Hi~ XANGA I am determined to re-activate my xanga account. It has been idled for almost 2 years i guess and i think it is time for me to pick up again my interest in writing web diaries~
This little dog had joined our family for more than a year. He is sweet and cute and is the cure to every stress in your life. His is more like a her and more like a child. He knows how to cheat you and knows what can and cannot be done. I love him, more than I thought I would love him when I first saw him. Another update is that I am back to school again, a part time one though. The course, finally, is not something about the boring damn stupid "law" in any "jurisdiction". I can dump these words behind, haha~! It is called "Behavioural Health". Not meant to exaggerate it in any sense but I really had put up a lot of courage in making the choice to take this course. This is a milestone for me as I finally have the determination and gut to choose what I want instead of what my family or society or others want. To be frank, apart from my first month of study in law school, I have never been proud of my present field of work. I understand the value of its existence but it is just too artificial to me. Someone is creating a playing field where others have to follow. This is not something that should exist by nature. It is human-made. However, this human-made culture, holding up the aim to maintain justice in the society, is sometimes the source of chaos. People in this industry cares only about money and their own benefit. Disclaimer is one of the most commonly heard words. They do not work out of passion for the work but for the money. They are extravagant, spending outrageously and lead a high living standard. They play around words and alleging that this is the truth. Of course it seems to be a decent job in community's standard but just as what Shakespeare had said, the first thing to do is to kill the lawyers. We are complicating things up. This is not a respectable profession for they are walking on the edge to grasp the maximum benefit for themselves, not even the client. Clients are blinded for they, as others put, do not have the benefit to attend law school. They do not know the law. Their decisions very much lie upon their lawyer's. This is just so sad. I am contaminated as well. Over the years I developed a rational (cold blooded) personality, critical thinking (criticize other's while upholding mine) and logical (exclusion of the importance of emotion). I am less and less like a natural human. I do not have empathy anymore which I once had when I was young. People shouldn't be like that. I do not want to be a businessman~! And the least thing that I would like to do is to continue seeing myself degenerate to be one. This is not what a society should be built on. That value of mine leads to my question of whether I should change my occupation, to one that suits my value more. I am thinking of mental health profession, i.e. clinical psychologist, social worker, counselor, etc. These terminologies means that I have to calculate my opportunity cost:- 1-Giving up a decent profession (together with the high reward) and 2-Paying money and time for extra training Things may not go as smooth as I would like to plan. It could be even harder if I was a layman to the field. How am I able to make myself competitive? What would be the challenges ahead if I take this new path? Horrible because nobody can tell. I am not a risk taker since my childhood. Am I and how am I going to take this risk? I sincerely regret to have spent all my savings on my tours~ haha, otherwise I would be in a better financial position for sure. Don't even know how I managed to spend them all. Possible careers that I could think of at this stage: 1-Clinical Psychologist – sounds an excellent choice save that it is extremely difficult to get into the field. Need further research. 2-Social Worker – sounds to be good as I love interventions. I guess it will work if I take another master course on social science. Of course, again, further research needed. 3-Counselor – I don't know about this too much. I know that there is a counselling association in Hong Kong but I do not know what exactly they do.
This piece of writing would definitely worth myself reading it again in a few years time, see if by then I am still a lawyer, or I had already executed my dream. |