Have not really update on things other than wedding nowadays. Well, the wind of change lately has been strong. Not only I'm changed to Mrs Lai now, I'm also changing home address soon, and will have another drastic change in my career path.
I'm ditching engineering, for good.
Never have I thought this day would come. I have loved engineering since day one I started Science Stream in Form 4. I wanted to be an engineer. I achieved that until certain level, but now I'm putting a full stop, or perhaps a comma to it. Days in Company H and Company V had me reconsidered what exactly I like doing. I was in business development in both companies, for engineering products. I re-evaluate those days, how much % I'm happy and how much % I'm not. My conclusion is, sad to say, only 40% happy.
Maybe I'm weak but I would rather opt for the reason that I'm unlucky in banking for employers. Company V is cash rich, but with difficult customers and limited room for career advancement. Company H is like the worst ever company one can work with - bad pay master, zero benefits, unstable environment (hot news every now and then) bad financial status and most importantly no support from principal/suppliers. I was working in solitary mode, 1 person backing the company's bad image and business style in front of customers and suppliers. I was the sandbag they punched on and the bad apple in the company for "creating problem". One must be really at the top of her patience when she resigned before getting a new job. I'm that person. I resigned and served 3 months notice. Took me 2.5 months to come to realization what I want to do next. Well, I almost signed the deal to work in another engineering company with almost similar jobscope.
Now that I'm moving towards other chapter of life, I'm forced to face the fact I need to reconstruct my life priorities. The amount of stress level in both companies give me goosebumps whenever I think of it. So a glimpse of fate, a friend who's a recruiter asked if I would like to join their recruiter firm a.k.a headhunter firm. It was a day after the other engineering company give me a call to confirm on my employment, and I put them on hold. Well, it has always been a tiny bit of feel in me that I like doing recruitment. I helped few friends settled in new jobs, I like looking at different job descriptions, browse a company's background and job vacancies. Could it be this is a total new career path for me? Or should I just sign on the other engineering job and let the loop begin again. I thought over the opportunities thoroughly, and conclusion is, engineering could wait, if I did not fit into that new career path, well, I could always go back (hope not).
So, I went ahead and signed on the job to be a recruiter consultant (headhunter lah....). Work commencing 1st of November with office in downtown KL. A huge decision I made in life, other than marrying my hubby lah. So my new office would be a walk away from my hubby's office. Perhaps we could carpool later as our new house would be at least 1-2 hour drive away. Let's hope I made the right choice this time.
***FINGER CROSSED***
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