A woman shared her story of her being lookdown by her classmate back in her schooldays. In her post, she mentioned that she was always bullied by a group of her classmates during her JC days. They will always make fun of her and even made a bet that she will not make it through her studies.
However, it was not the case, she graduated and managed to get a decent job in a local bank. Within 3 years, she was promoted to assistant manager and was put in charge of 12 people.
Recently, her team is looking to hire new people and to her surprise, one of the boys who used to bully her applied for the job. She looked forward to seeing him in the interview and prove him wrong.
In her post:
“I would like to share my story. Back in JC, a group of boys in my class would make fun of my grades. They even bet if I would retain in JC 1 (I didn’t). Only my close girlfriends know but I was so depressed I tried committing suicide once because my self-esteem was so poor. No matter how hard I studied I did very very badly for my A levels and went to a private Uni.
In uni I was plagued by the memory of the boys looking at me, in jest, when I collected my A level results. One of them, let’s call him Douche, said to me “judging from your expression I’m guessing even SIM won’t want you”. I walked to the bus stop while tears and snot dripped down my face while clenching my results.
It was these exact parting words that throughout Uni, I worked my ass of and graduated as one of the tops in my cohort. After 200 or so applications I got an internship with a local bank, made some connections and secured a full-time position before graduating in 2017. I admit coming into the working world, I didn’t know much. But I just knew that I never wanted to be looked down upon again.
As a girl, I had 3 years to head start my career compared to the boys. Working life wasn’t easy but I was enormously blessed to have capable and patient bosses to guide me and rose up the ranks quickly.
I’m now an assistant manager to a team of 12 working in corporate treasury, happily engaged to the love of my life I met in what many may consider “some lousy private Uni”. Today before lunch HR showed us the candidates for our SGUnited traineeship and I saw Douche’s resume. I grinned like an idiot throughout the day. Am really looking forward to our interview. 2nd upper Hons from NUS, decent testimonials and relevant internship experience, imo he stands a good chance of getting hired. And I need someone to make me coffee in the morning :))
To my JC2 self, today is the day we will end this painful yet bittersweet chapter of our lives.“
