Work is where the heart is

I like stability. I like knowing several things in life are well-planned, therefore there's no excuse for them to fail. I like them well-executed, with satisfying results. Including my jobs. Part of the reason I moved to this huge, listed company was because it offered me stability from Day 1.

However, as days rolled by, I learned that this place is your typical Indonesian institution with bureaucracy and politics that are slowly eating your flesh from the inside. I'd like to explain more, but I don't feel right exposing internal office affairs on such a public place.

Bottomline is, I think I want out.

Now on the other hand, there is this...door that suddenly just opened up to these opportunities. I can go back doing what I like most; writing. And this time, it's for international readers. It may even lead to my ultimate dream job, which is to work for this particular news agency.

Now of course everything has a catch. It's gonna be a freelance gig, so there's no fixed monthly income, there's no insurance scheme paid, and definitely no annual bonuses. Or MSG-filled freebies.

Is it time to leave this evil corporate world behind and work whenever I want to, wherever my so-called passion bring me to? Is it time to organize my own working schedule every day? To write four, five hours a day and then do whatever I like to pursue, like dancing lessons, Pilates classes, language courses, mall-hopping, mall-hopping, mall-hopping?

Is it time to live life?