What to do After Graduation?

dear

its nice you caring your future in advance

tell me what actually you are doing currently

your percentage from high school till last exam,

current location, experience if any and like that other relevent information.

waiting

bye bye take care

im currently pursuing my diploma in electrical and electronic engineering...

my results are not too good.. i had to retake two subjects... one is engineering maths 3...

i had some technical experience.. i went for some training in a small scale factory... working as an operator..

im a malaysian...

thx for all ur help.. god bless u..

Please see my reply on your other post. It is appropriate.

Do you enjoy what you are studying? Knowledge and experience will come in time but if you are not sure engineering is the field you want to go into, perhaps you should re-evaluate.

If I make am joke using the bumbling but enthuseastic handyman 'Tim Talyor' off of the American TV show 'Home Improvement' will anyone know what I am talking about?

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Invest a few dollars in a book "Mentored by a Millionaire" and 'mine' it for each and every bit of advice, complete all of the exercises, make a notebook of all of the points covered. Put them into practice and you will find your way to the fulfillment of your dreams.

From the looks of your inquiry you are either ignorant of capitalization and/or punctuation or too lazy to use it. Perhaps that is the reason you have been told that you are not suitable for that field (or any technical field?)

Stick it on the shelf and neglect the exercises and advice therein and you may or not find fulfillment of your dreams.

Hi: I was pushed into engineering because I did well in school (An English boarding school), and was good at math. I think part of the drive was that "England needed good engineers". I went through to get an electrical engineering degree and worked for a few large companies on new semiconductor products (This was a long time ago) for the defense industry. When I came to California I could not work in the defense industry because of the security regulations and the commercial manufacturers were still using pin boards. At an instrument company in England, I had been given a really serious chat by the general manager about piecework rates and union contracts after tripling production on a product line by introducing cable forming and I was not going to bother trying that again, so went to work at a business running IBM mainframes as a systems analyst. After several different jobs (In America you keep moving, it is faster) and some consulting work, I realized that every one of these jobs was first of all basically boring, and secondly, 80% of the work was about office politics and not about playing with neat equipment and tools, so I dropped out and partied for almost ten years. Perhaps I was not suitable for the field either. Eventually a friend asked me if I could build a wine cellar for one of his clients. "How hard could it be?" I said. How wrong could I have been? It led me into starting a business that challenged every bit of may brain day and night, until one day I woke up and realized that twenty five years had gone by and it had been fun. Start a business doing something that you enjoy and do it as well as you can. Never forget that the purpose of the business is to satisfy your customers not make money. If you are doing it for the money, you are not paying attention to the company's goal. If you do pay attention, the money will come. A second piece of advice, be very careful when people want to help you or give you stuff for nothing...Good luck and a merry Christmas.

Hi Paul,

Your experience is really mazing and exited. It shifted from one area to another keeping fast change and big jumps.

I majored in electrochemistry and worked for plating for 10years and then selected a job in semiconductor fab in photolithography area. Now I am doing technical consultant in semicon chemical application. I am wondering what job is my really favorate one and, exactly as you said, spent so much time trying to fit different roll with new collegue / environment / management system. Now I am thinking to try open a shop selling jewery with some special design for my interest. Hope you can share me with some idea in starting small business.

Best Regards and Merry Chrismas!

Hi: I wrote an article about starting a business after my first business failed because I did not follow a plan. (It did take twenty five years to fail however and it was a good lesson for me). The piece is three pages long and when I tried to copy it here, the formatting went all to pieces and it was unreadable, so I will try and fix that or put it up on my blog later. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

How do you FEEL about it?

You are trying to plan a future and others are evaluating you as though you have already prepared for that future.... ignore them. Life is full of beginnings. Those are the days days when you wake up to the fact that some phase is over and there you are wondering what will I do next and where am I going. To combat that effect set your future or its direction on 10 year event horizons. Pick three possible good outcomes of where you want to be in ten years and work toward all three of them. Do the things that take you to where you want to go. With a little practice you will refine this to match your own personal realities.

When motor boating across the lake of life never take your hand off the rudder and lay down in the boat. Stay on your destination plan(s) until you change the destnation and don't run out of gas trying to maske up your mind,

I am not a nay sayer here. My wife was working very hard to become a Medical Lab Specialist, and her advisors let her know that they felt she could do better for herself in a different field. She ignored them and pressed forward until she had only 2 symesters left. She failed out of the course. She then decided to go into nursing. She loves it. It is the job she wanted, back then, without knowing it. I think that you should look real hard and decide what you want out of a job, and yourself. Then if you want to go into electrical and electronics engineering then put your nose to the grindstone and learn more than anybody else.

I'm in your same shoes. Recent engineering grad. Trust me..work s*cks if you are a dreamer type. If stability and safety are your goal or you just need cash flow to get your own idea going, that is what a "career" job is good for. Otherwise a "career" job will just slowly break you down force you to get married and get a mortgage and follow the "average" path laid down by society. If that is your goal, there are thousands of jobs waiting for you just grab one. However, now is your time to really do something before all of those commitments and obligations.

Read "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki and use the limited minutes in your life wisely. At your age you can really really make a difference in your future through wise decisions.

REMEMBER.........When the tide of life runs against you....and the current overturns your boat.... don't waste tears on what might have been.... just lie on your back and float.

They could be right. They might have seen other like you and had seen them fail. Are you struggling to understand thing or getting them done? Do you really enjoy what you're doing? When something goes wrong do you want to give up or work day and night trying to get it fix?

I'm Mechanical Engineer but after working for a while I realize I'm more a "Problem Solver". To the customer and employer. The thing is I don't need to know how to fix it, just need to know who to call to get it fix. Working in small companies means I have to know everything. This make thing interesting.