“When you stumble, when you fall, you have to stand again, then pray, then walk again. Allow yourself for mistakes. Do not compare yourselves to others, because you will shine on your own time. At the right time. Just go with the flow, if this is what you have now, just enjoy what you have. Contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have. And you have to be able to lose all the desires beyond your reach.”
50 hours a week, the average schedule of Mr. de Jesus brims with classes, research, advising, and consultations.
due to his resilience he overcame them. Mr. Ernan P. De Jesus became a receiver of the Leadership Excellence Award, Best Developmental Research Award, Service Award, Dignity Award as a former URSB student who has meaningful experiences. He has been teaching at URSB for 8 years, a Graduate of Master’s Degree in Information Technology. Aside from teaching, he is also working as an events coordinator and a host with TSC Events Management and Coordination and is also a licensed Life Coach at Life Strat International.
Mr. De Jesus confesses that he never planned on becoming an educator as he was not into teaching. Instead, he dreamt of becoming a psychologist but his grandmother, “Inang” was the one who inspired him to become a teacher. With his grandmother’s influence, it brought him to test the waters of teaching.
After obtaining his college degree, Bachelor of Science in Information Management from the University of Rizal System Binangonan (URSB) in 2012, he got into URSB as a part-time instructor. In the first 3 years, he treated teaching as a “job”. It’s like a routine that he’ll teach, give activities, and go home. Though as time passed by, he eventually loved teaching. For him being an educator is not just a teacher, a second parent, a motivator, a friend, a brother, an older sister, a teacher is a “Kapamilya”.
Mr. De Jesus believes that knowledge must be imparted to everyone else. As this job is not without hardship, especially devoting your life in the service of marginalized people, with hard work compensated only through a simple “thank you”. Despite the challenges of his work, what keeps him going is “being able to touch the lives of his students”.
“You are molding the person into a better one”. That is why he is always glad to hear from his former students and watch them live their lives purposefully. He shows a deep appreciation for his former student’s effort in showing their simple gratitude to him.
Being an educator is a life-long devotion and he learned that “The greatest reward of being an educator is to meet students who have different situations, as I learn new knowledge every day from my student’s experiences. The simple word, ”thank you” means a lot coming from my students and seeing and knowing that they are happy and successful.”
As our interview neared to the end, he wanted to impart to the readers a message of inspiration.
“At your age, 15 and above, we always compare ourselves to others. We are full of whys in our lives. When you stumble, when you fall, you have to stand again, then pray, then walk again. Allow yourself for mistakes. Do not compare yourselves to others, because you will shine on your own time. At the right time. Just go with the flow, if this is what you have now, just enjoy what you have. Contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have. And you have to be able to lose all the desires beyond your reach.”
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