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3 weeks ago during cny
i paid my Godmother a visit.
my sister suggested taking a photo with
our Godmother out of the blue.
3 weeks later, her daughter gave us a call and
told us that our Godmother is in a critical condition.
my mother,sister and i went down on the same day
to visit her.
That was the last we saw of her.
God,though i am not exactly close with her,
i am grieving along with the family.
I figured that i am probably sad because she's still
unsaved.
because every time we visited her,
i failed to pluck up the courage to share the gospel
with her.
is this what you call having Love for Your people?
moral of the story?
simple. no time to waste.
the following is adapted from SMU confessions
and is worth a space on my blog.
PLEASE. READ.
(oh wait! probably no one reads this blog)
hi,
i'm a SMU alum, graduated a year ago, and was at a career fair today speaking to many year 4s expecting to graduate this May. and it really saddens me to see how students are really sold to believe that a job in banking & finance is the prestigious job to be in. its amazing how much 4 years of SMU can do to you. i dont know how many of you actually really love the banking/finance side, or how many of you are just chasing it because its 'where the money is'. let me give you some perspective.
i have friends, who dread to go to bed every night because they know that the next morning they have to go to a job that does not motivate them, a job they get nothing out of. well, simply, a job. a job that pays bills.
i also have friends, who wake up in the morning and are happy to go to work. whether is it because of good colleagues or simply having passion for the work they do. and for these people, its work. its work that they put in effort to do, work they care about. work that feeds the soul.
i dont know which is more important to you now. maybe it really is the cold hard cash. if thats the case, so be it. carry on and do what you have set your eyes on. but if you're like the many SMU soon-to-be-graduates i spoke to today, then please be real with yourself, and think about whether what SMU seems to have deemed as 'second rate' jobs (e.g. marketing, hr, advertising, ops etc, and not law, accounting, finance, banking, consulting) are really jobs that people do only because they cannot get into a bank/some finance institution. in SMU, we judge, we believe only the smart ones with high GPAs get these jobs, we think that saying 'no la, i dont think a bank is for me' is actually a cover up for 'aiya actually the bank doesnt want me'. its sad and i think OCS needs to do something about it. because students are killing themselves trying to get into a bank, a financial institution. students major in finance even when they hate it and has got nothing to do what what makes them tick.
do what you love, and the money will follow.
thats the best piece of advice i can give you. so unless you know exactly what you want to do for the rest of your life, i say go experience different industries, different job junctions and see what fits you best. if you have that luxury to do it, take it and experience life for what its worth. dont take the beaten path, simply because its already beaten. be brave and experience what working life has to offer!
we all have choices to make, and i hope you make the right one for yourself.
wishing you all the best,
your SMU alum (who is currently still interning and finding herself)
