You Don't Look The Part.....

Once, a certain supervisor told me:

"Shin, you are small-sized, Asian, and female. You need to work harder at making people take you seriously."

The statement did not offend me, for I understood there must be some truth in it. Besides, they themselves were from a minority background. They probably experienced something similar and were just trying to give me a heads-up for the future. Nonetheless, I did fall silent--no one had ever spoken to me like that.

I knew I was not the typical image of a business person, but never once did it occur to me that my size, skin colour and gender was working that hard against me. These were physical aspects of myself that I could not change. Would this really be the reason in which I had to work harder than everyone else?

Well, regardless of the factors for or against myself, I know I WANT to work hard and see how far I can go. Besides, I believe the world is changing and becoming more accepting of differences.

Will this pint-sized Asian chic become a c-suite executive one day? I don't know. But it never hurts to try!

PS: Napolean complex?