The next day nya student mastersku yang ketiga pulak viva. (Tapi dia tak bawak camera so tak de la gambarnya :p). Alhamdulillah, she also passed with minor corrections. She struggled for 4 years tuuuuu (2 years full time, 2 years whilst working)...Leganya daku...
Her external examiner was a Professor from UTM. This professor adalah pensyarah termuda yang mendapat pangkat professor di negara ini iaitu pada umur 35 tahun. How? At 42 he was promoted to Professor Grade B. Gaji beribu-ribu lemon. Sangat kagum..Orang UTM may know who I am referring to.
Sempat la sembang-sembang dengan dia after the viva. He shared some really valuable tips about how to succeed in this career. Bukan senang wooo nak dapat tips from orang yang dah berjaya macam ni. Kesimpulannya ialah it all boils down to the number of publications you have. Success won't happen overnight, it is a cummulative effect, so one needs to focus and strategize. It is the same in any profession la kan. Yelah, senang lah cakap, tapi macam mana gayanya nak strategize in this profession? Itu lah salah satu perkara yang mula2 daku ingatkan nak blog about tapi belum kesampaian huhuhu...
As for me, walaupun KPI tahun 2010 dah tercapai, I need to strategize for KPI tahun 2011 pulak. Yang paling susah untuk achieve is publication in high impact factor journal. So need to strategize accordingly from now blablabla. Jangan jadi macam last year, although KPI was met, but prestasi kureng power sebab tahun 2008, I was distracted big time. Instead of sebok ngan my nanotech research, sebok dengan research handbag, BOLEH??? Padan muka. Now I have learnt my lesson. Ye ke? But what am I doing now then?
Semalam dapat email from my Ketua Jabatan. "Your application for Associate Professor dah OK. Please proceed to do the paperwork". Ini baru kelulusan untuk APPLY. Belum dapat lagi. Fakulti akan saring dulu, kalau dah layak baru boleh apply. Dalam kerjaya ini promotion semua kena apply. Tak apply tak de sapa nak bagi. Yang bestnya kalau dah layak bolehlah apply tak kira la kau umur 30, 40 atau 50 In theory la!
Tiba-tiba jantungku berdebar...Bukankah masa itu emas, blogging tak dapat emas, well for some dapat lah kot. And yet I still find my fingers typing itsajugglingact.blogspot.com...
11 comments:
i'm at 3/4 finishing my thesis and going for theory and clinical exam soon....so stressful!
ah babe, all sound great for ye!! bgth lah aku apa lagi si mamat prof muda tu kasitahu kau hehehe you are absolutely right, it all boils down to how dedicated one is. samalah dgn mine. publications. publications. research. publications. all the best babe. i'll be right behind you tolong sorak2 hehehe
all the best... all the best... kalau ada kelulusan untuk apply im sure u boleh...
Jem, what are you specializing in? My sis who is attached to UPM is doing her masters in ENT, so from what I understand, walaupun study, kerja tetap kerja. Kalau kami, buat PhD, cuti belajar, mana ada kerja2. Respect la you all doctors. All the best dear!
Hey Lady, what do you specialize in? Sorry for my ignorance babe. Tu lah, nanti kita share2 tips buat publications lah ek.
Thanks Lady (ish ada dua Lady nih ;)), so sweet of you.
ish kau ni. berapa kali daa nak kena bgth. Psychiatry. i have done my equivalent of Master in Malaysia - that the royal college of psychiatrist exam for me lah. i'd love to do neuropyschiatry and neuroimaging for doctorate tapi aku tak properly plan for that yet. plus PhD in medicine ni bukannya jens boleh pilih2. apa yg dah ada and dah dapat fund, jalan. btw i am more into biological and organic psych. you know, genetics, imaging bla bla bla.
When did you tell me? In FB? Tak ingat ponnn...I promise I won't forget now hehe. Oohh, yang kau sebok2 exam dulu tu eh. Very cool! You're a shrink then? Double cool. Eh,dejavue la, bukan ke kita penah sembang pasal ko nak jadi psychiatrist masa kat maktab dulu? Coolness.
its a cool job coz ppl tell me their innermost thoughts. privileged lah konon but i am moving away from the psychobabble bit. maybe i didnt tell ya hahaha. to be honest i dont really write or talk much about my job. hey deja vu kah? ada ke aku cakap i wanna be a shrink? hehehe. that is coolness ;p
am sure u can juggle both...blogging x dpt emas, tapi dpt kawan...
cikayu, tu la, one thing I like about it is getting to know really nice virtual friends like all of you ;)
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