Dress like a manager.

Take home message for the day:

"When you are an exec (executive), dress like a manager."

In the workplace, you are very gravely thankful that people who know you respect you. However, to the outside world, you are just a lass who knows nothing; it seems to them that you have nothing to impress them about, and nothing you say can make them not brush you away.

Now, the society is forcing you to be mature. Now that you are 30, you are not to talk like you were 20, but talk like you are 40. The thing is, what's naturally and awfully wrong with you is that you felt like you never change since you were 20; you felt like a school girl free of worries and always looking forward to each coming day. Well... I hope this is a good constant.

It's contradicting how people see you; a colleague in her 40s, who said, "You are the 2nd mature 29-year-old I've ever met." while the small doctor who is 35 and acts like 50, said you are so, so immature that he can't stand you sometimes. Eh... What???

What's your definition of maturity? To our managers, you can't just think mature or act mature; you have to dress and speak mature, so that people who don't know you will try not to treat you like a kid. It's the whole package.

I think maturity comes with experience. Some people have been through so much more than the others, whether personally or as an observer of others' lives, and these people mature faster.

Say goodbye to dresses with prints and dresses above knee level!