At times I even feel like Gregor Samsa. I won’t be surprised if I wake up one day as a giant vermin. What would it matter? Even if I wake up as a cockroach, I will probably still be worrying about my job and about money. My whole family is counting on me. My father fell ill and is also too old anyway to work. My mother does not know a darn thing about work. And my sister, well, she is growing up into a lady but she takes care of so many things. She’s the one cleaning the house, preparing meals, taking care of my parents. She also has school to worry about. She can’t work. But I, a banker with a boss I really detest. The very person from whom our family owes a large amount of money that will never seem to get paid in full. That’s how I got the job anyway. When my father got sick, we had to borrow money from the man. That’s why my boss thinks he’s entitled to order me around and keep pilling a ton of work on my desk. I don’t even have time to think about love or marriage because I can’t let my family down. I am really feeling all burnt out from this kind of life.
Then I thought about boosting my job skills so I can find work in another company and a different position because clearly my boss seems to want to keep me right were I am so that he will have his personal work slave. I took some elearning courses on software and management. It was one of the best things I ever did. I could take elearning because first of all, it was very inexpensive. And also, it is accepted as a course by a lot of companies in my field of work. It also does not take much time because I can do it at my own pace and at my own time. I don’t even have to leave the house. Now because of elearning solutions, I got hired in another company and am earning twice what I used to earn.