It’s been said that love is like a butterfly – the more you pursue it the more it eludes you, but if you are calm and still it will land on you shoulder. Luck plays a part of course, but I do believe one makes his own luck. Still, both require a good amount of self-discovery, growth, and maybe maturity. The difference is that looking for the right job probably relies more on will and determination, whereas matters of the heart, I think, come down to fate much more than to will. Just like some people may never find true love, sad as that may seem. Sometimes people don’t always find what is it they want to do, or are good at. Each one is a rehearsal for the next one that comes along, and you do better and better each time, until finally you hope to settle on one that will carry you through the rest of what is a very short time on this earth. Everyone’s got a short window of opportunity to find out what is it he or she wants to do, and preferably it’s something they’re good at or have a passion for. But of course I found out later that your first job is not meant to be perfect, but to get you that membership card into the club known as ‘working life’.Īnd the key to ‘working life’ is not about making a living per se, at least not unless you have a family to support, in which case it is rightfully your priority. It’s sad that the first job out of university is the one that kills your soul. Prior to that, I was an office suit holed up in a cubicle surrounded by diagrams of Internet protocol virtual private networks that I had to sell to corporations. It’s been about seven years since I took my first step into this wonderfully strange and dysfunctional world that is the animation and kids entertainment business. I’m perhaps what you could call a late starter to the animation industry. Suddenly it struck Sewling where Ervin got his good looks from. Speaking of which, there is a borderline unscrupulous thing I’m trying to do – sell Dad my generation one iPad. ![]() At times it’s almost like he’s in it for the fun and is just curious to see how students react to his lessons on an iPad. There have been family dinners where I had to tell Dad he’s kinda late on the next draft of the lesson plan, or he should really be thinking about what his royalty percentage should be, and how much he should be budgeting for himself as investment in return for equity…you know, just in case me and my unscrupulous colleagues rip him off.īut nah, to be honest there’s less conflict of interest than I expected – mostly because Dad isn’t too big on the commercail details. ![]() ![]() The boss soon threw me on the project like a patty on a grill. I have to admit I tried to distance myself from the project at the beginning. So we’re working with him to develop a new iPad application that could bring his transformative powers in Chinese education to the Apple generation. And somehow he got into the iPad (even though he still hasn’t got one) and thought why couldn’t he teach Chinese AND look tech savvy? In fact he’s been teaching it for 30 years. I can’t remember how this happened, but I’m working with my Dad’s company – and him – on a new Scrawl project.īasically, my old man’s really, really, really good at Chinese.
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