"Jack Of All Trades"

It’s a term untuk refer kepada orang yang buat banyak benda pada satu masa yang sama. It’s like, Tukang masak pun dia, tukang kebun pun dia, tukang jual sayur pun dia, tukang putung daging pun dia…pokoknya, semua pun dia buat!!!

Memang best kan? You know orang ni mesti pandai cari duit dan kuat kerja. Confirm punya. Tidak lama, mesti kaya raya kan? Yup, that’s the basic idea. Tapi kalau pikir punya pikir, actually MAMPUkah seorang manusia untuk buat tu?

I get inspired to write about this when an acquaintant dropped by. Dia ni memang seorang yang sangat sibuk. You always see her running around. She’s doing one kind of business when I first met her. And then, I know she was waiting for another big-scale business loan- about public phones. And just recently the business is already going on. And just now, she just told me that she just attended a course to open a taska. I mean, wow…the businesses are all from different fields. Not even related to one another. It’s like a whole new book to open! First, dia ni memang bijak rebut peluang. Second, she stops at nothing. Always looking for more and more opportunities. Third, she’s willing to work harder. Fourth, she is a positive person, that Yes, I can do it!. And here comes the negativity – Can she perform at least to the standard of Good in all the fields she involves in? Yes, now you’re talking. The more things you get your hands on, the less attention you give to each of them. For example a cake. If you eat it alone, you can have the whole cake. If you have 4 persons to divide it for, you only get ¼ of the cake.

Sia start nampak issue ni sebab gara2 kawan sia ni mau jadi the Jack of All Trades, dia punya business yang awal2 tu sudah jadi tidak tentu. Orang yang buat deal dengan dia pun cakap mengeluh dan geleng kepala. Komitment dia macam melepaskan batuk di tangga saja. It’s good that she’s very ambitious, it’s a good thing. The negative people would call a person like her as Greedy. I won’t call her that. But all she needs is good balance. Sia tidak cakap dia tidak mampu, but dia mampu atau tidak, terpulang pada dia. Make sure dia jadikan diri dia tu MAMPU. Kalau tidak, apa yang dia buat tu akan memakan diri dia sendiri juga. Buat satu business tu bukan senang. So kalau jatuh tu senang, mau naik tu susah. Kalau setakat buat business secara “manja2” only, rasanya ada susah sikit. Melainkan ada disiplin yang betul2 kaw2. But biasalah manusia ni, mesti ada social life juga. Mesti ada masa untuk kawan dan family juga. Kalau dia tidak sacrifice any of those, mesti dia punya activity Jack of all trades tu – suam2 kuku saja. Silap2 investment teda balik modal, negative lagi ada. Kan susah? Bukan pula cari senang, tapi cari susah!

Bagi sia, apa2 hal pun, kena ikut rules juga. To have discipline is the main rule. Tidak boleh main redah saja. Sebab ambition kita ni bukan semestinya mendatangkan perkara baik pada kita – we HAVE TO make it work for us. Make it work!! That’s the tagline. Jadi, when someone said about “Being positive” – it’s true, but careful when to use it. If you want to do bad things and “be positive” that you are going to get away with it, then the positivity is going to hunt you back. You have to use all the motivation in the place, at the right time. Nothing is right for everything or everyone. I think I can apply this in my work too. Thinking positive without equally hard work and making use of opportunities – will spell “Vain” in the end. You guys realize the real challenge behind all this? It’s to use the RIGHT approach to your goals, and know how to adapt the approach according to your individual case, and then, make things work for you.

A good idea won’t work if we use the wrong approach. And this is when being too positive could be harmful. We must not ignore reality and yes, reality bites. To play the good game, you must follow the rules. Positivity alone is like trying to live in fantasy that we create, just to find out that we are very much in reality. So again, it’s bad to hear that all the hard work doesn’t pay. So to all the Jack of All Trades out there, I believe you people can do it. If you can pull it off, you can inspire a lot of wannabes out there. Then do it, and do it right :)