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Essay / Personal Experience: A career in business...
The life I dreamed of as a child, teenager and even young adult began the day I decided to study international business, not because it was my dream, but because with it I acquired some of the tools to achieve it. But every day, it is life itself that proves to us that making dreams come true is not a particularly easy undertaking, although it is not a difficult or impossible undertaking either, and it did not take long time to offer it to me. I was accepted. at the Santo Tomás University, in 2007 I entered. From the beginning, topics related to administration, marketing and politics piqued my interest, but it was the research that captivated me. It is for this reason that I approached it from the second semester and considered it my greatest source of training. I specialized in the Colombian coffee sector, carried out several surveys, published articles and obtained meritorious marks in several of my presentations. I met young politicians and joined the Youth for Radical Change; I have participated as a volunteer in campaigns for almost every available seat in the country, debated, played politics and even led a campaign for a seat in the JAL of Engativá, a project that started in a university class and ended with the community. With a friend we started a business, we imported cigarettes from Indonesia and sold them in Bogotá. I graduated, placed second in my class and received the honorary distinction Cum Laude; and even after doing and achieving all of the above (and more), I had difficulty finding a job, or in other words, continuing the execution of the plan without dreaming of the impossible, in a country where we must do it. making the lives of many people dignified and possible is necessary and more than that, obligatory. This is perhaps one of the problems of the country and its education system, that the professionals we train do not specifically match what companies are looking for or what the country needs. Maybe that's what happened to me and even though I can't collaborate to improve education, because I know I'm not fit, I can think of ways to solve some of the country's problems, by approaching them from another angle, that of marketing; After all, perhaps it is by changing the way we approach and understand things that we can build the necessary bridges between the problem and the solution. Today, when we know that we are attracted by the prestige of what interests us.