Almost always, no one gets a job related to his or her course especially if the course is specialized. Like there are lots of nursing, teaching, IT graduates who ended up in sales or crew member in a fastfood chain. There is nothing wrong with that because ultimately you look for a job to feed yourself. It would just be better if you land on one that you truly like (that is, if your course is what you really liked in the first place).

Many make their first non-related job their stepping stone towards their goal. Like you can go to Taco Bell and send in your Taco Bell application to be able to work and earn at the soonest possible time so that you can have enough funds to look for another job later, carrying with you some experience that will teach you team work and a lot of patience and good working habits.

Patience is virtue. It is one of the facets of the fruit of the holy spirit. For many it is very difficult to develop patience because the person losing patience is almost always geared towards what he or she wants done or achieved, fast. There is a famous joke about someone praying for patience. He said, “God, please grant me patience…and I want it NOW!”

Someone was complaining this morning. She said she’s tired of waiting. I told her to take it as an opportunity to develop patience. 

We all fall short of something. Whatever that is, we often see the negative result. When something bad happens in our lives, we often see it as bad news. Everything happens for a reason. Even with those bad moments, something good can come out of them. You just have to find it.

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.