It took me 45 mins to travel roundtrip between the Larger and Little Meisha. Exploring the well-managed coastline of Meisha with a Meituan bicycle for 5CNY is indeed bang for the buck.
Previously I made a post complaining how people were quiet-quitting in the former company, and many had told me that they would like to join the bandwagon of quiet quitting people, so they could escape the grasp of their stingly HK bosses.
Well... that is not true anymore. I have been informed that my former company had laid-off 1/3 of personnel in HK office last week. In hindsight, I am quite certain that I would have been eliminated if I choose to stay there just a few more months.
As a Hongkonger, we might need to accept the fact that white-collar permanent jobs in town are vanishing at an alarming rate. With AI taking over the workforce, and cheaper outsource opportunities just a few keystrokes away, many MNCs in town have been planning to move away from HK to cut labour costs.
My former company, name not to be disclosed, had not revised our package for over 4 years. In those 4 years, many had left for better opportunities. Those who remained were mainly the "old-seafood" who got plan to grind till their retirement age. (TBH, I was also a quiet-quitting old-seafood too, it's just I wasn't paid well enough to grind towards my 60s!).
The incident serves as a reminder that today's job market in town is just like "Squid Game" IRL.
For quite a while, I have been using the 1Tb Cloudstorage that comes with my M365 sub. However as I started treating it as a HDD for everything, I started losing track of what is being saved there, especially when your busy work life forbids you from maintaining a massive digital estate effectively.
These upload files, including the photos + videos over the years, the project-to-be-completed, business plan to-be-executed, downloaded memes, eventually took up space and went scattered acrosss many corners of the Cloudstorage.
To my surprise, my mental health was at stake as the "information anxieity" caught up after many attempts to regain control of the orders in the Cloud Storage ended up not going anywhere.
So, a few months ago, I started asking myself: Do I actually need 1Tb storage to feel like my life is intact? How far could I go if I have only got 5Gb free-tier usage? Is that even possible to store my life, career, business plans, CVs, transcipts and statement to merely 5Gb worth of Cloud storage?
By ruthlessly removing the unfinished projects or unexecuted business plans, saving only some usable assets to an archival HDD, I killed many folders in the process.
Then, I compress the images and video clips, making every image and video clips take up to few hundred Kbs and few tens of Mbs respectively.
Then, my philosophy is simple as well - Everything saved on a local device means they can be deleted at will. Nowadays, I can afford to lose my phone or laptop or get a new device at will, knowing I can download a copy of my essential files from the Cloud.
Granted, I still keep my 4TB arhival HDD for some reason, but apart from saving files to it "just-in-case", I feel 99% of my time I probably do not need it. I probably can afford losing it to force majeure too.
So far, I feel my life have gone easier and my "information anxieity" have gone much better because I no longer lose track of where and I who am after forcing myself living with 5Gb limit only.
This is my journey to digital minimalism so far~