Career Path

A pilot said, “I spend most of the time of the day staring out of the window.” LOL.

As a child I always wanted to be everything when I grew up (including an air stewardess), but never a doctor. As I grew up and went to a secondary school, I’ve learnt about BIOLOGY. Maybe most of us think it’s complicated and we can’t bear to spend rest of our life memorizing the biological terms. To me, learning it was a great fun; lots of silly acronyms were created for the scientific names to stick in our brain. It was so awesomely fascinating to learn about all the systems that makes a living thing. Allah the Almighty had created us so brilliantly.

And, I wanted to be a doctor, a specialist to be exact because of my love to learn about our body and my passion to meet new people and to help the one in need. But, when there was a talk about scholarships by Sime Darby, the speaker told us a reason why they didn’t sponsor for medicine: belajar lama sangat laa, lambat nak matang. It made me thinking: betul jugak th, nak blaja medic je dah 6-7 years, housemanship lagi, 3-4 tahun, kerja dengan kerajaan lagi th. Aku dah la nak bwat Phd, nak jadi specialist, lagi 5-6 years. Conggak, lagi 12 tahun baru jadi specialist. Time th dah about 30 years old, gle tua. Baru nak kerja. Bila nak kaya? Bila nak kahwin? Payah nih. But, they did sponsor for Physiology-my MOST favourite thing about biology. Once, I had wanted so badly to be a Physiologist or a Physiotherapist, thinking of I will be seeing miracles that helps people to walk again-it’s wonderful! (But, I changed my mind to become a doc instead)

So, now when I’m not interested to do medicine anymore, in what field should I further my studies? Economics? Hmm, no thanks. Law? I have no interest la. Dentistry? Nope. Accountancy? NO. NO. NO. Engineering? I love Physics, but it is just not me. Business management? Sounds interesting, maybe yes. I’ll think about it. Physiology? I love it, maybe yes. I’ll think about it.

Yup, in a dilemma between biz and physio. A friend of mine, HAZIQ ASYRAF really got his points to encourage me to do biz: ko bwat biz pastu jadi HR, jadi GM, duit masyuk gle kot, muda lagi. On our trip to Sabah I had chats with my cousin, AHMAD HAZIQ who also encouraged me to do biz: nanti kak Anie jadi CEO, nanti bleh ade 7 kerete (1. Super car-Ferrari/Porsche 2. Working car 3. Black car-kalau ade event 4. Range Rover 5. SUV 6. Family car-Estima 7. Small car-mini copper/myvi ) tapi mak aii banyak gle kereta ak nanti, penuh garage. Both said: ko kan pandai cakap, OK pe masuk biz. Dah dua HAZIQ suruh aku bwat biz, ade Haziq laen ke yang nak suruh aku bwat biz?

Every cloud has its silver lining, I always believe that. When Alif got warded at Tawakkal (new building), we went to the surau which is near to the rehabilitation centre. It was a sign for me to pursue my dream to be a physiotherapist. My whole family had already knew that I wanted to be a doc, so they were quite shocked when I told them that I will not be one (We were in Sabah when this scene happened). “Ingatkan Hanie nak jadi doktor dulu senang la nanti kami dah sakit nanti, ada orang boleh tolong tengok-tengok kan,” I felt as I had let them down. But, they are very supportive when I told them I wanted to do physiology and maybe just doing it locally-so that I can do biz while studying. My granduncle suggested that I should further my study and be a lecturer: You got the talent to be one. Dengan gaya bercakap, you have humour, students pown suka, pandai melaram, memang sesuai jadi lecturer.

Well, I do love to teach and share, and would love to be a lecturer of Physiology and a CEO at the same time. Whatever it is, it actually depends on my SPM result, but not completely pown sebenarnye. When there is a WILL, there is a WAY kn? But I still think that Medicine is really me. Whatever hardships yang menduga aku mesti bleh melalui nya. Orang laen hidup je bwat medic, memang la susah but where’s the fun if sume bende senang je kn? Best gle kot nanti bleh bedah org! HAHAHAH.stakat katak sekor je tyme f4 th bwat pe, dah la kne share ramai2. Nh ak bakal mendapat sorang stu mayat, yess!

Hmm, in ten years or in a shorter period of time I hope that I had become a really successful person and will be reading this piece of post with a sigh of relief that I had chose a road less travelled by, written in my history when I was still unsure of my career path.