Sandra,
Apologies for writing such a short email but I am leaving on my trip tonight to Vietnam and Taiwan and things are very busy at work. I will respond to your email below at a later time or we can talk in person. :)
Which brings me to one important point – Grace @ MSFT emailed me regarding 11/29 and visiting MSFT Taiwan. She says we will be having dinner together with many students. Let me know if you would like to meet before the event. Also, please make sure that you copy my personal email (will not have access to my work email while I am gone) : XXXXXXXXXXx@hotmail.com or XXXXXXXXXX@gmail.com
I will try to make some contact with you once I arrive in Taiwan. I have your phone number and MSN IM but just in case, here is my flight information so you know my schedule. I will be going to southern Taiwan (Kaoshiung) for the first two days(11/26-11/28) and arrive back in Taipei Friday 11/28. I will be staying at Hotel 73 for the nights of 12/28, 12/29 and 12/30. Please feel free to share my information with Grace @ MSFT if she needs it.
Here is hotel website for contact information:
Here is my airline schedule:
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
2008年11月21日 星期五
2008年11月20日 星期四
From Taipei: a fish story.
Hi Catherine
Sorry for the late reply. :P I just finish my terrible midterm. Now I’m waiting for the grade and hope that I can pass all of them. I was thinking about to reply you short e-mail, but I’ll worry about that will make you feel that I didn’t take this e-mail serious. So I still prefer to write you a long e-mail and can exactly express what I want to say.
My health problem is good. I know health is most important things for everyone, but sometime I don’t take that so serious. Maybe the reason is I think I still young, really childish right? But I bought a lot of insurance for myself.
Saigon sounds really great. I was thinking about to work at Vietnam. These several years Vietnam and Taiwan have a lot of industrial cooperation. That makes me think of the 1990’s China. Although Vietnam is a potential country, Vietnam still got cancel in my list, it’s too close to Taiwan, and what I want is something totally new. Anyway, share with me after your great travel.
Grace mom told me she has to change the time to let people meeting with you. Because the IT-month is coming, it’s from Nov.29th till Dec.7th. Everyone will be there. But we still can meet; you can call me when you have time.
Actually, many things happen in this month. And the biggest thing is I move to a new apartment. Moving to a new apartment make me happier, is a better environment. My new apartment is my aunt’s old houses, now she moves to another bigger place. This means, I don’t need to pay the rent! House is really big and has four floors and only me in there. My aunt left her one Labrador and three big turtle, and I have to take care of them. And I raise a cat. Can you image how noisy in my house? Ha ha ha ha.
After the house moving and midterm, I got the terrible influenza. After few days fever and day off, now is better. That make me easily achieve my goal, I lose 3kg. happy happy~.
I got the point of what you former CEO said. “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. In other words, if I always say yes and accept the thing I don’t like to do, people won’t know what you really feel and will misunderstand you. That occurs me another real story from my family. This story is in my mom’s childhood. Every time when there was fish in the dinner, my grandma always ate the head of the fish and yields the fish body to my mom, aunt and uncle. At that time, my mom thought that my grandma really loved to eat fish head. But that was a big mistake. However, my grandma always eats fish head for many years and makes her used to that. When my mother found out that my grandma wasn’t like to eat the fish head is too late. Now my grandma is really enjoy in eating fish head. I think this is a sad story. But I believe in my grandma point of view is opposite. Probably, when the reason is strong enough, than you can accept the thing you don’t like. And finally you’ll be enjoying that?? Haha…it’s weird to put this story here.
Recently I have a big fight with my ex-boy friend. It’s another complicated story…and also stupid. Anyway, it’s all because my hysteria and too emotional. And I’ll reflect myself these days.
See you soon.
Sandra
Sorry for the late reply. :P I just finish my terrible midterm. Now I’m waiting for the grade and hope that I can pass all of them. I was thinking about to reply you short e-mail, but I’ll worry about that will make you feel that I didn’t take this e-mail serious. So I still prefer to write you a long e-mail and can exactly express what I want to say.
My health problem is good. I know health is most important things for everyone, but sometime I don’t take that so serious. Maybe the reason is I think I still young, really childish right? But I bought a lot of insurance for myself.
Saigon sounds really great. I was thinking about to work at Vietnam. These several years Vietnam and Taiwan have a lot of industrial cooperation. That makes me think of the 1990’s China. Although Vietnam is a potential country, Vietnam still got cancel in my list, it’s too close to Taiwan, and what I want is something totally new. Anyway, share with me after your great travel.
Grace mom told me she has to change the time to let people meeting with you. Because the IT-month is coming, it’s from Nov.29th till Dec.7th. Everyone will be there. But we still can meet; you can call me when you have time.
Actually, many things happen in this month. And the biggest thing is I move to a new apartment. Moving to a new apartment make me happier, is a better environment. My new apartment is my aunt’s old houses, now she moves to another bigger place. This means, I don’t need to pay the rent! House is really big and has four floors and only me in there. My aunt left her one Labrador and three big turtle, and I have to take care of them. And I raise a cat. Can you image how noisy in my house? Ha ha ha ha.
After the house moving and midterm, I got the terrible influenza. After few days fever and day off, now is better. That make me easily achieve my goal, I lose 3kg. happy happy~.
I got the point of what you former CEO said. “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. In other words, if I always say yes and accept the thing I don’t like to do, people won’t know what you really feel and will misunderstand you. That occurs me another real story from my family. This story is in my mom’s childhood. Every time when there was fish in the dinner, my grandma always ate the head of the fish and yields the fish body to my mom, aunt and uncle. At that time, my mom thought that my grandma really loved to eat fish head. But that was a big mistake. However, my grandma always eats fish head for many years and makes her used to that. When my mother found out that my grandma wasn’t like to eat the fish head is too late. Now my grandma is really enjoy in eating fish head. I think this is a sad story. But I believe in my grandma point of view is opposite. Probably, when the reason is strong enough, than you can accept the thing you don’t like. And finally you’ll be enjoying that?? Haha…it’s weird to put this story here.
Recently I have a big fight with my ex-boy friend. It’s another complicated story…and also stupid. Anyway, it’s all because my hysteria and too emotional. And I’ll reflect myself these days.
See you soon.
Sandra
2008年11月19日 星期三
From Seattle: see you soon.
Sandra,
I am so sorry I didn’t write sooner! Things have been very busy lately – I moved to a different condo building, we have been really busy with the Halloween decorating in xBox buildings and I have been having interviews. So, please forgive me this time… I will try not to let that happen again – will always write back to you even if it’s a short email.
Wow, so your eyes are OK now? How did your midterm go? Don’t forget to get some sleep – it’s the most important thing. We don’t always realize it but our health is the most precious thing. If we are not healthy, we cannot achieve anything. So, make sure you are able to balance your work, school and personal life. Hang in there… think of this year as a learning experience after which you can do bigger and better things!
Yes, I know about Zhong Shang hall – I went there a while ago. I can’t remember all the places I went to in Taiwan when I was little but I know that I have been in and around Taipei. Last time I went there, I went to 101, Miramar and then went to the Shilin night market. It was a lot of fun. Also, I have some good news. I will be coming to Taiwan 11/26-12/1. I am traveling first to Saigon 11/22 and then will go to Taipei. I already had a conversation with Grace (your MSFT internship PM) and will plan to spend 11/29 with you and other students at MSFT.
So, you mentioned last time that you are getting upset with no reason. I need to check in with you now… is everything better now? Did you lose weight? (I saw your picture and don’t think you have a weight problem… ). Did you act as a different person? Are you able to reject people asking you to do many things? I have the similar problem as you sometimes – it’s hard to say no because it feels like you are letting the other person down. Or you don’t want to hurt their feelings by saying no. But one thing I would suggest is that it is better to say no and let people reset their expectations rather than to say yes and then not be able to hold up to your promise or to end up killing yourself in work in order to keep your promise. We had a talk from one of the former CEO of our manufacturers, and the one thing he said that I always remember is “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. His meaning was that people want to know the truth as soon as possible, rather than be told everything is OK and then all of a sudden find out that things are not OK at all. I think this is very similar to saying no to people… so have courage! Say no, or give yourself more time to get something done. Or negotiate what needs to do get done or get others to help, if possible! And don’t put too much pressure on yourself. You are not complicated and I feel you are very strong. I think it is hard especially for women because we have so many different pressures. On one hand, people in the business world expect us to be strong and tough, but at the same time people still want us to be like a lady – soft spoken and sweet. And then, on our family side, we get pressure to find the right boyfriend/husband and to be the good sister/daughter/granddaughter and take care of the housing things. It is quite normal so don’t feel frustrated and worry about being professional or not – be yourself and don’t let others or work define you completely. Remember what makes you happy and keep in mind that having side talents and other interests may not be useful now but it most likely will in the future~ Anyways, I better get back to work! Take care!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
I am so sorry I didn’t write sooner! Things have been very busy lately – I moved to a different condo building, we have been really busy with the Halloween decorating in xBox buildings and I have been having interviews. So, please forgive me this time… I will try not to let that happen again – will always write back to you even if it’s a short email.
Wow, so your eyes are OK now? How did your midterm go? Don’t forget to get some sleep – it’s the most important thing. We don’t always realize it but our health is the most precious thing. If we are not healthy, we cannot achieve anything. So, make sure you are able to balance your work, school and personal life. Hang in there… think of this year as a learning experience after which you can do bigger and better things!
Yes, I know about Zhong Shang hall – I went there a while ago. I can’t remember all the places I went to in Taiwan when I was little but I know that I have been in and around Taipei. Last time I went there, I went to 101, Miramar and then went to the Shilin night market. It was a lot of fun. Also, I have some good news. I will be coming to Taiwan 11/26-12/1. I am traveling first to Saigon 11/22 and then will go to Taipei. I already had a conversation with Grace (your MSFT internship PM) and will plan to spend 11/29 with you and other students at MSFT.
So, you mentioned last time that you are getting upset with no reason. I need to check in with you now… is everything better now? Did you lose weight? (I saw your picture and don’t think you have a weight problem… ). Did you act as a different person? Are you able to reject people asking you to do many things? I have the similar problem as you sometimes – it’s hard to say no because it feels like you are letting the other person down. Or you don’t want to hurt their feelings by saying no. But one thing I would suggest is that it is better to say no and let people reset their expectations rather than to say yes and then not be able to hold up to your promise or to end up killing yourself in work in order to keep your promise. We had a talk from one of the former CEO of our manufacturers, and the one thing he said that I always remember is “Never underestimate people’s desire to know the truth”. His meaning was that people want to know the truth as soon as possible, rather than be told everything is OK and then all of a sudden find out that things are not OK at all. I think this is very similar to saying no to people… so have courage! Say no, or give yourself more time to get something done. Or negotiate what needs to do get done or get others to help, if possible! And don’t put too much pressure on yourself. You are not complicated and I feel you are very strong. I think it is hard especially for women because we have so many different pressures. On one hand, people in the business world expect us to be strong and tough, but at the same time people still want us to be like a lady – soft spoken and sweet. And then, on our family side, we get pressure to find the right boyfriend/husband and to be the good sister/daughter/granddaughter and take care of the housing things. It is quite normal so don’t feel frustrated and worry about being professional or not – be yourself and don’t let others or work define you completely. Remember what makes you happy and keep in mind that having side talents and other interests may not be useful now but it most likely will in the future~ Anyways, I better get back to work! Take care!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
2008年10月21日 星期二
Taipei ask :wheres courage?
Dear Catherine
After the hospital day, doctor say theirs nothing wrong on my liver, they can’t tell the reason why my eyes turn to yellow. Probably its does not that matter, so don’t worry about it. I’m fine.
Same as here, this week is terrible busy, one day I almost over time till 9o’colck. At the same time, my midterm is coming also. I’d better manage my time well.
In MS, sometime they told me to do some lousy work, like sending DM, copy stuff…I have to say that I don’t like it, but there is nobody can do this thing but only me….I just complaining, forget about that. I still like MS. I suppose to make this year more worthy, and try to find my own way to develop the capacity. (my capacity is really weak!)
My three day holidays are not really special, one day I went home to meet my family. Second day I went to another part time job at a historical spot named Zong Shang Hall. (中山堂) do you know that?? And the last day I was the recorder to the Board of director meeting of Microsoft student program organization.
I have to say that recently I am very upset without any reason. You know…it’s happened on anyone. It’s hard to describe, the emotion is a little bit like you just break up with you boy friend after one month or like the feeling that you just know your far dream cant be realized. Don’t know what to do, unsatisfied, and a little bit empty. Anyway, I try to make my life more fun and ask my friend to give me some tasks. Following are the tasks from my friend Tina.
- lose 3kg. (I getting heavier this half year)
-reject people asking. (cus I always spent much more time for help my friend and never try to treat myself nicer.)
- pretend you are another person per two weeks. (Ex. pretend you are a foreigner woke at Taiwan, or you are a lesbian…something like that…)
The duration is from Oct 20 to Nov 20. Maybe it can make my stable life more fun.
Reading you this e mail makes me feel complicated. Am I strong enough facing the challenge? I love arts and culture things, but that’s only my interest. There is much more people are more professional than me. Is that easy to make up the gap between us? What if the interest becomes the career and everything is not that much wonderful… Every time when I think about this, I always told myself “don’t worry. You still have a lot of time.” Although I know it’s not quit true.
It’s weird, I never tell people this thing but I wrote it all to you. maybe the reason is we never meet and we don’t have any mutual friends, so I can tell you without any scruple. Another reason I guess is because I’m typing English than Chinese. It makes me like change to another people who can be honest and say anything directly.
I wish you in Microsoft can move to a next step soon, the new place always make people feel challenging and excited. Isn’t it?
BRs,
Sandra
After the hospital day, doctor say theirs nothing wrong on my liver, they can’t tell the reason why my eyes turn to yellow. Probably its does not that matter, so don’t worry about it. I’m fine.
Same as here, this week is terrible busy, one day I almost over time till 9o’colck. At the same time, my midterm is coming also. I’d better manage my time well.
In MS, sometime they told me to do some lousy work, like sending DM, copy stuff…I have to say that I don’t like it, but there is nobody can do this thing but only me….I just complaining, forget about that. I still like MS. I suppose to make this year more worthy, and try to find my own way to develop the capacity. (my capacity is really weak!)
My three day holidays are not really special, one day I went home to meet my family. Second day I went to another part time job at a historical spot named Zong Shang Hall. (中山堂) do you know that?? And the last day I was the recorder to the Board of director meeting of Microsoft student program organization.
I have to say that recently I am very upset without any reason. You know…it’s happened on anyone. It’s hard to describe, the emotion is a little bit like you just break up with you boy friend after one month or like the feeling that you just know your far dream cant be realized. Don’t know what to do, unsatisfied, and a little bit empty. Anyway, I try to make my life more fun and ask my friend to give me some tasks. Following are the tasks from my friend Tina.
- lose 3kg. (I getting heavier this half year)
-reject people asking. (cus I always spent much more time for help my friend and never try to treat myself nicer.)
- pretend you are another person per two weeks. (Ex. pretend you are a foreigner woke at Taiwan, or you are a lesbian…something like that…)
The duration is from Oct 20 to Nov 20. Maybe it can make my stable life more fun.
Reading you this e mail makes me feel complicated. Am I strong enough facing the challenge? I love arts and culture things, but that’s only my interest. There is much more people are more professional than me. Is that easy to make up the gap between us? What if the interest becomes the career and everything is not that much wonderful… Every time when I think about this, I always told myself “don’t worry. You still have a lot of time.” Although I know it’s not quit true.
It’s weird, I never tell people this thing but I wrote it all to you. maybe the reason is we never meet and we don’t have any mutual friends, so I can tell you without any scruple. Another reason I guess is because I’m typing English than Chinese. It makes me like change to another people who can be honest and say anything directly.
I wish you in Microsoft can move to a next step soon, the new place always make people feel challenging and excited. Isn’t it?
BRs,
Sandra
Seattle repeat: Ur definitely not alone
Sandra,
It was wonderful to hear from youJ I hope that everything is going well – how is your health? I am very worried about you that you went to the hospital. Please keep me updated about what happened!
Things have been busy for me lately (mid-month and month end is always busy time for us since we do the finance support for closing activities)… how is your job going? How was your holiday (I believe 10.10 was Taiwan National Day?)? Did you do anything special with your friends and/or family?
I am still trying to figure out my traveling plans to Taiwan, but will give you update as soon as I have figured out what my plans are. I will stay in Taipei for probably one week, maybe I should visit Microsoft of Taipei. I was supposed to come last year during my business travel but I never got the chance to since my schedule was too busyL Well, I will definitely let you know what my plans are once I figure out my schedule~
I completely understand what you mean when you start to wonder about your job and whether you are doing the right thing. I think that everyone thinks that way and you are definitely not alone. For me, I would say that my general thought is that if you are learning something new in your job and enjoying it, then you are building your experience. Once you have reached the “natural capacity” for a few months (in other words, you have learned everything there is to learn and there really is no room for growth) then I would definitely think about moving onto something new and try something different. I think that when you are young, it is important to try many different things to find out what you like – as we grow older our focuses change and we start to focus on having more stability (getting married, having families, taking care of our elderly parents). Therefore, it’s very important to try new things when we are younger…. Otherwise it will be too late. So when you mention that you are too late to change and find another degree, I actually don’t think that is the case. In fact, on average, a person will have 10 different careers (which means changing the job) in their working life. So, think about what you really want to do go for it, and remember to have fun!
For me, I have been in the same job for 2 years now and have been discussing with my manager about trying something different within Microsoft. I really like what I do, but as I mentioned above (I should take my own advice, right? J ) I have learned almost everything I know in this position and that is when I know it is time to think about doing other things.
My other mentees are good, but I can tell you XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!
Haha, but please don’t tell them that! ~ I can have the feeling that we get along really well – it will be nice to finally meet in person soon.
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
It was wonderful to hear from youJ I hope that everything is going well – how is your health? I am very worried about you that you went to the hospital. Please keep me updated about what happened!
Things have been busy for me lately (mid-month and month end is always busy time for us since we do the finance support for closing activities)… how is your job going? How was your holiday (I believe 10.10 was Taiwan National Day?)? Did you do anything special with your friends and/or family?
I am still trying to figure out my traveling plans to Taiwan, but will give you update as soon as I have figured out what my plans are. I will stay in Taipei for probably one week, maybe I should visit Microsoft of Taipei. I was supposed to come last year during my business travel but I never got the chance to since my schedule was too busyL Well, I will definitely let you know what my plans are once I figure out my schedule~
I completely understand what you mean when you start to wonder about your job and whether you are doing the right thing. I think that everyone thinks that way and you are definitely not alone. For me, I would say that my general thought is that if you are learning something new in your job and enjoying it, then you are building your experience. Once you have reached the “natural capacity” for a few months (in other words, you have learned everything there is to learn and there really is no room for growth) then I would definitely think about moving onto something new and try something different. I think that when you are young, it is important to try many different things to find out what you like – as we grow older our focuses change and we start to focus on having more stability (getting married, having families, taking care of our elderly parents). Therefore, it’s very important to try new things when we are younger…. Otherwise it will be too late. So when you mention that you are too late to change and find another degree, I actually don’t think that is the case. In fact, on average, a person will have 10 different careers (which means changing the job) in their working life. So, think about what you really want to do go for it, and remember to have fun!
For me, I have been in the same job for 2 years now and have been discussing with my manager about trying something different within Microsoft. I really like what I do, but as I mentioned above (I should take my own advice, right? J ) I have learned almost everything I know in this position and that is when I know it is time to think about doing other things.
My other mentees are good, but I can tell you XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!
Haha, but please don’t tell them that! ~ I can have the feeling that we get along really well – it will be nice to finally meet in person soon.
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
2008年10月8日 星期三
From Taipei:Same question.
Catherine,
It's great to know that you'll back to Taiwan and we can meet up this Christmas time. Are you going to stay at Taipei and how long are you plan to stay? Will you visit Microsoft of Taipei? I'm looking forward to see you.
About my job, thank you for your encouragement. However, the situation are really similar to your mention, it's hard to have any impact here. At the same time, I'm wondering why some people can stuck on their job without any contribution or few contribution? Catherine, I'd like to know that do you like your job and why are you wanted to be here? (Sounds like interview…) Be honest, I have to say that one of my motivation to take this internship just because of the Microsoft trade mark. Sometime I can persuade myself in "I just want to have a working experience in a big company", but sometime in the deep side of my heart I'm confuse about that "am I compromise to the society?"
Anyway, I known as a student you have few choices but accumulate your experience. Now I keep my attitude to "be an intern who can help my boss to let everything go smoothly and get ready in every minute; try to leave some useful experience here." It's that better?
Actually, I still not decide a specific country for my abroad internship. Cuz I want to pick a job description and the country at the same time. "Nicer job in the acceptable country or the acceptable job in the nice country" I still not sure how to balance that. Thank you for your reminding, I should figure out that.
The master degree I'll definitily study in the major I like. I'm sure that I won't be in the trade to study MBA. (But I did made a stupid mistake to study law.) It's still hard to tell, I think the abroad internship will change my view. Anyway, that's a nice remind as well.
2 days ago the white sides of my eyes suddenly change to the yellow color. I'm absolute terrified and went to hospital immediately. They draw my blood twice and take an exam, its hurt. The first report tells me I'm ok, but the doctor sure that's probably my liver's problem and insists that I have to take an ultrasonic in case. So I'm going to take an ultrasonic next Tue and I'm very nervures for that. Am I drink too much…..hummm…:P
How's other mentee? Are you having a nice communication with them? =)
Thank you for your e mail. That always let me feel you are really passion on mentoring and really want to help me.
Sandra
It's great to know that you'll back to Taiwan and we can meet up this Christmas time. Are you going to stay at Taipei and how long are you plan to stay? Will you visit Microsoft of Taipei? I'm looking forward to see you.
About my job, thank you for your encouragement. However, the situation are really similar to your mention, it's hard to have any impact here. At the same time, I'm wondering why some people can stuck on their job without any contribution or few contribution? Catherine, I'd like to know that do you like your job and why are you wanted to be here? (Sounds like interview…) Be honest, I have to say that one of my motivation to take this internship just because of the Microsoft trade mark. Sometime I can persuade myself in "I just want to have a working experience in a big company", but sometime in the deep side of my heart I'm confuse about that "am I compromise to the society?"
Anyway, I known as a student you have few choices but accumulate your experience. Now I keep my attitude to "be an intern who can help my boss to let everything go smoothly and get ready in every minute; try to leave some useful experience here." It's that better?
Actually, I still not decide a specific country for my abroad internship. Cuz I want to pick a job description and the country at the same time. "Nicer job in the acceptable country or the acceptable job in the nice country" I still not sure how to balance that. Thank you for your reminding, I should figure out that.
The master degree I'll definitily study in the major I like. I'm sure that I won't be in the trade to study MBA. (But I did made a stupid mistake to study law.) It's still hard to tell, I think the abroad internship will change my view. Anyway, that's a nice remind as well.
2 days ago the white sides of my eyes suddenly change to the yellow color. I'm absolute terrified and went to hospital immediately. They draw my blood twice and take an exam, its hurt. The first report tells me I'm ok, but the doctor sure that's probably my liver's problem and insists that I have to take an ultrasonic in case. So I'm going to take an ultrasonic next Tue and I'm very nervures for that. Am I drink too much…..hummm…:P
How's other mentee? Are you having a nice communication with them? =)
Thank you for your e mail. That always let me feel you are really passion on mentoring and really want to help me.
Sandra
2008年10月7日 星期二
From Seattle : Make a choice.
Sandra,
That sounds perfect – I think that email will work great due to the time difference J Also, I want let you know that there is possibility I may go back to Taiwan for a few days (vacation) this Christmas and think it would be great to meet in person! I will let you know though since I have not made any plans yet. FYI, I copied my gmail account (personal account) so that I can check during the email during the weekend too. Going forward, let’s correspond through my gmail.
Regarding your job, I think that most jobs are repetitive to a certain extent. There are certain tasks in every job that I have had, which I would absolutely dread coming to work for – don’t worry, you are not alone. I understand that it gets pretty frustrating to do the same thing over and over again… and it’s even worse when you don’t feel that your work is recognized or appreciated. Since you asked your boss for more responsibility and he didn’t seem very eager to give you any work, I encourage you to think about the following things:
1) Look for areas in your current job that you can optimize or make some process change to make work faster. Is there something that is currently done, that you think could be done differently and actually make things better? Once you have recognized this, do some work on proving why your proposal would make things better (faster, more efficient, easier, more simple etc.) and bring this forward to your boss.
2) Be on the lookout for extra work which needs to get done and be prepared to volunteer. Sometimes, you need to look for a need that matches your interests (project that manager/director needs) and be the first one to fill that need – almost like create your own jobJ
3) Finally, recognize that every job that we do is just a transition period and it helps us get to get the experience we need. Ultimately, this helps us get to where we ultimately want to get – think of it as a stepping stone which brings us one step closer to our final destination
One last word of advice – I truly believe that after you have worked with your boss for a while, I think he will have more trust in you and naturally will give you more responsibility. This takes time, so be patient and it will comeJ Just show him that you work hard and are very eager to learn and try new things.
I think that’s great that you have a plan regarding internship in a different country. Which countries are you seriously thinking about? Why did you choose those countries? I think you should start thinking about learning the local language of the country you are thinking about going to. Regarding your masters degree, what type of masters are you thinking about? Hope the above helps! Have a great week!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
That sounds perfect – I think that email will work great due to the time difference J Also, I want let you know that there is possibility I may go back to Taiwan for a few days (vacation) this Christmas and think it would be great to meet in person! I will let you know though since I have not made any plans yet. FYI, I copied my gmail account (personal account) so that I can check during the email during the weekend too. Going forward, let’s correspond through my gmail.
Regarding your job, I think that most jobs are repetitive to a certain extent. There are certain tasks in every job that I have had, which I would absolutely dread coming to work for – don’t worry, you are not alone. I understand that it gets pretty frustrating to do the same thing over and over again… and it’s even worse when you don’t feel that your work is recognized or appreciated. Since you asked your boss for more responsibility and he didn’t seem very eager to give you any work, I encourage you to think about the following things:
1) Look for areas in your current job that you can optimize or make some process change to make work faster. Is there something that is currently done, that you think could be done differently and actually make things better? Once you have recognized this, do some work on proving why your proposal would make things better (faster, more efficient, easier, more simple etc.) and bring this forward to your boss.
2) Be on the lookout for extra work which needs to get done and be prepared to volunteer. Sometimes, you need to look for a need that matches your interests (project that manager/director needs) and be the first one to fill that need – almost like create your own jobJ
3) Finally, recognize that every job that we do is just a transition period and it helps us get to get the experience we need. Ultimately, this helps us get to where we ultimately want to get – think of it as a stepping stone which brings us one step closer to our final destination
One last word of advice – I truly believe that after you have worked with your boss for a while, I think he will have more trust in you and naturally will give you more responsibility. This takes time, so be patient and it will comeJ Just show him that you work hard and are very eager to learn and try new things.
I think that’s great that you have a plan regarding internship in a different country. Which countries are you seriously thinking about? Why did you choose those countries? I think you should start thinking about learning the local language of the country you are thinking about going to. Regarding your masters degree, what type of masters are you thinking about? Hope the above helps! Have a great week!
Thanks,
Catherine Bedeski
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