It's Nice to have you back where you belong-Ammar Salehudin

What is glory, when all the glories are attributed to Allah alone..

Everyone who have seen this bank’s scholarship advertisement must have realised that somewhat yours truly managed to get his face printed on the national newspapers. Nothing to brag really, but the fact that the photoshoot was taken way 2 years ago for internal brochure circulation, but was recycled over and over again really makes me wonder on the question of whether the world has really ran out of advertisement model. Afterall I am not that good looking as to attract the likes of Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz to join this bank.

Ok enough of the rambling. If you are one of the scholarship applicant, please read this slowly.

Now the good side of the scholarship:

1) Get good handsome allowance for 3 years

Unfortunately, there is no free lunch in this world.

1) Please mind that the scholarship comes with 10-year bond of employment. If you are slow and steady kind of guy, and willing to take the risk of earning only 3-7% annual increment, with 2-3 months of bonus, then this is just a perfect organisation that you should join after PTD.

2) 10-year of employment is okay, as long as you could join the department that suits your interest. But having it pre-determined for you by the HR due to their sophisticated ‘long term human resource planning’ thingy, it is worth the while for you to think twice on whether to accept the scholarship or not. It is ok if you managed to get a good department that really is challenging in nature, but unfortunately if you are destined by the so called ‘long term human resource planning’ to be in a lousy department, then no one to blame but yourself for taking up the scholarship, stuck and bonded for ten years of doing crap wasting ten years of your precious life.

Don’t repeat my biggest mistake.

Take it easy, step by step.

Don’t be a man in a hurry like what I used to be when signing the contract, as no matter how you run, one wrong step, you will be delayed for ten years.

Don’t worry about guaranteeing a job by taking up the scholarship. If you managed to get this scholarship, it is an indicator that you will surely do fine in your career later on, be it in the foreign land or this country. The fact that you won the scholarship at such a young age of 17 shows that even if you have no guaranteed job now, you would greatly survive in the war of finding job when you graduated, with a bigger employment prospect and better future salary.








My ultimate advice:

Apply scholarship from all sponsors. If you get this bank scholarship as well as other non-bonding scholarship [which is now paying slightly lower allowance (lesser by GBP50) than the bank], then you should have already know you true potential.Go for a bigger prospect, whatever your definition of ‘career prospect’ is.

Pick the right sponsor, so that you wouldn’t waste the next 10 years of you life doing crap, and writing this unproductive blog during your office hour.

What’s the glory of having the bank scholarship, when for us, glory is such an impermanent thing….