I’m Still Blurry with my Future
My school’s career day is today. This is the day where a lot of private education institution comes to my school and promote the course their institution has to offer. Since some of this institution is where I will be in the future, so I don’t hesitate to ask them a lot of errm.. n00b questions.
I wrote about how I’m lost and what to do in my future. This post here is kind of like the expansion of that post. Anyway, this career day helps me a lot. They explain a lot about the job opportunity and what is the most marketable job for now and the future. But now, I’m stuck in a dilemma. Go for marketable job, or go for my interest?
According to a statistic, it shows that Business Studies graduates ranks number one in the unemployed graduates statistic, followed by the Computer Studies. Yes, Computer Studies got the 2nd rank!! How amazing, the course that I am most interested in, is one of the most unmarketable job.
I did mention about me going for Accounting in my previous post. Well, if I did pursue my studies and major in accounting, I will definitely go to CAT, and followed by ACCA before becoming the member of MIA. But here’s some of my sister’s saying:
If you want to go for Accountancy, you have to study until you are the Charted Accountants. If you just have the lousy CAT qualification, your salary won’t go anywhere.
That’s her advice. About how marketable is the Accountancy skills, well, everybody knows there’s always business and companies in the world. Everybody wants their companies’ money to be managed properly. Here is where accountants becomes handy. No unemployment problem if I go for accountancy.
In this career day, I went to the Swinburne Sarawak Campus booth. My friend ask about the Business Studies while I ask about Engineering. Here’s some information I got. Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electric & Electronic Engineering is the most common engineering.
There’s this new course that Swinburne offers, the Telecomunication and Internet Technologies kind of interest me. It’s about all this telecomunication and internet thing-ey, like the EDGE or the 3G technology. People with this skill is marketable since now Malaysia is really into this Telecomunication stuff.
Other than the T&IT, there’s this course, Robotics and Mechatronics. Ok now, even the Sarawak State Government is concern about people with mechatronics skill. There’s a lot of company importing people from oversea with this skill. Therefore, this job is marketable too.
I know all the course that is marketable. But now, I have to make a few consideration on the course that I might take in the future.
1. My financial status. My dad retires this year.
2. Because of my financial status, I have to consider studying locally rather than oversea.
I’ve been considering Form 6 or Matrix. Something to worried about, will I ended up like my brother’s friend, who also goes nowhere after Form 6? My brother is now working, that friend of his is still studying in PRIVATE INSTITUTION because HE IS NOT ACCEPTED IN LOCAL U.
I know, there’s always loan or scholarship. And that does mean I have to really, really score my SPM.
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July 4th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
if you can afford local college then go ahead and save the two years of STPM. Or, goto Pre-U, save 1 year.
If you are really good in computing then go ahead. Many computing/IT graduates do not get their job is because they DO NOT know about what they studied!
July 4th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
GeminiGeek says:
Ouch! is that true? :yikes:
July 4th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
I know you can take up PTPTN’s loan and pay back later.
Just follow your dream or you will regret later. I quit pharmacy that I did for 2 years which I wasted it (true) and took up mass comm which it soooo suits my personality. I know now what’s right for me.
July 9th, 2005 at 8:05 pm
Here I am again.
SapiensBryan says:
Opss… Then the course I’m studying is ranked the FIRST, so how? Quit? Hahaha … No way!! I tell you what, why bother which course is marketable? If you really put effort in that course, any course is marketable. As I’ve told you, my Diploma is micro-electronic, Degree is IT, now MBA in USM. I’ve gone into 3 different fields, I can tell you I love all except my Diploma (I realized I’ve gone into the wrong course after finished it :yikes: ).
SapiensBryan says:
This is true, same applies to IT too !! You expect to hold a Degree in IT and work until 55? Usually, after you enter some big company like Intel, they will ask you to get some professional certificates, bla bla bla. I’ve seen successful accountant (my friend’s daddy and he is a Charted Accountant ), living in a 1 million bangalow. I’ve also seen great IT guys too.
SapiensBryan says:
Yes, you might not have unemployed headache in accountancy. But ask yourself again, are you selecting a course to study based on the unemployment rate?
SapiensBryan says:
I have atleast 2 friends studied Mechatronics in PSDC (a college in Penang), and regreted so much. According to them, Mechatronics is like stucking in the middle of Electronic&Electrical and Mechanical. I’m not too sure about this, you better dig more information about this course.
SapiensBryan says:
You are a bit better than I was, for me, oversea is totally out of my choice.
Get a loan, and spend it wisely !! Use the additional money to buy some Unit Trust.
SapiensBryan says:
If you choose to study, that’s one of the things you SHOULD do !! Of course I’m saying you should learn and at the same time score. Do not score without learning anything out of it. For me, in my SPM I selected those subjects that I love and score it, the rest I got so-so results.
I would suggest you to list down all the courses you’ve shortlisted. Evaluate each of them, ask yourself how are you going to be in the next 10 years in that field.
All in all, I can conclude what I want to tell to just a few words:
Every field is competitive and marketable. It’s actually the personalities and knowledge that counts. Go for the one you love the most.
July 9th, 2005 at 9:46 pm
Maybe i shouldn’t worry too much? I should just go for what I like… hmm….
July 10th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
SapiensBryan says:
Yup, just make sure you do your very best in what you like.
Don’t forget to compare a few Universities and Colleges for their syllabus, because even they provide the same course, they might have different subjects, or major.
Good luck.
July 22nd, 2005 at 7:20 pm
Ehmm.. came across your blog by accident, saw this post and decided to put in my two cents worth. If you can afford local college, you should really really not do Form 6, it would be a waste of 2 years. And about choosing between what is practical and what you are really interested in… well, for me, I’m definitely not a risk-taker. I’m doing pharmacy now. Chose it because it was practical and guranteed me a job, but at the same time it’ll(hopefully) leave me enough free time to pursue my other interests. A job is just a means to earn enough money to live the rest of your life the way you want to, right? At least, that’s what I think.
September 26th, 2005 at 9:08 pm
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January 18th, 2006 at 8:16 am
here is what i think. chosing charted accountancy is secondary . first, u have to ask your self what things u will be doing in your chosen profession day in and day out. will u be happy doing that.what i mean to say is try to get into the mind of the proffesional that u are going to be in future. and veiw it from yhat angle. and the most important thing is to correctly evaluate your chosen proffesion. if u chose charted accountancy here is what u should do. the corner stone of education are books. choose it correctly.dont go for indian authors.go for international editions(accountancy) preferably from one of this publishers - mcgraw-hill,prenticehal,harcourtcollege.good luck
March 16th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
i don’t know what i want , i have lots of friends whom interest in various academic ,
one prefers business, some drag me in to engineering , some took pshychology , some took laws , whenever they ask me i said :(i’m not sure) ,okey the problem is i like learning business but i also like studying law , but engineering interest me to learn about how things work and are more profitable so what should i choose , my father said business is acommon study every one can do it , so he enquired that i take other more profitable study , what should i do ? ijust don’t know what to choose ? my SPM grade aren’t special or anything , it’s just average , i got 5A1 ,3A2 , 2B3 , 3B4, so,
what to do
August 23rd, 2006 at 10:37 pm
I, just like most of you out there also don’t know what to do in my future. I’m kind of torn between two professions, Chartered Accountantcy or Engeneering. :unsure: If you asked me what I wanted to become a few weeks ago I would have said Chartered accountant. Then my mother talked to me about what subjects I should choose for grade 11 and she recomended that I should choose subjects that would enable me to study for engeneering. She made a lot of sense and now I’m confused and back to square one. The worst thing is that I’ve got to make a choice before the school reopens in two weeks. I’m starting to regret the times when my Geography teacher talked to us about our future and I never paid attension
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!