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Career Shift – Find work you like best May 12, 2006

Posted by chazper in Success Journal.
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Doogie Howser MD the boy genius… one of my favorite American TV program when I was in high school. After every episode, he goes to his computer and writes a short witty lesson learned. In my opinion, this is his way of training his subconscious mind and be a better person.

Now with blog, I’ll start my own journal and leave a small print of my existence in this world. This is for the purpose of recording my progress in achieving my definite chief aim in life. I do hope that I would meet success driven people in here and fellow students of Mr. Napoleon Hill.

Brief Career History:

An Industrial Engineer for about 5 years in the manufacturing industry. Worked my way up from cadet engineer to a supervisory position. After realizing that my real PASSION is in Information Technology, I took steps in having a career shift in IT. I took up programming course while working. I put up an internet café business and gave up my job. But after more than a year, I was forced to sell my business due to poor market conditions.

For three months now, I’m actively seeking for a job. Well, I could easily land a good job in a manufacturing company but I decided to pursue my dream job. I was selective; my immediate goal is to land a job in a global company that deals with software development. Unlike other countries, age discrimination is NOT prohibited in the Philippines. Realizing this and being 28 years old, this is my last good chance in making a career shift in a totally unrelated line of work.

So far so good, I had several on going job applications… I’ve took those dreaded qualifying exams for programmers. Having a real knack in logic and mathematics, I have managed to pass the exams. I know because they called me and performed a short phone interview. Still I’m waiting for a job offer. I don’t know in other countries, but the process of hiring in here takes a long time. And some would not bother to call and inform you if you passed or not, they just leave you waiting.

The following is my daily schedule of activities:

  1. Check e-mail.
  2. Apply (jobstreet, network, referrals)
  3. Read ebooks (Winning the Interview Game – a good reference for jobseekers)
  4. Practice interview
  5. Mastering Visual Basic.Net for 15 days (I’m 90 pages behind schedule!)
  6. Learning Japanese (if I still have time)
  7. Going to Manila (2 hours trip) for a qualifying exam or interview. (whole day)

These are all for the purpose of achieving my immediate goal… of having my dream job. Hey, what good is a job if you don’t enjoy doing it? And in my opinion, having been in the manufacturing industry for over 5 years, IT people have better salaries and better opportunities ahead of them. (imo)


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