I graduated. At last. This has been a really exhausting life-threatening stressing journey, but I was kind of surprised of overwhelming it was but also how unclimactic the result was, or so I thought. Overall, I'm proud of myself obviously. But I think the later one was because of the uncertainty it brings. We're talking about job-hunting. I'm talking about job-hunting.
One thing I learned from my past is that the biggest mistakes I made during my time properly at Uni was not really looking for an internship opportunity, despite I, for several times, almost got even offered several positions. The hiring team, now that I know, are not really interested in hiring a candidate with quite good overall GPA, with several good achievements and activities, without an experience of internship before, or again so I thought.
I got an offer, somehow. During my time job-hunting I realized that there's actually bunch of job positions, but most of them do not compensate well. Since I officially graduated (well, by the time I'm writing this graduation is within four-day counting) I can't really take any "internship" that only offers you some "pocket money" and so and so, we're talking about survival here. I don't want to be dirt poor living in a city as big and as cruel as Jakarta. Luckily, even both of my parents are still supportive and will support me financially until I get a decent offer with decent payment. With that in mind, I also need to rethink about what I want to do, probably with consequences such as sidelining my dream for a while to sustain my life. Now here we're talking about being realistic. When you set the bar several level low and become more "amenable", you'll probably get some offers. So that's what I got. I got an offer.
It's not too far off from my background studies. Just like any job you'll get to experience working with Microsoft excel (life saviour). Let's see what else... It's a literal 9-5 job but I have to commute for an hour to get to the office so technically if you count all the time I have to sacrifice for the commute as working hours it's now an 8-6 job. It's tiring, I know. But at least they treat me more humane, compensate quite good, and it's only until December. So, I can't wait to get my first paycheck, saving up, looking for other jobs by probably at the end of the next month, and see what I can do for my current job.
So, here's a new chapter as a worker. I can finally say "ALL THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!).
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