dinner at home...

brother and sister in law came home for dinner with the two dogs today... it's mom and dad's 37th wedding anniversary..which explains the additional duck and meat at home...

during dinner, brother asked.. " eh, i saw this job with the dunno what govt.. *i basically dunno what he was talking about* got this job for admin..."
looked at him in the face and told him, i dun want to do admin, it drives me mad..
"then what you wanna do?!" he was a bit aggitated already..
" i'm a data analyst, not some admin girl"..
"but that job is near home!"
"ya, so what?"
*sister in law starts to tell him.. "let her slowly find"*
" ya, i've been in and out of job the moment they come"
"then now? what you wanna do?"
" find something slowly lah, how many more yrs have i got to job hop like that?!"
*brother keeps quiet*

my rationale: why does he still think his sister is some small little girl who does not know what to do and need the advice of some mature adult aka my brother to tell me got this job opening, got that opening? he doesn't even know what his sister does in HP, what makes him so sure that his sister is doing admin???

my brother has had the 'enlightenment' of my late grandfather who asked him to join SIA as a trainee engineer.. survived through there for the last decade, enduring the long hours, weird bosses order, and the rounds of retrenchment... but yet he is not able to move out of there.. cos he is restricted by his skill set... either he moves out to another airline or onto something different.. i dun like this kind of restriction.. his sister is simply not the kind to be restricted...

my sister in law is also another one who keeps asking me this question even before i left HP like two months in advance... " u find job already? the family needs you to be employed" my goodness, can you ppl stop it? I like to plan my next step, i've already stayed in the job for the family for the past four yrs, can i plan something for myself now?? I'm still giving money, i'm still paying bills so what seems to be the prob? Can't the little girl have a mind of her own? or does she need to be the puppet, pulled by strings by so many ppl in her family? I decide ok... it's my life...take it or leave it...