Missing time!

Visit at Shanghai Science & Technology Museum

Just a short moment of time, I finished my four-year BBA program in PSE, started to intern in the Business School of PSE Institute for two months to help finalize a marketing research project for data analysis and findings preparation and also help share knowledge to the next generation of students through teaching for another extra time during vacation, and already left my lovely country nearly five months for mission abroad in Shanghai, China.

Staying alone in a six-floor rental house near my company and working for the whole day, I did not realize that have already been here for four months and half, leaving around one month and half to stay. Time goes quite fast, leaving us a lot of memories and remarkable things. The time to learn from Henkel is shorter and shorter, and time to go back home is to come soon so that flight preparation will be needed.

Visit at Udong Mountain

During this meaningful momentum of time,  I have learnt a lot of things from my working place, especially the question "what is the timing for this project or what is the deadline of this task?" that my managers asked me and the mistakes that I have made. Having already spent a lot of time learning to understand the cultural differences until I could adapt myself into different situations with other  interns as well as employees here, I feel a bit disappointed with myself as the time for me to try to learn and bring back all exceptional knowledge from this one of the top ten companies (FMCG sector) in the world to my homeland is quite short and tight right now, so the only thing that I could obviously do right now is to do all things with my best to learn as much as I could and observe all potential points from my both managers as well as others, who have a lot of experiences in their lives.

Working in Business School of PSE Institute

To be exact with the remaining days, I leave less than 6 weeks to be here so that I will have to gear up my speed again to meet the international standardized levels and qualities performance done by other international interns. Had I understood the cultural differences, working style of international level employees, and working policy of this conglomerate, I would have gone even faster and been more capable to prepare myself in advance; however, I could not surely turn back to that pass time to correct all of those mistakes. Anyhow, all of those missing times and mistakes are now guiding me and will last long in my life. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, teaching me a lot of things even self-motivation, self-awareness, and professional working manners.

Time will not just stay at one point and surely never care about us, waiting us to go along with it. Therefore, we should do whatever we want as time is not returnable. Everyone has the same time per day – 24 hours to do whatsoever he or she wants – to stay on earth, but it is not really equal at all to those who fail to manage their time doing something worth to themselves.