career woes

today was career fair day. thereafter was lunch at munchie's with ceci, char, thong n weijin who came n joined us for awhile. the food sux big time.. or shall i say, it has deproved so much since it first started. cmon guys, dun get bigheaded with ur success n do ur pastas right. haha..

afternoon was spent shopping with ceci at vivo for cny clothes. although i love shopping n i love my babe, today just wasn't going right cos of the monthly cramps thingy. horrid to be strutting around in high heels n carrying heavy bags with the cramps going on, during one of my fav pastimes! sorry babe.. i'd be so much more hyper doing shoppin at any other day. nonetheless twas fun literally going crazy in fashion city. lol.

newaes, here r some after-thoughts from the career fair...

hmmz, a tad disappointed because i think the info i've gotten today are already mostly what i've already known or expected. mainly cos i only targetted those booths of which the companies r those i've already been eyeing before this so sorta know some stuff already and all. wat they told me did help me confirm my beliefs though, so i've sorta a clearer pic.

hmm some representatives were really bad at wat they were doing, i.e. selling themselves and providing sufficient info at least. some of them weren't even keen on elaborating on their companies' job positions, describing jobscopes (saying things like i'm not sure, or pls check out website for info is not exactly helping ur company's image) when i asked. and basically no one tried to explain their companies' goals and visions. call me picky but i'm the kind who, if u show no interest in telling me bout ur company when i'm interested to know (asked politely), i'll just walk away n basically throw ur pamphlet or whatever written things that u hoped could substitute ur talking. hee..bitch in me unleashed. i swear i'm still pms-ing.

ok la, shan't say until it's so bad..hahaa..think only 2 or 3 companies like that la.. basically got the info i needed. and gotta say the counsellor at prisons was soooo super nice n friendly n patient to my queries. she wins representative of the day. hmm i'm seriously considering a career in counselling. partly cos all the psych positions require second upper or above (read: "criteria is to have a degree in any discipline except for Psychologist appointments, whereby 2nd upper honours is required"). now u know why i'm so sad bout my cap.

so beggars can't be choosers n i'm considering the next best option, counselling. but also partly due to my wish in doing something fulfilling n challenging, like contributing to community or something... erm ok..i think pple will go... huh? contribute to community..u wanna act like some saint or wat? hmm..it's really nothing of the sort. it's more like, a personal challenge and personal dream. like just more interested in community issues and hoping to make any sort of humble, quiet contribution to pple who need the help. i'm really interested in children too.. i think MCYS has some project under the UN convention on the Rights of the Child, and i'm really keen to be into this sort of community projects. or being a Child Protection Officer sounds super interesting and fulfilling to me at least. i really hope they open up this kind of positions soon... or just stuff like organising projects, programmes, schemes and whatever for children, elderly or underprivileged, such as target groups like autistic children. i think these are the kinds of jobs that'll keep me going, nevermind the pay and occasional bitching bout the stress n low pay.. just hope they have these sort of opportunities up soon.

sighh.. i dunno la.. i'm open to other kinds of jobs too, like the british american tobacco company sounds really interesting, what with the 2 yrs management training with opportunities to go overseas for training! i'm just not sure whether i'll live with the idea of contributing to lung cancer rates though. hahaha. another field i'm interested in going into is journalism too.. with my short humble experience with youth.sg, i think it was an eye-opener and definitely i think it's a field with lotsa challenge and fun (but stressssss... i rem struggling to hand up articles while juggling other work). so basically i'm really open to other sorts of opportunities, but given a suitable chance or opening i'd love to go into community work. of cos i can't be sure if i'd love it in the end... but as with everything, u never try u never know.

hmm, out of pure undergrad kiasu-ism i printed 10 copies of my resume today. and deposited none. i'm gonna use those copies as rough paper for my notes. sad la.. i thought i could have made a lil progress by dropping resume here and there. but end up the companies all asked me to sign up online. and gotta wait for vacancies to be up on their website too. sighhhh. problem now is: when shld i apply online? they said nearer to graduation, but everyone says shld do it earlier, what with the long interview process and so many other kiasu grads... but then again, if i do it now even if there's no vacancies for the position i want, then no point also right? surely they'll put me on hold. i'll just see how things go. basically the companies of my interest from the fair today are: mindef, prisons, mcys, british american tobacco.

alrighty. off to do some serious work... get started on next presentation! arghh..

ceci mentioned thong is sweet to me.. hmm i can't agree better.