My Dream Job

        When I was a preschooler, my dream job was being a nurse. It was for a simple reason; I was fascinated by their uniform, and I liked the feeling of being able to wear a nursing cap on my head. Some of my cousins are nursing graduates so I was able to see them in their uniforms. Part of that dream is also my admiration for my mother, who is also a registered nurse even if she was not able to pursue it anymore. Then when I stepped on grade school, it turned into being an accountant. Perhaps it was the fact that I used to compete in math quiz bees a lot back then, but people often told me that it was the profession that suits me in the future. While I was not fascinated with numbers, nor did I actually understand what an accountant does, the idea of working inside a bank or the government seemed fun for me. Some of my relatives work in the government or financial institutions, and they enjoy a lot of great benefits. I thought to myself that I really wanted a job like that. So until I graduated elementary, being an accountant was my dream.

        However, junior high school changed that. I gradually lost my passion about accountancy and took up an interest in psychology through reading some books in the library. For a while, it was what I wanted to take up in college, but people told me that I am much more suited as an accountant. That made me skeptical of being a psychologist, but it never stopped me from dreaming to become one. Senior high school soon came, and instead of taking the strand related to psychology, I took accountancy, business and management. At first, I really did not feel anything about it. I was not into accountancy anymore so there was no passion with what I am doing. However, the more that I learn about it, the more that I like it. And as we enter the last cycle of this school year, as we take our work immersion subject, I finally realized what actually my dream job is.

        My dream job is not something I could define simply just by a profession like being an accountant, a nurse, or a psychologist. In the future, I dream to have a job that I can be passionate about, a job that I can turn into a career. My dream job is a job where I could achieve growth and improvement, allowing me to hone my skills and develop my personal identity. I believe that with that, I can achieve greater heights and make a name out there for myself. The goals that I have set for myself could be surpassed, as long as I exert effort and passion for it, too. I aspire for a job that empowers me and my colleagues no matter what our characteristics are. While I want a career that I could fully embrace, I also want a career that accepts us no matter what our color, gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs are. In the society we live in, there are still a lot of discriminatory practices inside work, and so I dream that in my future job, we will be able to feel like we belonged there. Like it was actually where we are fated to go. And lastly, I dream for a job where not only can I be happy with my surroundings, my colleagues, and my work, but I can also make others smile through it. While I like working in quiet office spaces, I also want to be able to meet other people and know them, or connect with them. I want a job where I could be able to take part of helping the people, a job where as the company expands, so the society progresses. Companies and businesses are not just all about profits now, and it is my dream to be able to contribute to the betterment of the community and the society.

        Right now, I am still unsure of where the future will take me. There’s a path ahead of me, yet there are still endless possibilities. Nevertheless, I believe that if I persevere and trust myself, that dream job in my head will come as an opportunity. So until then, I will work hard and do my best as a student, even if it takes countless sleepless nights, piles of academic works and activities, and a series of failures to achieve that.