Worth It

It has been a tiring, enjoyable and a worth it 10-day work immersion with my co-immersion students and the office staffs of the Department of Public Works and Highways at the Nabunturan district of the Compostela Valley Province. We faced some challenges that would set our mind into focus, met some new good people who became close to our hearts and learn some new ideas and knowledge, getting our long-pursued satisfaction. As my realization, being in the work proper and do things what busy office people does every day, is a not as easy as reciting the alphabet for it needs the dedication, physical and psychological strength, determination and patience in able to complete tasks designed to suit with the profession of the challenger.

Being with them, people with professions, is kindly an awkward thing. Adjustments were made and the tremulous feeling I felt at first had slowly vanished as days passed. So many paper works to be sorted of and computers to be used with, carried by my very handsinnocent from these bustling works. On our second week, we were sent to the BAC section to help Ma’am Analyn with her bunch of contract papers that are needed to be sorted, organized and ready for the next steps required for the legality of the projects. We did things she was doing for almost three years alone. It was not an easy task sorting a bunch of things, tabbing it one by one, project by project

with your bare hands finishing it in due time. I coped up with some of the things which are new in my senses giving me some confidence and courage to believe that I can do a thing and continue to progress with appropriate actions. I may be gotten sick, lots of headaches, longing for a good long sleep but I still manage to compete with my limitations and conquer unwanted illness to complete the tasks and challenges given by the superiors.

Being a man in a profession is not as easy as that, I had the mixed feelings in experiencing one in a little amount of time. Dedication, hard work, courage, confidence, patience, all of these are directed now into my point of view. Achieving my dreams would be very difficult and challenging but with these things and the possibilities in the near future, carrying the burden would be worth it.