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Determining Your Value in the Workplace

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When you judge yourself, as we all do, how do you measure up? What do you feel you have to offer to your organization - and is that offering given the value, validity, and respect it deserves? What is your worth or do you even consider your worth at all? Or are you just another delusional mammal? Why is it important to understand your personal currency? I’m going to be frank and say that not only is it important to recognize your innate worth, it’s critical that you do or else you might end up living in great delusion. I am telling you, that would be seriously ridiculous. In the past 10 years, I got the privilege to work with already 3 different employers,  both public and private sectors. I am glad that I was given the opportunity to work with the best minds of these 3 organizations. While the opportunities were great, I was also given the challenge to work with people who have parasitic attitudes, delusional mammals or even those who are good as deadwood. Inasmuch as I w...

Working With the Government

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I was having my coffee in a shop near my place and noticed a woman in her 20s whom I assumed then was memorizing as she was holding a reviewer. She was sitting beside my table. She saw me watching  her and she smiled. As a good gesture, I smiled back and said "Hi, what are you up to?". I have learned that she is preparing for the Civil Service Examinations. She said she wants to work with the government so she really needs to pass it. Before I left the coffee shop, I then bade goodbye and wished her the best for the coming examinations. While I was walking home, I can't help but reminisce when I took the same exam in 2005, I was 20 years old then. It then crossed my mind again as to why am I in the government service? I am not telling you that working with the government is a miserable existence because that would be untrue. Working with the government has very fair benefits and perks and sense of fulfillment which you can only understand if you are one of the more than...

Love and Science

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Does love in romantic sense exist? Or is it just the word our society has put it in Webster’s Dictionary when we feel we are strongly attracted or when we have this unexplainable feeling towards someone?  Is love merely a result of a chemical imbalance or physiological unevenness in the brain ,  or is it a result indeed of Cupid’s intervention which requires no reason at all? For some philosophers, the question “what is love?” generates a host of issues: love would mean simply an abstract noun; for others, it is a means by which our beings are irrevocably affected once we are ‘touched by love’; some conducted experiments and analyzed it while others have decided to leave it in the realm of the ineffable. I am definitely back into writing and the great way to start this rebirth of passion is writing about love  because it is everything. I’m a bit drunk while writing this article  honestly. Now  allow me to give to you a quick rant about this real thin...

Tips on Traveling with Friends

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           Travelling with friends can be one of the most memorable experiences of your life. These travels will be remembered all your years. So making these memories bountiful and meaningful with friends is an important aspect of enjoying life while you still have all the energies of your youth. However, these vacations would quickly go down and drain if you are not on the same page with your friends. That is why it is very important that you communicate and plan together in order to avoid confrontations during the trip. Here are some of the things I suggest you should do before your scheduled trips:   Trip itinerary:  Make sure everyone agrees on the daily activities;  Trip costs:   Make sure everyone is aware with their own share of the costs; Food/Lodge:  All...