On Career, Personal Finance and Family Life

During our Fourth session on our Lasallian Business Leadership and Ethics class, we discussed about career, personal finance and family life. This session was really close to my heart given that I am a very career oriented person and a financial planner. It is also interesting to learn about the family code in the Philippines and the legal duties and responsibilities of parents in the society.

As a young professional, I always think about what I want to do and what I want to become. I always foresee myself in the future as a business person or a corporate executive but on top of all of this, I foresee myself as a loving husband and father to my future family. In order to achieve all these, I am fully committed to do everything I can to reach these goals. One of which is by taking up my MBA in De la Salle University. I believe that the knowledge and skills which I will acquire will equip me to become a better business leader. Other than that, I keep on building up my interpersonal and business skills as I believe that luck happens when opportunity meets preparation.

Another area discussed in our class is about personal finance. As a financial planner, this area is the closest to my heart. I believe that our country lacks the financial knowledge in terms of personal finance. We have been brainwashed as children that buying branded and expensive items are good when in fact it is not really practical. I have been an advocate of financial literacy ever since I was in college.  I learned about the importance of financial literacy early on and I teach my fellow students the importance and benefits of being financial literate.

Last area which we have discussed is about the Family Code of the Philippines. I was intrigued by the topic which prompted me to do a research about the article on Family Code. While reading through the article, I realized a lot of things which were written down that are not being practiced in our society today. I realized that if every Filipino family would adhere to the guidelines of the Family code, our society will be better and we will have a better quality of life here in our country.

Because of modern technology, families are increasingly becoming further apart. The demands of work to the husband and wife requires them to work long hours in the office leaving their children to the care of their nannies. It is written in the Family code that the father and mother should furnish them with good and wholesome educational materials, supervise their activities, recreation and association with others, protect them from bad company, and prevent them from acquiring habits detrimental to their health, studies and morals.

I believe that our society lacks this supervision today which leads young children to be easily influence by false advertisement of the social media. In closing, I hope and pray that Filipinos will live and practice the family code wholeheartedly and be responsible and loving parents to their children thereby helping society to bring up future worthy and responsible leaders.

As the saying goes, "Ang Kabataan ay ang kinabukasan ng Bayan"