Godspeed

As I started working, I was provided links to numerous online training. Some of them are interesting, some of them completely boring, and some are completely irrelevant with what I do. To give you an idea, here's a short list:

Violence at Workplace
Back Injury Preventaion
Signs, Signals, and Barricades
Fire Hazards
Spill Hazards
Hurricanes
Earthquakes
...

Each takes about an hour (I finish them in 20 minutes fast forwarding most and taking the tests at the end with common sense to get 80% which is to pass) and the list consists of 15 of them.

When I get frustrated programming, they are quite blissful as tasks requiring little effort of mind.

I started working yesterday. I already feel overwhelmed!! The work itself is a little more than I expected (a topic for another day to do it justice) in every aspect but definitely something manageable. I will even grow to enjoy it once everything is in place.

However, the sheer fact that I need to wake up at 6, work until 5 and get home at 6 pm is overwhelming. To a person like me who has been enjoying flexible college schedule, having to goto bed at 10 pm and repeating the next day leaves only 4 hours to spare.

These 4 hours are going to be precious. I need to be cooking dinner (today I cooked spaghetti, yesterday curry rice), dining, exercising, doing chores, taking a shower, and writing mails/emails. It's too short of a time for me to enjoy the days (sadly, I will get used to it soon). And my coworker was encouraging me to take a laptop home so I can continue working at home...

On the bright side, the concentration on work will help me take my mind off nostalgia.

I have a feeling that I will soon cherish weekends greatly.

It's about time I need to hit bed in order to prepare for tomorrow. I will write about GE's engineering track and getting my car insured on another day.

Throughout the years, I have worked hard to convince my parents to lend me some money for me to invest in the stock market. The sum is nothing substantial; it's just something I do to help me feel like I am not wasting the golden opportunity to enter the stock market early and that I get self-satisfaction of investing.

My approach is nothing scientific. I have identified few companies I find strong and secure, and just let the time judge my decisions. I rarely touch them (for the fear of transaction fees) and I just watch how they bobble up and down like a fisher unwilling to catch anything but who just enjoys watching the bobber. I could even argue I do it for the sake of having something else to help me feel alive in the crudest sense.

Luckily, I have entered the market when it was quite low, and I have seen some increase in the value of my investment. However, I just wanted to "wait longer" and see where they end up being rather than cashing in and out frequently after each fluctuations. It turns out that those decisions are not bad ones according to investment gurus (they urge you to stay calm), but they have not been good either.

Just yesterday, they decreased enough in value that I am now standing at the even line from which I invested. From here, I could make some money or lose some more. I will probably just wait and see where it goes from here on without making any more transactions. Nevertheless, the feeling of monetary loss is troubling me a bit. Perhaps through this kind of troublesome feelings, I may learn to pay more attention to my finance and start doing soem analyses.