11 down, 11 more to go

well, a good figure for staying late in the office. generally most of my staff that i've spoken to are very positive, a change from previous years where there were more complaints. i hope it not due to the fact that they think there's nothing i can do about those complaints.
my staff here can be roughly be divided into 2 groups.

the 'old' batch which are trying to adapt to the new environment but have kept their lousy attitudes and

a 'new' batch that are very excited to show off their talents but are really not able to do so coz everything here are quite rigidly structured. they can contribute a lot if given more recognition, and this is what i'm & will be trying to do.
i'll really hate to see them one day feel defeated and work here because they have to make a living.

it's sometimes hard to keep yourself motivated when
1) you feel you're doing the same thing all the time. after a while you just go "been there, done that" and it becomes a no brainier.
2) you feel that you're 'there' and nothing to look forward to. when i started out way back in the good old days, i wanted to be an editor and worked really hard for it. for the 1st 3 years of my working life, i had no other life except work. when i got to be very good at being an editor, i thought that's it ?, you work hard to work even harder (money was good i must say). it came to a point that i just had to let it go........ now how did i get here?,

still over all i have a good bunch working here and together we can make it better!
cayalah.