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Saturday, 10 October 2009

  • I guess I'm leaving the country!

    Looking for work in Singapore! Comments? Suggestions? Background's software engineer with an MBA. Product Mngmt, BizDev

  • structure

    I'm finding again that I am not so good with achieving certain goals while in an unstructured environment.
    I first became aware of this when I set the goal of covering all of Berkeley's Chinese 10a &b over a summer on my own.  Didn't happen.

    Now again, in trying to complete my Computer Science Masters final project, and staying on top of a job search.  I've got to create structure.  As in schedule to meet with people in the morning so I don't sleep in.  Publicly post my progress to create more accountability.

    Given, I'm starting a new fantastic relationship, the economy is soft, and I felt I deserved to let go after three years of sacrifice while going through school, but it's starting to get on my nerves how little progress I've made on certain goals.

    ok  chop chop!

Monday, 10 August 2009

  • Summer

    What's life for Eddie like right now?
    It's like...  summers back when I was in highschool I guess.  It's... break time.  Having fun with friends, watching movies, going out to meet new people, working on hobbies, exploring socal.  And yet, this time, I don't know what the future holds!

    Desirable job opportunities...  not exactly plentiful.  Time to find alternative opportunities?  Is this the time to check out living a few months in cheaper countries where Mandarin is spoken?
    How much of my savings/investments should I be willing to go into, or should I be hunkering down and scaling back with family?  What exactly do I want to do with my life?

    Career-wise, I see myself marrying the my business and tech knowledge to effectively manage a product.  I could also see myself possibly going back to software engineering due to its almost unparalleled job flexibillity.  I'm a big fan of flexibility.  Netflix has a vacation days policy of "take as many days as you'd like as long as your work gets done."  That rings so true to me.  An engineer asked "you don't track how many hours I work a day, so why track how many days I work?"  It's only with this sort of flexibility that I think I could get to live in more places, and I don't mean travel to places.  I mean live.  This is on the order of at least a month in a location.  I also feel flexibility like this would allow effectively working on social causes that I'm passionate about.

    Anyways, this career path is... currently stunted.  So I'm thinking it's time to invest in myself.  Become fluent in Chinese, take flying lessons.  The first is probably best accomplished in China, but possible anywhere.  Where would I go after China?  Norcal?  Socal?  Where do I want to be?  Does location trump job opportunity?

    I've seriously got to focus.  First and foremost I guess, do my final project to complete my two masters.  Speak more with my parents and friends regarding Asia.  Reduce how many belongings I have.   Listen to Mandarin tapes.  Keep an eye out for job opportunities.  K. 


Thursday, 16 July 2009

  • Coasting

    o I should be job searching.
    x I guess I'm sorta taking a break.
    o I need to do my thesis project to complete my degrees.
    x I'm reconnecting with people.
    o It's important to steer, lest I curse later that I did not.
    x Growing food, preparing food: there's a simplicity, a realness I don't want to outsource.
    o There are things which I want to spend my time doing, even more than the prior...

    -Prioritize. Plan it all in. Proceed.

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

  • We're all of us a little greedy. . . . We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
    Sidney Poitier