Tuesday, 4 February 2020

My Story - My first degree

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My Story - My first degree


Written on 4 February 2020

The basic degree is just the beginning, and that applies to Malaysia and all other countries, including Australia, that‘s where I am.

In the early days, many male Malaysians came to Australia to study Engineering, economics or accounting. The number of females could be counted just with my fingers.

My HSC results were good enough even for medicine, but I chose science, a course which required much lower score. Many friends were puzzled!

There were two good reasons for my choice:

1. Hardly anyone knew about computers, what they could do and whether there was a future in this unknown field.

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT offered computer science course which covered a bit more on hardware then software. However, I chose Melbourne University for a degree course in Information Science which had a few subjects that involved computer logic and programming, plus mathematics. I knew I wanted to study something that would be in great demand in the coming years. I was spot on.

2. I wanted to study a course that required the least time and easier to complete. The sooner I got out of the University, the sooner I could join the workforce “to bring home the bacon”.

I neither studied for my interest, nor for prestige for example to be a doctor. I study for my first employment.

Choosing an easier course meant that I did not impose too much stress on myself, and I could achieve my first major “success” in life with a piece of paper to prove. Like the adage goes, “Success breeds success”!

I shot bulleyes on both.

Thank you for reading.