my major and the future
My major is in Political Sciences. Recently, I tacked on a Russian & East European Studies minor to compliment my political science major.
It seems as though there is no better time than for everything to fit together.
I keep up with the news and I try to read from the different sources but you will find it hard pressed to sway me on my own ideologies.
I love political science because I love the reasoning and the logic (and often lackthereof) and I especially love seeing it play out on the world stage. Sometimes, things go badly, and sometimes things turn out better than expected.
I don't want this entry to come off as flippant. I do realise that depending on whatever policy governments implement, many lives are impacted. I don't want to make light of that and this entry is in no way meant to be taken as such. What I am saying though, is that often as a student of political sciences, I am asked questions about the world news and my peers expect that I have the answers. And when I do not, they fight me and argue with me and make light of my studies. Else they question why I am so distant that I speak on things as though I am not a part of the group that is protesting another. And it's because in my studies I have learned that passion writing means little unless there are facts and figures. And as an INTJ person, I prefer using the facts and logic to do the talking.
I've written about this before.
I guess what I'm trying to sum up to myself here is that I'm really thankful and fortunate that my major studies is almost to its end. And I'm really glad that I decided and stuck through with studying what I am studying now.
My desire to work in government flips every so often because I know working in private sector allows me to really push my ideas forward and get heard, and see the changes happen quickly; while my experience in the public services has been fraught with setback and a great disillusion from what the state really does for us.
I worked hard at the Ministry, just as I worked hard in my transportation technology company. I saw the results of my work during my Jan 2016 - August term. I saw little change during my work at the Ministry. And I didn't see much gracious acts from those I was working to help at the Ministry either. Because it's a public service and to be expected. Which makes for the feedback loop of why work so hard at a thankless position where they expect this of you when in reality you are going out of your way to do work?
I started this entry out by saying that I'm glad for my major, and I really am.
I just hope that in the future, after this 2017 August, I can find a place for myself where I can feel fulfilled at my work and yet also feel as though I'm making some change or difference via government work.
It seems as though there is no better time than for everything to fit together.
I keep up with the news and I try to read from the different sources but you will find it hard pressed to sway me on my own ideologies.
I love political science because I love the reasoning and the logic (and often lackthereof) and I especially love seeing it play out on the world stage. Sometimes, things go badly, and sometimes things turn out better than expected.
I don't want this entry to come off as flippant. I do realise that depending on whatever policy governments implement, many lives are impacted. I don't want to make light of that and this entry is in no way meant to be taken as such. What I am saying though, is that often as a student of political sciences, I am asked questions about the world news and my peers expect that I have the answers. And when I do not, they fight me and argue with me and make light of my studies. Else they question why I am so distant that I speak on things as though I am not a part of the group that is protesting another. And it's because in my studies I have learned that passion writing means little unless there are facts and figures. And as an INTJ person, I prefer using the facts and logic to do the talking.
I've written about this before.
I guess what I'm trying to sum up to myself here is that I'm really thankful and fortunate that my major studies is almost to its end. And I'm really glad that I decided and stuck through with studying what I am studying now.
My desire to work in government flips every so often because I know working in private sector allows me to really push my ideas forward and get heard, and see the changes happen quickly; while my experience in the public services has been fraught with setback and a great disillusion from what the state really does for us.
I worked hard at the Ministry, just as I worked hard in my transportation technology company. I saw the results of my work during my Jan 2016 - August term. I saw little change during my work at the Ministry. And I didn't see much gracious acts from those I was working to help at the Ministry either. Because it's a public service and to be expected. Which makes for the feedback loop of why work so hard at a thankless position where they expect this of you when in reality you are going out of your way to do work?
I started this entry out by saying that I'm glad for my major, and I really am.
I just hope that in the future, after this 2017 August, I can find a place for myself where I can feel fulfilled at my work and yet also feel as though I'm making some change or difference via government work.