Experience VS Good grades

Salam all

Work has been very choatic since last month. Invoices, customer complaints, changing route and now with my manager leaving the company, I have even more workload. For next 3 weeks, my senior and I will have 'spring cleaning' filing and workspace. So much to do and so little time. I ended up bring my work home.

The only one thing I enjoy in working life is the hands-on training given. I realized whatever I learn in school has gone to waste coz non of the education I received in school can be applied in working life. It's totally different. In school, people only talk what they memorize but they don't walk their talk. They do not know how it really feels like to be in a pressurizing environment and time constraint. The emotional effect is not applied coz it can't be taught through the book.

As I always mentioned, I hate dealing with numbers but at work, I enjoy doing it because it challenging and solving people's problem is my key interest. I barely passed my Accounts and failed my Business Accounting, but now I am handling company's petty cash and client's Statement of Accounts. In school, I swear I do not know what the heck is that though it is being thought. The reason is I learnt best doing rather than memorizing.

I admit, I used to hate working in the office coz I found it to be a boring life. However, as I progressed, I really love the knowledge I received every single day though it can be stressful. I am considering to extend my contract till next year until I get my diploma. I just feel that there's no difference if I get my diploma or not. It's doesn't make any big impact. But I still have to complete it for the sake of my dad's hard work.

I dislike cynical people who thinks that the higher the education the educator have, the smarter the student will be. I nearly got this tuition assignment but when asked about the grade I get for my Math and English for O level, they turned me down. So I fight back to stand up for what I feel. "So what if the person is smart at learning (memorizing only) but is a failure at teaching. What good does to your child? And it doesn't mean that if the teacher is a PHD, the student will end up like him or her. Is how much effort does your student puts in and how the teacher can motivate the student to enjoy learning." And I added, "I had 4 years of experience in teaching kids, and more than 50% of them improve in their studies although my grades in school are bad. You may feel disgusted to see my results slip but I hope you think twice when you see the A's my students get".

Still, they are considering to take another educator. I am not desperate for this assignment. I was only trying to bring out the point that good grades is never equivalent to experience.

Salam,
Rohani