On entrepreneurship
One of the good things about being with a business organization, aside from the lunch meetings at posh restaurants (paid for by the company, of course), is the exposure to the exciting world of entrepreneurs.
See, I believe in osmosis. I like it that I am picking up principles here and there, even from random conversations. One of my superiors holds franchises of a popular fast food chain in the Philippines. The other one is an investor.
So, I am learning from those who really know. They teach me, albeit unknowingly, and they give me exposures as well. Just the other day my boss dragged me to a seminar on handling stocks and bonds. Last week I was at a similar seminar.
I am just so amazed at how I am being guided to places I need to be in or introduced to people I need to meet so that I could learn the things I need to know. Is this The Secret at work?
It all started late last year when I ran into a former teacher, who introduced me to their director, who asked me to help them out on a project. I was then introduced to my boss, who, in the past few months that I have known her, have dragged me to here and there, and I am not one to complain. I appreciate the exposure.
I may not be able to do much about what I know now, but I know someday I will need the information that I’ve been getting. I have long accepted the fact that my day job won’t pay for my retirement, and I don’t intend to live from paycheck to paycheck until I’m sixty.
So for now, while my brain cells are still hyperactive, I am going to learn, and learn I will from the masters.
