career????

Think about yourself worthy to be called as IT professional, how do you see yourself 10 years from now, what are your strategies to get there?

Every one of us thinks what would be our career after graduating college. My reason why I study in college is only to have a college diploma to make my parents proud of me, an educational attainment for my future work in order to have greater chances of winning a certain work. I observed nowadays many of college graduates are not into practice their courses. Many IT graduates often work in the call centers but that’s not their course all about. Maybe it is still dealing with IT, because it is working with information, but what they are thinking earning money. Most of people don’t have works in their field, maybe they don’t suit with the career they have, maybe it’s hard to find job or the career they have is not that in demand. But IT, I think the course I have chosen will give me a lot of opportunities to get a better job, maybe this one will make me rich someday. But it takes time, it needs strategies, it needs knowledge. Now I realize, being a successful one in the future cannot be predict or be seen while your still studying. Lot of people does well in their school life, but when they have graduated they don’t have strategies to get a nice job. Like our neighbor who was a Mechanical Engineer and only turn out as a charcoal maker, he did not used his education as his career in life maybe that is what he wants to happen in his life. While there are people that is not that good during their college life but got a very nice job when they have graduated, and I hope I am one of them. So I can say it just depend with your strategies in life, on how you handle things to make a good reflection to you. There are also many accounting graduates often work as cashier in malls and establishments. I don’t know what the reason behind those wrong career choices. But one thing for sure others think that maybe those are their stepping stone to achieve their goals in life. I think education is the basis on how people treat you in the community. People will respect you if you have achieved college and have graduated. During my elementary I have dream to become an engineer because I think people will adore me and be proud since I have reach the profession as an engineer. During my high school years I have dream to become a policewoman why? Because one of my uncle is a policeman, I think police profession will make me a strong woman and being respected by others as I wanted to be respected. This is one of the major careers that come up in my mind, when I am about to graduate high school. But unfortunately I don’t enroll in the courses that I have dream since my elementary and high school days.

It was April of the year 2005 when I take my entrance examination in USEP Mintal because USEP Obrero entrance examination was closed that time. The thing that comes in my mind that time is when I did not pass the exam I will no longer studying college. But luckily I have passed the examination the first course I write in the paper is ECE and second choice it the IT. But I have decided to take IT as my course because there is no summer class like in engineering. I have my summer job in order to gain money and that money will be paid in my fees in school. It was the first semester of my year in college when people ask me what is my course I said that I am an Information Technology student. They always say “Good Luck. Mo shift japun ka.” And I answer the with “sige lang ilhan bitaw na kung mo shift. heheheh”. That time I begun to think that I should go with my course or shift? That one question I ask in myself. Many of my classmates have shift into other course. But I have decided that since I choose this career I must graduate with this profession. And I have confidence that I can get a nice job after college, because as I can see almost all of the companies even plants are using advance technology, even the control system of plants are now being controlled by computers so I think its not hard for me to find a better job. And what I have in mind if luckily ill graduate soon ill apply work even it don’t have that big salary, all I want is just I can practice my skills and be ready for the big events that may come to my life. There are many opportunities if you only have the strategies. Strategy is the best key to have a good and profitable job. Strategy, it includes your moral manners, they say, a brain with a heart do nice things. I am not too worried about my grades because I think I can be better in applications than theory. Like what others says, you will learn many things in your work that haven’t teach in college.

I think I can call myself as an IT professional if I already achieve my goals, my aims before choosing this profession. I can call myself as and IT professional if I’m earning money with my career as an Information Technology Analyst, as a Computer Programmer, as a Software Engineer, as a Systems Administrator, as a Web Designer, as a Web Developer, as a Webmaster, as a Maintenance Technician, as a Network Administrator, as a Database Administrator. If I can do works what a professional can do. I can do my works without any help from others like creating unique programs, creating a new programming language. And even say if those other professional that they clap their hand because of the work well done. But as for now it’s hard for me to do all those things since I am still a student. A student needs help from others in order to make my assignments and projects. A student needs advice from superiors like instructors and even in my parents and family. A student needs financially help from my parents too. Without them I cannot even go to school since they gave me money everyday in order to reach the school. But I am not just a student but a student with a course of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology student doing al my best to finish my course with all the knowledge, with all the leanings and with nice grades, to become a professional IT someday. And I think becoming a professional one takes a lot of challenges, in other courses they take examinations and have to pass a very broad thesis book related to their field. Maybe I can face all that challenges soon if I already have the guts. Also, I can call myself as a professional one if I can already share my learning and knowledge about my course, if I am able to teach other people base on my career, or just simply to say to be an instructor someday, like my instructors, I can call them as a professional one, or they are really professionals, that’s why they are called professors. And who knows? I become one of them someday, but still needs lot of strategies.


Maybe I can be a professional IT 5 or 10 years from now, 10 years from now is a very long term. Lot of things may happen, maybe I have lot of children at that time, but lets talk that as if I am already a professional information technologist at that time, with a happy family, lot of money or just say a millionaire because of my career. Maybe a famous programmer, where I am just sitting in front of my personal computer, no, not a personal computer anymore but a laptop. I’m sure I have a lot of laptops a that time, which I don’t even have one right now, just sitting, waiting for the money as a payment for my work. Maybe I become an analyst, but I prefer myself to work in other countries cause they are more advance in terms of technology. I want to learn more and lot of things related with my profession which I can’t get in staying in our country. As I have said, I also see myself as an IT instructor someday, a terror one, maybe I have a straight hair if that time comes. And ill teach my students very well like what our instructor did to us.But of course before I can take my big step in that wonderful future. I must begin it with a small step this small step makes the big step achievable. I should have my own and personal strategies in order to achieve my goals in life. It started when I think what course and career I should take. As for know my simple strategy are studying , eating nutritious foods, surfing the net and gathered information that are related to my studies, sleeping well and of course practicing my profession. Maybe after graduating college I will find a job and that job will be my stepping stone to achieve what I want to be. Maybe when I graduate, that’s the time where I should make a very wise strategy. I think my first step is finding a wonderful and course related job. I am applying as many companies as I can, of course related to my career. My aim with that is to train myself and to be exposed to the current technology.

So I can say, as a summary to my long story, in order for you to get that word professional stick with your name, you must face all the challenges, the you must face time. And of course the key word, “strategy” you must learn these word, or I must learn more with these word. I must practice myself, practice my skills, all skills, specially English speaking and writing skill, in this profession I should be literate enough to face those they called big boss, because I can’t use my dialect, my bisayan dialect in communicating with the persons within my field. It takes time to be a successful, professional IT so I’ll use that time wisely and rightly.

sermon? wake up call?

It was Monday morning around 9 in the morning. But before anything else it was a habit of our professor every time we have a class a sermon or a wake up call as other say. But this sermon is one of the factors that can affect our life as a student and as a person.
As a student I can say that the sermon will make me a better student, being responsible in every assignments and class work. The sermon will also enlighten me about many things which I most likely forgot as a student. I may not good in expressing my thoughts and feelings through writing but I am trying hard to be one since, it is one of the requirements as a student and as a person. I hate English writing; I hate making reflection and even composing a sentence. I don’t know why I hate it. But as a student I must love them. Hahaiz.. Even speaking in English is not my interest.
As a person it make me realize what I must do as a daughter to my father and mother, as a sister to my brother and sister or even a person in the community. During my high school days I only focus my self in my studies and my barkadas I don’t even think my family. I even came home early, early like early in the morning or at the dawn around 1 am. These things make me realize that the most precious person is the family.

????????

Saturday, November 22, 2008 around 1 pm. I don’t know how to react on that day since many things happened. But all I want to tell to all that we must be responsible in our work and we should have our own initiative to face our own problems. I believe that each of one has a reason of its existence.

SE vs SAD

Many information in the net that describe Software Engineering and Software Analysis and Design but this is the collaboration of all the definition that I have read. Software Engineering refers to a discipline that concerned with software production it uses the right tools and techniques in order to produce the right software. System Analysis and Design is studying a system, identifying the problems and by this information it can help for the improvement of the system. By this I can say that both SE and SAD also requires analysis. They should work hand in hand in order produce a software that answers the need of the costumer.

_merry Christmas in advance_
_”goal without a deadline is dream”_