New Job

I forgot to update that I got a job offer, working with the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences ( ICES) as an Industrial Programme Development officer.

The job scope will primarily be as a liaison between industry and research groups at the institute. I would prefer to focus on the Environmental and Energy sectors, though that will depend to a large extent on what kind of research they are successfully doing there.

I'll be based off Jurong Island,which might potentially be boring. But, as I said before in my interview, there is also something familiar about it, since my father used to work off Pioneer Road, and I grew up in Bukit Batok and Jurong, so the whole area and its industrial feel is not necessarily a bad thing.

The remuneration is really not bad for a starting job, and there seems to be potential to learn and grow.

At the same time, I was advised by a friend in finance that if I actually am interested in going into finance, I really should get on the bandwagon very soon. One way to do that is to sign up for the CFA programme, and to sign up for the level 1 and 2 exams. I might actually start to do that as well.