What on earth have u been studying all these years???

I'm sure most of u who read my blog are still students somewhere or looking for a job.

Times were getting very frustrating coz I still didn't know what job I wanted to "try out" or venture into as a career.
I had to ask myself what on earth have I been studying these 4 years at UM...and in school...

U may have gone tru this or will go tru it someday if u're the type who doesn't know what u want in the future.

If I loved to teach, then my degree in Computational and Industrial Mathermatics would have been beneficial to myself and the people I'm gonna teach. But no, I do not like teaching and I don't really want to go further in Maths.

15 of us in my class are unemployed (duh..). Who knows how many more are out there planting anggur too? Most of us are from local universities and colleges. Got la 2 i think who took their courses overseas.

So the question is WHY?????????WHY??????????WHY???????

For me, I didn't know what I liked to do when I first applied for the 8 choices. BOdohla..Pakai hentam only...Then I somehow chose Maths coz it was the best I could do among the science subjects under the Bachelor of Science course in UM.

Do u think you will apply wat u studied in uni/college??

If the lecturers worked before in the world outside the education institutions, then perhaps they'll know how to make the courses more relevant to the working world.
But NO!!! I can say most of what we learned were just for the sake of knowledge.(Sorryla, this is my narrow point of view as a science student)

Is my English poor? i can say I have an average command la (thank GOd).

Is my CGPA too low??? Perhaps...but even those with higher CGPA than mine are still unemployed. In fact, I can speak and present in better English than many of them. (this is not meant to show off k... it's just frustrating at times) Argh!!!! Okla..English is not enough la..U need the brains too..maybe i was too lazy...maybe...

Soft skills??? Did my activities help?? Perhaps...

Can I blame the education system??? Who can blame them??? Somehow we usually can't win in these debates. Like the English or BM issue in Science and Maths. Did the chicken come first or the egg??? Macam-macam la

The problem was that I don't have an aim. I didn't know what I wanted to do as a career. I went from to interview after interview only to realise that I didn't know what I wanted to do. So i admitted to the interviewers that I don't know.

It's my problem la for not having any ambition other than wanting to play the best football I can if God permits.

Anyway, I thank God that He led me to take the INSEP. Here's briefly how I ended up taking it.

I somehow saw an ad in the jobstreet newsletter regarding INSEP. I took a look and found it attractive when I saw the company DELL under the Customer Care Management category. It looked nice but getting a permanent job would be better la. So I applied and left it aside.

After thinking tru and praying, I "finally" figured out that I liked doin technical stuff. I wanted to join Dell so I applied for a technical support position, knowing I didn't have enough computer technical knowledge. I went for the interview hoping to get it but....down....tak dapat la...

Anyway, the interviewer mentioned that I lacked the technical knowledge and recommended me to join the graduates' training program. I asked her to let me know more bout it....She said she'll find out for me...

Haih...disappointed, i went home and didn't know what to do. I had to inform PSDC(the centre handling INSEP) by that day whether i would take the course or not. I told God, "please la...u gotta help me settle this la..I need to make a decision by 2.30pm." That time it was bout 1 pm plus. I sat aimlessly in front of my PC...

Then.....a call came from PSDC to inform me that Dell called to ask me to be put into INSEP(under customer care management).
Meaning, the graduates' training program that my interviewer mentioned was actually INSEP.
I asked the person from PSDC to ask the person in charge from Dell to call me personally to confirm that I will be taken as a trainee in Dell at the Technical Support Department. Yup...I received that call too. ;)

All was settled before 2.30pm...

So, that's how I ended up taking INSEP.

The end...I actually wanted to write bout something else but somehow it ended up with the grandfather story above...

think bout it, do you know your value in the market today????

If you don't like sales, then i suggest u should star seeking for advice and make urself more marketable.(huh? what's dat???)I hope I can help u if u have any questions but I know I'm quite blur too....I hope I'll learn more from the classes i'm attending now...