Rant on the “futility” of staying in the Philippines
Thursday
Feb 1, 2007
It seems like I haven’t really detached myself from my idealistic roots. Four sleepless months and 160 pages of social commentary and critical discourse analysis does that to you.
I’ll be speaking to young kids tomorrow about the learning resources on the Web and how to maximize them. I’m still thinking of what kind of message can I give to kids. I just don’t want to lecture. I want to reach out. Sure, I could sound preachy. But that has been a sort of disgruntled dream I have – build my own ministry. Haha.
Browsing from one blog to another, I chanced upon this post on growth and a career abroad. (Funny how I jumped from Angelo’s to Yuga’s to Mae’s blog).
Is there really no future here? I remember a while back I wrote this post on how inadequate my life as yuppie has been.
If there’s no hope at all, then why am I still here? Well, for one, I’m not the type of person who’d throw in the towel so easily without giving a fight. Ever since I left my old job, I’ve been studying and testing ways of making the most out of my time in a financially viable way. They say that going home-based is a career killer. Well I don’t think so. Going home-based is more of being your own boss. And that tests self-control more than anything.
I can’t help but comment on Mae’s post with this:
Growth is intrinsic, more than how people view you, it’s how you view yourself. There’s no use pretending ’cause you can’t lie to yourself. You made a stand; be responsible and proud for it.
It’s quite too early for me to say but I believe I won’t be going elsewhere in the next few years. I still have to exhaust my means for growth. I’d like to travel though, to get some more perspective. But a career abroad? I’m still pretty much excited to uncover what my life here has to offer me.
So yeah, maybe that’s right. I would be bold and tell the kids tomorrow that greener pastures aren’t located on other coasts. It’s just about finding it in your backyard and at the comfort of your own home.
Comments
Mae
February 1st, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Yeah, I just want to make sure that I have truly exhausted all of my resources here, unless someone offers me a better job opportunity and by better I mean a growth in responsibility and such then you can count me in, but going away to get a job I don’t like?? no way..
Kyameel
February 7th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
This is evil. I just saw this now. LOL.
My elders have asked me also if I have plans on migrating. I said no.
In my mind, all I can think of is, I am okay here. And am still optimistic with the state of the country regardless of the people running it. I will only be forced to migrate IF and ONLY IF there is a drastic and desperate reason I have to leave i.e. life threatening circumstances.
Even then, It will still be hard to make me leave.
There XD