life's lessons

10 reasons why being the eldest child is relevant to your CV/resume as a skill:

1. You are comfortable with being the "Go-To" person: everyone in your family feels comfortable asking you to do anything and everything that they should be capable of doing themselves and can therefore handle anything that comes your way with ease; from booking airplane tickets to babysitting

2. You have been in a position of responsibility practically your whole life

3. You are able to subdue personal interest/wishes for the greater good: team player; willing to take a hit for the team (predicated on years of covering up for siblings and trying to make your parents happy)

4. Management of staff would be a breeze after your life-long stint as arbitrator between siblings-siblings/siblings-parents (only relevant if you were part of a big family haha)
--> good interpersonal/inter-office skills; navigation of office politics with ease

5. This also leads to Good Communication Skills (especially in my case where I am frequently called upon to give bad news to siblings or relay messages between family members =p coz daddy is too wimpy to do it himself, which will obviously come in handy for when the time comes for me to fire someone)

6. You bring new meaning to the world reliable (mostly coz if you don't prove you're reliable you get into trouble or make it harder on yourself to be able to get away with anything which is officially harder for an eldest child)... which leads to:

7. Skilled at intrigue: not that you would put this on your CV but it must come in handy sometime right? >< good poker face perhaps..? hehe

8. Good at filling out forms: from all those time you have to fill in everyone's immigration forms for them hehe... which also means maybe good at forgery...? ;)

9. Policy of Appeasement: well-versed in the art of compromise

10. Age shouldn't be a factor as you are wise beyond your years haha!

Ok... so the last few were just fluffy but being the eldest should definitely give you an edge over other applicants =p just because we deserve it... =D hehe

Quote of the day: Ammarah: "Careful mommy...poo poo drop"
---> message taken from this: take care or the shit will hit the fan...... or the floor.. either way things will get messy ;)