An offer in-hand

16.06.2011 was a remarkable day for me, after waiting for the excited news close to two weeks in the late afternoon I received a call from my recruitment agent. The final approval processes have been completed (with 5 levels of approval). A job offer has been granted to me and I will start work on next Tuesday.

After 15 weeks persistence hard-working job searching journey, stayed 25 days at home without a job, sending out 126 sets of resumes, attended total 11 round of interviews from 8 different companies; finally I grabbed an good job offer from a US base Fortune 500 MNC with annual remunation increment more than 20%.

Hope I can settle down quickly and be adjusted to the new environment as soon as possible.

Life is such an amazing thing as we never know what will happen to you tomorrow.

But I always believe that God will reward those people who continues working hard, willing to put in efforts, never easily give up and alway moving forward toward your personal goals.

A story about Anna Mary Robertson

Anna was a young farm girl who loved to paint. He dream was to become a world famous painter. Alas, her parents told her that she would starve as a painter and she should forget her stupid dream. She was told that her role in life was to marry a good husband, look after the farm and raise children.

Being the obedient girl that she was, Anna put aside her dreams and started a family in her teens. She had 10 children by her 20s, had grandchildren in her 40s and was a great grandmother in her 60s. By the age of 75, after her husband died and her children had grown up, she became too old to work on the farm. So, she decided to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a painter. She went to the town's art store and bought brushes, paints and canvases and started painting in front of her barn. She self studied and painted 'Primitive American Landscape' and sold her first painting at age 77. She became affectionately known as Grandma Moses.

By age 79, her paintings were showcased in the Museum of  Modern Art (New York). During the 1950s, her exhibitions were so popular that they broke attendance records all over the world. The National Association of House Dress Manufacturers honored her as their 1951Woman of the Year. At age 88, Mademoiselle magazine named Grandma Moses a "Young Woman of the Year". Philadelphia's Moore College of Art awarded her its first honorary doctorate degree.

In the last 10 years of her life, her paintings were selling for $100,000 each. She had painted 3,600 pieces in the last 20 years. She made more money in a year than in an entire lifetime working on the farm!

In November 2006, her work Sugaring Off (1943), became her highest selling work at US $1.2 million. It is estimated that If she had starting painting in her teens, she would have become one of the richest women in America!

So never give up your dreams!

17 more days to go.

Time flies, only left 17 days with my current employment. I will become a jobless man on 26^th May. I have attended 3 interviews last week. After gone through the interview processes, I realized that there are a lot of areas can be further improved. In the other words, if I have done my homework thoroughly, I can do it better during the interview, eventually secure the jobs.

Now only one thing I can is wait and continue looking for other opportunities, further fine tune my resume, preparing interview Q&A beforehand.

I just celebrated Mother’s day with my mum one day ago. May true loves & cares from my families always inspiring me to overcome the obstacles and enabling me to move on toward my destination.

Cheers up!