Sad-turdae Evening
5.30pm 22 July 2006
Juz reach home sweaty n sticky from a job interview. Feeling tired and too lazy to do anything else cept maybe stare at my jar of cookies, its the onli thing thats keeping me happy these days.
I met someone earlier todae, who is v rich and successful (in his own definition) gave a talk on how we the fresh grads shld be clear of the goals we wan in our lives and work hard towards these goals in order to be successful... juz like him. Then he went on tok abt the time when he first graduated, how he got disillusioned by the corporate world, climbing the corporate ladder all ur life and finally gets retrenched when u r old and a big fat liability to the firm...blah blah, all at the young age of 25. So he says, he dun wan to be a can of coke selling at 45cent in the supermarket, he wans to be the $7.90 per can of coke selling at 5 star hotels. So wat must the can of coke in the supermarket do? he says the key word is to change market. By changing market, that can of coke in the supermarket will become the coke at the 5 star hotel. So he change his profession (from a auditor) and worked towards his goal to become the $7.90 can of coke. Well, to be fair, he at the age of 36 is a wealthy man now, to prove that he even showed us his annual salary for 2005, a little over $400K mark.
Impressive numbers... only that i feel all these nonsense had onli one purpose, which is to INSTILL their ideology of being successful and TELLING us wat shld be the goals we must achieve in our lives.
Of coz, some pple left, one even protested questioning the purpose of this interview, why claim itself to be a Marketing Executive position when Financial Advisors or Planners watever u call it, is wat really u are looking for? Guess wat? The interviewer puts down his happy mask and said, "I did not ask for your opinion Mister, If u wanna argue wif me, I will not hesitate to show you the door!". Wif that, the protest went silent and more pple left the room.
Surprisingly i stayed till the end, perhaps i guess its kind of rude to interupt like that? i am not sure. But thks to this interview, I know more clearly now the goals i wanna achieve and the path to reach these goals. I am definately not a can of coke or some product on the shelf, I know i am much more than that.
Recently, my goals hit a snag, a v good partner is leaving for Taiwan, despite my obvious sadness, deep down i really wanna wish her success coz i noe v well after a chat wif her at TCC some time back, how much this opportunity means to her, so from the deepest of my heart i wish her happinest. watever it is, i will reserve this 'chair' for u, so u can continue whr u left off after u come back from Taiwan! >_-
hmm yummy lovely cookies lying in front of me~ maybe i eat one now hiakhiak
Quick painting of some clouds.. boliao me
Bryan
Juz reach home sweaty n sticky from a job interview. Feeling tired and too lazy to do anything else cept maybe stare at my jar of cookies, its the onli thing thats keeping me happy these days.
I met someone earlier todae, who is v rich and successful (in his own definition) gave a talk on how we the fresh grads shld be clear of the goals we wan in our lives and work hard towards these goals in order to be successful... juz like him. Then he went on tok abt the time when he first graduated, how he got disillusioned by the corporate world, climbing the corporate ladder all ur life and finally gets retrenched when u r old and a big fat liability to the firm...blah blah, all at the young age of 25. So he says, he dun wan to be a can of coke selling at 45cent in the supermarket, he wans to be the $7.90 per can of coke selling at 5 star hotels. So wat must the can of coke in the supermarket do? he says the key word is to change market. By changing market, that can of coke in the supermarket will become the coke at the 5 star hotel. So he change his profession (from a auditor) and worked towards his goal to become the $7.90 can of coke. Well, to be fair, he at the age of 36 is a wealthy man now, to prove that he even showed us his annual salary for 2005, a little over $400K mark.
Impressive numbers... only that i feel all these nonsense had onli one purpose, which is to INSTILL their ideology of being successful and TELLING us wat shld be the goals we must achieve in our lives.
Of coz, some pple left, one even protested questioning the purpose of this interview, why claim itself to be a Marketing Executive position when Financial Advisors or Planners watever u call it, is wat really u are looking for? Guess wat? The interviewer puts down his happy mask and said, "I did not ask for your opinion Mister, If u wanna argue wif me, I will not hesitate to show you the door!". Wif that, the protest went silent and more pple left the room.
Surprisingly i stayed till the end, perhaps i guess its kind of rude to interupt like that? i am not sure. But thks to this interview, I know more clearly now the goals i wanna achieve and the path to reach these goals. I am definately not a can of coke or some product on the shelf, I know i am much more than that.
Recently, my goals hit a snag, a v good partner is leaving for Taiwan, despite my obvious sadness, deep down i really wanna wish her success coz i noe v well after a chat wif her at TCC some time back, how much this opportunity means to her, so from the deepest of my heart i wish her happinest. watever it is, i will reserve this 'chair' for u, so u can continue whr u left off after u come back from Taiwan! >_-
hmm yummy lovely cookies lying in front of me~ maybe i eat one now hiakhiak
Quick painting of some clouds.. boliao me
Bryan
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