Now Armed with a Tie and a Office Shirt

What is the definition of lucky?

Is it getting what you specifically want, or stumbling into things that you didn’t want in the first place but, after thinking about it, needed?

I guess that pretty sums up what had happen to me since my last entry, oh-so many months ago.

I’ve dropped the freelancer work culture aspirations and ended up in a corporate monkey suit.

Well, it doesn’t sound that bad, really. There are after all the undeniable perks such as a stable (and very sweet I might add!) income$$$ and the experienced gained from working at a multinational company.

In case you didn’t know, I’ve ended up working with DKSH (Kneel before the awful might of the Fantree!).

We are a trading house, dealing with goods such as condoms all the way to pet food. We distribute M&Ms, Ovaltine, Pedigree, Whiskas, Scholl Shoes, Brand’s Essence of Chicken, Mattel Toys, Durex, Mamy Poko, Sofy, Gallo Wines, Timex watches, Casio digital cameras, raw chemicals and a shitload of other stuff.

We are basically the largest and the big daddy of the distribution industry. However, being the middle man, we are constantly being torn into two halves by the agencies we represent and the global key buyers such as Giant/Carrefour/Tesco.

Being a management trainee, my job is to… well, learn. A one-year educational tour of the various departments that makes up the company.

Can’t say that being in a sales field was what I had in mind as a career choice, but it’s a prim and proper, 5-days a week, 9-5 job.

We will see how it goes then.

“Fall down seven, get up eight.”
- Old Japanese saying -