19 September 2014
Yesterday was the date when I finally served my company for
exactly 2 years. Not so senior although I am now have 3 engineers stepped in
after me (and the boss still calls me with other’s name). Not so junior when I
entitled for the yearly bonus (ahaa!). Being 2 years serving for All Eights (M)
S.B, I would say, it wasn’t easy.
‘Sales Engineer’ was my first job after graduation. 70%
sales and 30% marketing, they said. I didn’t see why was the title is ‘sales
engineer’. As a job beggar, I can’t be choosy and gave a try. It only last for
few months before I finally assigned as a Business Executive at another local
company. But still, I feel empty. No passion, no motivation, no teamwork. Bad
seniority practice, bullies, and suffers. It was unhealthy. It’s a long pain story
of my career gateway.
My career background was not related to something technical
and beyond the engineer’s hands on jobs. I played a lot with tenders, prices
and I don’t like it. I decided to revise my resume and cover letter to distract
a bit my career line. I can’t let my first 3 years’ experience haunting my
future career. Applying for an engineer
position was like a gamble. I ‘bet’ myself in silence while sending the job
application emails. And hey, 19 September 2012 is my official date as an
engineer.
I started to enjoy my job since my first day. I wasn’t
familiar with screw drivers, spanners and all. Day by day, I dare myself for
new things. While everyone set a quarterly target, I had my daily target. Although
I was a bit struggle but I think the efforts were worth. Sometimes I feel like
a doctor when I made the instrument alive again- but I never hang my multimeter point cable on my neck as doctors do for stethoscope, wherever they go. My
company is generous, really. Every of us got chances for overseas training and
we can easily focus to what we were assigned to.
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| AEM Engineering Department-September 2014 |
We work individually but we perform as a team. Race, seniority,
age were never seen as different in us. More important is sometimes I don’t
feel like going to work but meeting my siblings. Professionalism and ethics
ties us together and I always hope it last forever- Eight of us made us the
real All Eights. Big thanks to you guys.
