Thankfully after my little burst of frustration yesterday, I continued my marking and found a few students who could actually give me reasonably good answers. Thank goodness, not all is lost..... but I got to give them a good piece of my mind today during class... pretty much told them off (in a nice way) for not knowing how to explain their answers properly as well as copying each other or books. Hopefully I won't be getting the same problems next time around :P
Anyway, as my contract at Monash draws to a close at the end of this month (thank goodness, I can do without marking anymore nonsense for the rest of my life...), I've been doing some job hunting and sending out resumes to a few companies. One was a position for wildlife biologist under the Wildlife Conservation Society...which I thought would be something fun and good experience since I wanna work at Singapore Zoo. They're planning to do a one-year project to learn more about the ecology of elephants in Malaysia, and need three wildlife biologists to do studies in three separate forests. So I applied for that and went for the interview last week.... and they told me that if I got the job I would have to go into the jungle with a team of orang asli's for 3 weeks each month (with a one week break back home) to do the studies. And after the interview, I thought about it for a few days and decided to tell them to remove me from consideration for the posts coz' I figured 3 weeks stuck in a jungle and having to trek everyday with a tonne of camping gear will probably kill my knee. Just one weekend of trekking causes it to be sore, so a few weeks...definitely won't be good. Plus I'd be a girl in a group of mostly orang asli guys in the middle of a jungle... which I'm sure will cause my mum to freak out in paranoia. And frankly, I'm not too comfy with the idea as well. And the pay is only RM1500 a month including epf and socso, which actually freaked out my dad coz' it's a low pay. And sad to say, these days, RM1500 a month isn't much to survive on... even though my food would be provided and I wouldn't have to pay much for bills (coz I'd be stuck in a jungle most of the time!). So all things considered, I decided to tell them I couldn't take the job.
Another job I applied for last month is for the post of Management Trainee at Cadbury in Shah Alam. My uncle actually saw an ad in the New Straits Times, and I fit all the qualifications, so he thought I should apply. I thought it was a bit iffy at first since I know nuts about management, but decided to send in my CV anyway. I just got a call from them today asking me to go in for an interview next week. Of course my dad is pretty happy about it coz' he thinks it's a better paying job (and probably will be) and more stable than being stuck out in the field. And though it's got nothing to do with wildlife, I'm interested in chocolate, so I certainly wouldn't mind a nice cushy job where I can indulge in chocorgasms everyday. Hahaha! I'd probably make the company bankrupt, man.... :P
On Monday, I applied to for yet another job, this time in reply to an ad I saw on Starjobs.com by a company called Eppendorf AG, for an Application Specialist. It's a company selling molecular biology equipment, and they need someone with a degree in molecular biology or something similar (which I have), and who can give presentations and sell their products to potential customers (which I can do... I think). And their office is ridiculously close to my place... less than ten minutes drive away at the Heitech Village building near Summit! No need to drive through the jams....save petrol money....I could walk to my office and reach there faster than people working in KL. Bwahahaha! And the person who gets the job would have to travel around the Asian region, mostly to Japan, to sell their stuff. Sounds like a job I'd enjoy more, especially coz' of the travelling. The only thing is that they prefer people who can speak Japanese, so I'd have to take classes. And I'd probably have to brush up my Mandarin too... in case they send me to China or something. Don't want everyone there wondering what kind of pariah Chinese I am who can't speak Mandarin to save her life. At least I can sort of speak Cantonese to save my life, but maybe only dangling by a thread.... So to all my friends out there who speak Mandarin or Cantonese, please torture me by talking to me in Chinese so I can hopefully learn how to survive speaking my mother tongue. And if my intonations come out all wrong, try not to laugh too hard, ok? :Þ But whatever job I get, being multilingual is always an advantage. So I must force myself! Ganbate!!!! (which means "Do your best" in Japanese. Least I know a bit of Jap. :Þ)
Well, I hope I can get an interview for that job soon....then if I nail both the Cadbury and Eppendorf interviews, I can decide which one I'd rather go for. Must check out the perks first... got good pay or not.... got give car loan lah.... company car lah... insurance lah.... travel allowance lah... all that nonsense. Hehe, me thinks I'm getting a bit less idealistic and a bit more materialistic. Good thing or bad thing... I dunno. Maybe next time when I get a nice house with a big garden, I'll adopt all the poor little homeless animals I can find, or hire someone to find them a good home. Haha....still got a bit of idealism in me. :Þ Whatever it is, I hope I get a good job soon.... hopefully something will be confirmed before the end of the semester. Then I won't be a bum for too long. :D Pray for meeeee!
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