he said, "oh beautiful release."

i was on the 36 to parkway (from town) the other day when this plump man in working clothes came on and sat/lay down on one of the seats. his hair was really thick, long and messy, his shirt was a bit to tight for him and he wore slippers (with working clothes). what im trying to say is that, he looked quite defeated for someone around 40 years? heh. so he took out his phone and started talking really loudly. his voice was booming like crazy and people started staring. well anyway, after listening for a while, i gathered the guy was calling companies and seeking employment as an 'electric engineer' or in 'human resource'. throughout all the conversations he kept emphasising he studied in london. what he studied, how he studied, scholarship or not, he never said. then as we neared parkway this SIA pilot boarded and that man started asking him lots of funny questions. i could tell the pilot was quite '?!?!' irritated. yeah and that man kept emphasising he studied in london again.

so i began wondering, just how important is studying to your career. sure, good grades get you to a good uni which jumpstarts your career but the advantage you have over someone of a normal-standard uni is just gonna be like a higher position which can be attained in a few years? which means someone who went to a normal uni may just manage to catch up the few years if he's more productive than you! compare the few years' advantage to your projected working lifespan of like say, 35 years (at minimum). don't you think its highly possible to catch up?

well on the OTHER hand, the problem with catching up is that it takes lots of effort. imagine getting a job with an established reputation. wouldn't it be way easier to secure promotions and deals than working your way up from scratch? which is my main reason for studying hard now (; simply because the two short years of intense (well maybe with a bit of slacking here and there) effort during jc would be greatly amplified in the distant future (; wow cool huh? hahaha.

so for those who hate studying and think they prefer working, being out in the field (well not literally, meaning like meeting clients and blah), there's always an alternative route to success. maybe a little slower, but whatever works for you! (; the key to success, i believe, is to know yourself well AND to know your playing field (inculding opponents) well. if you get that straight, i doubt things would go wrong. problem is, few can get the 'know yourself' correct, cos only a small handful of people actually bother digging into themselves to see their own faults and acknowledge that something should be done to well, err, correct those anomalies! haha.

haha i bet i'll get a lot of disagreements over this, but as much as we dislike the format of pw and as much as we complain about the incompetency of our teachers as PW teacher, hey, that's the world isn't it? no situation is perfect, no company or given scenario is perfect! is there not a possibility that your boss may be as 'lousy' as your pw teacher? what would you do then? would you stop your work, complain and demand a change? no! simply cos you are paid for it, and thus you owe your responsibility to the job! it's the same for school and pw, really. so for those who feel that they're more suited to the 'outside world', consider pw. if you do enjoy the problems that you encounter in pw, if you actually see the value of problems, the lessons you can extract from a given situation, then i'd say you'd do well in the working world. haha right now i doubt i'd get anywhere far if i were to start work. why? cos i'm way to impatient, head-strong and immature to get things right.

how do i know all this? haha of course from my sis who's seeing lots of new things now that she's working :P haha right now you know how come i've become so wise all of a sudden hahaha :)

so to sum a longer-than-normal entry up, i'd just say that although studying really does help in your prestige and repuation (like poeple are gonna think well of you if you get four As) when you start out in the working world, they're not EVERYTHING. cos uni grades have an impact on your first post-grad employment, a slightly smaller impact on your next employment, even less on your next and so on. it's like decreasing fixed costs! haha (;

okay so i shall end this abruptly



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