Tag Archives: work

K-to-12 and TESDA unite for World Class Competency starting at age 3

Posted on June 24, 2013 by white hair leghorn

While I am skeptic of the K-to-12 program of the Department of Education, its promise of competency for the adolescents and pre-adults, and the potential for more plausible monetary rewards, despite of the lack of a college degree, tells us … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged children, competency, Department of Education, DepEd, education, elementary, grade school, high school, Joel Villanueva, lesson plan, lower middle class, middle class, poor, poverty, public school, students, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, technical skills, TESDA, vocational skills, work | Leave a comment

Kung masyadong mahal ang pagod mo

Posted on May 9, 2013 by white hair leghorn

sinong employer ang makabibili nito?

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged employers, employment, skill, skills, wage, wages, work | Leave a comment

If you are too good for something

Posted on April 18, 2013 by white hair leghorn

Then are you really good for anything?

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged employment, finding employment, finding work, work | Leave a comment

Emptying-the-Bucket List: Value of Hardwork and Money – update1

Posted on March 26, 2012 by white hair leghorn

More and more youngsters and hipsters alike are living too much of the good life and forgetting about the value of hardwork. Life must be emphasizing too much of looking good, and feeling good, that it has produced the exact … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economy, consumerism, Filipino life - for real, health and wellness, Life Lessons, opinion, the world as we know it | Tagged abstaining, advice, boredom, cable tv, career, cars, character, comfort, community, daughter, emptying-the-bucket list, fasting, fasting of the mind, feeling good, food, hardwork, hospitalization, illness, infant, injustice, investment, lack, life, looking good, maturity, money, needs, nothing, overtime, overtime pay, pediatric intensive care unit, poor, poor in spirit, poverty, promotion, renewal, rewards, riches, self improvement, self renewal, sex, supervisors, the good life, tours, value, video games, wants, wilderness, work, working hard, worth | Leave a comment

Do not trust Mediocre Man

Posted on December 20, 2011 by white hair leghorn

Because trusting a man who concentrates his efforts on having a good time, and putting one over the good guy would be awfully hard. My editor once told me about men being involved in a legitimate business as the most … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economy, opinion | Tagged business, character, con, con artists, conmen, couch potato, hustling, laziness, lazy, mediocre, mediocrity, trust, trusting, trustworthy, work, working man | Leave a comment

Of the things we could become

Posted on November 24, 2011 by white hair leghorn

Being a minister – the hardest profession there is. I don’t think I’d be fit for that – ever. Wonder how it’d be if I were a lawyer. I watched the GMA NewsTV segment on how deaf women were raped … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economy, Filipino life - for real, opinion | Tagged apartment, application, applying for work, blind, book, book idea, brain, burglaries, burglary, career, court interpreters, freelance, Journalism, justice, law, Limitless, minister, potential, Project Management, studies, studying, theft, work, writing | Leave a comment

Plumb inspiration from Barack Obama’s “Dreams from my Father”

Posted on October 14, 2011 by white hair leghorn

It would take a Reverend Jeremiah Wright for Pres. Obama to realize what he has been missing. A sense of community, and taking responsibility for that community, apart from the pursuits of respectability and “middleclassness.” His father and his father’s … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economy, opinion, polibiz, the world as we know it | Tagged america, Barack Obama, book, book review, breadwinner, class caste, community, discrimination, Dreamms from my Father, faith, family, finances, focus, issues, Kenya, Luo, money, Occupy Wall Street, oppression, religion, respectability, roots, strength, support, usa, work | 1 Comment

Panera freeloaders: pay-what-you-can resto burden

Posted on May 19, 2011 by white hair leghorn

Panera Bread Co. is a successful and classy (they play jazz) community kitchen of sorts in St. Louis, Missouri. They let people give what they can, but the price of the meal is given as “suggested payment.” Charitable it is. … Continue reading →

Posted in business and economy, food, the world as we know it | Tagged abuse, blacklisting, cafe, cafes, charitable, charity, college students, community, community kitchens, debt, finances, food, freeloaders, freeloading, help, helping out, inspection, interview, jazz, jobless, laid off, lay off, Missouri, panera, panera bread co, profit, restaurant, restraint, St. Louis, teachers, usa, work, work credits | Leave a comment

Closing elevator? Shout “Up!”

Posted on April 18, 2011 by white hair leghorn

This is from Seinfeld, one of my comedy heroes — …Kids could always resolve any dispute by calling it. One of them will say, “I got the front seat.” “I want the front seat.” “I called it.” And the other … Continue reading →

Posted in comedy and creativity, Filipino life - for real | Tagged call it, doors closing, doors shut, elevator, elevator doors, elevator hogging, germs, jerkess, jerks, late, office, office work, punctuality, running late, seinfeld, work | Leave a comment