For
those fresh graduates who are now working, how do you assess yourself
in terms of applying and using what you gained from your studies? Before
anything else, I find this old write-up of mine for our "yearbook."
Although it doesn't look like a write-up that you can put in a yearbook,
this is what I want to be read by my fellow graduates when they turn on
my page.
"The dilemma that
high school graduates felt is not as terrifying as when you have one foot left
at your college school. Corporate world is just intimidating and full of
surprises. There will never be exams, only application of all your subjects
combined.
The moment you
set foot on the outside world means you have to surpass first a twisted
labyrinth before you can raise your flag for triumph. It is, in many ways
difficult yet in every dead-end, there is always something to pick-up – if not
answers to life’s questions, lessons to help you find those answers.
Everyday, a new
door opens for those who find the keys to unlock them. When situation gets
worse, it is always good to look back to when we are starting to learn how to
read and write, when red ballpens send us scary remarks and when we, at the end
of it all, can still study for the next exams we will encounter. It is after
all, a cycle wherein we can make the same mistake twice, or even thrice. But it
can also mean that we can always learn, for it is never too late to correct
what we can."
In time, it will be our generation's turn to
rule the corporate world. At some point, we will cling to the years we
are still studying, afraid to open doors and have doubts in ourselves.
Soon enough, we will be seen on television, we will be asked for our
expert opinions, our names will be published in newspapers for the
progress we are making in business world, we will have our signature
chase by our subordinates, have offices of our own with CEO, President
or Director on our doors while those who enter have to call us Sir,
Madam or even Boss. Others will be authors, reporters, doctors of
different fields, politicians - WOMEN will lead. And that will be the time I achieved everything already.
