Career-Shift

Life right after college wasn’t easier…in fact- a long row to hoe. The pressure of pursuing a chosen career was tantamount to bracing adulthood with haste and waste. It’s somehow true that our parents’ grip is unfastened once we prove to oblige their goals no matter how far and long it would take.

I had few comprehensions while living within a not so avant-garde upbringing. I looked up to simple individuals and that merely provoked me to get rid of the cobwebs of fantasizing unattainable purposes.

I lived the simplest life that making a mountain out of a molehill was unfeasible. Basically if we dwell with limited resources, we share by halves…we share inadequately. Whatever employment demand then had to be seized in order to make self-gratification; supporting family members and establishing career path was somewhat in place.

I did nurse Lola Minda, my grandma’s sis, before I finally unearthed mixed interests. Detaching myself from heading several organizations had to be initiated. I began to feel alienated when I had to reap experiences with corporations…youth’s correlations had to end…and it was extremely heartrending.

I hopped from Real Estate to Telecommunications to Publishing to Pharmaceutical Industries. In my quest to imitate what my cousin, Kuya Joff, was up to…I just “locked & loaded” my marketing abilities where I gained my valued competencies.

Leaving behind my friends didn’t end there…I had to do the same to my family after looking before I leaped. I was all alone when I assumed the first professional challenge in my life…not in Bicol---not in Manila---not in Luzon, but in Visayas.

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