Archive for July, 2011


2nd Part of my curse of knowledge (I will use Indonesian in this post)

Inti : Kita tidak boleh merasa punya wewenang atas sesuatu yang tidak bisa kita putuskan 100 %

Example 1:

Kamu merasa bahwa salah 1 anggota keluarga mu anggaplah si X ini lagi free waktu weekend.
Lalu kamu bikin janji dengan teman2 dan berharap bahwa si X ini lah yang akan mengantar mu
ke tempat meeting point dengan teman2. Tapi pada hari H ternyata si X ini sudah ada janji dan tidak
bisa mengantar kamu. Akhirnya janjinya cancel hanya karena kamu merasa kamu punya control atas
kegiatan si X.

Example 2:

Kamu adalah seorang Ibu, lalu kamu tahu bahwa salah 1 anak kamu akan keluar negeri beberapa waktu
dan rumahnya kosong. Lalu dengan keputusan sendiri tanpa make sure dengan si anak tersebut kamu
langsung bilang ke anak yang lain lagi bahwa rumah itu akan kosong jadi bisa ditinggali.
Tetapi ternyata setelah ditanya lebih lanjut, karena berbagai alasan tertentu jadi tidak bisa
ditinggali. Ini juga merupakan kutukan dari pengetahuan, karena si Ibu merasa mengetahui segala sesuatunya
dan memutuskan sendiri tanpa memastikan dengan empunya rumah. Padahal rumah itu adalah
milik anaknya, bukan miliknya

Example 3:

Kamu mau bikin party. Lalu kamu undang beberapa orang. Ada yang punya mobil dan ada yang tidak.
Kamu lalu berharap yang tidak punya mobil semuanya bisa ikut dengan yang ada mobil dan semuanya bisa OK.
Lalu kamu dengan yakinnya mengajak orang lain lagi dan bilang oh si A, si B, si C dll semuanya sudah confirm ikut loh.
Eh tapi ternyata setelah di cek lebih lanjut si C sebenernya belum confirm , lalu si B juga ternyata hanya confirm
kalau si C confirm dan lain sebagainya. Disini kesalahannya adalah karena kamu merasa semua orang pasti ingin
datang ke party mu. Padahal kamu tidak tahu diluar itu mungkin dia punya jadwal lain yang harus dia sacrifice dll.

Example2 diatas diambil dari orang2 yang dekat dengan saya.

Saya tegaskan lagi inti yang ingin saya katakan adalah : kita tidak berhak dan tidak punya wewenang untuk mengambil keputusan
atas orang lain hanya berdasarkan karena pengetahuan kita. Jadi tetap harus di confirm ulang ke orang tersebut.

Recently I met with a lot of great people with good knowledge. Most of them are like twice or 1.5 times of my age. And I found some interesting point when they talked to me.

I don’t need to argue that my knowledge is still notthing compared to them but I realized there are tendency that when you know something very well and started to talked about it to other people, subsconciously you may think that person that you talked too have the same level of knowledge with you. Which is not always a good think.

Especially when the topic reach some religious thought, well of course it’s okay for someone to know their religion very well and could tell anything inside out of their religion, but hoping someone other to make the same level of faith just because you’re knowledgeable about some religion is not something that I fond of.

Okay reigious topic did have tendency to became like that. But even in another topic sometimes thinks like this happened too.

For example:

Someone gave you media file because they think it’s really good and helped them, so you put one quick glance and decided to read more when you have time and enough interest. In the next day, that someone asked you how is the book etc and you couldn’t tell because you only have a glimpse impression which is very normal and he got mad. This is in my thought what is to be called the curse of knowledge and faith.

Summary:

What I want to tell basically is that just because you have some knowledge and faith, you couldn’t just expect every other person you talked to could have that same knowledge and faith too. Even you tried to give books, cd, etc but it’s not in your rights to make someone other to read or watch everything as you hoped for.

My job hunting chronology

My first post since I came home to Indonesia several months ago. So many think want to share, so little time and busy schedule.

Anyway regarding to job hunting, here are some my chronological breakdown

  • January 2010, Decided to start look for another job
  • January – July 2010, go to several interview, but very limited since I dont have N1 certification
  • July 2010, Taking N1 Japanese certificate exam to increase my probability to get hired (I did pass)
  • July  2010 – January 2011, After getting N1, lots of job offer came and when to a lot of interviews
  • January 2011, Managed to get to the final interview of the company that I really wanted to join
    However with the reason that suddenly they changed the job requirement to at least Master degree holder
    I didn’t get the job
  • February 2011, Quit my job in Japan, Head section and Chief of HR tried hard to make me stay there by
    promising promotion, better income etc. But it’s too late I already made up my mind
  • March 2011, Came back to Indonesia (not because of the earthquake, I already resign at February)
  • March 2011 – April 2011, just within 1 month time span I had 4 interviews in Jakarta and 11 interviews in Singapore
    (Yes I did went to Singapore too) and passed most of the interviews

After summarizing all the company that wanted to hire me, I made top 3 list (all of them are Japanese company)

  1. General Trader (Import Export) in Jakarta
  2. Bank in Singapore
  3. Telecom Company in Jakarta

After having hard time and some dilemma to choose, I decided to join 1 of them and start working since end of April 2011.
Currently when I’m writing this, I haven’t become their permanent worker yet. But so far so good, I’ve met a lot of
great people since I joined.

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