Founder of Kids4Kids, Ms Michele Lai @ Fireside
採訪者：蔣沛芸，楊秉翰
Interviewer: Wendy Chong, Douglas Yang
Editor: Wendy Chong
編輯：蔣沛芸
Wendy
Hi, welcome to Echo's Fireside. Joining us today is Miss Michele Lai, founder of Kids4Kids. Also, we are honored to have Douglas, our previous guest who is co-interviewing. So my first question is you once said that you appreciate delay life attitude of never giving up when things go wrong but instead trying to find a solution. We are high school students and we always face problems in subject selection or University application. We also know that you majored in computer science before at 19 years old and then transferred to marketing. Is that because you made the wrong choice for your first major? So you made amendments to that? Was it a difficult decision at that age?
Michele
Okay, thank you again Echo team and Wendy for inviting me to this Fireside chat. So there were quite a few questions in this. I'll try and maybe break it down a little I guess in terms of how to problem solve or find solutions to challenges and things like that. Like I said, whether it's cause selection. I think a lot of times when we are faced with a problem or a challenge, we usually then go into panic mode. And for those of you that know a little bit of psychology, then you just go into fright mode and then you just shut down a little bit. Right. So happens when you go into exams as well. So I would suggest when you have something daunting then to break down the problem into smaller chunks because if you can break that down into a smaller piece, then you can actually chip away at it and you can feel that you're making some progress. But if something is very big, then you're trying to tackle it, whether it's even like what to do with my life, what course, then you might just get stuck and not move forward. So the best thing is to break it down. In my case, as you said, I did computer science and then I changed. Actually, I'm not quite sure it is true what you just said. Not quite sure where you got some of the information from. So just to clarify a little bit, so I grew up in Australia and at that time in Australia we actually go into University when we are 16, turning 17. So quite young. And in Australia, similar to a British system, you choose whether you want to study law, medicine, engineering. There's no Liberal studies at that time. So actually at that time I really wanted to do, I think initially medicine, but then I couldn't because I didn't make the right cause choices. So I couldn't. Not to say it was impossible but it would have been a hard struggle, right. So I was also good at humanities. Then I actually applied for law. I did get in and at that time my parents thought that girls wouldn't make, you know, it would be a stressful career. Okay. That's what I heard from their friends and DA DA DA. And at that time my dad read somewhere that computer science was the future. So he actually drove me to enroll in computer science. And life is not a straight line. It never will be. I think then how I changed the marketing was because actually when I was about 15, I started organizing a lot of events and I was already doing marketing without realizing it. So in University when I was doing my computer science, then some other friends would say, you see like you would really do well in marketing. I'm like, what's that? And then when I did take some marketing courses and I thought, oh wow, this seems so easy. I'm having fun. It doesn't even seem difficult then that's when I did the switch. So I would say to you when you're choosing your subject was quite a long answer. But it is important to give yourself options so if you don't know what you want to do, clearly....
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