How do you perceive your experiences?

I did up my resume and visited the NUS career centre for the critique session. I remember the first time when I did it, my resume was horrendously long (i thought the longer, the better. even after having already attended the workshop beforehand haha!)

Anyway. I have never felt confident about my aspiration to enter the marketing/advertising industry with my degree course and results. I knew my chance was by citing relevant experiences. I mean it's either you study the subject or you have hands on experience right? So for me, education's kind of out.
But what experiences do I have that I can bring out? That time, I felt there was none. Seriously.

So i asked her whether I stand a chance. I wanted an honest and truthful opinion from someone reliable.

She replied me as though it wasn't an issue worth talking about. To my greatest surprise, she told me I am far better off than most people whom she knew wanted to enter the marketing industry but has no real relevant experience or education. In fact, I stood a good chance. I was like eyes open wide and smiling gleefully on the inside. Haha.

My point is, the way I viewed my experiences, I felt that they were too insignificant. 3 months temp job as customer svc officer in Aviva? 2 months temp job as the same job title in Singtel? And they were like done so long before NUS!

But the way the resume consultant viewed my experiences is that they are actually not just relevant, but VALUABLE. and I have every reason to trust her for the career centre's knowledge and sensitivity towards the job industry of today.

This made me think about how sometimes we are in a situation/experience - good or bad - and we may have belittled it far too much. Maybe it's time to trust the opinion of others and see what can we get out of our experiences through THEIR eyes. I believe self-pity, bitterness, anger and the likes of them are always because we refuse to change to a different perception and see our experience from a different point of view. Is the glass half empty, or is it half full? =)