Dream Job

In this world, there are many kinds of dreams, each person have their own unique dream which is different from each other. Now, here is my dream, in my friend’s point of view.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Toyan’s Dream Jobs and The Details Surrounding It

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Achmad Ariyanto Hariman -usually called as Toyan, for some reason- is one of my friends and colleagues in my Academic Writing Class at ITB. This week- at the time of writing- we become partners in doing an assignment. Basically, we are told to write about each other's dream job. So, during the interview last week, here is what I found about Toyan’s dream job.

Toyan said that when he grows into a smart, independent, and trustworthy man, he wants to be an inventor. Specifically, those who develop and/or work on Virtual Reality (VR) Technology. VR -according to Wikipedia- is a kind of very immersive multimedia, a very sophisticated computer simulated environment with which a person may experience a seemingly real sensory feedback from an also seemingly real imagined or real environment.

VR has a wide range of uses, from military training, driving test, into video games. Currently, in general, VR is only able to give optic and auditory feedback. In the future though, Toyan believed that VR will be able to receive and deliver feedback from all five senses.

Later that day, when I asked him about what inspire him to chase this dreams, he gave me three very simple, clear, as I had expected.

When he a child, he was influenced by Anime -a Japanese cartoon- titled SAO. SAO (Sword Arts Online) is an Anime themed around VR-MMORPG or –in a more general term- an Online VR Game. When Toyan watch this movie/ TV series/ Cartoon, as if with a lot of people, he thought to himself, “This is kind of extremely cool; I should develop Virtual Realty game.”

Later, when he grew into a teenager, he was also influenced by a Video Game, namely “.hack//G.U.” .hack//G.U. –according to Wikipedia- is a PS2 game series with a very complex setting and storyline; involving “Insanely Popular Addictive MMORPG”, “Self-Aware AI”, “The Fall of The Internet”, “World’s Data Corruption” and Japan. Hopefully, none of this will be in Toyan’s to do list in the future.

In addition, he also said that he likes to “Play with cables and electricity,” from back then until now. Basically, he lives closely to a Computer and/or Laptop...

      Finally, I asked Toyan about what he would do in the near future to achieve this goal. He said that he will do as what the majority of ITB’s SEEI students will do; Finish his study here with a great mark, continue his study abroad, and work for an International Company such as GOOGLE and Microsoft..,

      That was basically Toyan’s dream jobs, a rather uninspiring yet hard to reach one, if I may say so myself. There are a lot of people with dreams resembling this in SEEI ITB. This means he has a lot of competition ahead of him. I wish the very best for him, may his wish come true.

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“Dreams do not come true because of someone telling you to. You have to make your own dreams come true”, Mashiro from the anime – Japanese cartoon – Bakuman.