My name is Samuel Aditya Chendra, I am from Jakarta, and I am currently studying in Curtin Singapore. Since I was a small mischievous kid, I like to ‘mess’ things up; disassembled clocks, flashlights, toys and even some of my sister’s dolls. At first, I can only take these objects apart, but as the year goes on and with the help of the internet I learned how to assemble them back. It made me felt like I was doing reverse engineering. And the first time I successfully assembled these objects back, I was extravagantly jubilant.
The late 90’s generation was born in the technology era; we grew up around technologies. The internet, which is the network of networks, simplifies most of our mundane activities; it even simplifies business processes. Before there was internet, we advertised using mouth-to-mouth and newspaper. Now, the internet has a pop-up advertisement and other creative types of advertisement.
Not just advertising, finance and accounting are also simplified by internet. There are several applications for accounting that help the user record the journal and ledger. For finance, there are numerous sites and applications that show the stock values. Before the internet, we must manually put in the data to the journal and ledger, and we must contact stock broker or look at the newspaper to see stock values.
For my personal favorite line of work, I would like to be involved with the technology development in businesses such as, marketing, accounting and financing. The reason why I like marketing is the connection and influencing. Even though there are certain general standards in the market, each person has its own personal standards that determine how easily influence the person is. It is one of the most abstract practices, which is why it is quite interesting for me.
Like I said earlier, I like to play with some of the home appliances. Disassembling is the fun part, but assembling it back takes a lot of patience and thoroughness; so does accounting. When putting in the data to the journal and ledger, carefulness is the number one priority. Financing also need this attributes to make the annual report. Even though both of them don’t sound as interesting as marketing, accounting and financing are the most stable and clear practices. My passion for assembling and numbers make accounting and financing interesting.
Samuel Chendra 