Clueless of my interest/career
-
Hi, after my graduation, I am clueless of what my interest is. I have studied, English, Mathematics, Science(Physics and Chemistry) and Principle of Accounts. I like doing Mathematics and Writing Story for English. I enjoy writing essay but whatever essay I wrote, there are gramatical errors and I am not really good in uisng beautiful phrases. Mine is simple ones, kind of like Primary School Essay :/ I don't really like Physics and Chemistry. I have done quite well in Principle of Accounts but I am not interested in business related stuff. As for my career persuation, I am not sure how to start. I like to do what I enjoy doing but I do not know what I like to do. Are there any centre or course where I can test out what my interest is in?
-
You won't know what your interests are until you go through 3 jobs at least
-
Take a piece of paper.
Separate into 3 columns.
First column, write on the top "Job that pays the bills".
Second column, write on the top "Job that pays low but at least it is interesting"
Third column, write on top "If I had 10 trillion dollars, I would do this".
Fill it up with a few options, then go do what you think is right.
-
Every job out there that pays a salary is a function of a business.
Even if you want to be your own boss, you still need to know how to do business.
Since you are good with numbers you can try becoming a statistician.
-
Thanks for your recommendation, but almost all of the jobs need some years of experience, work as a team, strong interperson skill which I lacked :( are there course where I can improve on those three?
-
There are self improvements books you can read.
Experience is gained by practicing and doing what you've learned.
Live and learn, learn and live.
-
Hi Mugen
I work in a recruitment social enterprise and we are currently providing free career guidance services with no strings attached.
Wondering if you will be keen to engage our service?
No obligations; we are actually doing this for free for a testbed before we fully launch our pilot program in early 2015.
Anyway, I'm contactable at [email protected] or you can visit our website www.sghuffe.com to understand our work better.
Anyone else who is keen, can get in touch with me too.
Blessings
Hannah (EA: R1439388)
Huffe Pte Ltd
Co. Reg. No. 201311876Z License No. 13C6585
-
.
-
dont worry there are some people who after working a while also still do not know what they want.
for my own experiance, i find that if you love what you do, it will be easier for you to stick to that carrer. also the question you need to ask yourself is, are you doing it for the money? for the passion?
im in science field and i love it, so even if im not making big bucks, its my choice because i love what i do. if you need the money, then u have to be prepared to be in a field that you dont love and probably have to chose banking/finance or sales if you are a good talker.
also i think since you are young, it does not hurt to try out different areas. just be sure to give it a few years at least to know if u really like the job ornot.
-
Originally posted by hannahuffe:
Hi Mugen
I work in a recruitment social enterprise and we are currently providing free career guidance services with no strings attached.
Wondering if you will be keen to engage our service?
No obligations; we are actually doing this for free for a testbed before we fully launch our pilot program in early 2015.
Anyway, I'm contactable at [email protected] or you can visit our website www.sghuffe.com to understand our work better.
Anyone else who is keen, can get in touch with me too.
Blessings
Hannah (EA: R1439388)
Huffe Pte Ltd
Co. Reg. No. 201311876Z License No. 13C6585
Hi Hannah, Thanks for your recommendation, I will give it a thought and email you if I am interested
-
Try to meet those friends of yours who are already working and listen to them about their work. Hopefully from there you could be inspire to look for the kind of work that you may like.
-
Originally posted by crazyger:
dont worry there are some people who after working a while also still do not know what they want.
for my own experiance, i find that if you love what you do, it will be easier for you to stick to that carrer. also the question you need to ask yourself is, are you doing it for the money? for the passion?
im in science field and i love it, so even if im not making big bucks, its my choice because i love what i do. if you need the money, then u have to be prepared to be in a field that you dont love and probably have to chose banking/finance or sales if you are a good talker.
also i think since you are young, it does not hurt to try out different areas. just be sure to give it a few years at least to know if u really like the job ornot.
I am doing it for both, money and passion. I like to do things that I like and earn income for it. I have done admin in my National Service and I doesn't like it. I keep screwing things up and most of the time, I try my best in doing it but I still screwed it. For example, one of the event was when I was doing filing, my senior asked me to sort the document from the newest to the oldest and destroy the old documents that are more than ten years. I tried my best to do the job but in the end, I messed up the documents where I accidentely destroyed some of the new documents and did some of the filing wrongly. My chief supervisor get angry with me and kept giving me confinement constally. I am not sure if there are something wrong with my brain as I keep muddle things up. I have even try to do it properly but I still can't.
Most of my colleagues were annoyed by me and they wanted to set me up using my muddleness as my weak point. One of them purposely put my office's contact list into my bag although I have no proof and evidence of it and I am completely sure that I did not open my bag on that day. When I was on off day, one of them phone me and asked if I have taken the contact list home and when I checked my back, I was shocked to find that it was in my bag. My chief got very angry and gave me more confinement. She even glare at me most of the time. If it was my job career, I would have been fired and all my colleagues will celebrate with beer:
just like what those people in my office after I have ord. -
As I can read from your post, you dont much like science, and you love to write stories, its ok to make mistake, when you write more you will learn the art,
My point is why dont you try to find a copywriter job? start with a small ad agency.
I worked in a ad agency before.
-
While searching around some of the job search website, there are some of the job i can do, such as i can help to pack goods in the store or warehouse for preparing the goods for sales, i can also help to print documents, scanning documents, sorting or arranging documents or goods, counting and measuring of goods, or maybe in a stationery shop, i can help to sort out goods like repacking them to be ready for sale. I can also work in the library to sort out and rearrange the books, i might enjoy doing these. But most of them needs experience, good communication skills, interperson skills, working in a team and buying selfhelp books of those doesn't help much, i would be glad to attend an interactive activities of these skills so that i can improve on my communication, team and interperson skills. Also, i figure out that i can't do multi-tasking, i often screw things up like what happen when i am serving national service in my admin unit. Seems like i need to attend some workshop on these field. Can anyone provide a seminar interactive course of where i could improve on these? I can't seems to find it anywhere.
-
Mugen, you are looking for a cure for your low self esteem.
Instead of focusing so much on what you can't do , focus on what you can achieve.
A hostile environment is not a nurturing environment.
I have heard plenty about the sufferings of NS.
A place where they glamourise the strong , enforce conformity and mocks the weak , is not a place for creativity, innovations and growth.
Let go of that past in that horrid place and seek your place elsewhere.
If anyone can do what you do, your marketable value will be low.
For now you need to find your self-confidence, then find your niche and expand on them.
As long as you keep an open mind and be receptive to constructive criticisms, you can learn and be better at what you do.
-
Hi Mugen, you sound very confused. You are graduating, from where, poly or ITE? What have you learnt in your studies? if you cannot find that, any other courses or studies WILL NOT help you!
When you write essay, what is important is what are you writing, a few gramatical errors does not matter, as long you are able to express yourself. Simply words will enable your essay to be read by simply people. If your essays can make people understand you better, learn from you, identify with your thoughts, ....that is a great achievement! So focus on the rigth things.
If you screw things up during national service, even in an admin unit, don't blame NS. Have you learnt after the screw up? Most Singaporean have so much to talk about, tough training( but we pulled through), lousy food (but we survived and grew stronger), stupid corporal ( so it was us the private who got the things done), idle platoon mate ( whom we gave blanket party, siok!) ....Armed Forces is a place where we work as a team, no rambo or self proclaimed general. If you went through NS with the discipline for team work, you should have many good friends to contact after ORD, if you have learnt from the mistakes that you made, you have grown!!
If you take a job to find you interest, you are wasting your employers time, your colleagues trust....Try your best in everything you do, every job you take, you may learn to like many things. Sometimes interest comes from the effort you put in your persue of excellence.
-
wot.
Can summarise in 10 words or less ?
-
Originally posted by charlize:
wot.
Can summarise in 10 words or less ?
who are you?
-
Get a masters in Road sweeping
-
Originally posted by sgdiehard:
who are you?
Now you're getting my drift.
-
There is a MOE ECG - Education and Career Guidance portal.
ecareers.sg
It is a web-portal designed to facilitate education and career development among students in Singapore. It is premised on the ECG Developmental Model and contains features that facilitate identity development while bringing students through the processes of awareness, exploration and planning. Access to this portal is available free to students in Primary 5 and 6, all Secondary and Pre-University Students and for an additional 6 months after students have graduated from the MOE Education System.
-
Is there any thing for older adults? Hit mid life crisis.
-
I think there are online persoanlity tests that ascertain career fit .... For me easier , just need a job to keep me alive and gives me spare time
-
Something like amptitude career test?
-
Jung myers briggs... There are free lens online . Some got say career but at least once you know your personality then probably can ownself sense .Anyways another way is part time jobs