Monday, March 07, 2005
On Saturday, 5th March. I went to Career Fair 2005. I didnt want to go but my mum wants me to, so being a filial daughter, I went to Career Fair 2005 held at Suntec City Convention Hall 601 to 603.
Waste my trip and waste my Saturday! Career Fair 2005 was a bore! There were many booths but not about companies wanting for new employment BUT most of the booths are from schools like MDIS(MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE of SINGAPORE),TMC, SIC(SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF COMMERCE), SIM, NTU, SMU, NUS, blah blah n not forgetting: INFORMATICS n THAMES! Hah! Hey, Thames and Informatics are same ryt? Watever..
Career Fair is more abt 'wat path to take after your O/A levels, ITE/Diploma, blah blah! Guess who I saw there? The moment I step into the hall, I saw one big booth which says: INFORMATICS ACADEMY, and its sub-booths: INFORMATICS COMPUTER, INFORMATICS ENGINEERING, INFORMATICS PROFESSIONAL CENTRE and THAMES BUSINESS SCHOOL. Hah!
2 of my lecturers: One from Computer school(Mr Lim Jyh Ren who taught me: Oracle Database Operator for Windows NT, Data Management, System Development and Introduction to Data Server) n da other from business sch(Mr Francis, will be teaching me once I am in 3rd year degree *smilez) saw me and handed me out a leaflet. I told them no need but they said just take coz it cost them money to print the leaflets. Oh well..
There are other booths abt some companies having a few job vacancies available. I do not knw wat was in my mind when I just went to a booth which published CHOICES magazine and applied for.. Part time writer since da available vacancy is part time. Crazy huh? Writer? But hey, i knw that i can write. I have ideas and imagination. I am not trying to boast but i scored high in Paper 1 English n Malay. Paper 1 is Essay writing(Section A) and letter writing or report writing (Section B). I admit I didnt do well for Section B BUT for Section A i did well. The teachers love my story haha. Lucky we have choices for Section A if not, I dun think I can score tat well coz Section A for Essay writing have 5 choices, Argumentative, Narrative and i forgot wat's da other 3. Of course, I chose Narrative! If they didnt have a choice for Section A..if Section A have to write and Argumentative Essay..I would have failed my english coz Paper 2 which is grammer usage, vocabulary and comprehension, I scored a borderline. Hmm, oral? well, if reading only, it can help but if conversation and picture conversation... u knw my type, I am not outspoken.. Alhamdullilah... I passed my GCE O levels English! Phew!
K, back to da Career Fair. B4 I went to Career Fair, my mum said to me: "Kalau ada kerja kosong kat polis, kau apply la. Tu government." (If there is a vacancy at SPF: Singapore Police Force, apply for it.)
And I was like, huh? "Lembik mcm gini mak nak Maria apply polis? Polis tgk Maria lembik, they also dun want la!" (Huh, I am not daring, very soft and not strong, u want me to apply in police force? They also do not want me ah.) But my mum said i got da wrong idea. She wants me to apply in SPF (non-uniformed) as in worked as an Administrative Clerk in SPF. Ceh! Didnt want to say earlier!
So did I apply? Well, there was no SPF job vacancy BUT there was a Singapore Prison Services job vacancy. I applied for Management Support Officer-handle administrative duties. Other vacancies were also available like Senior Prison Officer, Prison Officer and Liasion Officer - uniformed! I dun want and besides, 'siapa nak jaga si banduan tu semua! Malas lah aku!'
So was tat trip fruitful? WASTE! I wanna applied some other job but I was told to apply ONLINE! Waste my time 2go there. I can juz read up in da newspaper and apply online. I dun have 2come all da way 2Suntec City which is so packed with thousands of pple walking in and out!
U muz b wondering y do I still want to apply for job since I already got a job. My grandma la! She said: "Arent u ashamed of urself? Other pple study at nite but their job, da pay is very outstanding amt of S$1200 n above per month but urs is less than S$800 per month." Sigh.. grandma..grandma..
To me, salary not a problem as long as I am comfortable with da job and happy with da job (i am happy with MY JOB coz I can 'PLAY' Java Games! Haha tell u more some other days) but my grandma she said if I am O LEVEL holder with dat kind of salary, she didnt mind but she said I am a Diploma holder n study for Degree so she mind dat I have dat kind of amt for a salary. Sigh..
