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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Tell you something sad.

For a moment, I thought that I had everything sorted out. Yesterday, I received a call from Dixon Advisory, whom I emailed like 2 months ago, asking me to show up for an interview for a part time job at their company as Accounts Assistant. Mind you, this is not just a part time job. Its the company that had been hiring undergraduates as part timers, and then offering them full time contracts at the end of their undergraduate degree. It is also the company that will get me the PR status that I want.

Imagine my joy! The thought of it! Guan has already kindly secured me an internship spot at her company, I just got into the second round of the internship application progress for the Big 4 in Singapore and NOW, Dixon Advisory may hire me! Oh happiness!

And so the interview process was going really smoothly. And then, I got slapped right in my face when they told me that they were looking for someone who's interested in working full time right after graduation (I had told them that I might do Masters in Finance). So, in a sad attempt, I explained to them that Masters is a contingent event. I will definitely choose a job over Masters. But they said "but you just said that you are interested in finance!". How do I explain to them that life do not always work out the way you want it to be? And that sometimes, you have to compromise with the situation in order to reach your goals? The harder I tried to explain, the more contradicting I sounded. Their conclusion was that I am a smart girl who has got everything at her fingertips, who could explore the world as I wanted and that I dont seem to want to stick to one company. Nooooooooooo I wanted to say. If I really got the world at my fingertips, why am I struggling so hard to get even an internship/part time job? Calmly, I told them that working at Dixon Advisory would be an exploration for me already since I am based in Singapore originally.

I dont know if they get my plight. I sure hope they do and I will find out in Feb'10.

On a very pessimistic note, the internship application still hasnt told me the results of the second round (whats taking them so long, seriously? its just an internship and its not like they are paying us gold or anything. You should beg for us, the future super power accountants instead, suckers!) and I am supposed to let Guan know of the results by the end of Oct.

Yup, so things went from an all time high to hitting rock bottom.