About my college education:
I don't want to give people doubt on why I chose to take up education but given a chance, I would have taken Mass Communication. It's just that due to finacial constraint that I landed in PNU. College years were years of struggle. There came a time where I only eat banana que. It was also during those times that my mother was confined at the hospital and she was comatosed.
To succeed as a student, you must have a determination to finish the course. My family has been my inspiration not give up.
My current job:
I am currently teaching in a public elementary school in Las Pinas where I also graduated way back 1996.
Am I using what I learned in college:
Yes. My university taught me a lot of things about teaching and I'm applying it in my workplace.
How long did it take to find a job:
PNUans won't find it hard looking for a job since Philippine Normal University is dubbed as "Center for Excellence". I had my first job after graduation as an English teacher in a private school.
Do I recommend studying Elementary Education:
In terms of employment, there are lots of opportunities waiting for you. As they said, "Hanggat may bata, may teacher."
You have to have a PASSION for TEACHING. Remember that TO TEACH IS TO TOUCH. You have the ability to make a difference in the lives of your students.
Anyone who dares to teach must never cease to learn. Once a teacher, always a learner.
In terms of salary:
The Philippine government should give more attention to the condition of the salary of public school teachers. We are kinda overworked but underpaid, I must say. That's why there are lots of good teachers who choose to go abroad wherein you can have as much as P300,000/month.
How tempting as it seems but I choose to stay here in the Philippines because I knew in my heart that I'm needed here in our own country to make a difference in the lives of the pupils I got to teach.
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