Come in, credit card
I find it really funny that when you start working on your own, you start to have different priorities. Your likes and dislikes change. You change.
Working outside the country which will always be my comfort zone means so much. And more than anything else, it means independent. You decide what to do with your life (and that’s quite disturbing!), and you have no asses to kiss for you are on your own. You don’t have to please people in the first place (most especially your parents). That’s one of the peaks living outside the family and outside the country.
Which brings me to another point: coping up with the culture of the new place. One thing I really noticed is that people here are really so easy with disposing their money. SO different from where I grew – where money and spending have values that you need to learn.
And that’s one thing I am learning here – coping up with their lifestyle. Not that I am required to do so. Here, every adult seem to have a credit card or two. And the good part is that there are a lot of services and information offered for those ‘greenhorns in the field’. So not only that your fed with information as regards different credit card offers, you are also told how to use the thing wisely. (Well, I hope that does not sound like I am still home…)