Experience on Job hopping

10 Largest Malaysian Companies by Market Cap . My former "teacher" and current "opportunity giver" are in the list. Rasa happy *smiles*. Which is which? That's confidential. =P

1. Sime Darby (RM53.9 billion)
2. Maybank (RM48.6 billion)
3. CIMB (RM46 billion)
4. Maxis (RM40.3 billion)
5. Public Bank (RM39.9 billion)
6. IOI Corp (RM36.5 billion)
7. Tenaga Nasional (RM36.5 billion)
8. MISC (RM31.3 billion)
9. Genting (RM27.2 billion)
10. Axiata (RM25.8 billion)

My first job hopping experience was full of doubts, fears and almost tears. I never thought i would job hop but i did. The Opportunity just came knocking on my door when i was comfortably working with "teacher".

I did feel sad when i made up my mind to leave. It wasn't an easy decision because i loved my work. i loved the salary. i loved the environment. I loved the people. I loved the canteen, the office, the surau... I loved everything! (tipulah if i said i never whined. i did whine but a good one =P).

So why did i still leave the "teacher"? Because i want to improve myself. That's it. Stepping out of the comfortable zone is the way to go. Big money is also what i was eyeing for haha but that's not the main reason. What i want and need right now is KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE and SKILLS. And "Opportunity" offers me that. New knowledge, new experience and new skill excites me! *roars* Hahaha. but hey. i am serious. *muka serious tetiba lepas ketawa*

How about you? Ever job hopping before? or ever plan to job hop? Kalau yes, make sure you do it for the right reason. Otherwise, you wouldn't get Happiness.

Office here, office there

I am right now at the big bad scary city. A change of working environment is good for you, even though if it’s just for 3 days. *smiles*

What I like about working in this city is you can come late to work and then go back early. Thank you traffic jams! *evil grin*

What I like about the office I am working at is its toilet. It’s clean and dry and it will never run out of tissue. *happy face*

What I don’t like about the office is I can’t see greeneries *sads*. It’s so freaking cold here and quiet. I am surrounded by creamy white walls. Urgh. Tertekan ok. Now I can see why city people are stressful.

But hey, no matter where we work, there are always pros and cons.

It’s not the office, it’s ME, and it’s YOU.

So chin up, smile and face the day sunshine!


p/s: We have the tendency to want something which is bad for us and to hate something which is good for us. Think deep and be thankful.

How to be a lecturer

Someone once told me its not an easy job to be a lecturer. The burden of shaping the minds of tomorrow is a burden people do not envy. How you act and react in class will ultimately shape the course of the future. Being a lecturer has its ups and downs. Regardless of whether it is the private or the government sector, lecturers are held to a certain level of standard that no other human beings are held to. My Boss once told me there are two things you need in order to be a good lecturer.

1) Knowledge.

Without adequate knowledge of your field it will be very difficult to be a lecturer. No matter what field you are currently in right now, anyone, anytime can be a lecturer. Given of course that you are prepared to answer anything and everything about your field. Some people go through their entire University/College life without ever really loving their field or getting to know the field. Thus they develop an insecurity that there are still things about their field they might not know about. I think its called a field of study because a field is where you go to have fun. You run, skip, hop, jump, and play on a field. The better you know your field the better player you would be and the more fun you would tend to have on them. So knowing your field well would definitely be an advantage considering you dont want your students outplaying you in your own field. So if youre looking to further a career in lecturing, being an expert in your field would definitely be an enticing deal.

2) Passion

For what it is worth, i believe this is the most important element in any lecturer or teaching position for that matter. Passion affects not only your performance, but most of all it affects the effectiveness of your teaching approach. As most of you might be aware of, there is a large variety of teaching approaches available, but all of it would be like a gun without bullets if you dont have the passion to teach. Always wanting to perform well in class would give your students a sense where they too need to be better, they too need to perform. Regardless of whether your scream at your students or persuade them into doing what you want, without passion, gun without bullets. But also remember that too much passion isnt a good thing as well, most people or norma people are laid back and passion tires them, so you do not want to have too much passion that you start tiring your students, but not too little that you start to look tired.

Although these two things are said to be the most important thing in being a lecturer, I believe there is another element that is just as important. Knowledge, Passion and the Passion for Knowledge.

The best teacher is also the best student. The one questions the most, the one who has almost all the answers, the one who realizes that there a certain things you just dont know, the one who speaks but not too much, and sits quietly but not too much. The one with the out of the box idea, the one who keeps wondering how everything works. The one with the thirst to learn and the hunger to know. Have adequate knowledge, Have passion for teaching, and have a passion for knowledge in its entirety.

About getting a teaching position. There a large amount of education institutions that are just dying for teaching man-power (and woman-power as well) and you should keep your eye out on vacancies that might open up in the private and government sector. Other than that, count your lucky stars because after that it all depends on whos the lucky one.

Hope this helps! Da!

How to be a lecturer (Funny Version)

Here are something you will need to avoid if you are serious for a career in lecturing.

During the interview:-

"Can you tell us a bit about your field?"
"Well lots of children play football on it in the evening.... the grass is green too..."

"Which part of the brain controls speech?"
"Somewhere around the head lah kot."

"Can you apply the theories of Physics to teaching?"
"Yes, the higher the velocity of my cane the more pain the student will endure."

"Tell us something bad about yourself"
"I hate reading."

"Do you know who Eisenhower is?"
"errr.... A football player?"

"Do you know its not good to answer a question with a question?"
"Really?"

"Are you able to execute other duties other than teaching?"
"Ehh I appy jadi lecturer lah... apahal plak kena buat benda lain?"

"Out of a hundred students, how many of them do you think would pass your subject?"
"All of them!"

"Which method of teaching do you think most suits you?"
"Tulis kat papan putih pastu suruh salin.... esok check.... kalau tak salin rotan lah..."

p/s - Untuk pengetahuan semua... Ini adalah jawapan beberapa manusia yang pernah diinterview untuk menjadi lecturer.... I worry for the academic world.

p/s and p/s - Will write the serious version tomorrow hahaha

Work

Its been more than a year since i started settling at my current job as a lecturer and over the past year, I have changed in more ways i could have ever imagined. When i first worked there as a lecturer, i was treated with an earful of bad things about the company i work in. Low salary pay, no benefits, impossible levels of achievement to justify increment, low paying bonuses and much more. Trust me to list everything here would take up three days to write.

It came to a certain point in my life there that i realized a few things. These people who dont like the company, still comes to work, everyday, doing the same thing theyve been doing for years. They arent looking for another job, they just dont like working here but moving is too much of a hassle. Yet, they hate the company to the heat of a thousand suns. Then i asked myself, these seniors, these so-called talented people who demand they be paid the right amount, why are they still here? Is it because they are less qualified to work somewhere else? if they are, lets say less qualified, then where does the confidence to demand come from?

Im not saying i agree totally on company policies. Trust me, ill be the first to admit that, but i always think to myself, there is always a way around the "system". For example:-

"Nak Bonus kena buat tiga program yang disertai oleh sekurang-kurangnya 50 orang pelajar."

You want the bonus money? Well you do exactly that. Three programs joined exactly byb fifty students. And once youve done it, and you dont get the bonus, then you rebel. Rebelling without cause is just plain childish.

Now the one thing that pisses me off is the fact that these so called seniors (people who came before you did) are usually persistent. they dont stop with you, they even look towards those people who came after you, and long after those juniors are gone, they'll still be there working at the same desk doing the same thing, everyday.

I am a man who believes that you should make the best out of a bad situation. Yes work is bad, yes the company sucks, but its our job to make things better and not just sit and whine about it. It takes a lot to make people change, i know, but if we dont try we'll never know. This past few months, ive been trying to distract myself with work. I work my ass off and hope that when i get home, im too tired to even think about how messed up my life is. And in two months, i can feel the emotional reward already rolling in. Now about money.... I wont lie, ive thought about it, but i think it is what it is, a bonus, if you get it then Alhamdulillah, if you dont, then work harder. But the emotional and psychological acknolwedgement is almost good enough to get me through the day. When someone looks at you and tells you "Good job!" or "Youre one of a kind". The feeling is exhilirating. But then yes, i cant be stuck with the same amount their paying me forever. So yes, i want a better salary. But theyve seen what i can do. with a better salary, i can only get better. Ive made my move, ive done what is needed, ive fulfilled the requirements, Im a good worker. Company, your move!

Make the best out of a bad situation, affect the people around you in a positive way, dont let them affect you negatively. Smile! Be greatful when others are credited, work harder if you wanna be credited at the same level. Be passionate about your job. Dont expect too much in return, be honest, dont look too much on what others are doing, focus more on your job. Always look at the potential and not the restrictions. Be innovative, be smart, be fast. Dont procrastinate or procrastinate but not too much. Dont forget to relax. When youve had a long day, reward yourself but not too much. If you did something wrong, berate yourself but not too much. Always stand close to your convictions. Adapt. Congratulate your friends. Think out of the box. Be brave, Take risks. Have fun.

Im 24 turning 25 in 2010. Ive worked at the same company for roughly a year and two months. Im young, im inexperienced, im easily distracted, im scared of new horizons, and i fear being irrelevant. I dont wanna complain about it. I wanna do something about it. I wanna stop fearing, i wanna stop being distracted, i wanna walk on new horizons. But most of all, "we were all meant to shine like children do, its not just in some of us, its in all of us, and as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give others permission to do the same, as we are liberated from our own fear."

A New Kind of Fanaticsm

Today something weird happened. It wasnt that weird to me but all the people around me found it really weird that it happened. I was sitting in a review meeting of what is to be presented during a in-company training session and at which point i discovered that i had not brought a pen. With as much cool-ness s possible i reached out to a yellow pen from across the table from me and opened the cap.

What happened next caught me off guard. I was amazingly impressed by how well the pen felt in my hand. I felt like i could write the world on it. Then i realized the tip of the pen. Its like the picture above. And i loved it. After the meeting i gave the pen back, but i loved how it felt in my hand so much and how it wrote so well i actually gathered enough courage to ask.

"Saya nak pen tu boleh? Saya beli dari awak bleh tak?"

And everyone who heard me turned around and made faces. I didnt think it was weird. Then i remembered, not everyone is a writer. Not everyone writes in a journal and have found from time to time how pens can be so unreliable. How a pen that feels weird in your hands makes you feel like NOT writing. And hence my admiration for the pen or for pens in general. None the less, i didnt get the pen. I wish i had a pen just like that, but the guy told me it costs like a hundred something, which is way too much money anyone should spend on a pen. Once i have some extra money though its the first thing on my I-Want-List. Buhbye people!!!


p/s - Im sorry i havent had time to update the blog and seems like Sabrinas the only making this place a warm place to visit. None the less. Holidays are coming up and will try to write more. Sabrina should be writing the Selamat hari Raya post any day now, but if im not there when she writes it, Selamat Hari Raya people!!!!!

Noisy Office

If you can't change them.

You change.

Me?

I stay quiet.

I get out of the place.

*smiles*

Underworked and Overpaid

When Sabrina messaged me complaining that she was under worked and overpaid, I laughed my ass off. It was funny, the boredom was getting to her and i thought it was ironically funny that people nowadays found it something to whine about. (Kalau org dulu dorg punyer complain terbalik). Overworked and underpaid.

I stood up in the office and looked around my office. For those of you who are not familiar with this blog... firstly - We're the coolest and if you've only read about us for the first time, where have you been your whole life?? hahahha and secondly, i work as a Jr. Lecturer in a private college in KL. Standing up i saw few of the brightest minds I have ever met either fixed on a screen of scrabble game, some pikachu tile game and women are digging those cooking games (potong-potong sayur then masak, aku panggil game anti-feminis mintak perempuan conform).

Then it occured to me, we are a generation of whiners. Even in my office people whine.

"Bosannya takder keje"
"Bosannya ader keje"

If whining was an Olympic sport we'd win gold hands down. I see comfortable heads on small cushions wrapped in a gold threaded casing (alah kalau org bersanding dorg guna lapik tangan tu) nasib baik bunyi macam kucing tido, kalau bunyi macam kereta kebal mau mengamuk bos aku. Itu referring to dengkuran yang comel gadis gadis yang tak kisah tetido.

So are we that imfamous generation destined for mediocrity and un-greatness. Destined to be stuck in a dead end job for ages only to realize at 40 that, our capacity has never been challenged much less used in the past 4 decades.

I for one choose not to sit down and do nothing. There are some boring work stuff im working on so ill skip that hahah. Im also learning how to make those origami swans!!! always wanted to learn but thought it was too girly and afraid my friends would think it was too girly. Try telling me that to my face now (raising my fist to the air).

One more, i found this online war game at Envoy.com fun im at server 23 people if you wanna find me. Lowcross Lionheart hahahah so there, two things im doing just to fill the time hehe byeeeee people.......

Kerja

Aku tidak merungut pasal kerja. Mama kata merungut pasal kerja nanti jadi tak ikhlas, and nak jadi pendidik ni mesti kena ikhlas. Mesti kena ada tempat dalam hati untuk disembunyikan benci dan marah. Aku sedar itu, aku sediakan satu daerah dalam hati yang paling dalam untuk benci dan marah. Selebihnya untuk cinta dan gembira.

Aku tidak merungut pasal kerja, sebab aku tahu kerja aku mulia. Kerja aku mendidik anak bangsa. bukan aku kata aku yang mulia, banyak jugak cacat cela manusia biasa ni. tapi ntahlah, ada masa di pejabat aku rasa tidak selesa. Seperti diperhatikan, dinilai dan dipersoal.

"Eh ko bukan dah keje lama ke? apsal ko tak confirm lagi?"

Confirm tak confirm. Soalan sering aku ditanya. Terdetik sekali dua, dalam hati, aku tak bagus berkerja? atau terlalu banyak cuti?

jawapan aku pada semua, aku senyum, "takper.. tak kisah pun"

lirik mata menjeling, benci melihat aku yang mereka sangka cuba berlagak cool. Bukan berlagak cool tapi aku memang tidak peduli. Apa beza confirm dengan tidak?

confirm ada insurans (itu aku sudah ada)
ada annual leave (takpa potong saja gaji aku kalau aku bercuti, baru bersih gaji aku biar pasti halal)
kalau kahwin dapat cuti and bonus (aku ada simpanan dan aku mampu dipotong gaji dua minggu, lagipun kegembiraan bersama isteri tidak dinilai pada gaji)
increament (naik gaji???? mungkin buat masa ini aku selesa dengan gaji aku)

Jgn salah faham, semua kelebihan ini kalau diberikan kepada aku, aku terima dengan hati yang gembira. Tapi, kalau orang tidak memberi, aku tidak menuntut, mereka enggan memberi kerana mereka rasa aku tidak layak seadanya, takpa, beri aku masa, biar aku tunjuk pada mereka, hebat aku pada pentas dunia. Nanti kamu berikan juga kepada aku naik gaji tu.

Kerja aku memenatkan. Aku tidak penat melihat pelajar aku yang melopong dihadapan dengan mulut terbuka tidak faham dengan slanga bahasa aku yang ntah dari mana. Tapi aku gembira bila aku terus menerang, mata mereka bercahaya, mereka menganggap aku sebaya.

"Mr. H hisap rokok tak?"
"Dulu hisap macam kereta rosak, sekarang dah kurang, social smoker je"
"Mr. H nak?" disuanya rokok kepada aku. dan aku gapai, aku faham, egonya tinggi sedikit, gurunya menerima pemberian tidak seberapa. Ya aku ingat juga Dr. Ismaz di dalam pejabatnya berkongsi rokok dan cerita. Sayang jgn marah ya? betul tidak selalu kadang-kadang sahaja.

Aku suka pelajar aku. Mereka rasa aku sebahagian dari mereka dan serius aku cuba, kadangkala untuk menjadi sebahagian daripada mereka. Bukan perasan muda, just mahu mereka tahu, tidak perlu menjadi skema kalau nak berjaya. Asalkan hati dan minda mahu mencuba. Aku yakin mereka boleh dan akan berjaya.

So kenapa tulis post bodoh panjang berjela? Sebab aku tidak suka filing. Pening. Dokumen aper kat maner saper punyer? argh malas aku nak pikir! blog lagi best. Tapi takper, semester akan buka semula, pelajar akan datang semula, dan aku akan ada satu lagi peluang. Membuat mereka bangga, mejadi insan mengejar pendidikan.