: Career Diversity

As I was growing up I remembered having the same ambitions as my cousins, which was to be a doctor. I aimed to be a specialist at Subang Jaya Medical Centre (SJMC) but then as me and my discovered, I was not the brightest kid when it came to my studies.

Then I wanted to be a rubbish man simply because my dad said "I don't care even if you're a rubbish man as long as you are happy". Yes I was and still am one of those kids who likes to make their parents eat back their words.

But anyway, do you ever realize how as you move into the transition from a high school student to a university student, you meet new people? You don't have the same bunch of friends you had during SPM or A-Levels?

And in most cases, I think people do realize this but they don't see how diverse their friends and themselves included have become.

As I was doing my regular Facebook stalking (Yes I do it and I know you do too), I came to notice of how I now not only have friends from Germany, Sweden or England but I have friends who study there as well (There's a difference between actually being from there and studying there).

One truly caught my attention was a senior from high school who is now completing is FA Certificate in Coaching at the University of Portsmouth. While most people would already be thinking what the hell is that guy thinking or doing with his life studying that? I say, I'd be honored to see him have the opportunity to be on the coaching staff of a football team one day be it Manchester United or Leeds United.

And then you get your future lawyers. Reading law is not something for everybody as it has proven to be for me and my dad but for those who are capable of enduring the thousands of cases, rules and regulations, it is a path worth pursuing.

Of course how could I forget the engineers (civil, electrical & electronic, mechanical)? Some of my very good friends are doing that hoping to beat me to race in making a million bucks before we're 24 (but what they don't realize is by the time they actually finish studying, they'd be 25)

And then you get people like me, who aspire or well see themselves writing for a living. Journalism has since lost its edge amongst the public for its lack of credibility but whose to say whats the industry is going to be like in the next 5 years?