not as glamorous as i thought it would be

I have quite a contact list on my main Messenger, including those from my previous workplace. Yes, also including those back from my student days that I seldom chat with. With a long list of contacts, alas yet there's little conversation. One of my best friends told me she deleted those who never bother to chat again or those whom she'd never bother again. I can't bring myself to that yet, but there's always a possibility I might.

Back in my MNC days, my Messenger was seldom idle. Either it was work-related or not. And I never went Invisible although I had a lot of work to be done. My previous supervisor once told me smack dab that I had to lessen the use of Messenger (and less browsing). After that incident, I'd like to chat less, of course. The workload in a big consulting company was surely time-demanding and performance-driven, even though I was merely in the supporting workforce. But it was harder than I thought.

There were a lot of people demanding my attention too. Asking me this, asking me that. Work-related and not. Sometimes people would buzz me when I was taking too long to reply or send me a message when I said "I'm busy". I guess it's safe to say that being an HR Rep makes you famous and on high-demand.

I chat less nowadays. There are only 1 or 2 people who'd send me a buzz. People just ignore me when I put on a Busy status. I'm not working on a big consulting company anymore. I'm not handling the information people are dying to know (notice the hyperbole, please); recruitment and a little bit of corporate's compensation and benefit. And I know people are easier to connect when they have at least one major thing in life in common. 

I'm currently working for a small local consulting company - as junior consultant, finally. I'm working on 2 projects at the same time and I just found out that one of my projects is actually of national importance. Well, okay, maybe the second one is also of national importance. But I bet there are only few people interested in what's happening on my projects.

I'm not complaining, really. I'm just fascinated. How different your social life can be depending on your choice of company or workplace or type of job. My new career is glamorous in its career-building and resume's value adding way. My old one was making me on high-demand socially and it is the kind of job who ends every 5 pm from Monday to Friday.

Yes, everything has its trade-offs. I'd cope.