good ol' alcohol
• Suddenly you can't be in bed till noon on a weekend. Early to rise is your new mantra, even if early to bed doesn't work that well
• You can actually afford to spend $100 bucks on an expensive dinner every once in a while without planning it out way in advance. (This may have some limitations)
• Most of all you realize you are getting old, when people around you talk about getting married and having kids all the time.. sigh

And this is me talking in less than a month. May be after few more, I'll right a whole long essay on why people hate being single when they start working, I hear that one all the time.

So yeah, I have a life now, not much to complain about yet. I am content. That's a lot to have I guess.

I am all grown up :O

It’s hard to stay away from something so close to you even though you don’t seem to have much time for it.

Now, I know I can shut this down, and not rant (primarily because there isn’t much to rant about) and one less thing to maintain, but it’s hard.

So I am here, trying to figure out the best way to keep this going and give it an hour a week or some more. Shouldn’t be that hard, all I need is some time management skills (which I technically should have).

I went into the corporate world thinking I know what comes next owing to three odd internships I had done before. But here’s the catch, you don’t know what it’s like to work full-time till you actually get there.

First and foremost, it is overwhelming and confusing. There is so much you want to accomplish, there is so much you think you know and there is so much you believe is doable, but my friends, it’s a whole different ball game. It is a feeling of a suddenly growing up and being expected to know it all in a certain way, without really knowing it all. No matter how much you study in college, so many things are absolutely and totally new. Every mistake is scary, every step is crucial and every action is noticed.

And on top of all that you are trying to get together your social life, locate your missing friends, balance out the weekdays and the weekends. I am not complaining, because I love my job, but suddenly the importance of weekends is huge in my life, seeing some friends is extremely cheering and being able to manage time between work, work at home and friends is challenging.

I feel lost in a way. I know I don’t want to go back to school, I know I am ready to prove my abilities to corporate America, but I feel oddly old, and forcibly responsible.

Should I end it?

First week of work.

I finally have a life now. I can’t say “yes” to hanging out to people all the time. I wake up before 7 am and go to bed by 1 am.

Who knew?

So anyhoo….

I haven’t been writing much lately. And I have a feeling it’s gonna be like that. Not because I don’t want to, but because I see work being my life now, and I don’t know whether there will be much to ponder here

But hey, I can’t complain, that’s why I always wanted :)

So I have been thinking if I should just stop after over 2 years of blogging. Should I just shut this down?

It seems like a very hard decision. I have ranted so much here, I can’t seem to get myself to just not have this blog attached to my name. It’s almost a person to me… sigh

So I am still debating. To do, or not to do. Should I just end it on a high, or me not writing much, is just a phase?

Sigh!