[Sg] - Chua Mui Hoong says it was very hard for her to admit her retirement from her career as a lifelong Straits Times Journalist

[UltimaOnline]

I was filling up an immigration card recently when I came across the column: Occupation. I paused. I had been writing "journalist" or "writer" for 30 years. But I was no longer a full-time journalist, or even a part-time one. I was now a freelance writer. Most of my work week these days is spent doing a course in pastoral care. But putting down "student" or "pastoral care intern" didn't feel right either.

I took a deep breath, and penned: "Retired."

That was the first time I wrote that word. Before that, in the intervening months after I left full-time employment with this newspaper (where I remain an ad hoc contributor), I had described myself as a "semi-retired journalist" as though that "semi" allowed me to retain my identity as a journalist that had anchored me for so long.

In putting the word "Retired" down on paper, I made a small but significant shift towards accepting my new identity. I am post-career, moving into the retirement phase of my life.

https://www.magzter.com/stories/new...S-ACCEPTING-THAT-YOU-ARE-NOT-JUST-WHAT-YOU-DO

 

[spotter542]

Used and abused by Pinky ?
No cushy job at GLC ?

 

[eatshitndie]

her ancestors consumed too much pork. piggy genes are taking revenge by becumming her.

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Journalist….retired. As useful as a cancer tumor.

 

[Sustanon]

Journalist??? Ms Zhu Ba Jie is a journalist lol...

 

[butoh6050]

With this day and age of using filters, she didn't even bother using one

 

[sbfuncle]

Same as gansiokbin.
Need to pause at immigration and think to put leetired accountant or whore.

 

[syed putra]

They should send her to cover the news in Gaza and Ukraine. As a war correspondent.

 

[sbfuncle]

They should send her to cover the news in Gaza and Ukraine. As a war correspondent.

They will fuck her like a pig there and dump after use.

 

[congo9]

Oh my she's a 剩女。

 

[yubenOh]

Her lao cheebye lao Kok Kok so wrinkly and smelly. How can any credible writing still cum out from this type of old cunt ?

 

[laksaboy]

There are no jounalists in Sinkieland, don't flatter yourself you hideous woman.

 

[Eisenhut]

Get the fugly face away!!!

 

[NanoSpeed]

Majority of people aren't able to grapple with the sudden loss of identity after having built one's self worth on the job for decades.

These are hell bound symptoms.