人生职业生涯的五个黄金阶段 （转）

人生职业生涯的五个黄金阶段 （转）

　　人生的职业生涯是很漫长的过程，但是其中的五个阶段被誉为黄金阶段，让我们来一起分享一下。
　　(一)首先是二十四岁到二十九岁，我称做〈工作试用期〉
　　在此期间要尽量去摸索、尝试各种工作，毕竟实际理论与理想总会有所差距，常听一些刚入社会的年轻人抱怨：这份工作没有前途、根本学不到东西。甚至一些年纪已不小的人，老在唱回想曲：当初如果怎样、怎样，现在就会如何、如何。其实，到了最后还在发牢骚，除了浪费自己的口水，还会吵到别人。
　　我要奉劝所有的年轻人，这段期间，在找到真正适才又适所的工作之前，宁愿不断的换工作！是的，不喜欢老板、工作环境不如想象的好……都可以马上离开。海阔天空，想做什么就做什么，千万不要勉强自己，明知道工作不适合，却没有勇气站起来辞职，或顾于面子——要证明自己也有工作，能胜任任何工作，再加上人类天性攫取厌动，所以对工作〈食之无味、弃之可惜〉的情形屡见不鲜。工作不快乐，却一直耗着，拖过一天算一天，慢慢的就自然会掉进了工作只是糊口的陷阱。
　　对很多人而言，不换换工作，有时还真不知道自己最喜欢的会是什么。比方讲商科的人，能做的事太多了，可以拓展市场，可以做市场分析师，也可以做商务行政的事，如果不多尝试，老是在头一个工作上原地踏步，岂并成了井底之蛙？因此，要好好利用这五年去挖掘潜能，如能及早认清自己，便已在成功的路上迈出了一大步。
　　(二)二十九岁到三十四岁，我称做〈奠基期〉
　　孔子强调〈三十而立〉是很有道理的。到了这个时候还不知道在做什么，还在天天换工作，那可就要拉警报了，你在二十九岁以前找到了一个真正适合自己志趣的工作后，下面五年就必须静下心来，全力在工作上学习，奠定基础。我认为这是年轻人在创业阶段中最重要的一还环。
　　一个人到了三十四、五岁，如果还看不出一点点成功的倪端，潜力无法发挥，甚至还在摸索、彷徨的话，根据专家指出，他的〈前途〉大致已定。
　　(三)三十四岁到三十九岁这五年，我称之为〈冲刺期〉
　　在此期间，无论体力、脑力都达到了最颠峰的状态，由于已经奠定了基础，可以在最擅长的工作岗位上，好好冲刺，充分发挥。据我观察，一个真正有实力的人，到这一阶段几乎可以独当一面，成为高级主管了。
　　(四)三十九到四十四岁，是〈发扬光大期〉
　　这时冲刺已经结束，正迈向成功之途，所以要顺势将奋斗的精神发扬光大，找寻全方位的磨练与挑战机会，将工作的局面增量扩大。
　　(五)四十五岁以后则进入〈享受期〉
　　此时并不是什么都不用做了，而是要准备把工作经验传授给下一代，在〈施比受更快乐〉的人生最高境界中好好享受一下。这就是说，你一方面在工作岗位上仍要贡献智慧，另一方面则要多花时间去培育子女或训练员工。

RC (residential committee) as observer

I joined RC (residential committee) as observer since Nov last year and experienced many activities for past 8 months. RC, the same title called JuWeiHui in China, but more active in getting people involved. I as a Singapore PR here and functioned as grassroot leader in pioneer zone 11, attend monthly meeting for updated info, participant in organizing activities (harmony racial day, national celebration, lantern festival…) for residents, sometime need to sell the tickets, hang national flag for others and weekly duty at RC office…

What do I get from RC?
- meet more people just stay nearby your house;
- know what is going on in this zone that you are living and get yourself involved;
- managing facility in the zone and you can meet more people;
- some benefitt for members
- others

A man is as great as the dreams he dreams

A man is as great as the dreams he dreams,
as great as the love he bears;

As great as the values he redeems,
and the happiness he shares.

A man is as great as the thoughts he thinks,
as the worth he has attained;

As the fountains at which his spirit drinks,
and the insight he has gained.

A man is as great as the truth he speaks,
as great as the help he gives,

As great as the destiny he seeks,
as great as the life he lives.

Pioneer MRT in service from 28 Feb 09

Notes from trading seminars from SGX

3M: Method, Mind & Money management;

All about greed & fear; Obama vowed to crack down on 'greed culture';

3 participants: Institute players (industry knowledge & size), floor traders (speed & control, using technical analysis) & retail speculators (most of them don't how to sell and don't follow the trend);

Priority: long term survival; steady growth of capital; making high profits;

Successful behaviour for remisiers: competent, sound integrity, sound mind, resilient & effective communicator;

What does a remisiers provide: literacy, confidence, feel & collective experience;

Key fundamentals to be becoming a successful trader: understand risk, cash flow and plan long term survival; develop a discipline for stead capital growth; develop a trading system or methodology;

DEEP (Direction; Entry; Exit; Position sizing)

Wang FangHua at NTU

Attended a lecture at NTU on 15th Feb 09(organized by SJTU alumni)

1st time meeting in RC zone 11

I met with some of the RC (Resident Committee) leader mid of last year and put the application to join Pioneer Zone 11 RC as a Grassroot Leader later. No other reason, I just want to know how they maintain the HSE (Health, Safety & Environment) around the resident area and how they organize these activities for residents.

To me, the contents of the meeting is quite interesting, including a lot trivial matters, for examples: one cobra was caught finally; children fighting at study corner; bicycle stolen by someone; something put outside in an unsafe way; to identify needy family during economic downturn; open house for opening of Pioneer MRT station; happy birthday to 4 members; activities preparation for this year including 10th anniversary for zone 11; looking for suggesting and improvement etc.

For 1st 3 month, I am still not a formal member, and as an observer.

Motor bike inspection at Vicom Inspection Center

According the LTA (Land Transport Authority), motorcycle need to send for inspection every 3 years, otherwise you can renew your road tax and insurance plan. so i decided to go for the nearest one - Vicom (Bt Batok).

Testing fee: S$ 18.19 inclusive 7% GST for 1st inspection;
Testing Period: 10 mins;
Testing method: it looks quite completed, physical check, special check at exhaust outlet, record sound level of engine etc...
Got failed? I did see some one failed (the rider showed long face after getting result), and had to repair according and go for testing again.

My bike passed testing, and received the test certificate on the spot.

Happy New Year 2009

Happy New Year! We are at the beginning of the year of 2009 now. Wish everyone & myself has a very lucky, happy, and rewarding new year!

Here are some peronsal plans for 2009.


1. Making long term and big goals to accomplish in 2009. I always wanted to ask the question: "What did you accomplished in the previous year?" This is the test question that many of us, including myself, feel embarrased to answer. To make the 365 days collectively meaningful is more important than individual days, and seperate actions. Focus by eliminating goals. I know I am the typical P (Perceiving) type of person, who would like to follow my internal passion to anything that appears interesting to me. By focusing on several things that is really both important and meaningful, I believe I will have a better 2009.

2. Family commitment. Siyuan got illness with ALL, he need intensive treatment for next 10 months and a big amount of hopital bills are on the way. I need to overcome this period and bring him back to normal life.

3. Keep learning. "Live as if you would die tomorrow, learn as if you would live forever". I am going to 35 years old but sometimes I started to feel the tendency of keeping what I have been used to do, and resist in learning new things. No good trend. I believe I will keep learning about technical issues, planning & scheduling, management & leadership, and to live good life. I just want to keep shaping my characters to archive more (or more importantly, learning what real archivement means).

4. Be a good person in real life. This is a wired goal, but let me explain. I want to keep my friend and family circle closer, and smaller. In real life, I am a father, a husband, a son, and a friend. I need to make sure I take care of people around me first by spending more time (offline), celebrate holidays, and creating memories that we will remember in long run.

5. Excercise. I ignored excercised in 2008 and am getting fat year by year. It is the time to pick up my excercise routine (runing, playing badminton and swimming) and keep it top priority. I hope it can reduce my weight (targeting 5 kg weight loss) and make myself more healthy.

6. Finally, I want to be a good person, with good mind, and peaceful life. I want to archive more while keeping my personal life happier than ever.


The world around us was crazy in 2008 - with the natural disaster in China (snow, and earth quick), and financial crisis, and then the ressession, 2009 won't be another too sunny and bright year, and "change" maybe is the main topic for 2009. However, I always try to stand out of the daily life to get a sense of direction. I hope I would right more items than I did this year.

Again, happy new year!

Summary of My 2008

2008 was a tough year for me. Combining the pressure of family, and personal life,it was maybe the most exhausted year for me, and there was some important or milestone events in my life:
1. Settle new house in Singapore. HDB 4A room at Boon Lay extension, bought at 282k, and I believe the current market value at least 330k (based on latest transaction price from HDB site);
2. Fianicial crisis and stock market meltdown, it did cause a big paper loss from my stock profile, I don't expect it will recover soon;
3. Switch career from chemical sector to Power generation by changing job; in today's market condition, power generation should be safer than most of other industry;
4. Siyuan got illness with ALL after return from Shanghai, he need intensive treatment for next 10 months and continue to be treated for another 2 years;

狄更斯《双城记》

"这是最好的时代，也是最坏的时代；这是光明的季节，也是黑暗的季节；这是智慧的时代，也是愚蠢的时代；这是希望之春，也是失望之冬！"

Charles Dickens:

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."

源自巴菲特的名言

人生如滚雪球,重要的是找到很湿的雪和很长的山坡。

Sentences from Keppel magazine

Success is often measure in dollars and cents in a modern world. Thus, a job with high pay and great perks is not surprisingly a common benchmark by which one is judged to have ‘arrived’ or ‘made it’ in life.


You must have guts. You must grab every opportunity and do your best to deliver. Remember that opportunities do not knock on your door everyday. You must step out of your comfort zone to experience what the life ‘outside’ has to offer.

HSE day in KMC

KMC achieved 2 millions working hours without LTI (lost time incidents), so celebration was held together with staffs from Keppel energy (HQ) in KMC, some interesting points,

1. two thirds of staffs from HQ are ladies, obviously they are not willing to come here, due to location (too far away from city), facility (sometime no signal for your mobile);
2. all KMC staffs and contractors were wearing same t-shirt with safety logo, and other were not, so activities were always separated into 2 group automatically;
3. I was more concern the presentation from our MD TG Ong, he mentioned one word many time – ‘integrated’, I agree it is the right way to go;
4. now the world is facing financial crisis, it is challenge for us and also opportunity for us to buy something at a cheaper price. For KE, ‘buy or make’ is not a easy dicision even we have enough cash and have a very strong balance sheet.

1st organized badminton activities in Nanyang CC

I have been playing badminton on and off for past 1 year, want to persist on this kind of excise, but there always are many difficulties: busy schedule, no teammates and no organizers…
Now I volunteer to be the organizer of the team and try to set some ground rules and form up a solid team. Below is the proposal that I have sent out for comments,

“for future, to make this excise regular on every Sunday afternoon, some simple guideline to be made, I think. Here, I just write down a few points for your considerations, any comments please do feel free to contribute.

1. To avoid to book the court at last minute and ensure the court is available, I will book it before every Tuesday without asking you (preferred time slot: in between 1230 - 0430), and send it to every one after that for confirmation;
2. Location will be Nanyang CC (S$5 per hour) if no surprise, if no slot during that period, Jurong West stadium or Geh Pok CC will be alternative option;
3. I'd like to implement AA system, and share all the cost by all, S$5 per person for every time (based on 2 hours) to members, I will prepare a box for you to drop in;
4. To encourage every one bring in new members to join in, just be free to 2 times for trial for new members, and we do consider more if the new member is lady;
5. I will prepare a log sheet to record down all these expenditures and send to all in the end of every month, any extra we may consider buying some drinks or rewarding gifts to those loyal team members who do participate it every time and always be punctual;
6. Just bring you own racket and drinking water, and be present in due time, I will settle the rest;
7. Here I volunteer to do all the booking and all these preparations for the time being if no objection from all of you, and I am going to charge you (Wang, CheeHwa & Zhang), please do bring your S$5 to site, and free for Mr. William for 2 times (Actually I am very excited about that - The Return of King);
8. We will try this system for 1 -2 months, and I will look into above matters from time to time, may revise it if situation changes.
9. I will bring in a few of my old frinds (from NTU) if not enough participants later on in due course. “


To be honesty, the response is great and all almost everyone were present and be punctual yesterday. We have been playing for almost 3 hours (in Nanyang badminton, we always get ‘book 1 free 1’ based on previous record, that is also one reason I choose Nanyang CC as my preferred location)

A good start is almost 50% of the success, just keep it up and make it one part of my life.