~ Updates!!!~

I am so sorry I have no time to write recently.

 

We are in the midst of closing our peak after we reach the target for submitting the tax returns to IRAS by 31 July. Thank God, I can breathe for a while J

I am quite busy with my new courses as well, and it requires me to sacrifice three days out of five working days to attend the evening classes straightly after work. Mind you, that excludes my weekends. Usually I use them to do my laundry, attend the church service and study at home.

 

Many of my friends asked me,” Don’t you ever feel tired by exposing yourself into this condition? While the majority might feel fed up with those exams and lecture notes that everybody needs to face in every end of semester”

 

My answer would be there, implied by my message “I believe in the value of HARD work of doing the RIGHT things” I have decided to pursue another thing in my life. I did not do what my degree had prepared me to do. Simple answer, I just don’t like it. I just can not imagine in the next five years, I obtain my phD, while spending most of my time at laboratory, reading the whole stack of research paper and journals or become the manager of those engineers in manufacturing industry, working within the day and night shifts for whole stack of production, confined in that tiny place with the lousy looks and boring old Chinese people around.

 

 Although I can not predict if whether it is a right or wrong decision, I just simply won’t look back. As per my Director’s advice about my concern if I could only do half-way in the end-of-the-day, I have to look forward and take her message below in my mind,

 

”You have started your way to be …, Of course you should have some goals and target where you want to hold higher management position in our firm. We do require some technical qualities, in addition to relevant working experience. It’s either the degree or professional qualifications. In this case, you already obtained your first degree, although it is not relevant. Hence, I would recommend you to pursue professional qualification, because it is more practical and relevant to the industry. Being academically qualified doesn’t mean that you are professionally qualified at the same time. And this is the reason why people are still looking forward to obtain the professional qualification.”

 

“Sometimes, I ask myself too on why on earth I am still doing this. Do I have a lot of regrets in my life?  I have been in this industry for over 25 years already. I left my hometown to study at UK and obtain my ACCA qualifications there. Finally, I have decided not to look backward. Once I step into the new journey, I will take every new risk that will rise. There is nothing wrong with any of that, because there is no one else knows what he wants the most in his life, but he himself.”

 

Somehow or rather, I could find the reasonable answer that arises steadily in my head. Yes, I just simply won’t look back

 

I have been exposing myself too to read more and more, and it is not strange thing that manufacturing outlook won’t be better after our instable Global economy conditions.

 

Just as what MTI reports today,

 

“MTI said it expects to see job losses in sectors like manufacturing by year end due to a dip in labour productivity, reminiscent of cycles before.”

 

I hope this will get better soon, as I recalled there are a lot of my friends at my batch who are still unemployed until now. Just make sure that you are not played around by the gloomy Global Economy Outlook.

 

Till then at the next post