My name is Deo Selosa, 45 years old this year, originally from the Philippines and have been enjoying my life here in Western Australia for about nine (9) years. I am divorced already with no kids.
I am a Mechanical Engineer but didn’t really exercise fully
my profession. My working experience mainly involves in Power Plant operations
and maintenance and have been working in the control room, basically running
efficiently the power generation. Most of my exhilarating experience came from
Saudi Arabia wherein I have had honed my skills in power generation. I have
been involved in the National Grid of Western Region of Saudi Arabia, after
which I joined Saudi Aramco in one of the Independent Power Plant in Saudi.
Those were the days that I was involved in operational procedure development
with safety in mind, trainings of newly inducted operators and technicians, and
part of the emergency incident of the entire Petrochemical complex.
Currently, I am working with Synergy, WA’s largest energy
retailer as a Gas Turbine Operator based @ Pinjar Power Plant, about 80
kilometres from Perth. I am currently involved in the transition of WA into
renewables and sustainability market. Being a Power Plant professional, I am
happy that I am back in the power plant industries. It took me awhile to land a
job that best suited my experience here in Australia. It took me numerous
trainings, tickets/certificates and local experience to get back to an industry
I called my passion.
At my age, personally I still cannot recall my areas of
strength. But what I can tell is that the level of my maturity has evolved
through the years. I used to be hard-headed, immature, and a little bit quick
fused. I guess with the level of experience I have been involved with have
groom me to be a better person; both personal and professionally. I believe my
strength nowadays are more of helping people achieve their passion and
influence them as I was once influenced to be more in life.
When I was conceptualising to pursue my MBA, I have asked a
friend of mine who just recently finished his MBA. According to my friend,
Organisational Behaviour and Management was his favourite subject in MBA. The
curiosity with OBM grew when I was taking one subject under Dr. Ian Boudville,
he really recommends taking OBM the following semester.
My interest to OBM really is to explore more of my social
interactions, communication skills and my critical and creative thinking. To
further push myself.
I am not a manager of any organisation, and I am not really
looking into becoming a manager yet. As I am more of a follower, I am taking my
time to absorb all learnings I could get from my peers and leaders. As an
individual who follows his leader most effectively, is usually develops into
leadership promptly. A wise follower has many benefits, among them is to
acquire knowledge from his leaders. (Napoleon Hill, 1937, p.161) Besides, any
one of us can be a leader without the position.
Taking MBA is more of a personal choice, in the pursuit to
personal enrichment. I love to meet a lot of people and to interact with them,
I believe one of the aspects of this unit is to learn and adapt to people
around you. With this unit, I intend to immerse myself and learn all facet this
unit have to offer for personal growth.
Before coming to Australia, my father was undergoing
dialysis. All the while I thought he was not in favour of us migrating to
Australia as he was thinking that time that I am going to leave him behind. On
his death bed, I told my father that I am withdrawing my migration plans to
Australia and will stay with him but to my surprise, he told me to pursue my
Australian dreams and just find him a relative that can act as his caregiver.
During that time, he made me promise to fulfil my dreams and be successful in
Australia. I have no idea on what his idea of success was, as we, as a family
never really into competitions and accolades, but knowing my father, education
is always a priority to him, hence I am pursuing my MBA in honour of him.
Reference:
Napoleon Hill, 1937, Think and Grow Rich, Capstone
Publishing Ltd., p.161
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