Unorthodox Careers—An Alumni Sharing Session

Jazz music, film production, dog sports, and tattooing—these were the topics of the second Morningside College Alumni Association talk held on Tuesday 29 October. In the throes of midterm season, four alumni shared with students how they found themselves in unconventional careers, with plenty of advice and inspiration to go around.

Poh Wongkham (’21) studied computer science, but he is now a full-time saxophonist who performs in venues all around Hong Kong. Setting self-imposed goals and milestones that push him to improve his craft is a challenge Poh faces as a musician, but it also resonated deeply with Joshua Ngai (’14), a lawyer and part-time tattoo artist with his own studio in Central. Olivia Zhong (’22), a graduate of the Government and Public Administration programme, competes globally in dog dancing competitions with her Border Collie, Aelia. It was Morningside’s own Captain who inspired Olivia to get a puppy and train her, and now Olivia is the only dog dancing trainer in Hong Kong. Kelvin Choy (’16) works at a film production company, but as a sociology graduate he sees his job as being about people, not films. He has a knack for translating the visions of directors into the language of investors, and enjoys connecting people together. His advice? There’s only one day between your graduation and your thirtieth birthday—don’t waste it.