The year is 2021.
Everyone is claiming that this is their year. But we are already 11 months in from the lockdown. How can we make most out of this year? Remember when we all said that to 2020 and the pandemic happened?
The health sector, the Government too told us that these are uncertain times.
I admire the Covid-19 response of other countries but I mourn for the Philippines. We are sinking deeper into the grave that the colonialist, the capitalist, including the past generations of them and the past and current government administration dug,
THESE ARE UNCERTAIN TIMES.
Is it not that way for many years though? Nothing is really certain. No single thing is set in stone. Contracts are amended. Minds change, so are goals. Nothing goes according to plan.
I was in a conversation with my sister earlier, she was asking me if our cousin shifted her course from Tourism to IT. I told her I didn't know but maybe she studied IT since Digital Marketing is the most in-demand industry right now and for the years to come. Who would have thought that I would be using what I studied in college now? In life, we really do not know.
I graduated with a degree in Business Administration, Major in Marketing. I have learned that Digital Marketing cannot be offered as a Business course since, by the time the students are graduating, their learning is no longer applicable to always changing market.
I also have a degree in Law which I have only used for 3-4 years after studying for it for 5 years. I did not know back then that I would not be able to practice Law. Physically and emotionally, I cannot.
I realized that I wasted my time. If only I heard it the first time that Law School was not for me, I would have saved myself from countless sleepless nights and heartbreaks from exams and subjects I failed and for taking and failing the Bar for three consecutive times.
If I just went according to my plan, college-MBA-Law, I would have ample time to hone my craft and be a digital marketer in 2011, instead of 2021.
