Not many people know this, but I once worked as an encyclopedia salesman.
Encyclopedias were the Google of my time. Back then, if you wanted to learn more about a subject, you reached for an encyclopedia, searched for the topic from the alphabetized volumes and read about it. After that, I became a dealer of firefighting equipment, sold used clothes and started a cotton candy cart in the old Fiesta Carnival in Cubao. All this while I was still in high school.
It was this on-ground training that prepared me for my role today as head of one of the country’s largest food manufacturing corporations. I was never one to excel at school; today I openly admit that I still have to earn my college degree. That has not stopped me, however, from being good at my job.
This can be through direct mentoring by veteran entrepreneurs or through our Go Negosyo entrepreneurship mentoring events where they can listen to and meet actual entrepreneurs. A few years back, we held a Youth Entrepreneurship Summit and before the year ends, we will resume it under the Teenpreneur event. Just recently, I met a young lady who said she was at one of our youth summits and she told me that she was so inspired that she has been a serial entrepreneur since.
These are exciting times to become an entrepreneur. Better than it was 18 years ago when I founded Go Negosyo and was asked by then-president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to help more Filipinos become entrepreneurs.
As of last week’s count, the Department of Health reported there have been more than 150,000 cases of influenza-like illness recorded nationwide.
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