Huolong’s

Now let me continue with my newly found seven-year’s itch I feel about my work. Last night, it suddenly dawned on me that I’d been working as translator for seven years. As I write this post, I also recall that I kept my last job for three years. I now realize they are the legendary three-year and seven-year itches though they are mostly associated with marriage in my reading. Perhaps, the itches might apply in a much wider area than marriage. As time goes on, people are becoming more and more discontented with themselves and everything and everyone around them. Then, they at least want a break from them.

I quit my last job and that saved me from the first itch that broke out last year.

But now, in the seven-year itch, I find myself getting totally stuck between what I want to do, what I can do and what I should do. I want to be a simultaneous interpreter or do some other kind of work. But, I can now do nothing better than just translating in front of a computer screen. And I don’t know what I should do to earn more than enough to cover everything.

My family needs a home. My wife and I will plan our kid in a few years. And with the kid comes the caring and schooling bills. Currently, I’m not covered by social security network and I have good reasons to worry about my pension and have to figure out how I will be able to support myself in my retirement years. My wife still studies medicine and worries about where she can get a good job. My mom and dad are sharing my dad’s pension. And my wife’s mom and dad are better off: they each have a pension.

Moms and dads say they don’t need our support now and instead want to help us buy a home and babysit the little one. But, we want to pay for everything on our own and don’t want to use their money they would otherwise use to support themselves.

I hope that I can figure everything out in the shortest possible time.