MAJOR MILESTONE

I have tendered my resignation letter to DSTA today.
Will be leaving to join Agilent on 1 Dec.

Ever since I have learnt about the term “financial freedom”, I have always dreamt of setting up my own business and working towards my early retirement. The most basic step that I took at that time was to get a Business Minor.

I took up an Engineer job at DSTA after graduation. Not something that can really give me the proper training towards my holy graill, but it was a pretty nice place to be at. Great colleagues and plenty of fun.

Then by chance, a job agency picked up my old resume from those online job sites, and matched me to a sales engineer job. I wasn’t too keen on this when they first called me, but I still went along to the interview to see what they have in store for me, and to check out my market rate too.

I was surprised that it turned out to be Agilent. So I just continued from that point and within a short period of a week, I was selected to join them.

It was a tough choice to make. On one hand, I have a big group of fun colleagues of the same age group at DSTA. On the other hand, it’s a rare opportunity to join Agilent as they rarely recruit fresh grads in this position.

In the end I decided to take the plunge and chose to cross over to Agilent.

I feel that I need to push myself out of my comfort zone, to go and learn how to do sales, something which I dun really like, sometimes even to the extend of hate. In this way, I’ll be forcing myself to either grow stronger, or just drop dead in face of adversity.

I’ll be losing a bit of money on the compensation and bonus initially, but I guess it will be worth the gamble to start building on my future and work towards my goal right now. Afterall, making sales is the primary skill to have if I were to have my own business. So there’s no escaping from learning sales skills.

There are many similarities and parallels that I can draw from my current scenario to the time when I was going to leave Ammo Base for OCS. I felt that it was a wise decision to go for OCS then, and I pray that this time, it will be even more rewarding.

To all my friends, if you haven done so,
make a blueprint of your future and start working towards your goal now.