[opinionated rant]
i don’t even know if such a word exists.
haay i just don’t know seeing where we all are and where we’re all going (or rather, the majority of us), is saddening. or not that…no. that assumption would be utterly hope-draining. no, no, not that. but what is saddening, is that the future is so blurry. there is no sure-path clad to professional success. that’s what i find depressing. and what i find more depressing that many of them, while now working in our field, may eventually, out of lack for finances and opportunities and drained willpower and determination, go to where i am now.
yes, i am a call center agent.
the job i hated, hated, hated. coz it’s…a sad place where nurses go to when they can’t find a nursing job in this country which is in dire need of so many professionals, but which can’t afford to pay a good pay, or in many cases, any pay at all, to the people it needs.
i always knew that the country needs teachers. i mean, in terms of birth rate, the Philippines is the boon of fertility. i once told my friends jokingly that if one day, the government would indeed impose something as freedom-of-choice-restricting and controlling as what some countries already do in terms of allowable children per couple, and if my future husband and i plan, and can care for, a number of children that exceed the government’s standard, i’d move to a country with a minute birth rate. all those philosophers are right: it’s not the lack of resources in this world. it’s just the unequal distribution of it.
anyway, about the teachers. i just didn’t know that teachers’ pay gets delayed, sometimes by 12 months. a whole year of debt, just to get through? like, HELLO??
and talking with my cousin and her friends (all teachers by profession), there’s volunteer work for teachers now too, now with the 12-K? just the same with nursing hopefuls: “coz maybe, we’d get hired and absorbed after a while”? omg. yun lang.
anyway, going back…why am i working the job i hate?
coz sometimes, we do the things we hate because of love.
i have plans in life i decided to comply to, because i won’t be in my early twenties all my life,. one day, i’ll be old and all the people who would make me think twice about my decisions won’t be around me anymore. no. one day, i’ll be old, and looking back on my life. my family will be around me, some of them perhaps asking why i did some things, and why i didn’t do some. what will i tell them when they ask why i didn’t do some of the best things to do, and instead did that what is merely good?
i know it’s my life. thanks for those who reminded me. every action has its consequences, so i’ll face whatever i’ll face to face with my choices. i know i’ll have Help though. :)