Does Employment Comes with Expectations?

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening,

this post should take approximately three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

I don't know how I managed to miss posting on Monday, oops my bad. If you're currently hired, I think this post would be great to read. No matter where you are currently hired for an employment or multiple employment whether it is casual, or part-time, or full-time employment, there are always going to be expectations to follow.

Management team either post an advertisement for job openings with listed skills for expected potential employees to fulfill online or a flyer on the opening door that states now hiring, they always make it known to potential employees to know that the business is seeking for new employees.

All places, management team would consider to hire potential employees who has previous experience in the industry and potential employees who's seeking for a job and new into the industry. Once hired, it takes some time to learn new and better skills as time goes by. Sometimes depending on the length of period that the management team whether they are satisfied with your work ethic or not, they can make the decision to either keep you employed and no promotion for an higher position or keep you employed and promoted you for an higher position.

"Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them.
If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent."

Do you remember how you felt when you have started a new employment to work into a new industry?

During my past employment at Domino's industry in Australia, I remembered being hired total of many stores, as a delivery driver and not all at once. I always wanted to do my best to be successful, I always have a strong work ethic, trustworthy, being honest with customers, being honest with work colleagues, being honest with the managers, being reliable, being constantly available throughout the weeks from Mondays to Saturdays, etc.

I remembered while I was working within a few months of being hired at the first domino's store that I ever worked at, I got promoted and got asked how I felt to feel to be a manager. I thought about it for a moment and mentioned that I think I can do it and feel good about it. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the position because shortly after, the management team got changed. I was disappointed.

Fast forward to another domino's store that I worked at, I was working there for a short time as a delivery driver and I remembered getting messages from the manager for me to come into store the next day for a surprise. I didn't know what to expected and he gave me a higher position. I was able to be still hired as a delivery driver and the new position. I was able to be a marketing manager.

Depending on what type of industry that you're currently hired at; always remember to be watchful and careful with your decisions while working because sometimes you never know that the management team is watching you by your actions of how well you work with other employees and you're sharing the right information to other employees and customers of your best ability. You can always keep trying your best to be successful and hope to be promoted to a higher position.

Stay Tuned until next time. 

Does Being Self-Employed Comes with Expectations?

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening,

this post should take approximately three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

There are many variety of businesses around the world that you can choose from to be self-employed.

Have you ever considered to be self-employed of a business or multiple businesses?

What are some expectations that you may have to face while being self-employed?
What are some risks that you may have to take while being self-employed?

All businesses for being self-employed starts from somewhere even from scratch. I hope self-employed individuals are being able to be self-reliant with their business/businesses as best as they can. It is okay to get a loan to help cover costs of helping the business or multiples businesses to get started and some supplies for early stages of running the business or multiple businesses.

Running a business or multiple businesses does comes with some expectations, some risks, some difficulties, some unexpected costs, long hours to make the business to be successful, some major paperwork to fill out including declaring federal taxes form for tax season, etc.

Self-employed.

Imagine for a moment if you were self-employed and running a photography business. 

Two difficulties examples that you may face is angry customers who aren't satisfied with the quality of the photos that you have taken, and you didn't reach the customer's expectations.

Two risks examples that you may face is traveling via flying to other states of your own country and don't have travel insurance - it would suck to not being covered with your checked in luggage and the moment when you landed into a new state and the checked in luggage gets lost through baggage claim. Another example; getting impatient and decided not wait for a approved permit to take photos at a certain location and you went ahead to take photos there - the risk is getting in trouble.

Two unexpected costs examples that you may face is laptop is slowing down therefore the workload of editing photos hasn't been as fast as you would like it to - it's time to upgrade for a new laptop. Another example; the camera has ended its life and it's time to upgrade for a new camera.

Stay Tuned until next time.

Does Friendships Comes with Expectations?

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening,

this post should take approximately three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

I would like to let you know that whenever I do mentioned YSA throughout this post, I do refer to Young Single Adults. I have two quick easy questions and you may or may not ask yourself and answer the following questions either now or in your own time.

Do you have any expectations whenever you are making new friends with someone who just have met?
What are some expectations that people face whenever they are making new friends?

Throughout the past years while I was in youth and in YSA, I always seemed to be adding new friends a lot on Facebook. I often somehow always thought that I wouldn't have any expectations when it comes to whenever I meet new friends. I always seem to be meeting new friends at multiple events, multiple places, multiple sites, and multiple times.

In the past, I often meeting new friends by attending the same session in the Temple, attending a different ward on Sunday time to time, attending some past Church events such as attending EFY in 2012, attending multi-stake annual Priest and Laurels Ball in 2013, attending multi-stake YSA dances, attending multi-stake YSA devotional firesides, attending institute, and so forth.

Whenever I make new friends; I always expected to be their friends for a long time, spending some time with them, keeping in contact with each other, and check up on each other time to time. I don't think any of my expectations are high whenever it comes to making new friends.

"Sometimes we expect more from others because
we would be willing to do that much for them."

I know it can be difficult for me to live over here in Texas US and not being able to spend any time with any of my friends who lives in Australia. It has been almost seven months of me living over here and I already have reached out to a few friends who lives over in Australia that we can always do a video call whether it is via FaceTime or Skype or Facebook Messenger. I remembered that was one of the convenient and best ways of how my husband and I was able to see each other face to face often while we were in long distance relationship and long distance engagement.

I also already mentioned to them that the video calls can happen whenever it is convenient for both of us. It all comes to effective planning, and organizing the right timing. It can be difficult at times to forget about time zone difference. Trust me, it happens and I know how it feels to misjudge the timing.

I know that it can be fun at times when it comes to making new friends. Sometimes, I go through my friends list on Facebook and I often time to time to remove friends who I barely talk to these days. I know that we should determine ourselves who would be great friends to us. We should be able to adjustify for ourselves of what we can do to be able to be a great friend to our friends. Being a great friend can come with a lot of trusting, some challenges and trials. We may always meet new friends who we know that can make good influences and choices that you can look up to them as inspiration.

Stay Tuned until next time.

Does Families Comes with Expectations?

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening,

this post should take approximately three to five minutes to read from start to finish.

First and foremost, I would like to ask you the following questions and you may or may not ask yourself and answer the following questions either now or in your own time. 

Why is it so important for some families to have effective communication with each family member?

Why is it so important for some families to have regular family outings whenever they can?

Why is it so important for some families that have expectations to follow? 

What makes a family's home a safe place from the outside world?

Most families consist of having a couple and children even if the couple has one child. Each individual of the couple comes from having a different culture background, different upbringing, different house rules, different meal time schedules, different sleeping routines, and so forth. You may or may not get the idea, it's just simply that an individual may or may not have experienced expectations as growing up throughout his or her childhood and teen years.

A woman may have come from a family who has parents that encourages her and her siblings to do house chores, facing the consequences whenever she was and whenever her siblings was misbehaving, her parents may have done their best to enforce to maintain a regular routine of having family home evening, having a routine of doing family prayers when the family is all together, and so forth.

A man may have come from a family who has parents that encourage him to be successful in schooling, encourage him to be spiritually prepared and temple worthy to receive his endowments, encourage him to have a job to to save up a portion for his mission funds, encourage him to spiritually prepared to serve a mission, he may have an opportunity to learn a new language, and so forth.

"The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn
ti give and receive love." - Billy Graham.

Moat times, children needs to reminded about that there is consequences after each choice that they make. Parents can be determine what the consequences would be like for the children when they misbehave. I know that it can be challenging for some parents, and that is okay. They are aiming to do what is best for their children to hopefully learn from what they were doing wrong and make better choices.

Sometimes children may not want to do everything what is expected for them to do straight away, that even includes doing chores. Who doesn't like doing chores when they have been told to do it? I know I didn't like doing chores as growing up, but eventually I knew it was something that needs to be done.

Families may have expectations that may go overboard at times and that's okay. Families have expectations because sometimes it does requires a lot to keep the parents and children happy.

Parents should be reminded about that they have some responsibilities while their children is still living with them. They should be able to provide clean clothing for their children to wear each day, having appropriate meal time schedules, having a regular bedtime routine, making sure that they would be able to be feed, having a shelter that they have a roof over their heads, and so forth.

Parents should also be reminded that the cost of raising and having children can be expensive, don't let that turn away from having children. Parents should also be reminded that one day, all children are going to grow up to move and live away from home. The children will be able to come and visit parents time to time.

Children should be reminded that they should be able to help their parents out whenever they can, even if it just simply looking after their younger siblings, doing washing up the dishes without being told and cooking dinner for their parents and siblings at least once a week.

Stay Tuned until next time.

Why Does Housing Arrangements Have Expectations?

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening,

this post should take approximately five to eight minutes to read from start to finish.

Throughout this post when I mention about housemates, I do refer to roommates.

In the past, I remembered several occasions when I was living away from my family's home, I was living with individuals who always have expectations. Most expectations that they had, was always different compared to my own expectations. They would have a few expectations that seemed to be stricter than it needs to be.

One of the most difficult housing situations that I was in, I was living with three other housemates. Three individuals who was younger than me, they didn't have the same belief as me, they constantly love having a great time, and they would get drank on some occasions. One of the individuals constantly smoked a lot. Each of us had different work schedules, and each of us had different things to do on our days off from work. I was working the furthest away, I was working over twenty-five hours a week, I was studying Pathways of BYU-Idaho online, I was doing my best to keep myself busy whenever I wasn't working, my husband and I was getting to know each other and just friends at the time.

I remembered two individuals always enjoyed doing grocery shopping, they always expected me to pay them so that they can do my grocery shopping while I was at work. I mostly came home from work, and checked what they have purchased during the grocery shopping. I remembered feeling disappointed that they didn't get everything not even half of the grocery list that I have written down. It just felt like they didn't care and think that I don't eat much at the time. It honestly didn't help when I was constantly away and rarely come home to be able to eat something.

"Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction."

Another most difficult housing situation that I was in, I was living with two other housemates. One housemate was a convert to the Church, and the other housemate has been starting to go back to church after being inactive or less active for awhile. They both were older than me. I remembered going to Costco for one time and I did a massive shop for the housemates and myself. Turns out that the individuals doesn't appreciate the grocery shop that I have done at Costco, and it has made me feel upset.

One individual wanted to go to the same endowment session when I went through. I wasn't a close friend with her, I just wanted only close family and friends to be there for me. She may have felt upset about after telling her that I would like her not go to the same session.

I constantly expected from the individuals to respect to allow me to sleep in from working the nights that I had work the previous nights. I remembered I was always feeling tired and upset whenever my sleep got disturbed. One time, I worked on my night off from work. I started working roughly 9pm ish, and I didn't finish work until 4am ish the next morning. I arrived back home at roughly 5am ish, I did the laundry so I have fresh clean work uniform, and I relaxed.

I eventually went to sleep by 6:30am ish or 7am ish. One individual had turned on the TV and it was loud. It disturbed my sleep. I was such a light sleeper at the time. I got upset and angry when I woke up. I did apologised to the individual and explained that I have worked until early houses of that morning and she didn't seemed to care.

I learned housing arrangements have expectations because the house always needs to be cleaned, dust free, having individuals to feel comfortable to sleep in their own bed.

Sometimes whenever living with other individuals does make challenging at times to adjust into reality. One individual may not able to have a driver's licence and may rely on someone constantly for transportation, one individual may not choose to show that he or she cares about the surroundings around them including who he or she is living with. Sometimes reaching other people's expectations can be easy to follow through, difficult to understand why there are expectations exist, etc.

Always do your best that you can play your part in the home whether it is to wash your own dishes or maintaining the yard, or cleaning the bathroom, whatever it is, remember that you're living a home that you do use the bathroom, you do use dishes, etc.

Stay Tuned until next time.