Always Be Inspired

by: Jennifer B. Ballesteros

Being a working student, I call it as my hobby, my adventure during the pandemic and also a skill that I learned, not just from this lockdown but actually I started working in the market when I was 11 years old. Way back 2009, I'm the only companion of my father when he goes to the market, and for me I enjoyed being with him when we are in the market, I love seeing variety of displayed products that surrounds me. And curiosity about business also push me to melt in. My father was a loyal costumer of that particular store, early in the morning my father woke up to go in the market and I always want to go with him and time goes by 'till year 2011 the owner of that particular store wanted to hire me as a helper and I'm so willing to work at my age of 11, and my father agreed, so that's the beginning of my journey being a working student until now. There's a time that I'm ashamed of what I am doing as helper because I think on that time is that being a teen-ager I supposed to just focus on study, play or hanging out with friends but me? I'm just in the market, working. But I am wrong, I'm wrong for thinking that way, because on my early age I already learned how to earn money by my own effort and not just money that I earned but also a knowledge, a knowledge on how to run a business, how to entertain the costumers, nicely and kindly and those learnings are irreplaceable and I realize that there is no reason of being ashamed. This pandemic was not just an disadvantage of all of us but we all know that this crisis brings an advantage too. For me, I earned more while there's no face to face classes because I have more time to work in the market so that I can afford my needs and wants in terms of study and being a women, without asking with my parents. Being an Independent individual was already a skill for me, why? Because not all of us knows how to be independent by there own, inorder to be one? They should practice it. We are all responsible for making our own adventure in life. Let's create happiness because a happy person are one step behind of his/her dream life.