Workplace

Work

What kind of Christian should I be at work?

How can I be a witness to my colleagues but still be professional? What does it mean to be salt and light?  Questions like these were explored during a Kingdom Calling event last week, which saw...

Finding Purpose

Full-time under 30: Help! I did not expect ministry to look like this

First things first, I don’t profess to know everything, and experiences definitely vary between individuals. I find it terribly challenging to pen these thoughts down as I still consider myself...

Workplace

Where have all my dreams gone?

While thinking about dreams one day, I felt God remind me of something that happened two years ago, when I was still working in a student care centre. We’d started a dream wall in the centre...

Workplace

6 lessons I learnt as a career consultant

As a full-time career consultant, I come across people from all walks of life each day. From helping homemakers return to the working field, to sharing in the troubles and disappointments of the...

Workplace

Struggles of being a disciple in the workplace

Many people have asked me how work has been since I transferred to the new hospital. It was just another way of saying “How are you?” Yet, I often found it difficult to give an answer. This was...

Workplace

Feeling like a fake in life

Have you ever felt like a fake or fraud in your workplace or school? Do you often think that you got to your current position by some mistake or fluke, and that one day someone will find out just how...

Workplace

Death by productivity

If anyone looked at my scheduler, they would be (in my biased opinion) impressed by the level of detail I put into my planning. Rainbow splashes of every highlighter colour, one for every aspect of...

Work

I was passed over for promotion six years in a row

It’s been six good years since I started working as a social service professional. The work is tough but I’m always grateful to have good bosses and colleagues. It may sound crazy, but I look...

Work

How to be an excellent worker

In the early part of my career, I learnt from my seniors that my direct supervisor was the person with the most influence on my career and ranking. Coming straight out of university, where we were...