I do not really know what to say here but penning it down will somehow bring ease to my already hyped-up mind. ‘Change’ and ‘transformation’ are the two words I hear most lately, often spoken among the workizens (working citizens) in my work place.
Change took place. My work place is now undergoing a transformation process, a huge one ever embarked by the management. Transformation comes with a price; you have to agree with me that anything comes with a price before you can show off your prize.
Previously when we still were not a design office, we handled mostly small design projects, remedial works, structural assessment, researching for new construction materials, and dam surveillance. Change was initiated, we are now a design office. I for one, supported this change, it is not because that I can live to tell my old tales to the new engineers but being part of the change is all that matters most.
There is something mystical about change. More often than not, we always yearn for change, at the same time we too resist change in our little ways. There is a Chinese sarcastic saying of “the pigs will climb tree” whenever someone wanted to change for betterment, this very mean words are meant to kill dreams. Pigs, they will not climb tree, never, they can use the elevators.
Now that the management has embarked on transforming the workplace to a design office, vision has been laid top-down. The crucial part is for its workizens to embrace the wind of change and be part of the change.
I am living in an interim period now. It feels like being a teenager once again whereby you are seeing your body transforming from a child to that of an adult. This is what I feel now. As long as the transformation process has not completed, I am stuck in the body of a teenager, hoping to become an adult and at the same time full of anxiety and curiosity.
The message of change has took place and transformation is ongoing is itself an assurance, which is good for my career development and portfolio.
On a positive note, all those frequent outstation work is coming to a stop; I will now be based mostly in the office doing engineering design works. There are a lot of knowledge to catch up because since my graduation I have never engaged in any sort of design works. This will be my very first time, somehow I feel like an engineer now, though a novice.
I cannot afford to walk, I need to run.
What kind of change are you experiencing now? I hope you welcome and anticipate change just as I am.
