Oil & Gas Crisis – Time to Take On More Work Even with No Pay Raise! As mentioned before, the company I worked for was acquired early this year. Incidentally, one expat colleague resigned and I was asked the possibility of taking over his job. Apparently I was given a choice to continue what I had been doing or to take on the additional job scope. There is neither promotion nor pay raise for doing the work of two employees! I “stupidly” agreed to take on more work! No Time, No Time, & Still No Time Since taking up the “lousy” new offer, I had so little time. For the past month, I was traveling for three weeks and the week when I am in Singapore, my schedules were packed with overseas colleagues visiting, taking up my personal time at night for the whole week too. During this period, I ......