“One of the most common causes
of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.” -
Napoleon Hill
Assignments,
quizzes, reaction papers, tests, deadlines – A life for a college student. Almost
all of us complains about how difficult it is to be student especially when
sometimes, we lost our social life just to cope with the requirements needed
for us to finish a college degree. After that, the day that we’ve been waiting
for, in about 4 years or more to others, came. We’ll put on that black robe we’ve
been longing to wear since and on our hand is the proof of those long days of
hard work. But now the question is,
where would that take you?
Ever
since, I always tell myself that after graduating from college, I will work for
2 consecutive years in the Philippines for experience and after that, I will
try my luck abroad. My course was about information management, so with proper
training and skills that I’m hoping to acquire, I know it would take me a long,
long way. In five years, maybe I was
still working my a** off in the other country, hoping for a stable job and a
higher position after 1 year or more. But if you’re going to ask me about where
I would be after 10 years, I would be back on this country, taking care of my son,
which is already a teenage boy that time. Maybe you’ll think I’m a nut for
giving up everything after all those years but my reason is simple, everything
I do, I do it for my kid. Ten years from now would be the year of his puberty
where he needs me the most and I would love to be there for him.
For
me, I could not really tell where my college degree would take me. I could
not say that I will be that or this, but I was hoping that wherever my college
degree takes me, it is something I love doing so it will not feel that I’m
working. I do not want to wake up someday regretting that I should have taken a
different path, but rather, I would like it to feel that what I have chosen to do
was the right thing for me.
