Self worth and a week pass and upcoming

Today I learnt that I have an ex-classmate earning 5 times my salary. All in all, honestly, it affects my personal self valuation. Maybe I should have had gone into the same industry as her, maybe studied a little harder, be more focused and prayed a little more. I do not know whether she is the exception, but heck, I feel pretty small compared to her. She is an SAP specialist, whether or not she has reached/is reaching the ceiling limit, I do not know, but it could be.

commented "If you compare IT and banking, it is like comparing two pyramids of different sizes, IT being the smaller pyramid, you go up faster, banking being the bigger pyramid, you start lower, you have more to go through, but when you get to the top, you are much higher compared to IT"

p/s I think I have self image problems.

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Over the week I received a call, asking me to attend a "Problem Solving Test" event for a dream company. From what I know (having once attended such an event), the test is modeled/a variation of the GMAT. The last time I attended it (earlier this year), I barely managed to complete it and scored a miserable 66.67%.

Not only that, but I actually rejected the company when I realised that the job being offered was something that I did not want to do, and had a very narrow future (I was told that there was a 1% chance that I would be allowed to do branding). I was also told "if you do not accept our offer, you will never have a chance to work with us, we only offer people one chance"

So based on my past score (miserable), my past communications with the company (bad), I figured that I had maybe a 2% chance of getting what I wanted, so I did the only sensible thing a person would do.... I attended the testing event!

Why was I driven to do so, I will never understand. But hey, the test seemed much better this time round. So maybe I will improve on my past score. And have a chance.... :)

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Bumped into an old old acquintance (who was involved in setting up the dot com years back), he is an investment banker. I should touch base with him and find out more about investment banking and how to get involved into it, he mentioned briefly that my next move would to progress from business banking to corporate banking before heading for a merchant bank (eta 3 1/2 years)

Interesting