today's the last night at kovan and i'll be moving over to telok blangah tomorrow 10-11am ish. maybe by bus. most likely by taxi because i'd look ridiculous and my luggage is bigger than 2 duffel bags.
i was chatting with the new tenant, Adrien, and he's living where i wanna be
i mean singaporeans, get ur damn asses off the comfort zone and get into where the real life's norms are at yo
he's actually a french intern, he got picked off a job search website to do 6 months business development
he's doing the last 6 months of his masters, he previously studied for 4 years at a generic school(not bsc.)
he lived 1 year in vietnam last year, and worked there at sophitel(not sure abt spelling) with a chance(totally!) meeting with the marketing director who bumped into him as both her and the security at the opposite building(to sophitel, a french hotel) was asking him what he was doing.
he at first just told them, non non just looking for the french bank, cuz he was looking for a job, he went to vietnam to take a break and also find a job.
and the marketing director asked him you are looking for the french bank, he said yes just looking, and she's like are you looking for a job, here's my card.
and that's how he got a job in vietnam for 1 year in marketing.
he's 25. he told me, as i was asking with great curiousity, he was only 20 he suddenly had that phase where u begin to think about what ya gonna do in life and only after vietnam, he finally got it coming.
"in life it's like that, the chance, sometimes you need to be at the good place and good time yea..." in his french-style english
so with that 1 year experience, he applied for the masters at tolouse university.
he's from this small town of nymis, just off montpellier, half an hours drive from the south coast of france. has architecture similar to rome(close proximity to industrial italy's north)
he had worked at monaco before. and it was too expensive so he stayed at nantes. (!!!!!)
all at the south of france. monaco is a principality state, think super rich nation. wonderful architecture and people too!
he was asking if singapore managers earned much i said...3.5-6...and if 8k and above...2-5yrs exp depending on field...and if in marketing...well not so good...
he paused awhile to recompute what he's heard...cuz france gets u about 2k euro...Sgd 4k odds...
he said france didn't have good jobs...
i asked about his girlfriend. he said it's been 3 years, but it's been tough for her.
i asked what about getting married, i pre-empted his response actually, he said, not surprising to me, it's something she would like but right now for him it's tough
and he was saying, staying in france just to be together, he felt he would miss something out(his career)
i nodded, laughed, as we chatted over the singaporean kitchen, i wanted to exchange my world for his, and wondered why i haven't yet(all as he unfolded his story)
in my heart i wish he was a visitor of me from the future
maybe not in marketing/business development
but i would like to look back 2 years later...telling the nashon of 2008...i'm here in dubai...i'm here in calais...i'm here in london...i'm here in shanghai...
i also laughed and told him...yea that's why i'm single...i don't wanna put her at strains...i'm overseas...she's not...
i get where girls are coming...but girls gotta get where we're coming...to us guys our career is our cutting tool... it also develops our character at the same time too...etc...
but yea...my eyes really opened when he told me about how he landed the job in vietnam, fresh out of school, in a foreign land, and a by chance only meeting, where she offered him the job "i did not come to her, she came to me you know" damn i love the way the french phrase stuff.
i offered my cest vu lei and bon nuit and yes yes my favourite...je ne comprehen pas...which means i don't understand...
i'm abit sad cause if i stayed longer...i'd learn more french!
i promised myself i wouldn't be out late tonight.
but i'm abit yea...no more macs at telok blangah.
and yea like what my great friends trudy and jiawen advise..."you should be mugging"
"everyone else is mugging and you're like having so much time for other things"
which is good. i told them i had all to play for and cfa. and they're like. ya and in the final year you're playing more than ever.
note to self. if job market here sucks. go desperate and knock on alot more doors. this time in london, dubai, or shanghai, or toronto or anywhere. just not give up yo.
i was thinking to self. should i compromise and go for the *dreaded* client wealth management area. maybe in 10 years time i will have some sort of that kind of function in my portfolio. but maybe not now.
at least i'm on the edge.
and i believe.
Tags: career, foresights, life, moving out, musings
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