“Since you’re graduating soon, are there any more achievements or goals that you wish to accomplish before you graduate? Or any advice that you would like to give to the continuing UG students of HKUST?”
“I’m a civil engineering student, my expected monthly salary after graduation would be around HKD$20,000. I’m not worried about not finding a graduation job. Students of other majors may envy me, but honestly, for me and most other people that I know of my major, we don’t like civil engineering by itself, because we want the job and most importantly, the salary. However, under some circumstances, after three years of reflection in my education, I decide to not working as a civil engineer in the future. I want to be a social worker. I enjoy the sense of achievement from helping people, and I hope I can do something to contribute helping the underprivileged in the systematically unfair society of Hong Kong. You see, I found my career path only towards the end of Year Two or the start of Year Three. If I could go back into the past and have a better career planning, and make up my mind to transfer my studies or work on knowing more about social work at an earlier stage, I will be able to walk an easy path on working as a social worker in the future.”
