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| A visit at Samrong Andet Pagoda |
After a long adventure in another
country for a few months and being apart from friends, teachers, and family, a
young man was free at home for one month and seemingly seen as a jobless man by
many persons living nearby and some students in the same school. Due to a load
of things that were going on in school for the thesis and report presentation
for my graduation and a big and famous holiday in Cambodia, “Khmer New Year”,
I still had to work hard to prepare myself for the final presentation for
teachers as well as students for knowledge and ideas sharing of my internship.
April, the month that I came back, was just nothing to do besides finalizing
all above-mentioned tasks that were must-do and prioritized jobs and getting a
big and long holiday.
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| Village Visit at Kmnounh Community |
Since then, I started to check
the possibilities that were given before I came back; a few choices were seemingly
interested and likely to be chosen for my future career. As it turns out, I
started to work within my school in a newly-born department “Research and
Development” which is the last and final decision I have made and decided
not to work outside. Working as an assistant social business developer to
assist my director in social business creation, I feel totally impressed to be
part of this department to help survey on social business in Cambodia, which
was done on the mid of July. I really learned quite a lot from this job about
business, especially social business which is quite difficult to give
definition in Cambodia legally speaking. However, after getting the final finding
of survey of social business with the participations of many social
entrepreneurs from various types of businesses, we found a reasonable
definition, being able to start working on our next steps of helping create
social business to help the poor.
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| Birthday of FLIP team |
Since the main goal of young
man’s life is to be an entrepreneur, he starts his career on helping his
director to create social business to help the poor who have marginalized and
vulnerable children, having no access to give schooling chances to their
children. His first job seems relevant to what he plans for next step of his
intensive goal while, at the meantime, he could contribute his time to help the
poor to get better living standard – though it is not perfect yet. However,
starting the first career in the same school that he has been with for the last
four years is seemingly criticized by most of his generation as well as some
teachers since they all feel doubt about the reason why he started his first
career here. Only a few have positive aspect of his presence working for his
school.
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| Happy Solidarity Buffet at PSE |
It is debatable for the reason of
being here. Knowing that this aspect will not serve him well for his passion,
sound judgment, and intensive goals, he just stays focused on what he is doing,
never deviating from his initial goal that could change his direction from achieving
his dream. On the contrary, he merely gives himself courageous dream to follow
his heart, making fruitful use of his work as a stepping-stone to reach what he
dreams his life to be. With that in mind, he always tells himself not to tend
to something else that downplays his belief; however, he is always open to
constructive feedback or critical ideas that could help him to go beyond his
power and scope so as to reach his goal. It does not mean that you are able to
develop yourself should you follow someone’s dream, not yours. The power to do
more and produce more to follow your heart is what matters. Always look
backward to see where you are and compare it to what you wish to look forward.
Define something that you found from your comparison and make changes to what
could bring you fruitful results.
