Job Hunting Progress 2

Hi friends,

I'm here to update you about some good news on my job hunting progress. As it stands, I've had 7 interviews and I've already gotten accepted by 2 of them. This is very exciting news to me because I've been feeling a little down lately mainly due to no income stress. But thankfully things are starting to progress towards the better.

I've listed some key information about the interviews I've had and compiled them in a simple table that you can understand. (Click on image to enlarge)

From the table above, you can see that the industry of choice for my interviews were mainly in the electrical engineering sector and financial related sector. I feel very happy about this list because it shows that I'm not limiting my career opportunities based on my educational background. I've decided to open up myself to the financial related industry because that's my passion. Other than figuring out ways to optimize engineering related problems, I also like to optimize/benefit from any knowledge in the finance sector to increase my wealth.

I noticed that the thing that gives me utmost satisfaction in life is when I work towards optimizing my tasks to the maximum.

My educational background is in the sustainable energy sector and I love the idea of optimizing energy production because by doing so, I get to save money on my everyday energy utilization. Hence, helping me towards increasing my net-worth.

I also love the idea of optimizing my finance because that's the most direct way for me to progress towards financial freedom. If I learn on how to optimize taxes, optimize big ticket item loans or optimizing every aspect of financial planning, I believe that it help towards achieving financial freedom as well.

Anyway, I digress. Back to the table above, there are still a few results from the interview that I'm still waiting for their answer. The ones I'm still waiting for their response would be under the "Results" column where I wrote "Pending". As you can also see from the table, there's one result came in as a "Failure". This is because during the call screening, I couldn't answer their questions regarding coding languages and integrated circuits. So I admitted my shortcomings in that area and they've decided not to proceed with me as their candidate.

As for the two "Success" I've received, I'm happy to say that I decided to proceed with the building management engineer because that's what I'm more passionate in. The job scope, according to what I've been briefed, was to essentially design an energy efficient building. The process starts from designing and all the way to construction and maintenance. I could definitely see myself getting excited about integrating renewable energy concepts in a building. The other "Success" I had was for an insurance adjusters position. In theory, the job scope is very interesting because I need to learn about the business nature of many industries before being able to assess any insurance claim related to their business. From that perspective, I could also see myself getting excited because I love learning how every industry makes money and maintain their cash flows. However, the only reason why I declined that offer is because the salary package is slightly lower than the engineering job.

Well, I'm grateful for this results I'm getting. I think I'll be perfectly content if I get rejected from the other companies. Any success I'm getting from here on would be a great bonus and I'll be forever more thankful if I ever got them.

Something interesting that I want to comment about throughout this job hunting journey is that I no longer find interviews as being something really scary. I don't know why but I feel very comfortable during all of the interviews I've had so far. I no longer feel nervous and restless like I usually do back when I went for scholarship interviews. This is very interesting to me because I always hear people getting nervous before an interview. I truly hope that this version of me stays because getting nervous for an interview is tiring.

I also acknowledge that part of the reason why I'm not nervous is because the companies that interviewed me were all small and medium enterprise. Maybe that could be the reason but I'm not going to dwell in this too much.

Anyway, that is all for today. Thank you friends, for reading. Hope you're having a great day.