Yesterday when I attend the Puncak Niaga interview they ask to write about my life aspiration and my career progress if I work with them. From my point of view, the short essay writing will be use to evaluate the language proficiency of the candidates. However in the mean time it may help panel of interviewers to evaluate our ambition and the way we want to develop our career. In addition to the title there are 4 or 5 more titles. The first titles I chose asked about experienced and how it can help the company but I don’t think I do have a lot to offer in term of experience. I chose this topic because it may give them the picture about my personality and my career goal.
Ask someone whom most of the time writing and reading technical thing, writing essay is not my strength. My writing often is short and straight to the point. Under certain circumstances that require few pages long of discussion, I may lie a lot while explaining the point. I hope I didn’t need to do it again. I hate writing report and thesis. Saying thing in the most direct way will make thing looks uninteresting. The setback of trying to make your writing beautiful is the mistake in term of grammar. Rather than putting your in jeopardize, making thing simple and easy remain as the best option. This is one of a principal that should not take for granted by secondary school students who are due to take public examination.
Aspiration I define as my ultimate goal. A target set to guide you to achieve the best that you dream during your childhood. I think aspiration has a close relation to inspiration. It also defines by how you perceive the meaning of great life. You have a benchmark that helps you to set a goal. You can’t measure your success if you don’t have a benchmark. The benchmark might provide you with motivation for you to achieve the goal. Your goal or aspiration is your target base on your personal interest and it brings satisfaction and prosperous life to you. You may opt for millions or billions of money or some may opt for simple life. It doesn’t matter what you dream of but it does matter what you achieve at the end.
My inspiration is no other than my father. He’s not an engineer or other professional. He’s no millionaire or billionaire. He doesn’t own a luxury car a luxury bungalow. He doesn’t have acres of plantation or lots of houses for rent. What he have is time on his side. He has the time to watch us grow and guide us. The time spends with his family. Time well spend to grow the fruits tree. He has time to reflect the past, analyze current event and thinking about future. He has quite a balance in life. There’s time for personal interest, family and work. Well-balance life is often missing amongst us, Malaysian and only to realize when we were old along with poor health and weak family relation.
My father is a teacher at a secondary school. He is a former student of SMSNS. He holds a master degree from oversea university that only took him 5 years to be finished. He had been teaching for more than 20 years. A family man and rarely rely on the others. He’s once offered to be a lecturer and turned down the opportunity and opt to be a teacher. A favorite leisure time activity is gardening. Other than that he loves to travel. He loves to try new food and he used to make cross stitch for our house decoration. His hard works benefit us when it comes to local fruits as we don’t need to buy it. It is a matter of lazy or not.
The life he’s living. He is financially stable. Balance between works and personal life. I can say a success family. There are a few more reasons why he is an inspiring figure to me. Taking the highlighted character into account, it aspire me not to seek for money all alone in life but to seek for living that makes me happy all my life. He teaches me that the amount of money does matter but how you manage the money is the most important aspect. You can have a lot of money but if you’re not happy with your job than you won’t remain there for long. You can pamper your family with wealth but your attention is what matter the most. Living a wealthy life doesn’t mean you’re living a peaceful life. Often it is not the wealth that pump you up but the struggle that fire you to the top.
What am I after when I begin to work? I’m seeking a balance. At this young age, apart from work I would love to get involve in recreational and fitness/wellness activities. I’m not a person who eager to stay at office till late night unless it is necessary. Past teach me that saving will always be one of your best friends. This requires me to have a prudence financial management. Spent on the necessary thing and avoid needless buying. I need to bulk up my saving along with some unit trust or whatever investment. Need to find a good one. Somehow no low risk investment comes up with high profit. I might seek for help from friends who already working.
Big house? Luxury car? None look likely at the moment or next 20 years. I think I should own a lot of land by end of 5 year period. Buy a house after 7 to 10 years probably. The list should grow and never ending till my last breath but this should be the major short-term target. I’m pretty sure a whole lot of loan won’t bring peace to my sleep. Make it easy and simple. I love to have a fruits orchard. I can have a whole lot of fruits. Shared with environment, family and friends but that may be the latter part. Once I am ready to switch my focus on gardening.
Career growth is not an easy thing. One of the favorite questions during interview is how do you see yourself in 5 years period? Should I remain in the private sector or try to get back into public sector. Anything is possible. Since I might start and working as an engineer instead of researcher, further study is not in mind at the moment. I think I might try to jump into public sector after completing my learning curve. As per job scope, I would prefer the technical side rather than business division. My business acumen is suck and I hate negotiating and long hours of meeting.
I’ve written more than thousand of words for this post. I, myself amaze with my capability to write this essay. It’s been a while since I write something this long except for all the liars for thesis. Research project almost mean nothing except enhancing my software skills and understand the economical way of presenting data. I think this post had been too long so I should stop now. Later on I’ll write in Malay for another essay during the interview. See you later.
Monday, February 28, 2011