Not sure if it's worth..

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Hi!

My 24 years old daughter is working for one of the top player in IT industry.

Allah blessed her this great opportunity as at this young age, she is not only given an important role an ASEAN region marketing, but also responsibility over marketing activities for few South Asian countries including Pakistan.

She loves her job, the company, and peoples she work with that even declined a better paying offer from IBM.

She works, no less then 16 hours daily including weekends (I remember her working even 36 hours without break), she is so overloaded with the work that, even refused to take a break for medical reason, to be fair to them her boss did told her to let them know if the work become too overwhelming for her, but she not a person who like to complain resulting in silence.

Now I can see she is losing weight, consistently complaining about having problem sleeping, her asthma started troubling her again.

Although I want all success in the world for her, but not at the cost of her well being, infect during her recent trip to Pakistan one of her colleague in Pakistan also told her not to take work too personally at cost of her health after all she is just working for someone.

She also agree this kind of life couldn’t be sustain for long period, but also feels she has given a great opportunities here (most of her peers only able to reach this kind of role after 10 years of experience). She wants to give herself at least a year to learn as much as possible before moving on.

I know she is on a fast track career with this fortune 500 company, but not sure if it’s worth.

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Re: Not sure if it's worth..

If you loose your life over it , it ain't worth it. She seems to a workaholic and in denial about it. She needs intervention.

I am serious you need to talk to some professional like a psychologist or psychiatrist they can help you better than people on these forums.

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Re: Not sure if it's worth..

Tipu jee , she is young and energetic .. this is the time for her to make her career ... working long hours, making dedicated efforts and sacrifice all pays off in the end ... not everyone is lucky enough to be given a world class career opportunity in life , some get it but dont realize the worth of it , some think they were the chosen ones and dont put it as much dedicated effort ...

I think she is doing the right thing. Seniority at work at a young age requires alot of passion and effort to succeed otherwise its easy for others to pull you down and that can kill ones motivation and career . I too got lucky and started my career with a blue chip company at a young age ... and worked like a donkey for the first few years of my career ... alot of people told me I was killing myself for nothing .. the fact is , I am where i am today because of that effort I put in .. Corporate culture is very aggressive and demanding ... to survive it , is one thing , to let it train you into a leader of the future is totally another thing ... my effort of that time put me on fast track to leadership and bigger and better things in life ..

So let her do the effort today ... let her learn to her maximum potential ... in a few years time you will notice that she will automatically slow down her pace , coz then she will be in the lead ... and the work will become alot easier to handle ... once my director told me : you work hard at the start of the career , it gets easier and easier with time ... you take it easy at the start of the career and it will get harder and harder to get somewhere ... i still stand by his words.

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Re: Not sure if it's worth..

Thank for replys.

I disagree with Mirch, i do not think that she is workaholic the problem is this she is given too much responsibility.

She is responsible for activities in whole south Asia region (mainly Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh).

This is temporary assignment till they would hire someone for this position, she was offered the position but declined because it required her to relocated to Pakistan.

Now she is given Singapore and Malaysia as her primary responsibility, but due her success in South Asia it is expected even if they hire someone she would still have some supervisory role there.

On top of that she sill need to assist APAC management on regional issues (it is more on overview and reporting rather then execution).

In other way she is doing 3 persons job alone, it looks unfair but on other side if one look at professional value of this kind of unique learning experience in this major corporation (One of the fortune 500 list) then not sure if one has any case to complain.

We have no doubt she is on accelerated career path (and since this is one of bluest of blue chip corporation of the industry) in the company or beyond. But even she is wondering if she would experience an early burnout.

On my concern, though i am happy for her success, but more concern about her physical, mental health, since she is a female how a career success would effect her future family life?

I am sure there are many groupies went through same path, would appreciate if could share their experience and how they coped with it.

The reason asking the question here, i am sure there are many

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Re: Not sure if it's worth..

Thank for replys.

I disagree with Mirch, i do not think that she is workaholic the problem is this she is given too much responsibility.

She is responsible for activities in whole south Asia region (mainly Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh).

This is temporary assignment till they would hire someone for this position, she was offered the position but declined because it required her to relocated to Pakistan.

Now she is given Singapore and Malaysia as her primary responsibility, but due her success in South Asia it is expected even if they hire someone she would still have some supervisory role there.

On top of that she sill need to assist APAC management on regional issues (it is more on overview and reporting rather then execution).

In other way she is doing 3 persons job alone, it looks unfair but on other side if one look at professional value of this kind of unique learning experience in this major corporation (One of the fortune 500 list) then not sure if one has any case to complain.

We have no doubt she is on accelerated career path (and since this is one of bluest of blue chip corporation of the industry) in the company or beyond. But even she is wondering if she would experience an early burnout.

On my concern, though i am happy for her success, but more concern about her physical, mental health, since she is a female how a career success would effect her future family life?

I am sure there are many groupies went through same path, would appreciate if could share their experience and how they coped with it.