After I have entered the City University of Hong Kong , I finally figured out what is my real career goal when I graduated from the university. In the first few years after I graduated, I will apply for being a flight attendant in the Japan Airlines or to work as a secretary in some small business companies.
Though being a flight attendant is many people’s childhood dream, for me, that is my newly developed teenage dream. I would like to travel around the world, to meet people come from different countries, with different backgrounds and nationalities, as well as to get in touch with more distinct cultures and to broaden and widen my horizons.
I choose to join Japan Airlines because it is a Japanese company; and I am now majoring in International Business- Japan Study in the university. Being familiar with Japanese and its culture will be one of my merits to join a Japanese company, as its managers trend to be nationalism, they would have a good impression on those who already know their language and culture well.
‘Brenda will not get angry easily, she has a very high emotional quotient.’ That is how my friends used to describe me. Patience and tolerance are needed when one is engaging in service industry , especially for being a flight attendant in handling customers’ requests and complaints.
Furthermore, I am the internal secretary of a school society this year, I learned to cooperate and communicate well with my committee members. This experience allows me to understand the importance of teamwork, whereas working in a passenger compartment requires clear and understandable commands and communications.
In addition to being a flight attendant, working as a secretary is the second choice for my future career. I love planning my daily schedule and managing my time, this raise my interest in being a secretary. My schedule book is my treasure, I bring it with me whenever I go because I would like to jot down notes that is useful to me and this can always remind me the things that I need to do. What I am doing everyday are the obligation of a secretary, this allows me to adopt the working style in office easier.
As mentioned, I am an internal secretary, I am responsible in jotting down important notes and writing minutes in every general meetings. Doing paper works, releasing memos and notices are also what I am doing as a secretary. Also, I have participated in the Junior Achievement Company Program sponsored by HSBC. Through running a small company with my colleagues, I understood how a company works with different departments and organizational levels. I am confident that I will be a more competent candidate when shortlisted with others who are striking for the same post as me as I experienced with the way to work in a company.
All in all, I still wish to be a flight attendant more than a secretary, as being a flight attendant is more challenging and it can help me to gain more special life experiences when meeting different people and their stories. In addition, I am a very active person, I prefer to work in an aircraft instead of sitting in the office for the whole day facing thousands of words and documents. I like facing people rather than facing dead things because I can get feedback and response from the people I served. Therefore I can know how is my performance and make evaluation and improvement on it immediately. While doing office work are tedious and without challenges, I will be get bored soon after I start working in an office. In order to widen my vision, I decide to engage in the flight attendant industry after my graduation, and place ‘being a secretary’ in the second priority.