A good visit..

I've been onto an interview again today. And... frankly. I believe its something like an eye opener. Or at least, a good motivating visit.

The interviewer, or preferably.. Senior Engineering Manager greeted me. We had a few talks and introduction back and forth. And frankly, he kept on asking me the reason why I would want to change my career from a ship building industry to land heavy machineries industries. I thought of a few, and decided to just tell the truth, of course. Pay.. and learning new stuff. I requested to have him take me for a spin at the factory. It was small, and well arranged, personally, compared to where I am now. its mostly indoor construction, and much more cleaner environment. But there is one thing that kept bothering me throughout my visit.

Will these, lead me to my goal? or atleast, a higher pay future career.

The work they did, are all services and maintenance. Which... well, not exactly what I had in mind. I did aimed to learn about how they construct their vehicles, and their machineries. But what they have are all imports, and fabrication is just welding the tanks for the truck. They have the ejector, hydraulic powered system. But are very small compared to ship building. And what they did are... just maintaining the heavy machineries. I can already feel how I would work there. And decided that, there really isn't much I can learn about.

He somehow sees through me, and said, the post he will be offering, will lead me to ... if I got what it takes, a General Manager, and if not, just Workshop Manager. Sounds good, no? heh, a manager in a factory. And he asked that, what I really want to work in the future. I said, Oil and Gas industry. Heh.. it raised a few more talks afterward. He too once want to work in that industry. But he never did. and just took a chance on other stuff. Landed a service engineer somewhere, and worked his way up from there.

At the end of the interview, he too seems to sense that I am wobbling at my decision. And said. "You can always take this as a field visit, not a work interview." Heh... this old man got skills in reading people. He said, that if I were to go into their company, he'd welcome me. But the thing is, he don't want me to leap to another boat which doesn't lead me to were I want. True. I lost hope at what I wanted cuz I'd tried several job application, none responded. And so i decided to go with what I can get.

And so he said, "Once you're older, If you look back, and see the line of work which you took, you will see, that all you did before, those experiences are wasted if they are not related."

Heh.. Frankly, this guy is not doing a good job recruiting people. But he's doing a good job teaching the youngster, no?

I nodded. said thanks for his time and that I will think about my decision again. And went home. I made my mind. To continue work at that really bad, forsaken, hazardous place.. until my experience allows me to get into Oil and Gas industry. Its a really bad call.. for the moment, but if it really get me into what I want in the future - Cuz.. you know, life sux because they are unpredictable. It will be a wise choice looking back from that time.

And I hope, this is the right call for the future.