I love to be in Civil Engineering!

Tonight, I want to share with you how I ended up studying degree in Civil Engineering in Universiti Teknologi Petronas. Don't worry, this thing have a very close relationship with my financial future. The truth, everything was a great coincident. I never thought in my life that I want to be a civil engineer in the future.

When I'm in my secondary school, my ambition was to be a surgeon or neurologist. At that time, my father was my role model. I want to be a respected person and a rich-looking people like him. To make long story short, I apply to UTP for Civil Engineering course. My plan was just to experience the interview sessions and get some friends there. I got lucky, UTP send a letter to my home saying that they accepted me to study there. The day I got my real SPM result, I consult with my father whether I need to go to UTP of not, and he give me a green light.

A few days before I went to UTP, I consult my father again. I told him that I really like business. I also want to be a doctor. To be honest, my Biology was not so good compare to my Physics and Additional Mathematics. That's the reason why I put aside my dreams to become a doctor. About business, my father told me that I can learn business by myself. I said okay, maybe I can take MBA after I graduated in order to improve my financial literacy. I'm trying to be flexible with my father's opinion. It is ironic how a doctor don't want his own son to be a doctor too.

Then I ask him why he want me to be a civil engineer, rather than a doctor. He said, he has many engineer friends and most of them are richer than him. Being an engineer, you don't have to always be in office, sometimes you come to the construction site, meet clients and do other stuffs. He always compare with his life, became a doctor, you have to be in office and meet patients to make money. If you are not there, you got no patients, means you got no money. It is very hard for a doctor to work for more than one clinics at one time. But for engineers, work for more than one projects are possible.

Now, after reading a lot of business books, I found one similarities. When come to investment, most of them will talk about properties like land, house and apartment. In order to give a great advantage to me, I must think how my profession in the future (civil engineer) can be manipulated in properties. I might use my specialties to improve the value of a property. Everything is just a matter of being creative and flexible. Thank god I'm taking civil engineering.

p/s- only Allah knows what will happen in the future but it is our responsibility to give the best in whatever we do. If we want to be rich, we will work for it and Allah will give it. Nothing is impossible.