6 Months Crossover

Today marks the day where I crossed over my 6 month duration at SNEF. It has been quite an experience so far, good and bad. I have seen a lot more about people, learnt a lot more about a whole new nature of work and developed myself into a better individual and employee.

Looking back, I wouldn't trade my slightly higher salary and work at StarHub for this job that I am doing right now. Not that this job is easy... in fact, it is MUCH tougher than my job at StarHub... but I have learnt so much that my 1 year plus with StarHub didn't and couldn't give me.

Back there, it was a very specialized area of work, yet ultimately still administrative and routine work. Reflecting back, it was as if my KPI was focused primarily on efficiency and speedy admin processing. Totally unlike my current job at SNEF, I find it almost totally the opposite.

Right now, my job nature fluctuates in many ways... even the very admin documents that we use can have variations of all sorts, depending on the nature of situation. The work is ever changing. No one piece of work is identical. It just cannot be... coz if not, that wouldn't be called project work. That would be called paper work.

In short, nothing is as you expect it to be. And the key to doing as best as I can, is to be able to think fast, be resourceful, learn how to build positive relationships, adapt flexibly to changes, think one or even two steps ahead, find opportunities to leverage and plan effectively to get work done (not just blindly do). To succeed in this area of work would mean becoming a 'Jack of all Trades', not a 'Master of One'.

What interests me about this job is the vast network of working relationships that I have to establish as part of doing my job. Like I have recently started telling my colleague under me, "We cannot be Rambo in this job. We must learn to leverage to get things done. We cannot work alone and do everything by ourself."

I think this is very true. As much as I enjoy watching Rambo... there are some jobs which does not call for a Rambo. Rambo is good, in fact very good... but Rambo does not fit in everywhere and with everyone.

I am thankful for my job, though not all is perfect about everything about it. We can't have the best of both worlds all the time. But at least I am glad that what I learnt can be transferred to any industry, unlike solely in Telco where its so specialized. In this job, the skills and experience that I pick up is valuable, applicable and marketable. Besides, I don't like routine work either... =)