Chapter 1: Just Graduated and Fresh Off the Boat!

Life passes you by when you are in College. It is a period full of experiences that will actually have a direct bearing on your immediate future. College life is a fictional life if you ask me. It is nothing compared to what is in store for you when you remove that toga and start preparing your resume.

My college life wasn’t any close to an ideal one. I had my taste of bad gambles and wacky adventures that juggled my priorities beyond their limits. But it is normal actually. It is normal for an adolescent to have fun and live that age to the maximum. I feel sorry for those who simply stuck their heads on their textbooks and not enjoy what is actually around the campus. When you are young, you must enjoy it while at it.

I keep telling people of this age, “Enjoy it while it last!” Yes, because youth is a luxury. There are so much one can do in that age that cannot be enjoyed ten to twenty years later. It is such an exciting time when you are in that stage of your life. And once it ends, there is no going back. You will be forced by the same age you were rushing to get you into the older people’s league.

I once had a trainee who just graduated from an exclusive school. “Sir, I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering majoring in Robotics”, she said. I was impressed. I have never heard of that course when I was in college. I guess I am “old school”! She seemed to be so confident when she gave that smile at me during her entry interview in my department where she was assigned by our Human Resources Department. “That’s great!”, I said. “Then you probably are the one I have been waiting for this assignment I want to be done soon”. She pocketed that smile of hers. I didn’t know why. Was it something that I said? I was only as candid as I always was.