3 months in waiting...
May - no updates. June - no updates. Just before July - finally, 1 update.
At a point of time of my life where I thought, heck, blogging's prolly something not for me...(b'sides, Facebook offers better services in uploading tons of pics...which definitely speak louder than everything I have to say here)...I stumble upon Nuuril's blog.
Reading her blog made me wanna blog again..I don't know..maybe I miss that part about being able to write about every single thing that happens to me...my passions, my thoughts, my disappointments, my adventures...and much more...
Yes lah, Lobak's back!
You know the best thing I've ever done in my life was to take that step to get my Engineering degree? At 17 with no proper direction and ambition in life, I really didn't know what to pursue for a tertiary education. Mass Comm/Journalism (something that I'm very passionate about and would prolly excel in) or Engineering (something I'd prolly not excel very well in, but at least it's a professional course...). Lucky me, I got accepted for both courses in the only 2 institutions I applied for...HAH! Made choosing a lot harder.... plus I'm not as lucky as most people...money was also an issue...
Choices to make :
1. Course of liking.
2. Cost of course.
BLAH. I took the bold step - chose the course I'd prolly not do too well in & would cost me the price of a decent Japanese manufactured car...; or rather, I made a bet based on my SPM results. If I were to score *** for subjects X, Y and Z...then I'd go for Engineering...else, I'd do Mass Comm.. What a way to decide on my future..but I guess that's just me..life's afterall a bet, don't u think?
Fast forward....
It was the final year of my Engineering Degree. The 5th year after I made that "bet" where I told myself...."I SHALL NEVER WORK IN A FACTORY OR AS AN ENGINEER AFTER I GRADUATE"
Exactly 1 month after my convocation and birthday, I started my job as a Product Electrical Engineer in a factory. HA HA HA! Not too many months later....I fell head over heels in love with my job...
Then...18 months later, I got retrenched. Retrenchment - a huge word for a pretty new kid in the work force... But as life always throws at us the weirdest situations, big problems come with big lessons...
I realized one thing for sure...although I didn't graduate with a 1st class degree, nor did I have a very impressive Final Year Project going on...one can always excel in work with the right attitude. The learning never stops. We never stop growing. It is how we choose to grow - grow and blossom in knowledge and career, or grow stubborn and arrogant..
Yes, it takes a lot to be an engineer. 1st you have to have enough finances to see you through a proper local/foreign degree (assuming that Local U is not an option). Then you have to have enough determination, logic and perseverance to see you through the degree. But, at the end of the day..what an Engineering grad takes home is not the grades nor the glamor of the profession. It is the skill of being good problem solvers. It is the skill of analyzing situations and acting accordingly. It is the skill of wanting to improve things and make things work.
This recession has proven that Engineering is amongst the badly hit professions at least in this country...perhaps there will be another hit again in the future..or maybe more. No one knows, no one can tell the future..
But as for me, I would not trade the world for my passion and love for this career...
HIDUP KEJURUTERAAN!
