If I can take it, I can make it.
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▶ 1. Life as a Telemarketer
After she graduated from CNU, she got a job as a telemarketer at the P Hotel. Most graduates of the mass communication department got jobs in the areas of advertising companies or the press, but she wanted to live a more practical life and acquire useful business skills through hands-on experience. So she got a job of telemarketer. When she first got this job, however, she found that this job couldn’ satisfy her own values. When she was a university student, she participated in many student movements. So she got many opportunities to meet students who neglected the classes. Taking these opportunities, she started to think “ have to help these people who are poorer than me, and not live just a happy, free, and wealthy life.”While she was working, she realized that there are many second-class citizens like working-moms and unprivileged groups such as as telemarketers. So she worked there with a mind to improve and get lessons from their lives.
Also while she worked as a telemarketer, she got to know that telemarketing is an important marketing channel which make relationships with people through the telephone. When her company was turned over to an out-sourcing company, she could experience various telemarketing centers like construction firms, financial corporation, etc. Her accumulated communication skills from various experiences were recognized, so she was transferred to the consulting department.
▶ 2. Hardships as a Consultant
She experienced many hardships after she became a consultant. Especially, as a woman, many things were daunting. It’ normal for women to work. Usually, parenting or house-keeping is their first plan. So as often as she spoiled her work, she felt the temptation to quit this job. So after she felt a job as the consultant was too hard, she started her own consulting company to have a balance between her job and life. But there were also hardships too because our society see a working woman with a biased view. It seemed that there are certain walls like the glass ceiling and the glass wall that women can’ cross. For that reason, she confined herself to a particular frame. But she had a vision to help people in need and she felt a sense of accomplishment in her work when her clients’problems were solved well. That vision and the sense of accomplishment made her overcome all these hardships.
▶ 3. The Most Important Experience During Undergraduate Years
Her most important experience during undergraduate years was the “tudent club activity.”When she entered the university, herself was her priority. “ow can I get excellent results?”or “ow can I get a job?”were her main concerns before she joined student club activity. But when she involved in club activities, she realized that many people are connected to each other in this society. From that, she felt a sense of responsibility, duty, and confidence about her work. Also taking care of other people made her take care of herself, too. If she wanted to help other people, she had to stand upright first. And when she started her career in the world, this experience became a motive to rely on when she was faced with hardships.
“ want to help working women.”Her vision is helping women to find that they are extraordinary beings. In the past, for women, working was just a choice, but these days it’ a duty to jump into the labor market. But ironically, they have to do both housework and company work at the same time. Also when they do company work, it drives them to feel a sense of guilt because they have to do housework, but there is no enough time for them to do both. Therefore, they get double stress from their work, and finally they lose their heart from stress. They are degenerated to become not only women who are bad at housework but also bad at company affairs. But if they have to do it at all, she wants to make them happy with their work and help them to find their happiness in their lives.
▶ 5. Messages for CNU Students
There are 2 messages that she wants to tell.
First, if there is a conflict situation, take it for granted. “onflict is quite a natural thing because different people have different views. But most people directly get stress from conflict. But if you accept it as a natural thing, you can focus on ‘ow can I solve this problem,’not on stress.”
Second, make a long-term plan, do not pursue short-term success. “hen I first got a job, I’ a fall behind case than other students from department of mass communication. But I had a long-term plan like ‘ want to help people like secondclass citizens.’Of course, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Of course, there were a lot of failures and frustrations. But with this long-term plan, I could endure short-term failures. And later, all these failures became my experience. Nowadays, with the spreading of SNS, many people compare themselves to others. They are apt to envy of others’success and because of that, they only pursue a short?term success. But I think this would rather block their future. So I want CNU students to shut their eyes, don’ listen to anything and just go steadily towards pursuing long-term goals.”
Jeong Su-yeon | By CP Reporter