Monday, April 16, 2007
it's weird having to maintain 2 blogs.. cos dis is my private one, whereas the other's my shared blog with deardear. since i resurrected dis blog, i shd blog here sometimes too! tot of posting the same posts here n at the other blog, but it's quite stupid to do dat i guess.. so yup so here i am with a brand new post :)
just read some of my frens' blogs. i lyk it when they update cos if not it's boring when everytime i visit their blogs, it's still the same old post dat has been there ages ago. but anw, i just realised sth quite farny. looking at xw's blog, i realised dat th lyks to take photos with a particular head-tilted-upwards pose. n den i think of dear.. n so does he! i dunno.. is it some act cool pose for guys? lol :D
am v bored. i studied the whole of yday, taking breaks only to exercise my legs by walking to the kitchen to find something to occupy my mouth n stomach. there's still alot left to go tho.. sigh. sometimes i cant decide if i'd prefer if exams come faster, or slower (since exams NOT coming is totally not going to happen). but i lyk it dat my papers r spread out lah. pity those taking acc2 too! lol hopefully dat's going to give me some advantage for the paper dat comes b4 n after the acc2 paper cos pple will need to divide their revision time with 1 more subjects!
reading yq's blog abt wanting to become a CFO kinda amused me. not cos i think it's impossible for her to achieve, but cos i think sumtimes she worries too much abt things dat r too far off into the future. i noe it's lyk a goal, an ambition. but i feel u gotta take 1 step at a time n figure out how u'r going to make ur next move up the corporate ladder, instead of quickly setting ur sights on the highest rung. i mean, at every stage of ur career, there's bound to be a few possibilities n options for u to choose from. wad if u'r looking up the wrong ladder?
taking yq's post as an eg, after 3 yrs in 1 of the Big 4, if given gd prospects to stay on cos mayb ur boss thinks highly of u, wld u still insist on resigning n join an MNC? cos in the 1st place, u gotta b q gd for an MNC to want u. unless, of cos, if u were approached to join the MNC lah. it's not easy to become a partner, but with every1 (the accountants) fighting to b the CFO in the MNC as well, is it really going to b sth dat's neccessarily easier to achieve? not dat i wanna b a wet blanket, but i seriously think dat neither staying in the Big 4 or hopping over to an MNC will guarantee any high position, b it a partner or the CFO. it's all going to depend on ur work performance, ur working relationships with ur colleagues n bosses plus overall management of office politics (cos obviously if u'r not well-liked, u'll b an open target for backstabbings n the like), n quite a large scoop of l-u-c-k!
for me, haha.. i think my aim is simple enough. it doesnt really matter wad position i'll b filling, but my ultimate ultimate aim is to earn at least $30k a month when i retire. lol deardear thinks it's sth dat's hard to achieve, tho it's not impossible. i also know dat, but i dun think $30k a month is ALOT cos it really depends on wad u'r doing n how well u'r doing it. i dun have a precise direction of wad i'm going to do, which path i'm going to take in terms of my career development cos i think it's still too early to tell wad area of mkting i really prefer or am better in. for accountants, mayb the path is more or less rather straightforward, but for mkting pple, we'r really going to be open to quite a number of options. lyk wad 1 of my profs said, i agree with him dat it's foolish of those in my cohort who proclaim dat they die die wanna go into hospitality (cos of the IR) or wadeva industry.
n unlike the accountancy pple, i doubt my PA will serve to give me a better idea of how my future job is going to be like. but nonetheless i'm still looking forward to it. hopefully it's going to b a gd learning experience even if it's not going to be much of a working experience. bleahs. anw mayb the best thing abt me going off to canada next sem is dat most prob when i get back, i'd have cleared all my modules n can get a little head-start in finding a nice nice job :) since every1 will still be trying to clear their cores n electives on top of fyp, after the fyp submission in march, i guess i'll b pretty much free to do wadeva i want with my working life already. lol
sigh okay lah. time to mug again. it's just going to be mug, mug n more mugging for the next 2 wks :( wish me luck! oh. n gd luck to every1 having exams too. lol
random thoughts at 11:18:00 PM
