Often, when you do not like the job that you do, it is said that you are a square peg on a round hole. It is either you find another job that you love doing or you better start loving your job.

Another way to fall under that category is to have a job that is unfamiliar to you. You probably want it because of the future financial gain but if you are not adept, you will not stay long. It’s either you stop pursuing that kind of job or you learn to do it right. Like for example, most tech jobs are financially rewarding but you got to know everything about it to be able to weather the problems you will encounter. In applying for a job, you are expected to know. You might be able to make them believe you do but if you really don’t, it won’t take much time before you get kicked out.

This morning I heard the news… the Department of Health are encouraging new college students to pick another course other than nursing as there are 200k+ who will be waiting for their opportunity to work. There’s just too many nurses for the work needed to be done.

It would be nice to see them in nursing scrubs as they were meant to be…instead, many find another way just to survive. Some love what they have landed into, some were disappointed. In the end, what makes one happy is the attitude on how one will take it and go about life… all these shall pass.

A couple of days ago I dismantled our old keyboard. A few keys were missing to register when I type it gets me slow for pressing the backspace more often because of the missing letters. I discovered a lot I can do with the pieces of what lay inside the keyboard in addition to the black keys that directly used to be in contact with my fingers.

As I lay them in a sieve for cleaning, I told my kids to think of something they can do to make the keys functional. My eldest had an imaginary light bulb suddenly glowing by her side. Aha! She got the key with the logo of Windows, got her old hair clip, asked me for my glue gun, and presto! She made her dull clip interesting. She now is the proud owner of a Windows hair clip.

My youngest’s imaginary light bulb followed suit! She said the arrow keys are hers because she’ll make earrings out of them. A pair of left and right arrow keys and a pair of up and down arrow keys. I thought that’s a good one.

My 2nd girl (I got only 3) is also interested in making necklaces, bracelets and earrings. She often mix beads with nylon cords and has her own style in combining beads. Perhaps if she gets to have chamilia beads, nothing will stop her until she gets all done! She was actually the first among siblings who sewed her own rug doll, complete with beddings!

I’m happy to have crafting kids. Their imagination gets developed. They learn to create and be original.

Education is one of the keys to greater opportunities. If you know something and you can deliver what is expected of you, you will have more opportunities to earn, grow and learn more.

It used to be that once you’re a mere high school graduate, you’re almost predicted to land on the lowly jobs available. It used to be that education can only be taken from real physical schools. It’s not so this time. Home schooling has opened the doors for those who cannot climb the education ladder to the top physically due to their situations like frequent travelling, being a child actor or actress, health situation, or they just like it at home.

With home schooling, a mother can continue her education without having to worry where to leave her child behind. A current employee can upgrade herself by taking, for example, an online it degree, while working as a secretary. The point is, time is no longer a limitation, instead it has offers to self development–you just have to make your decision and stick with it.

Hearing and listening are two different words that mean differently though they both may refer to the ear, one refers to the ear (or eye, for reading, knowing the information) AND heart.

If you’re hearing-impaired, there are medical solutions to fix that. Maybe you just got a lot of earwax cementing in there that you’d need a doctor to remove them out with the help of an otoscope (Welch Allyn has several varieties you can check what they look like). If it’s because of broken eardrum then you probably need a hearing aid then you can hear again.

Not being able to hear doesn’t mean you can’t listen. Information can be written although uttered words can show almost the exact meaning because of the emotion involved when speaking, writing then down in a certain way can give what you also mean, although not always. Often punctuations can also give a different meaning to written words.

We are given one mouth and two ears so we can listen more and speak less. When we hear something, we ought to be able to listen too but that involves the heart. Being sincere can make us listen. Keeping our pride aside can also help us listen. Admitting our mistakes can also help us listen.

Did we hurt somebody lately? How would we know if we don’t listen? Do we care at all? If not, then how can we listen? That will just make our minds closed, deaf as nothing happened at all.

It takes the heart to listen, it also takes the heart to admit mistakes. In so doing, more people will listen to you if you’re used to not listening. It also takes the heart to forgive…but that’s another blog post all on its own.