My Life After Graduation

It's been awhile since the last time I post something here.

Looking back to the statistic, there will be longer span of time before my next post.

I am officially a chemical engineer bachelor on July 2017.

Perhaps, some people would think that an ITB graduate like myself would easily get into a company, a reputable one for sure. However, it's not true for every case. Sometimes, one is not lucky enough when he applied to a job. In other time, it might be an incompatible job/company. In other place, he might encounter a "worse-option-masked-with-promising-lines" and end up with worse result. In any means, it's not a simple process, getting an employment.

In my case, I applied to several "massive" companies who offer management trainee or "skipping-unnecessary-steps programs. It is indeed more competitive, and in some case the recruitment process is quite complicated. I was interested in consultant world too, so I applied to PwC. The results? Either I fail right before interview or after interview.

The first case happened more often.

I told myself that I am not the person the employer look for. It means I am not compatible with the job or with the company. I should move forward and find a more suitable one.

This cycle repeated many times.

I would lying to myself if I said I didn't give up. Because I did, the least, at that time.

I got into a project team from my previous laboratory. And I am glad that the Professor accepted me, because he was actually want to hire a male. Why? Because he needs his assistant to visit the sites, and truthfully I think I am strong enough and I like travelling. The projects are more or less about environmental or water and waste water treatment issues. I liked these topics since before, perhaps since high school. And I grew to like it more and more as I learned more and more about them.

The idea to pursuing master degree came back to my mind. I attended the same guest lecture from Sweden that I attended in previous year and embraced myself to study in that University or the least in Sweden.

So here I am.

A proud project assistant of one of the most wonderful and busiest professor. You can google him, the head of the "Pusat Studi Lingkungan Hidup ITB". A proud chemistry tutor. A proud learner.