I do not wish to be popular.
I do not mince words and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Oftentimes, I nag to a fault and that is not a good thing to be remembered for. All I want is to be the teacher that students will tell their circle to be the most inspiring, if not the coolest.
Back then, when I asked what I wanted to take up in college, I have no ready answer. Mother suggested that I take up education and follow after her steps while father hammered in my head that I woukd make a good engineer. The university entrance test decided for me though when I got into a quota course (which made me eat a lot of humble pie):
On my first "real" job, I started out as a regular associate engineer and rose up to be ome a training coordinator. On my second job. I was hired as a technical support associate yet reassigned as a subject matter expert sent out to train new hires in other business sites. On my third job, I took on the role as a registrar who had to take on teaching assignments. This paatern of ending up in the training pool in any industry I have been exposed to led me to believe that I must have been called to teach.
Of the basic currencies of life. a pat on the back is enough to
propel me to do great things. I left a career full of promise for travel and comfort for a job that pays a lot less than what I used to earn for a life in the company of people I cherish.
Six years in the academe (TVI), sharing my state university education to the grassroots is a reward in itself. Receiving notes of gratitude for the rod of correction, for the rigid discipline, for issuing the challenge to dream and to live that dream, will feed the fire that burns within to continue.
I do not mince words and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Oftentimes, I nag to a fault and that is not a good thing to be remembered for. All I want is to be the teacher that students will tell their circle to be the most inspiring, if not the coolest.
Back then, when I asked what I wanted to take up in college, I have no ready answer. Mother suggested that I take up education and follow after her steps while father hammered in my head that I woukd make a good engineer. The university entrance test decided for me though when I got into a quota course (which made me eat a lot of humble pie):
On my first "real" job, I started out as a regular associate engineer and rose up to be ome a training coordinator. On my second job. I was hired as a technical support associate yet reassigned as a subject matter expert sent out to train new hires in other business sites. On my third job, I took on the role as a registrar who had to take on teaching assignments. This paatern of ending up in the training pool in any industry I have been exposed to led me to believe that I must have been called to teach.
Of the basic currencies of life. a pat on the back is enough to
propel me to do great things. I left a career full of promise for travel and comfort for a job that pays a lot less than what I used to earn for a life in the company of people I cherish.
Six years in the academe (TVI), sharing my state university education to the grassroots is a reward in itself. Receiving notes of gratitude for the rod of correction, for the rigid discipline, for issuing the challenge to dream and to live that dream, will feed the fire that burns within to continue.
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