My First Pay/ Helpdesk

During every vacation, I look forward to my time at the helpdesk even though it can mean very long hours and late nights. Its where I picked up my technical skills ever since I was a non technical related Biomed poly student and its where I decided to take up Com Sci as my major in Uni. I'm glad and fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn in the technical field even though I started off without much technical knowledge and am a female. (In the Techie world, its still pretty much a male dominant industry)

I enjoy the company at the helpdesk. My colleagues and I (we are in the late teens or twenties) would go for coffee or late after work suppers and would talk at length about studies, friendships, relationships, our future, bread and butter issues like housing cost, raising cost. We would often calculate how much we need to pay for our uni fees in return to our parent's CPF (for my case its my CPF) and how much we need to in our CPF to pay for a flat. We also chat abt the high housing cost and joke that we should try our hands at lottery. (Naw, the odds of winning are one in a million but we chat about the possibility of the things we would do with a winning sum - migrate overseas, buy a house, car, travel around the world etc) and what we would invest in.

Till date, my biggest investment is my Uni studies (yeah, I spent the large bulk of my savings on my studies after graduating from poly and working for 2 years ). Eh... I guess I will see its returns when I graduate =)

I remember when I had my first pay in 2007, though mum and grandma did not expect nor told me give them monthly allowances, I set aside monthly $200 for mum and $100 for grandma
( after so many of years upbringing, its the a responsibility I should do as a grownup and yeah.. I would like give more but that's the amount I could set aside then after setting aside a bulk on savings for my Uni studies, bills, expenses and insurance.)

I was seating at the living room sofa and wondering how I would pass the money to mum and grandma since it was my first time and passing the cash in the normal way (like how we pass cash to people) seems too hard-cold and normal. I thought, giving the cash in an envelope would look very much like giving a resignation letter and ang pows are meant for elders giving cash to the younger generation.

In the end, I placed the cash in two small mooncake boxes. After dinner, I told mum and grandma I just received my first pay and would like to give some allowances before giving them each a mooncake box and blushing.

Yeah... That's my first time giving allowances and the feeling from getting my first official job pay then was something special (cant really describe it but its a feeling more to independent and grownup).

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