Research shows that a person normally has thousands of decisions to be made by himself or herself, all in a single day, starting from the very moment he/she opens his/her eyes to the final second he/she begins to really sleep. Petty things like deciding whether bathing should comes before or after eating can sometimes bother us. In a year, you will have already made millions & millions of decisions, including both major & minor. Definitely there were times you made the wrong decisions that led to disastrous results. But isn’t that life is all bout learning from previous mistakes & never repeat it for even once? Human tends to err. But for god’s sake, I can be wrong in any judgment, but please not to my future career. Hand crossed and hit the wood.
It is another pivotal decision for me to make that can affect my future in terms of fame, income, standard of living & productivity. Knowing that Electronic Engineering & Mechanical Engineering are the sought-after courses and offers abundant job opportunities, my heart seems to whisper to me, from time to time, that it’s not going to be a bad move to take Biomedical Engineering(BME) in view of the growing human population & the growing use of high tech medical equipments in local hospitals. However, Biomedical Engineering is still a novelty in Malaysia, the employment prospect & the local demand may not rise to meet my expectation. The chain effects that I am about to reveal is going to be terrifying. Initially, you would graduate with whatsoever grade and seeking for jobs relevant to your field. Then you would find out that your insistence to find one job that really suits you is a hard task. Your resolution broken down & you compromise with the reality by lowering your self-expectation in the job hunt. Employers from industries may think that Biomedical Engineers are for the service in medical field; from medical field would have lack confidence in Biomedical Engineers & would rather run to EE or Mechanical engineers to seek for solutions to their machinery problems in hospitals. Then you would spend your youth in a bar boozing, vomiting & blaming WHY UNIVERSITIES OFFER SUCH A COURSE THAT NO ONE WELCOME? Because I was young & dumb(wasn’t I?) to pick the worst out from the creams? Finally, you may end up doing work that you dislike(mostly attribute to the less lucrative remuneration/expectation) & working with a group of complicated, ill people under stressful environment.
The Decision I make will mark a difference in the next decades. Wrong one will take a heavy toll on my life; right one will be both rewarding and fulfilling my aspiration.
My parents were worried as well, particularly my mother, who felt herself helpless in this situation. I understand her feeling. Which mother would like to see her own child making the false steps. Even for my father, who usually doesn’t care much about me(on the point that I am a grown-up), abruptly asked me about the course that I am interested. The conversation was helpless to me as it only revealed more flaw in the decision that I will take.
"What is a Biomedical Engineer do?" asked my father in a monotonous tone, showing a little contempt on my interested course.
"A Biomedical engineer merges his physics & a little of biological knowledge to solve medical-related problems. A Biomedical Engineer can work in a hospital, a pharmaceutical companies, a health devices manufacture company or be a lecturer in Universities(the last choice of all, of course)." I explained in the hope that my parents could change their narrow view in BME.
I continued by giving more relevant examples of its application and roles, "Biomedical engineer will be responsible to the invention, maintenance, and reparation of the medical machines or high tech tool or equipments like kidney dialysis machine, pacemaker, operation machines, X-ray, prosthetic technology & other under-discovered new tools that are awaiting engineers to realize them". I elaborated with clarity by using any relevant substitution of words that is necessitate for their level of understandings so that the messages I conveyed to them were comprehensible.
My father last question was sheltering my burning passion with cold blanket. He argued that what if at the end of the day, I didn’t get the job I want(career irrelevant to the course pursued). I thought a while, then threw the question back to him, saying with an air of awkward gallantry, "Similarly, what will I do if I pursued the course that you intend me to pick up & at the end I din’t manage to get a job relevant to da course mentioned?!"
Our conversation came to a hiatus then I initiated, "It all depends on the luck whether one can get the job with respect to the course one pursued, I can’t answer that question with firm confidence." Mother interrupted the increasingly animated conversation, asking me, "Will you able to find a job then holding this course?". I assured her that people who successfully climb up the ladder of career are positive people armed with appropriate & good attitude. I went even further claiming that attitude is the core & determinant of one’s success for there is the good attitude & humble personality that enable us to continue to learn new things correspond to new tasks, to discover & find new solutions to new problems in this ever-changing world. John C.Maxwell, in his book, stated very clearly that it’s ATTITUDE that determines one’s ALTITUDE. My mother nodded in agreement. The conversation ended peacefully, but internal struggle continued to persist.
Sunday morning was a wonderful time to pay respect to the Gods & Goddesses. Mother brought my younger brother & I to Penang’s oldest temple-Temple of Guan Yin(Guan Yin Teng) to pray. I contemplated for some time & decided to take this day as an opportunity for me to seek for Goddess Guan Yin’s guildance(It’s local traditional belief that one can found solutions by Tiu Chiam-in the language of Hokkien). So, I bowed bofore Guan Yin & began da procedure. It was my FIRST time EXPERIENCE of Tiu Chiam. It has a series of steps, you can master it within seconds. The outcome of the Tiu Chiam was suggesting that BME is a better choice than Mechanical Eng. I rarely plunged myself into the realm of superstition, in fact I very discourage, but this time I just took anything that can help clearing away my entanglement. Though not really incline into it, it favours my suggestion as well. That made me pleased. : )
The world is progressing at a pace beyond one’s expectation. Transformation in science & technology is taking place at a rapid pace. Population booming will witness the demand to take care the welfare of the aging society in future. Therefore, it’s conceivable that BME will emerge as one of the most celebrated courses. An indisputable foresight fortified by rich insight. It has always been my hankering to serve as an engineer in hospital to improve the well-being of humanity. My dilemma is the product of the incapabilty of my dream to coincide with the expectations. My future will be placed in the hand of God. I don’t want to harm my brain further with uncertainties or problems-of-no-exact-solutions.
~Come what may, heaven won’t fall~
It is another pivotal decision for me to make that can affect my future in terms of fame, income, standard of living & productivity. Knowing that Electronic Engineering & Mechanical Engineering are the sought-after courses and offers abundant job opportunities, my heart seems to whisper to me, from time to time, that it’s not going to be a bad move to take Biomedical Engineering(BME) in view of the growing human population & the growing use of high tech medical equipments in local hospitals. However, Biomedical Engineering is still a novelty in Malaysia, the employment prospect & the local demand may not rise to meet my expectation. The chain effects that I am about to reveal is going to be terrifying. Initially, you would graduate with whatsoever grade and seeking for jobs relevant to your field. Then you would find out that your insistence to find one job that really suits you is a hard task. Your resolution broken down & you compromise with the reality by lowering your self-expectation in the job hunt. Employers from industries may think that Biomedical Engineers are for the service in medical field; from medical field would have lack confidence in Biomedical Engineers & would rather run to EE or Mechanical engineers to seek for solutions to their machinery problems in hospitals. Then you would spend your youth in a bar boozing, vomiting & blaming WHY UNIVERSITIES OFFER SUCH A COURSE THAT NO ONE WELCOME? Because I was young & dumb(wasn’t I?) to pick the worst out from the creams? Finally, you may end up doing work that you dislike(mostly attribute to the less lucrative remuneration/expectation) & working with a group of complicated, ill people under stressful environment.
The Decision I make will mark a difference in the next decades. Wrong one will take a heavy toll on my life; right one will be both rewarding and fulfilling my aspiration.
My parents were worried as well, particularly my mother, who felt herself helpless in this situation. I understand her feeling. Which mother would like to see her own child making the false steps. Even for my father, who usually doesn’t care much about me(on the point that I am a grown-up), abruptly asked me about the course that I am interested. The conversation was helpless to me as it only revealed more flaw in the decision that I will take.
"What is a Biomedical Engineer do?" asked my father in a monotonous tone, showing a little contempt on my interested course.
"A Biomedical engineer merges his physics & a little of biological knowledge to solve medical-related problems. A Biomedical Engineer can work in a hospital, a pharmaceutical companies, a health devices manufacture company or be a lecturer in Universities(the last choice of all, of course)." I explained in the hope that my parents could change their narrow view in BME.
I continued by giving more relevant examples of its application and roles, "Biomedical engineer will be responsible to the invention, maintenance, and reparation of the medical machines or high tech tool or equipments like kidney dialysis machine, pacemaker, operation machines, X-ray, prosthetic technology & other under-discovered new tools that are awaiting engineers to realize them". I elaborated with clarity by using any relevant substitution of words that is necessitate for their level of understandings so that the messages I conveyed to them were comprehensible.
My father last question was sheltering my burning passion with cold blanket. He argued that what if at the end of the day, I didn’t get the job I want(career irrelevant to the course pursued). I thought a while, then threw the question back to him, saying with an air of awkward gallantry, "Similarly, what will I do if I pursued the course that you intend me to pick up & at the end I din’t manage to get a job relevant to da course mentioned?!"
Our conversation came to a hiatus then I initiated, "It all depends on the luck whether one can get the job with respect to the course one pursued, I can’t answer that question with firm confidence." Mother interrupted the increasingly animated conversation, asking me, "Will you able to find a job then holding this course?". I assured her that people who successfully climb up the ladder of career are positive people armed with appropriate & good attitude. I went even further claiming that attitude is the core & determinant of one’s success for there is the good attitude & humble personality that enable us to continue to learn new things correspond to new tasks, to discover & find new solutions to new problems in this ever-changing world. John C.Maxwell, in his book, stated very clearly that it’s ATTITUDE that determines one’s ALTITUDE. My mother nodded in agreement. The conversation ended peacefully, but internal struggle continued to persist.
Sunday morning was a wonderful time to pay respect to the Gods & Goddesses. Mother brought my younger brother & I to Penang’s oldest temple-Temple of Guan Yin(Guan Yin Teng) to pray. I contemplated for some time & decided to take this day as an opportunity for me to seek for Goddess Guan Yin’s guildance(It’s local traditional belief that one can found solutions by Tiu Chiam-in the language of Hokkien). So, I bowed bofore Guan Yin & began da procedure. It was my FIRST time EXPERIENCE of Tiu Chiam. It has a series of steps, you can master it within seconds. The outcome of the Tiu Chiam was suggesting that BME is a better choice than Mechanical Eng. I rarely plunged myself into the realm of superstition, in fact I very discourage, but this time I just took anything that can help clearing away my entanglement. Though not really incline into it, it favours my suggestion as well. That made me pleased. : )
The world is progressing at a pace beyond one’s expectation. Transformation in science & technology is taking place at a rapid pace. Population booming will witness the demand to take care the welfare of the aging society in future. Therefore, it’s conceivable that BME will emerge as one of the most celebrated courses. An indisputable foresight fortified by rich insight. It has always been my hankering to serve as an engineer in hospital to improve the well-being of humanity. My dilemma is the product of the incapabilty of my dream to coincide with the expectations. My future will be placed in the hand of God. I don’t want to harm my brain further with uncertainties or problems-of-no-exact-solutions.
~Come what may, heaven won’t fall~
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