Another week has passed. Not much progress has been made in my job-hunting. I went to several job interviews as scheduled and was told to wait for the results upon finishing those written tests, as usual. Contrary to my feeling last week, I feel a bit more confident this week. I've come to accept the long and seemingly endless procedures of recruitment. Simply saying that I'm not competent enough when I heard nothing after weeks is just unfair. More importantly, doubting myself only pulls me down but not helps me out.
After all, I'm just jobless for the moment, not hopeless! ;)
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Although I've been warned by a number of people, it wasnt until these days did I come to admit that part-time learning requires a great deal of disciplines. Long prided myself to be a task-oriented, focused, and highly disciplent student, I now have to admit -- I'm no better than anyone else engaged in part-time learning!!!! This mode of learning gets me excited in the first place 'cause the intensive lectures have pulled me to the subject matter even closer as I had to catch up with the teaching progress daily. Yet now as I'm done with the first subject, I've found myself left with a 400+ -paged coursebook, over 300 cases, and piles of untidied lecture notes!!! That really sends my adrenlin level to a rocket high!!! I've been trying to clear off a bit of my reading but this task often gives way to numberous scheduled job interviews and trivial matters... To make it worse, I become one pathetic victim of procrastination!! Which explains why I'm still blogging here...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Three weeks already. Three weeks after I came back, I'm still job-hunting. I can't believe the process of job-hunting is so painfully long and boring. Very often I sent out my resume, waited for a phone call for invitation to interview, met the HR Manager, did several aptitude tests, but then was told to go home and wait for the result. Ugh.
The entire process is just long and frustrating. At some points I even doubted if I'm adeqautely equipped to face the "real world". I got a feeling that my knowledge and skills are not helpful (if not useless) for me to get a job in this highly commericalized society. I'm just tired of this.
But for better or for worse, I gotta get going. I can't give up ... after all, opportunities are everywhere- when I'm ready to take it. Wish me luck. ;)
*****
It wasnt until lately did I realize I'm stepping into another stage of life- the stage when one's aging parents become illness striken. Just last week I learned that family members of two of my friends have passed out. Despite having undergone the same kind of loss not long ago myself, the news left me speechless. Again I was caught up in the grief and reminiscence of my own family history, which has a lingering influence on how I see myself in relation to the family. Honestly I didnt know what I could say, nor what I could do for them. I guess when it comes to life and death, we lose our words. The feelings deep down is way more profound than what we think we comprehend.
The entire process is just long and frustrating. At some points I even doubted if I'm adeqautely equipped to face the "real world". I got a feeling that my knowledge and skills are not helpful (if not useless) for me to get a job in this highly commericalized society. I'm just tired of this.
But for better or for worse, I gotta get going. I can't give up ... after all, opportunities are everywhere- when I'm ready to take it. Wish me luck. ;)
*****
It wasnt until lately did I realize I'm stepping into another stage of life- the stage when one's aging parents become illness striken. Just last week I learned that family members of two of my friends have passed out. Despite having undergone the same kind of loss not long ago myself, the news left me speechless. Again I was caught up in the grief and reminiscence of my own family history, which has a lingering influence on how I see myself in relation to the family. Honestly I didnt know what I could say, nor what I could do for them. I guess when it comes to life and death, we lose our words. The feelings deep down is way more profound than what we think we comprehend.
