If you don't mind me asking, what is the type of training and consultation you provide to the public and also to corporate clients ??
I was a former business journalist. I was quite ambitious at that time to pursue that carrier and dream to work in multinational company like Reuters some day despite mostly wrote in Indonesian language, so I try to improve my English further. Unfortunately my eye got sick and after I got medication my eye function was deteriorated. It was hard at that time to watch computer screen. So I pursue another carrier and become an English teacher since my TOEFL quite good for Indonesian standard. I got 570 score.
After teaching English some months at English course near my house I found that I have enough experience to set up my own English course. And since I also have experience being a student in a good English course in Jakarta so I have seen their teaching strength and weakness. I set up a small English course at my house, put a banner in front of it and make a website to promote further. The English course is actually just has one room and I am the only teacher there. It is more like one man show business.
I target specific market which is an adult market and mostly get customers from university students and workers. After some time teaching and get more confident in my own method and system I start targeting companies and hotels around Jakarta.
And now I and my cousin set up a media monitoring company. She has extensive experience in journalistic, specializing in business sector, and also in media monitoring. Her English is much better then me and will do editor function for the company. You can actually do googling to know what the service is offering. It actually monitor news whether print and online and create resume with tone analyst daily. It also has biweekly or monthly report with more analysts. The service is needed for Public Relation effectiveness measurement and also for strategic management purposes.
No, I found it boring to get a college degree. To be honest, a waste of time really.
Think about this. Without a degree I wrote a basic operating system. And in India there are tens of thousands of computer science graduates every year who could not do that.
Take
this data for example :
Did these thousands of people write an OS or design a microprocessor ??
So there was no point in me pursuing a college degree, whether IT or some other.
Yup I think in IT sector there are many examples where high school graduate can create a successful businesses. In Indonesia we have such person. His name is Jim Geovadi. But I think you still need a degree to get a better job and more job security for your future. In Indonesia, there is no company who wants to hire highschool graduates for white color job.
In other sector, degree is very important for business. Take example a story of one of my student. She is working in a small research company but has conglomerate client, a large Indonesian cigaretts company. The contract is huge and the operating cost is so minimal because the computing will be done by the owner who is the director of the company and only have 4-5 employee. The survey will use freelancers across Indonesia. One of the thing that make the company become success is the fact that the owner is a Phd graduates and have experience on the work.
Jim Geovadi, only a high school graduate.
Jim Geovedi (born 28 June 1979), is an IT security expert from
Indonesia who focuses on the discovery of computer and
network security vulnerabilities.
BBC News described him as a guy who "doesn't look like a Bond villain... but possesses secrets that some of them might kill for".
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Career
Information security
Geovedi co-founded and ran several IT security consulting companies. In 2001, he co-founded C2PRO Consulting, providing general IT consulting mostly for government agencies and, in 2004, co-founded Bellua Asia Pacific, (renamed
Xynexis International later in 2010) and
Noosc Global, a managed security services company. He was part of hackers group that began in 1996 called
w00w00, where he met the future co-founder of Bellua,
Anthony Zboralski.
He is currently based in
London and has been interviewed on issues including: satellite security system,
[1][2][3] banking security
[4] and law enforcement.
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