Your dream job and reality

[BelajarEnglish]

What is your ambition when you were still a little kid? Did you achieve your dream?

I believe that a lot of us in here achieve their dream. But, personally, I didn’t, as a kid, I dreamed to be a businessman. I wanted to be a businessman that wears suits and walks in my own office. However, after I went to college, but when I still in English program, I started to like Civil Engineering work, the work where you held a responsibility for safety level of any structures. Obviously I was in dilemma, I asked myself, Should I go ahead and enrolled in business or marketing courses? Or I should go with what I like at that moment. That was really hard decisions, I knew, whatever decision I decide, that is what I would really focus on in my future. I then asked an option form my friends and the recommended me to go ahead with Civil Engineering.

[Jamie (K)]

When I was small, I wanted to be a cartoonist. When I got big I still wanted to be a cartoonist. However, I learned that to be a newspaper or magazine cartoonist was a long shot and required a lot of rejection at first, and my sense of humor wasn't the type of thing publishers normally printed. That was okay, because my greatest wish was to produced animated cartoons. Later I realized that that might require years of working menial jobs for low pay in studios in California, where the cost of living is very high. I knew then that I would be very bad at office politics, and that I probably wouldn't rise to a good job in that profession.

I did go to art school and graduated with a degree in painting. Then I worked as an arts administrator for about a year, and I realized that I loved art too much to work at a museum or deal with the commercial art gallery world.

Somehow I got pulled into editing jobs. I got better and better at those until I didn't like them anymore. I went to graduate school and got a degree in theoretical linguistics.

I have always hated school, and I have always hated teachers, so naturally I became a teacher. I didn't really choose that profession; the world chose me for it.

However, I'm always learning new things, and so I've wound up having several professions at the same time. I don't like going to a job every day and doing the same thing, so I have a variety of ways to make a living.

[prezbucky]

Schoolin':
BA-Journalism, UW-Madison
MBA, Belmont

Current day job:
Process auditor

On-the-side job:
Chief Marketing Officer, startup motion picture LLC

Dream job: Professional singer and/or songwriter
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Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee.

[NinaZara]

Herry, I don't think you need a degree to be a businessman. Sell something and you'd be one. Plus, now you have extra knowledge you might do a business in the field that you know most.

I didn't think to be an engineer before, I was told to be a doctor since I was small. I even went to a pre-medical school to which I was saved from when I was offered to study engineering in Japan. Even then my parents insisted on taking medicine. In Malaysia parents are crazy about getting their children to become a doctor. but now my parents' wishes are finally coming true. There are six of us, the first three chose engineering and then finally the fourth chose medicine, now in her third year. And now the fifth is also applying for medical school, she even rejected an offer from Petronas to do engineering( I assume you know Petronas since you've been in Malaysia). And the smallest also wants to be a dermatologist. But I think that might change, I wanted to be something else when I was small. I won't say because it's too embarrassing.

But I know I am not going to be an engineer forever.
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"Suara rakyat suara keramat." -Anwar Ibrahim.

[prezbucky]

What type of engineering do you do, Nina?

Mechanical, Electrical, Civil (etc.)?
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Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee.

[NinaZara]

I studied mechanical and as many know, we can do almost any field in engineering. God help us if we don't, considering all the subjects that we took! At least that is the case in Japan or Malaysia. And now at work I watch after lubricants and burnishing process. They call me Lube Engineer. But I just work about 8 months and there is hardly any contribution so until at least 5 years or so, I can't really call myself an engineer.
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"Suara rakyat suara keramat." -Anwar Ibrahim.

[prezbucky]

cool

My grandpa was a civil engineer for Kimberly-Clark for a long time.
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Billie Jean is not my lover. Hee.

[BelajarEnglish]

Hi Nina,

Lube Engineer, That sound pretty interesting, this is first time I heard about it. Anyway, from your last post, it seemed you don’t really like engineering. Why then, instead of went to medical school, you did engineering, If you may, which Japan University that offered you the place for mechanical engineering. Did they offer you a scholarship?

Herry

[NinaZara]

[NinaZara]