Darwin Mag-usara Jayme

Honor, Glory, Satisfaction, and Fun: when I started to interact with a lot of people whom I haven’t known on the first 6 years of my life, these four words motivated me to propel my student life. I never wanted to be recognized but my cleverness (some say its intelligence, but I’d rather use the word “clever” for myself) somehow put on hot list during my school days.

Educated seventy-three kilometres away from the main city of Cebu province in the Philippines, I finished high school somehow with flying colors. Three months before high school graduation, I decided to take a full week absence from our class to search for ways on how I would be able to pursue a college education even if we don’t have the financial capacity for me to be sent to a university. With the help of my brother and few of his friends, I was able to study at the Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise – an educational center that offers qualify education to less-privileged Filipino youth.

Seeing the happy faces of my parents and my 9 siblings each time I go back and forth to the stages to take a ribbon, medal, certification, or plaque, was more than enough to pay off all the hardworks that I gave to my studies. I knew for sure that those recognitions will not help me get my family out from poverty. But making family and loved ones proud and happy is one great and irreplaceable “consolation-of-all-times” for me.

I had worked on a multi-national company that manufactures one of the world’s big names in high-quality wrist instruments (watches) for more than two years. Within just two short years as an all-around Information Technology (I.T) staff, I have been able to learn a lot of knowledge and skills by putting everything I’ve studied and being told to into application.

After I’ve got regulated and after our team got the approval of our promotion, I had filed my resignation to participate fulltime in my brother’s business.

Wow! Business!! I was a shy type of person before. I am still that type of person now. And, I never thought that people like me can be businessman too. Both my parents are into business – they entertain and talked to a lot of people. But since childhood, I’d always thought that it’s not my cup of tea to talk to people like they do. I’d always want to be different and just be at the corner with few of my relatives and friends. But still, I was able to be in a business – and thankfully, it’s not a bad one.

All the years I believed when great thinkers said that “money is the root of all evil!” But as I’d seen things happen and as I’d heard some people explain, I realize that “money” is not the root of all evils – not even the root of a single evil thing. It’s the lack of it that causes some people to act unlikely and do things that are against the basic universal laws.

Being raised in an environment where people survive even more than a hundred years with less than 10 pesos a day, I am confident that I can survive a healthy life with just my hands, feet, and body. I can be very happy penniless but peaceful and orderly!

However, 5% to 20% (on my own estimate) of our lives in this modern day, there come times that you will need to have the capacity (money) in order to solve a problem – one very common example is a situation where you want to help extend a second of other people’s lives. We can have a dying person to just go away (to the next life), but if we want to extend his/her life, we can rush him/her in to a nearby hospital and somehow extend his/her life for seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or even a year. And that would need money especially here in country like ours.

It really broke my heart to see people suffering a lot and loosing a lot (especially losing a life untimely) just because of financial insufficiency. I dreamed of a solution where I can help people secure their finances but I just can’t create or find one myself that can accommodate millions of people who want to have their finances secured. While I am still on the search for that, I work hard and smart (do I?) to get the most money that I can get so that I’ll be able to help, as much I can, those relatives, friends, loved ones and other people who are really in need.

To make a long story short, I am now involved in a society that is geared towards helping people get the most out of their jobless hours by making them more economically productive… a society that cares for others and shares not just blessings but far better than that – JoblessSociety Incorporated.

In the coming years, I expect this organization to be a group that erases the “negativities” that are attached to being “jobless” or to the word itself.

…a group where huge benefits can be acquired through: discounts, business opportunities, skills training, personal empowerment seminars, and more!

…a society that truly cares, and shares to the needy

In far more years, I am expecting that JoblessSociety will physically extend its doors globally – helping people from around the world, live the aspirations and ideals of the society.