| A friend asked me of what is the greatest gift I | | | | classic. In any period of time, job market is available |
| have received. Ostentatiously, I did not have the | | | | like accountancy, engineering, education, and the likes. |
| second thought to reply that it is education. | | | | However, there are also emerging jobs, jobs from |
| For many reasons, I think education is the greatest | | | | specific and general courses that may be readily |
| equalizer and mobilizer I have had so far. It is not a | | | | demanded in the future like that of the IT industry, |
| gift that one can receive easily; it is aimed and | | | | exact sciences and applied sciences and so on. |
| worked for. When I was a high school stude, I used | | | | No matter how you do it, just be reminded of this |
| to think of becoming a lawyer, engineer, and scientist. | | | | old adage, "It’s always the destination that |
| Consequently, I became what I am right now. I | | | | matters most." Whether you go to the next level |
| understood that poverty might be a bar against ones | | | | near or far to your comfort zones (family and peers) |
| way. For sure, parents pressure, insecurities, | | | | it is always your attitude and most of all your |
| emotional and physiological adjustments are inevitable | | | | so-called I, ME, and MYSELF, that is put to test. |
| scenarios which you cope with in deciding what to | | | | Either way, it’s you who can always find ways |
| take and where you intend to pursue your next plan | | | | to make it happens in realizing you dreams. |
| of action after high school. | | | | Nevertheless, study and study make one lazy, so |
| In choosing one, let me just remind you of two | | | | find time to play and play while you study. In addition, |
| things, its employability and likeability. Employability in | | | | if you have reached your dream, your feet should be |
| the sense that in the future, vacancy of your chosen | | | | grounded by humility and grace. At any rate, feel |
| vocation will be at its peak considering the economic | | | | free to get back to me if enormous problems are |
| condition of this kaleidoscopic world. Likeability may | | | | too hard to beat. |
| mean do I like this or not. Am I into it? Out of it? Or | | | | I teach for reason. That is to see my students |
| Can learn the heck of it? Questions that may flaunt | | | | succeed in any endeavor they choose to take. |
| and fly along side of its job vacancy. Apparently, | | | | Godspeed and good luck to all graduating high school |
| there are classical courses that are timeless making it | | | | students out there! |