To climb or to fall
While chatting with my good friend today, he brought up a dilemma that he is facing and asked me what would I have done. The situation is as follows:
His job requires him to be outstationed in a more or less third world country for a relatively long period of time (meaning 1 year or longer) and his job scope includes entertaining clients. While entertaining clients, he will, undoubtably, be exposed to all sorts of vices. Drinking, smoking and possibly drugs and going to prostitutes. And being outstation for such a long time, chances are that he will fall into a very bad lifestyle. However, if he stays on in this job, his prospects will be quite good and could make manager is a relatively short period of time. So question is: Will you carry on to climb this corporate ladder even though you will fall into a bad way of life, or to seek employment in another firm hoping that things MIGHT turn out better there?
I'm quite sure at one point or another, most of us have faced similar dilemma, to a more or less extent. For me, I have not faced this kind of problem yet for I have been only working less than a year and there is no occupational hazards for me in this field, except that my colleagues warned me that it's traditional for the first child of the employee to be a girl. So far its 100% accurate. No problems for me, I like girls anyway. Muahahaha
Anyway, back to the dilemma. My answer to him is that:
If changing of my lifestyle into such a sinful one is must, then I will not do it. However, I WILL give it a shot first to see if I can resist such a change and if I can't, then I shall quit.
That's my answer to him but I do not know the full extent of his situation so it's easy for me to just use my mouth (in this case my hands) to make the decision. So I truely wonder, if the day that I have to make a similar decision, what would it be? Maybe I would have tried and liked going into a sinful lifestyle?
Who knows~ What about you?
His job requires him to be outstationed in a more or less third world country for a relatively long period of time (meaning 1 year or longer) and his job scope includes entertaining clients. While entertaining clients, he will, undoubtably, be exposed to all sorts of vices. Drinking, smoking and possibly drugs and going to prostitutes. And being outstation for such a long time, chances are that he will fall into a very bad lifestyle. However, if he stays on in this job, his prospects will be quite good and could make manager is a relatively short period of time. So question is: Will you carry on to climb this corporate ladder even though you will fall into a bad way of life, or to seek employment in another firm hoping that things MIGHT turn out better there?
I'm quite sure at one point or another, most of us have faced similar dilemma, to a more or less extent. For me, I have not faced this kind of problem yet for I have been only working less than a year and there is no occupational hazards for me in this field, except that my colleagues warned me that it's traditional for the first child of the employee to be a girl. So far its 100% accurate. No problems for me, I like girls anyway. Muahahaha
Anyway, back to the dilemma. My answer to him is that:
If changing of my lifestyle into such a sinful one is must, then I will not do it. However, I WILL give it a shot first to see if I can resist such a change and if I can't, then I shall quit.
That's my answer to him but I do not know the full extent of his situation so it's easy for me to just use my mouth (in this case my hands) to make the decision. So I truely wonder, if the day that I have to make a similar decision, what would it be? Maybe I would have tried and liked going into a sinful lifestyle?
Who knows~ What about you?
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