Is an intern a student or a doctor...? I guess we are. The lack of a license makes the line more distinct though.
Not trusting the world makes you a lot more independent of it. Calling to mind an infantile Carl refusing that suspicious teat from an unknown entity called mom.
I've been watching Grey's Anatomy, so the whole "interns are students" spiel has been stamped into my consciousness already.
It's been my experience that everyone has an agenda, especially when we're talking about resumes. :D Tear away the veil that separates what we want to see to what we should be seeing.
share the glamarous filipino insider jokes with your boring ASEAN counterparts,please.
Anyway, Carl, I know exactly how you feel bout not being prepared for the working world and wanting to go back to the soft embrace of being a student. everything seems like a letdown when you really unearth the truth behind the gloss...
i think i am working myself to death at the internship i'm doing because i am so frightened of being unemployed when i join the workforce in about 1.5 years. silly, i know, since writing for the National Mouthpiece isn't exactly my wildest dream.
i feel torn sometimes, between discovering what i want to spend the rest of my life doing, settling for 2nd or 3rd best, OR chasing everybody else's goals because i am too lazy or scared to find out what mine really are.
then i realise all i need is a good pint. ahahaha.
Nothing glamorous about it Amira...it stands for Economic Hit Man, from the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. It's about an economics consultant who helps America screw over Third World countries, not exactly a very honorable job description. Quite an entertaining read though, I think you'd like it.
I think with your experience you'd be able to get a position with an international publication, I certainly think they'd be less censorious than ST. Although of course all media publications have their biases...you just have to pick which ones fit your own, haha.
Good luck with the dream though. I'd love to have another 1.5 years of safety margin in school to decide on what to do, pints of beer and all.
Hmm...Why don't you buy a subscription to vault.com or a career services site? The employee surveys are quite something and they range from salary to company culture and a lot of intangibles associated with work life.
As for me, I think a component of work life requires you to convince yourself that you are right for the position/career. Also an isolation of what exactly are biggest motivating factors for the job? - is it money, kind of work, recognition in work et. Working in such a place can be the best compromise I guess.
--- Sushil (fresh from a year of applying for jobs :) )
Useful advice Sushil, thanks. I do have access to the Vault surveys and they're quite informative. Unfortunately most people here don't have access to the same resources so this is a generalized rant representing the combined discussions and whining of dozens of my just-graduated friends.
I used to think that one factor would compensate for another, and it was a matter of making sure that the pluses were more than the minuses. I've come to learn that all the pluses in the world don't count if they're not the pluses you find important. Unfortunately most of us don't know what we value until we actually taste what working life is like. ;)
So who are you going to work for, anyway? I'm sure you've got lots of firms knocking on your door.
Oh yeah, information is a huge problem. I wish the employees who come for the campus presentations were straightforward.
I had great friends who told me what I needed to work out before the jobhunt so I actually made a herculean effort to find out what I valued (or what I think I value atleast, will let you know if I'm right). I'll tell you where I am working over email, am uncomfortable with the public nature of LJ's.
Get an LJ account already, so you can be a full-fledged member of the Filipino blogosphere.
At least you guys HAD campus presentations. The firm I want to work for has under-the-radar recruitment, I'm just lucky I know someone working there. And okay will await your email.
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Doubting information is symptomatic for some inner cynicism... Can't trust the world again huh?
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Never trusted the world to begin with. So no, I've never graduated from cynicism.
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Not trusting the world makes you a lot more independent of it. Calling to mind an infantile Carl refusing that suspicious teat from an unknown entity called mom.
You'd sure make a vicious HR head though.
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It's been my experience that everyone has an agenda, especially when we're talking about resumes. :D Tear away the veil that separates what we want to see to what we should be seeing.
And moms are dangerous entities, no doubt. Haha.
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share the glamarous filipino insider jokes with your boring ASEAN counterparts,please.
Anyway, Carl, I know exactly how you feel bout not being prepared for the working world and wanting to go back to the soft embrace of being a student. everything seems like a letdown when you really unearth the truth behind the gloss...
i think i am working myself to death at the internship i'm doing because i am so frightened of being unemployed when i join the workforce in about 1.5 years. silly, i know, since writing for the National Mouthpiece isn't exactly my wildest dream.
i feel torn sometimes, between discovering what i want to spend the rest of my life doing, settling for 2nd or 3rd best, OR chasing everybody else's goals because i am too lazy or scared to find out what mine really are.
then i realise all i need is a good pint. ahahaha.
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I think with your experience you'd be able to get a position with an international publication, I certainly think they'd be less censorious than ST. Although of course all media publications have their biases...you just have to pick which ones fit your own, haha.
Good luck with the dream though. I'd love to have another 1.5 years of safety margin in school to decide on what to do, pints of beer and all.
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As for me, I think a component of work life requires you to convince yourself that you are right for the position/career. Also an isolation of what exactly are biggest motivating factors for the job? - is it money, kind of work, recognition in work et. Working in such a place can be the best compromise I guess.
--- Sushil (fresh from a year of applying for jobs :) )
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I used to think that one factor would compensate for another, and it was a matter of making sure that the pluses were more than the minuses. I've come to learn that all the pluses in the world don't count if they're not the pluses you find important. Unfortunately most of us don't know what we value until we actually taste what working life is like. ;)
So who are you going to work for, anyway? I'm sure you've got lots of firms knocking on your door.
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I had great friends who told me what I needed to work out before the jobhunt so I actually made a herculean effort to find out what I valued (or what I think I value atleast, will let you know if I'm right). I'll tell you where I am working over email, am uncomfortable with the public nature of LJ's.
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At least you guys HAD campus presentations. The firm I want to work for has under-the-radar recruitment, I'm just lucky I know someone working there. And okay will await your email.
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