Months have been passed by. I didn't realise that I didn't update my blog for so many months. In the past few months, quite many things happened. First, I quit my teaching (part-time) jobs, since the director did not have the purpose to invest in me. In the past two years, I had a great time at that Secondary School. My colleagues are nice people and I learn to communication at a very very low level.
After quitting the job, I was looking to start my career. It is a very tough question to ask myself "what kind of job do you really like?". The only thing I know is that I do not want to continue in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering fields. My heart is not there. So, that kinds of job will give me a lot of suffer.
Nowadays, get a job is very tough because of the unstable economic situation in US and Europe. There are some big companies who will fire a lot of people this and next year. I also realise that there are too many people who are searching for a job. In my past two job interviews as an University in Paramedical Science and in Physics in Aerospace, I was badly beaten by guys with teaching certification plus minimum of 5 years experience in teaching at U.
I did not feel bad after hearing that I am not their choice. Instead, I was their second choice. I was very happy for them to find Mr Right. I have already done my best. So, I ended up with no regret. :)
The experience of job hunting is a good experience to open my eyes to see this world more clearly. This experience made me a bit desperate and doubt about my own quality. It was also a pain in my heart to know that all my past 'working experiences' cannot be counted as the real working experience, since those were from part-time jobs only. I was too naive to think to build a good basic for my career in this way.
During my job hunting, I have to thank to my good friend Jok to help me with revising my resume and cover letter. I remember that I had helped him with his resume when he was applying for international project during his Master. But now, it is his turn to help me. I am happy to have such a good friend as Jok. Moreover, I have to thank to other friends of mine too, since they also did some revision.
My friend Annie was visiting me last month. I am very happy to be able to welcome her in The Netherlands. The day of her arrival, I was waiting for her at the wrong gate. According to the computer screen, she should be in gate 4, while she was sneaked out from gate 3. Luckily we have our mobile phones.
At the same week, Annie and me were visiting Prague. This is our first trip together. Prague is a nice city to visit. We got know 2 more people. One is from Singapore too! While the other one is from US. We met the Singaporean guy Udith (originally from India) at our hostel. The American girl (originally from China) joined us with the free tour. I will upload our groupphoto in Prague later.
Now Annie is travelling around in Europe alone. I feel a bit sorry for her that I cannot company. I think I put my career higher than my friends' position. I think this is not good..., right? I hope she will have a safe trip. It was a bit sad that Paris let her down a bit. But I think Nice has compensate that, since Annie said that Nice is very nice.
This week, I met Celeste! She is back to The Netherlands for vacation. Now she is studying Chinese in Taiwan. It was very nice to see her back. She knocked on my head and asked me when I will visit her in Taiwan.
Last Thursday, I got two interviews. Ya, two in one day!!! The first one was in the afternoon. It is Shell company. It is said it is very difficult to enter this company. Tell you something. While I was on my way to Shell's interview, I received a call. they asked me if I could meet them 30min later. I said it is okay for me. So, I went to the bank to setup my webshop business. Then I helped my brother to buy stuff for his car. When I was on my way to Shell, I went to the wrong direction, which made me too late at the appointment! I was, I believe, 10-15min later!!! I stayed calm. But during the introduction to the manager I spoke not clearly my name. At that time, I was dead. Also during the interview, I noticed that the manager had a lot of thing to tell. Maybe I did ask too many questions.
After finishing the job interview of Shell, I head to home, to my parents' house. Arriving at home, which is 8PM, I got a call from Bosch company. A month back, I had applied for a Management Traineeship. This week, they let me know that they like to talk to me on the phone. That interview went well. He asked me everything about my resume to get know me better. He said, he proposed to Bosch to take me to the second round of the selection. I was very happy to hear that!
The more happy thing to hear is that Shell invited me to work for them! Yes, I made it! I finally step out of my unhappy period that bother me for such a long time. Now I see sunshine at my side. This light gave me more opportunities. I got another call from other companies who said they might have an interesting job for me. The first one is a management traineeship (too). The other one is a teaching job.
I made up my mind a few days back to set up my priority:
1. management traineeship Bosch
2. management traineeship VDL (group)
3. Shell
4. teaching job
I will update my status of my career on my blog. Now, it is time to sleep. :)
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
