03 | Embracing Change and Career Transitions as a Fresh Graduate w/ Thishni De Silva

In this episode of Sparking Sparks, we talk about embracing change. 2020 was an especially difficult year for job-hunting graduates like Thishni, and COVID-19 made matters worse by cancelling her plans. However one chance encounter sparked her to make the life-changing decision of switching from politics to becoming a journalist, and she even ended up hosting her own radio show, all without having prior experience. We also discuss childhood ambitions and stereotypical Asian career paths, and how they influenced our field of study at university. We both ended up switching our majors after our first year, and shared how that was the best decision we have ever made. ⏰ Timestamps ⏰ - Introduction to Thishni (00:42) - Post-COVID job hunting struggles (02:57) - Chance encounter with journalism (04:12) - How Thishni increased her chances of getting into (and eventually got into) a competitive journalism programme (04:58) - Everything happens for a reason (09:44) - Where you can listen to Thishni's radio show (Thoughts and Talks with Thishni) (11:12) - The most exciting thing about having a radio show (11:40) - The huge responsibility that the media plays (14:53) - How Thishni's childhood ambitions influenced her career choices (17:23) - Discussing stereotypical Asian career paths (18:55) - Thishni's law school to Bachelor of Arts transition (20:58) - Magdeline's pre-med (HSFY) to computer science transition (23:55) - Magdeline's reason for choosing computer science (26:22) - Thishni's advice for anyone having to deal with change (28:13) 💬 Thishni's Radio Show 💬 OAR FM, Spotify, Google Podcasts 🙋🏻‍♀️ Connect with me! 🙋🏻‍♀️ - Instagram: @magdelinehuang - YouTube: Magdeline Huang - Medium: Magdeline Huang - More info: https://mylinks.ai/magdelinehuang 🎵 Music 🎵 Aerosol of My Love Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/