The Right Course for Me

If I could turn back time again and go back in High School days, then, I would ask my parents how would I become an archaeologist. I’m just an average student during that time who really love adventure movies and had the passion of watching the bushman of “The Gods must be Crazy” movie series. Unluckily, these was no National Geography Channel twenty years ago, but the 80’s is not just the time of adventure movies, …opss I almost forgot the famous “Indiana Jones”, but also the era of “nuke wars” wherein many countries were highlighted like USA and the USSR for nuclear power supremacy. I like an adventurous profession like an archaeologist, because you will travel a lot.

But, nothing is regretful why I did not took before a course related to archaeology. Because, I realized later that it is an expensive course. I was raised in the province of Nueva Vizcaya and most people’s mindset is to have a course that is in-demand in working abroad. During that time, there was a demand for male nurses inside and outside the country. I should be a nurse today, but it’s a blessing-in-disguise that I enrolled in a computer course in 1989. It was the time when I mastered the Mario Brothers game using Nintendo’s family computer unit. Also, the year when my mom accompanied my grandma abroad and stay there for more than six months. So, it was a shift of mind why I’m in the IT field today.

Did you choose the right course for you?

I’m just an average student before who don’t really have many course options in life, maybe because my parents do not have more financial capital to send me to college. I just believed that I’m lucky to have college education but if we were rich before, I would be an archaeologist nowadays. Yet, I’m happy now because I do not dig fossils like an archaeologist does, instead I search problem solutions using computers online. If only Internet was there twenty years ago, I could easily browse a website and explain to my parents what course is right for me. I suggest this site www.sei.dost.gov.ph/stcareers or choose from the following course categories that will suite to certain specific jobs:

BIOLOGY, wINDUSTRIAL ARTS, MATH, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, COMPUTING STUDIES

I love my work as an IT project leader in the government. Aside from being a programmer, I developed my artistic skills not just computer design graphics but also T-shirt printing using silkscreen. Sometimes, I become a teacher or mentor to those on-the-job training students I accept every year. To date, I earned a lot of friends in other government agencies just using e-mail communication, and opportunities is just around the corner. The advantage of IT-inclined professional from others in doing business is the use of different communication modes for business. But thanks to blogging technology, where I can upload articles to this site (thru wordpress.com) without hosting fees. Aside from my main job, I keep my site updated in order to have more interaction with my friends, OJT students or business colleagues. As an advise to every student, I can say that the roads to success is not always choosing the right course for you, but it’s how the student handles the opportunity given to him like college education. It does not say that if you did not choose the right course, you will not succeed in life.