Idustrial Attachment starting on 20th Oct 2003

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

hi...:(
my attachment will be starting on the 20th October 2003..
i was asked to go to my school and collect the letter today...
i went and the guy gave me the letter without a blink..!
and when i asked "Sir..wat company is this?" he said..its a manufacturing company...
i felt as if he had ripped the heart out of my rib cage braking all my ribs...:(
i felt my lungs melt down in my body and i couldn't breathe for a minute..
at that point i felt so much rage that my body started shivering...
but then i remembered the advice given to me in CG by ppl here...
i started to settle down...
then came another sentence that tore open my chest and prayed salt inside...
"But don't except all IT job.."
i said to myself u call MRP and ERP IT jobs?
"you may have to do things like physical couunting cause its a inventory firm...Physical work is part of the job!"
"we have gone thru a lot to get u this job..."
that was it...what i felt is undescribable...rage covered my eyes and i had a strong urge to -i have no idea, dunno what-
i came out of his office with a black face...
in my head were the pictures of me trying the very best to be the first in class...all the appreciations of my teachers..all the praises i'd heard...
so much hard work..so many dreams..all to do physical inventory job for my attachement?
the attachment that i always though would be something that could go in my resume...something that would gimme some experience in programming..somehthin that would get me started on my career...
now what am i supposed to write in my resume?
"Experience in physical counting of inventory"
"Experience in being made a jack*ss"
"Experience in bangin head against the wall because of school"
"Experience in cursing for a week continuously"

maybe i should get admitted in a mental institute...

sorry if i was rude above....i have no idea what to do:(...i feel very lost..i dunno wether to go home or to loiter in the streets...
sorry to paste my lamenting...:(

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

hometown : Do Not post any of your off topic language or material or talk in this thread!!

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

the pay isn't fabulous either....
minimum that a company is supposed to pay is $400..
i am being payed $450..:(
for a manufactring physical job...when my course is IT..:(

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

i am kinda settling down.....but still very angry at my school...
my attachment starts in a week(5 more days)
so till then....i just hope something happens..:(

[Mick]

It depends on where home is Joe...where is home? But given that, you should just stick it out, I mean you went to sing a pron for an education, so stick it out and get your edumacation....

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

education is done.....now attachement...:(
its gonna kill me....:(

why couldnt they have given me an IT job??:(

[hometown]

Originally posted by Joseph_R_Thomas
hometown : Do Not post any of your off topic language or material or talk in this thread!!
I wont and my post now just wants to tell you and everyone that I really hope no CG members will post to help you but Mick_2002.
:)

Good luck anyway !

Regards,

-Hometown

[CBasicNet]

Anyway it is better than having your attachment in your own school where you are not paid a cent.

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

Originally posted by hometown
I wont and my post now just wants to tell you and everyone that I really hope no CG members will post to help you but Mick_2002.
:)

Good luck anyway !

Regards,

-Hometown

just wanted to keep your post on display so that u cannot edit it...

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

Originally posted by CBasicNet
Anyway it is better than having your attachment in your own school where you are not paid a cent.

its not about pay....its about experience.....:(
i wanted some real experience.....:(
so that i can put it down in my resume...:(

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Hometown & Joseph: please do NOT start flaming each other.

[Dave McLelland]

I have found that with most jobs you get back what you are prepared to put in.
Life dosent always give you what you want but usually it gives you what you need.

Showing that you can stick a job (for a while) that you really dont want to do says a lot about your character.
There are times in every job when you dont want to be there.

[Mick]

Originally posted by hometown
I wont and my post now just wants to tell you and everyone that I really hope no CG members will post to help you but Mick_2002.
:)

Good luck anyway !

Regards,

-Hometown

Who is this Mick_2002 you talk about, must be a groovy guy :p

Joe...you say your not a sing a pr0n citizen, why not just look for a job back home??? or a job in sing a pr0n??? or do you have to do this for school to gradumate???

/College it's so wacky, glad I didn't go, but then I always did love the frat parties......

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

actually Mr.Mick, i am on a scholarship in singapore..so after graduation i have to work in singapore for 3 years...
this job is part of my course so i have to do a job that school gives me for 3 months..
this is called the Industrail Attachment Program(IAP) and every student has to go thru 3 monts of IAP before graduating.
so i will graduate on 10th January2004 i.e 3 monts from 20thOct2003..
tks for asking..:)

[Mick]

Originally posted by Joseph_R_Thomas
actually Mr.Mick, i am on a scholarship in singapore..so after graduation i have to work in singapore for 3 years...


Ehh it's a nice thought, but who forces you to work for three years??? :confused:

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

its a bond with ministry of education(MOE) included in the scholarship programme.

[Kheun]

I was attached to a manufacturing plant during my IA. I help to put together a test machine and write code in HP-BASIC for capturing all the statistic of DUTs (device under test) and also some procedures to determine reference test unit. It isn't that bad, it is actually quite fun. :)

There is no need to feel sad. No matter what situation we are in, we should try to maximize our opporunity. Try to be proactive rather than passive. Life is always better if you are optisimtic.

Even if you really need to do inventory accounting, you can try to add value to yourself, like improving the current process by implementing certain application, blah blah... Who knows, you are so good, they might want to hire you right after graduation. :cool:

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

tks....hope something like that happens..but i wanna work as a programmer...:(
not inverntory stuff...

[Kheun]

No worry. Just do your best to make it happen! :D

[souldog]

By the way Joe, I work for a manufacturing company.

[Mick]

Originally posted by souldog
By the way Joe, I work for a manufacturing company.

That explains it...

[souldog]

Yah...I know

[Joseph_R_Thomas]

wow Mr.Souldog...
how come you work in a manufacturing firm and you get to do programming??:( (and you can be so good at it...:(..me??)
me...they are gonna make me count inventory....:(