I am excited! And it's for a very good reason - I am finally taken! Yea, after searching endlessly for a good eight months I have finally got a new job and am starting next week! I am totally looking forward to it! :)) (Fingers crossed...)
It's never easy to leave the comfort of familiarity and embark onto a new journey all over again. It is certainly no simple task to leave the comfort of working with people who knows me and have gotten used to the way I work and perhaps also gotten used to the eccentric side of me that comes visiting every once in a while. From Monday onwards, I can't be late for work anymore! And it will be a total new environment with a new working culture to learn from and adapt to.
But I see this change as a new learning point and I look forward to the challenge. Well, it has not been easy for me to get hired considering the fact that I am older than many of the local fresh graduates and more expensive in comparison to the foreign talents (trash). Armed with nil experience in the field that I want to venture into, I have half the chances and have to face double the challenges. And in this course of searching for new employment, I have went from all excited to all disheartened to all desperation when my applications garnered few responses and even fewer interviews; the ratio was approximately 20:5:1. I had even experienced that sense of regret for doing my degree when the end results of all my hard work is far from what I have expected. But such a thought is definitely no surprise. After all, I don't have a filthy rich father to sponsor my studies and I had to hold down two jobs while studying just so that I can manage the loan.
So you can imagine the kind of relief I felt when I was told that I have secured the job after two rounds of interviews. Interestingly, the 2nd round of interview was a "mass interview" where all the candidates were asked to attend and be interviewed together and where our responses were no longer privileged to the interviewer(s) solely. I wasn't feeling too confident after the interview as I realised that; (1) I was the oldest candidate (yes! can you imagine my fellow candidates are all in their early and mid-twenties??!!?); and (2) they are from local Uni (definitely better qualified than my overseas degree!). Again, you can imagine the joy I felt when I received the email confirming that I have gotten the job! :)
Now about the job. A 'Graduate Recruitment Programme' as it is termed is a six-month contract position in a medium size local PR agency. The plus side is that the next six months would be a platform for me to learn the ropes of PR and be paid for it! But the flip side means that I could very well be jobless after six months if I can't prove to be of value. Then again, this is the same risk present in many other jobs is it not? At least I am given the chance to learn and prove my worth and at the same time to find out whether I am cut out for this. Perhaps, I am worrying too much now. I am a true blue worrywart man! >.<" Maybe the anxiety of starting in a new and unfamiliar environment is more overwhelming than I have given credit for. Nonetheless, I am still looking forward. I lurve challenges and this new journey is yet another I am set to discover.
"Good things are worth the wait" - I hear of this cliche saying so very often and I surely hope that after all the wait (search) this is the job for me! I can't wait for Monday!! Wish me luck! :))
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