Hello, my name is paper and I am a piece of paper.
My purpose is to have people write on me and to be printed by printers.
I like the smell of wood because it smells like my parents.
My ambition is to be thrown away and recycled.
(lmao i don't know what to put in here, so thanks Claire for the message.)
As per title.
Wondering why I said that?
I was just amused at how my life turned out just by making seemingly small irrelevant decisions.
Upon graduation from secondary school, I just wanted a job to earn some pocket money.
Mum passed over some newspapers that she was reading and said, "why not try this $1200 sales job?"
And that was how I plunged into my first job in the sales industry.
If she had pointed to a different ad, Lord knows where I'd be right now.
Had I not had the sales experience, I wouldn't have gone for a sales job in a bank.
Had I not had exposure in the financial industry, my curiosity towards investments wouldnt have been aroused.
If I wasn't curious over foreign exchange and money markets, I wouldnt have wanted to learn about it.
Had I not picked up the Today paper at harbourfront mrt that fateful morning, I wouldn't have seen the ad about the pattern trader course.
Had I not attended the course, I would not have firmed up my interest and future in the financial sector.
I decided that I loved investments so much so that I actually took up a degree for it.
And had I not accidentally stumbled on the job ad, I wouldnt have landed on this job.
And I couldn't have landed on this job, if not for all the relevant sales experience that I have garnered over the years.
So thank you mum, for pointing the right ad to me when I had no idea what to do with my life after o levels.
I guess you'll never know just how much it has impacted me and my career.
Kudos to mummy.