Temporary Communications Executive

I haven't been blogging for quite some time 'cos things are just so busy over here! I've just returned from our family's annual pilgrimage to Genting Highlands and the trip has reaffirmed my belief that there's nothing worth a future visit! Not only did the arcade suck with spoilt machines with games from the yesteryears, the pool tables are horrid and so is karaoke! I'd rather spend that money in Singapore!

Anyway so what happens is from what's happening so far, I'm working on migrating this company's web site over. And it happens that I've got the job offer! They even pushed up the monthly salary by another 100 bucks, so I guess I really do not have any other reason to not sign on the dotted line. That I did, so I'm officially a Communications Executive (not 'Specialist' as I've previously mentioned - apparently my superior left it as that 'cos they were ideally looking for a person with experience) with effect from September 1. Meanwhile, I realised that I am after all going to pursue a communications career and I've been preparing it more or less over the past few years with my participation in Toastmasters and ECAs. I should give it a serious though about career progression in this field then, and how the IT component can give me an edge. That means I guess I'll be joining Toastmasters again, and making a concerted effort in the process!

Sidenote - this is an excellent resource on communications-related careers
http://www.psu.edu/dept/comm/handbook/guide.htm

So I've got myself a job, and on that front RP got back to me last week and got me for an interview last Tuesday. It was a little weird to have gone for the interview, 'cos although I've given my company a verbal acceptance and I knew that my contract's being cycled around the heads for their approval, I decided to go for it anyway and it was awkward to come into office wearing long sleeves (which only occurs when I've got interviews). A colleague spotted that and wished me luck, how embarrassing! Anyway the interview was scary and I had a panel of 7 - one from HR, one from dunnowhere, my future boss (the director of CED), the director of the communications department, deputy president (gosh!) and 2 other guys. It went pretty alright but I was unnerved, especially by the director of CED 'cos he came across as arrogant, giving me the nasty impression of 'beg-me-to-hire-you'. Well I prefer to believe in a situation where the interviewer and the interviewee are genuinely interested in finding out how they can mutually contribute to each other's goals rather than an unbalanced relationship. Oh well, 2 weeks to go but since I've already signed the dotted line elsewhere, I'd say 'thank you for your attention'.

ITE also called me on Friday too for an interview, and that's a record of 5 weeks for a response. Once again, I responded with 'thank you for your attention'. I'm not sure whether it's slow or something but I feel I should recognize my worth as a contributor and interviewers should really keep that in mind rather than take the stance of the master selecting slaves.

YT, BN and I went out last Saturday for dinner! It was real fun to meet up again and I think we should meet more often 'cos it's pretty fun. YT just got her first paycheck being a project officer in NTU and she was so sweet to proactively call us up to arrange for an outing! We first played pool and Selegie before heading to Bugis for my arcade drumming fix and then Fish&Co dinner. Yummylicious! Thanks YT! And now she's ferverently asking me about what I want for my birthday which is really sweet..

I'm still on off tomorrow, thank goodness. I've got lots of things to do though, including grabbing many long sleeve shirts from Domanchi (and get a VIP card woohoo!), signing up for JLPT3 and playing arcade. Maybe swim or something too. Yikes!