AM I A BETTER PERSON?
07.17.07 (11:56 pm) [edit]
This is the question I usually ask myself when I pass from one stage of life to another. When I graduated from grade school, from high school and finally from college, I asked the same question. Often times and actually most of the time, fortunately my answer was yes. I knew having met and helped a lot of people from elementary and secondary school has helped me grow as a teenager, who at that time was still trying to create and discover my own identity. When I finished college, I definitely could not be any prouder. I was just fortunate enough to get a good education that also allowed me to grow socially and spiritually. I went out of the university indeed as a person imbibed with Ignatian values of magis, lux in domino and being a person for others.
Am I a better person?
I ask the same question now that I am leaving my first work. After more than a year of service with my current company, the answer I feel is still a yes. Of course there might be people who would think otherwise, but as I leave I feel that I couldn’t be any better as a friend to the people I’ve met at work.
I always tell Kass, a college friend, that office work is my dream job. However, because she is Chinese and because she came from a family of businessmen and businesswomen, she could not quite well comprehend why I only dreamed of becoming an ordinary employee. She was indeed expecting from me to give her more ambitious answers, like to become the company’s CEO or to be my own boss and establish my own business. I myself could not understand why I gave, who for some are ‘mediocre’ dreams.
My dream came true. Indeed, I got employed a month after graduation and I became part of my company’s Recruitment Team. Day in and day out, I go to work and repeatedly do the same tasks—source for candidates, save resumes, call applicants, administer and check technical exams, do reports, attend meetings, do interviews, serve job offer and actually more. We do lots of things and more things everyday that we often have to extend our working hours to finish some pending work.
Yes, some people might find the things we do boring and dull, but for us in Recruiting especially for me, we find the work exciting and challenging. We redundantly do things yet the color is not the same everyday. We repeatedly do things yet we deal with totally different kind of things everyday as we deal with different kinds of people and personalities from time to time—some nice, some not, some pretty, some just ordinary.
I’ve been privileged to be in Recruitment as it gave me an opportunity to meet and deal with different kinds of individuals. I felt lucky to belong to a profession which serves a cause—that is to give the right job to the right person to the right place at the right time. Yet, more than giving me the chance to apply what I learned in Psychology and IO class, I think Recruitment has given me the chance to grow and be better as a person. It has exposed me to a lot of pressures and challenges that I was able to withstand with the help of friends—who has already became a family to me.
I actually feel that more than helping the company to find the right and qualified resources, I feel that my real cause in the organization is to ultimately touch lives. I know I am going out of the organization as a better person, ultimately because I’ve been a very good friend to my colleagues. And even if other people might think otherwise, I am a better person because I’ve met people with different experiences in life and I have used these experiences as my guide in living my own life.
I might be the youngest in the team but I have proven that being young is not a stumbling block in order to succeed. I have actually proven that someone as young as I am could think and decide for her own self. In the past year, I have indeed lived my youth cell group’s life verse:
“Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young. But set an example to the believers with your words, your actions, your love, your faith, and your pure life.”
Am I a better person?
I ask the same question now that I am leaving my first work. After more than a year of service with my current company, the answer I feel is still a yes. Of course there might be people who would think otherwise, but as I leave I feel that I couldn’t be any better as a friend to the people I’ve met at work.
I always tell Kass, a college friend, that office work is my dream job. However, because she is Chinese and because she came from a family of businessmen and businesswomen, she could not quite well comprehend why I only dreamed of becoming an ordinary employee. She was indeed expecting from me to give her more ambitious answers, like to become the company’s CEO or to be my own boss and establish my own business. I myself could not understand why I gave, who for some are ‘mediocre’ dreams.
My dream came true. Indeed, I got employed a month after graduation and I became part of my company’s Recruitment Team. Day in and day out, I go to work and repeatedly do the same tasks—source for candidates, save resumes, call applicants, administer and check technical exams, do reports, attend meetings, do interviews, serve job offer and actually more. We do lots of things and more things everyday that we often have to extend our working hours to finish some pending work.
Yes, some people might find the things we do boring and dull, but for us in Recruiting especially for me, we find the work exciting and challenging. We redundantly do things yet the color is not the same everyday. We repeatedly do things yet we deal with totally different kind of things everyday as we deal with different kinds of people and personalities from time to time—some nice, some not, some pretty, some just ordinary.
I’ve been privileged to be in Recruitment as it gave me an opportunity to meet and deal with different kinds of individuals. I felt lucky to belong to a profession which serves a cause—that is to give the right job to the right person to the right place at the right time. Yet, more than giving me the chance to apply what I learned in Psychology and IO class, I think Recruitment has given me the chance to grow and be better as a person. It has exposed me to a lot of pressures and challenges that I was able to withstand with the help of friends—who has already became a family to me.
I actually feel that more than helping the company to find the right and qualified resources, I feel that my real cause in the organization is to ultimately touch lives. I know I am going out of the organization as a better person, ultimately because I’ve been a very good friend to my colleagues. And even if other people might think otherwise, I am a better person because I’ve met people with different experiences in life and I have used these experiences as my guide in living my own life.
I might be the youngest in the team but I have proven that being young is not a stumbling block in order to succeed. I have actually proven that someone as young as I am could think and decide for her own self. In the past year, I have indeed lived my youth cell group’s life verse:
“Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young. But set an example to the believers with your words, your actions, your love, your faith, and your pure life.”