If it’s no fun, why do it?

A tagline of Ben & Jerry’s and I had been swearing by it until a year ago. 

I had enjoyed every job that I was in. This one, not so… I got in because of connection. It pays quite well but the jobscope is just so ‘bleh’. 

I always tell myself never ever work for money and I had been abiding by it. When I just graduated I worked in a dynamic casting agency. I had to take photographs of models in G-string on my first day of work. 

I had to pick up models to and fro their hotels, and one even greeted me with only his towel wrapped around him. And did I mention he was gorgeous. 

It was fun, but as of all productions, hours were crazy. 16 hours were the norm. And I earned peanuts at that time. I was so tired of productions that I left. 

I worked in ALDO after that. It was great! I know some of the greatest people I had ever known there. I got to travel, though the furthest was Penang, and that was the last time I was on Singapore Airlines. -.- 

We worked overnight to get the stores started, I got the first hand informations of the shoes that were coming in. I get invitations for fashion shows, magazine events, and 40% of ALDO shoes no less. I was having a lot of fun, even those time when I had to squat at the warehouse to sort out accessories, it was still fun and memorable. 

Thereafter I flew the world. I love those times of my life and even till now 10 of us are as close as ever. Those people make my day even till now. We just had steamboat together and trust me I had not laughed so hard in a long time. 

Now, now. I just wish I am working in a place as dynamic and as flamboyant and as interesting and as  fun as the other 3 places I had worked in. However, in those industries I will have to work long hours and its pay sucks. 

You know something about not having best of both worlds? I totally understand that, and I wish I could go back to anyone of them. But time has changed, will I still be having fun picking up models? Will I still be having fun squatting in an empty mall in the middle of the night to set up stores? Will I still be having fun getting jet lags in a strange city?

That’s the thing about mid-20s. You are not here not there. Too old to have fun and too young to settle for a good ol’ job. 

Sigh. Have not been writing and it feels good. How I wish I had better command of English. You know what, I had always wanted to be a writer. I wrote a lot of unfinished romance love story in my old computer, and I wrote diaries. If I could, I’d like to be a columnist that writes anything big or small.