I chose to pursue my dream of getting a Master's degree followed by a Ph.D. even when I was penniless, knowing at the back of my mind that I could hardly pay for food and rent. At that time, many of my university peers had disregarded going to graduate school, as they had landed lucrative job offers in the industry with only a bachelor’s degree.
When I landed in the United States in 1992 with a one-way plane ticket, I had $60 in my pocket. A job meant more to me than most, but I chose to persevere in my studies. This meant planning my finances with the utmost care in the short term, as I could only fund myself one semester at a time. Naturally, I had to supplement my research assistantship with odd jobs such as tutoring and working part-time as a bookstore clerk. As I went through that phase of my life, a question mark was always hanging over the next week, month, and year. Looking back now, I realized the only way to achieve tomorrow is by taking care of today.
Those who understand this principle do amazingly well in business. For example, one may be in pursuit of building a large $100m revenue business over five years, but five years is nothing but 60 months. These months roll by fast. If one cannot win a purchase order to pay monthly bills quickly, strategizing by sitting in a locker room will not do any good. The future doesn’t build tomorrow or happen by itself; the future is being created in the present every day. It’s because of the pull-up-your-sleeves and get-things-done attitude that will build tomorrow and, eventually, a century.
We are Quest Global. We’re in the business of engineering, but what we’re really building is a brighter future. It’s not just what we do, but why we do it that makes us different. We believe engineering has the unique opportunity to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow. For more than 25 years, we have strived to be the most trusted partner for the world’s hardest engineering problems. As a global organization headquartered in Singapore, we live and work in 17 countries, with 67 global delivery centers and offices, driven by 17,500+ extraordinary employees who make the impossible possible every day.
Quest Global delivers world-class end-to-end engineering solutions by leveraging our deep industry knowledge and digital expertise. By bringing together technologies and industries, alongside the contributions of diverse individuals and their areas of expertise, we are able to solve problems better, faster. This multi-dimensional approach enables us to solve the most critical and large-scale challenges across the aerospace & defence, automotive, energy, hi-tech, healthcare, medical devices, rail and semiconductor industries.