A New Goal, A New Dream
I always wanted to enter management, perhaps in the management of an already established company, MNC, etc. My Prefect experience has given me lots of fun, I really think that management is my thing, my strength.
But over the past few months I have been drawn to the prospect of starting my own company in an undetermined field. Maybe it is a dream from God or maybe it’s just my desire, but I really feel very strongly about this. Every time I pick up a book about great businesses like HP, Dell, Starbucks, Apple, etc., I would feel so excited and enthusiastic and try to pick up a management strategy or two to be applied in the future. Sometimes, I already find myself thinking about what name I should give my company. (Lin Inc. or something, what a joke!)
Thus, my goal for a university education now is just to explore avenues for a new business venture instead of for a job in itself.
Pros:
1) Money was never in the equation, but if the company takes off, I could stand to earn more than a conventional fixed pay job. But I am never into this for the money. No passion, no progress. People who start companies for the money are bound to fail.
2) I love management and interacting with people, and managing a company would be a great excitement for me. I would be so fired up about the company in the way that I was so “on” about the Prefects’ Board last time.
3) It’s fun?
4) Whoops, how come I am so short of pros?
Cons:
1) You fail, you can’t even feed yourself. And failure is commonplace in such ventures.
2) It’s a cruel competition out there.
3) At the start, I would not be earning much even as everyone else gets a good fixed pay check to support themselves.
4) A LOT of hard work and slogging to get the company off the ground. Even more to ensure that it survives beyond my lifetime.
5) Even in Singapore, and Malaysia, entrepreneurship and ventures in innovation have not been known to flourish and thrive given the risk-averse society and environment. (but I do want to come back to either one of these two countries to set up a business)
6) There are too many reasons to fail.
My goal: To establish a company which would survive beyond my lifetime, to grow a multi-billion dollar company and be one of the greatest companies on the planet. (I am rather sick of the fact that many of the known and large companies have their origins in the United States)
What an audacious dream.
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You can do it.
Thanks. God bless. =)
Dare to dream, Ern Sheong. The fact that you are not in for the $ tells me something. (LOL when I was reading I was like hey! I can assist with IT stuffs but that’s a thing of the future.)
May God reveal to you His plan for you. I trust that for someone so capable like you, He awaits to do something really great in you! =)
God bless!
Thanks Ome. All the best with the IT studies in the near future! You go on and dare to dream big too!
Hey don’t hang up your boots so early. Time and time again, you’ve surprised everyone who thought you were about to keel over. Now it’s time to surprise yourself too! You DO have persistence after all to last the fight. Ah I remember your dejected look after the SSEF silver prizes were given. YOU gave me that look that said it’s finished. Of course while going, “yay, no more competition
“, my gut told me something was wrong. Sure enough, your efforts were rewarded with the gleaming Au sticker!
P.S. See if you can guess what zelauto means
Haha thanks Zhong Liang. Sure thing man. Never give up! You too man! In the field of your choice.
zelauto… auto refers to automobiles? i don’t know abt zel haha