Career Doubts?

A career is a rapid motion. A course of action. Professional conduct in life. Progress through life. What is a careerist? One, who rushes widely and makes his advancement his or her aim in life. In times of Covid-19, you may not think about your career. Sure. But somehow life goes on, and career doubts rise again.

When career doubts won't go away? What if you're not happy with your job? Is it possible that you're in the wrong entirely?

My parents always (!) wanted me to become a banker. So far so good. Why not? Maybe I would have been more (or very happy) in my job. Or not?

The pressure "to be" someone starts in life early indeed. Not only my parents, but also peers, and teachers have begun to exert influence. Yes, I even didn't know where my inclinations lie.

Being a doctor or a lawyer? Yes, I was interested in law and medicine during that time.

"The way that people pick careers is incredibly primitive," said Nicholas Lore, founder of the Rockport Institute, a career coaching firm, and author of "The Pathfinder". So, it's no wonder, he said, that so many people are dissatisfied with their jobs. Me too. Yes, count me in. Mass-communication has been my subject, as well as publishing house management. So far so good.

I always thought about a true calling for me. Sure, people whose careers aren't the right fit often feel like impostors, Professor Robert I. Sutton, an organizational psychologist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, said. Very, very well said, Sir.

How about you, my dear reader? Are you also placing too high your value on the external rewards of the job, like money, prestige, and power? Sure, these things are indeed important. Hold on! The work you do and the skills your opportunity requires and the value of your work are more vital to fulfillment. Paperwork or not... Do you think you find a better career fit? Go ahead - but don't expect that this is your life's career!

I waited for my "better calling" experiencing many better and wonderful moments in life. I also experienced that what I did had been very much compatible with me, as what my parents thought.

Personal note: In times of soaring Covid-19 cases in the Philippines, there is only one thing: stay safe and healthy everyone.

DAVAO CITY RATIONS GROCERY PACKS TO BARANGAY 23-C

The Davao City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSSDO) has delivered 6,266 grocery packs to targetted beneficiaries in Barangay 23-C which is under a 14-day hard lock down since Saturday, July 4, 2020, to control the spread of coronavirus.

CSWDO rolled out the food rationing to Barangay 23-C which is assured of continued assistance from the city government until the lock down measures are lifted.Maria Luisa Bermudo, the Chief of the CSWDO, said her office is targetting two cycles of food packs distribution in the barangay which has a total population of 18,000.

“We have distributed grocery packs to the families in all seven puroks of the barangay containing 15 kilos of rice and assorted canned goods, good for 10 days consumption for the residents,” Bermudo said. Aside from food intervention, the CSWDO is conducting psycho-social support to the affected individuals through their support hotline.Some residents of Barangay 23-C are also enrolled in Work for Davao, the emergency employment program of the city government. Currently, there are 397 residents enrolled in the program.Also, around 383 beneficiaries are recommended for the Eskwela Davao program, the educational assistance program offered for children whose families have lost or reduced their income due to Covid-19. 

Meanwhile, City Health Officer Josephine Villafuerte said that all positive cases in the barangay are in isolation at the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) and their close contacts traced are isolated in their homes.She assured that health workers assigned in the barangay will continue to provide health services in the areas. Medicines and medical supplies will also be made available at the health centers. 

While addressing Covid-19 situation in the barangay, CHO still holds regular health activities such as nutrition, immunization, tuberculosis, tropical disease control, and the ‘Sabayang Patak Kontra Polio.’Barangay 23-C was placed under a hard lockdown after 88 residents tested positive of the coronavirus. The barangay is considered the city’s “hot spot” and very high-risk area of the coronavirus. CIO

Government helps people’s organizations receive livelihood assistance

Davao de Oro --- A total of seventy-one people’s organizations (POs) received certificates and tool kits in a ceremony held in Barangay Tibagon, Pantukan, Davao de Oro on June 27, 2020.

Two tailoring machine, native bags, and food packs were given to the POs who completed their 5-day Sapang Lubog Livelihood Skills Training Program on massage therapy, tailoring, nail care, and welding services.

This made possible with the help of Local Government Unit (LGU) of Pantukan in partnership with Municipal Council of Women, Municipal Community Teaching and Employment Coordinator and in collaboration of 71st Infantry Battalion. 

All POs are members of Sapang Lubog Women's Association (SALUWA) and Asosasyon sa Nagkahiusang Grupo sa Kadafa, Sapang Lubog, Sapang Tin-aw Tibagon Integrated Motorist (ANGKASS-TIM) that was organized by Community Development Team (CDT).

The assistance is one of the programs of government to sustain livelihood development in the grassroot communities in the province.

Meanwhile, twenty-one members of Kaibigan People's Advocacy for Collaboration and Empowerment (KPEACE) received food packs and six sacks of feeds for their pigs.

The Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) of Davao de Oro, is still aims to achieve inclusive and sustainable peace, of carefully getting to the root causes of conflicts in the whole province.

Oplan Pagbabago is anchored on President Rodrigo Duterte's Executive Order Number (EO) 70 which aims to create a national peace framework and institutionalize the whole-of-nation approach.

(Rheafe Hortizano, ID Davao de Oro)

50 IPs receive skills training from TESDA

Davao de Oro --- Fifty members of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the province received free skills training from Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to uplift their lives and to be equipped with the necessary skills that would qualify them for work.

The recent training was held in Bryg. Upper Ulip, Monkayo, Davao de Oro.

TESDA's objective of providing skills training program to all sectors is anchored on their TESDA Abot Lahat program.

Twenty-five IPs recipients for Electrical Installation and Maintenance (EIM) under the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) while twenty-five IPs granted for Carpentry under Community-Based Training.

The program was in partnership with Davao National Agricultural School (DNAS) of Montevista and Korea Philippines Vocational Training Center of Davao City which provided the skills training.

An orientation on social distancing, wearing face masks, and other health protocols were implemented to edify IPs on how to protect themselves from dreadful effects brought by COVID-19 pandemic.

More training awaits and to be implemented in Upper Ulip including Masonry and Construction Painting to complete the construction of the AGAK Center as a multi-purpose hall.

Meanwhile, forty-eight Rice Extension Services Program (RESP) scholars who took Modified Farmers Field School on Modernized Production of High Quality Inbred Rice and Seed Certification received their training allowances last month. (Rheafe Hortizano, ID Davao De Oro – Photos by TESDA Davao de Oro)

MORE LIQUOR BAN VIOLATORS ARRESTED

Posted on July 2, 2020  by administrator

The city government of Davao has shown that it is serious in the implementation of the liquor ban as the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) and Vices Regulation Unit (VRU) continue to apprehend more violators.From March to June, the two offices apprehended a total of 196 individuals for selling and drinking alcoholic beverages.

DCPO head Police Colonel Kirby John Kraft said that concerned citizens, who reported on violators, also played a role in the arrests.“We received tips from various Davawenyos that led to the arrest of these individuals. We actually encourage more Dabawenyos to inform us if they see people violating the liquor ban,” Kraft said.

VRU head Dr. Ashley Lopez said that they have been monitoring online sellers of alcoholic beverages, who have proliferated when the liquor ban due to the pandemic was implemented on April 6.

“Naa lang gihapon gahig ulo labi na mga alcoholics who desperately find ways to drink to satisfy their cravings,” Lopez said.Lopez and Kraft issued warning anew against other possible violators that they too will be arrested. CIO

DAVAO CITY TO IMPLEMENT LOCKDOWNS, BARANGAY ECQ DURING MGCQ

Posted on July 2, 2020  by administrator

Davao City will still implement a barangay Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) or house, street, purok, and compound lockdowns during the Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

“This is to control the transmission especially in identified very high risk and high-risk areas,” Mayor Inday Sara Duterte said in a live interview over the Davao City Disaster Radio on Wednesday.If lockdowns and ECQ happen in specific areas, Mayor Sara said, offices and establishment owners must be considerate to their employees that will be affected by these control measures.

“There will be employees nga dili gyud makasulod not because naa silay sakit but because nasulod sila sa isa ka lockdown. So maghangyo ta mga offices and establishment employers to take into consideration kaning mga ing-ani nga control measures (There will be employees that cannot report to work not because they are sick but because they were locked down. So we are appealing to offices and establishment employers to take into consideration these control measures),” she said.

Lockdowns are implemented in an area with an alarming number of positive Covid-19 cases. When an area is in lockdown, residents are required to 14-day home quarantine. Affected residents will be tested on the 14th day and those who are positive will be transferred to an isolation facility. The individuals who are locked down are those that have exposure to people positive of Covid-19 or have been included in the contact tracing. The city government provides ration and psychosocial support for residents under lockdown. CIO

Davao de Oro to implement green alternatives, bans single-use plastics

Davao de Oro Province---Vital for a balanced harmony of progress and development is a green and healthy environment free from pollution.

Environmental problems such as plastic plagues, blocked waterways and infertile soil were associated with single-used plastics.  Plastic also contributes to poisoning, health problems in humans, wildlife damage and uses millions of dollars for clean-up cost in coastal areas.

It takes about a thousand years for a single plastic to fully decompose, much longer than a life-span of an average human being, obviously non-biodegradable.

With this, setting an example as a good steward, PLGU-Davao de Oro, through the Sangguniang Panlalawigan led by Vice-Governor Maria Carmen Zamora passed the Provincial Ordinance No. 61-2020 “AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF SINGLE-USE PLASTIC PRODUCTS, EXPANDED POLYSTERENE, STYROFOAM AND OTHER SIMILAR MATERIALS IN ALL GOVERNMENT OFFICES, AGENCIES AND INSTRUMENTALITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF DAVAO DE ORO AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION THEREOF”

The province now prohibits the use of plastics including expanded polystyrene, styrofoam products during meetings, hearings, seminars, and other government activities.

Employees will now practice the green alternatives such as BYOB (Bring Your Own Baonan), BYOT (Bring Your Own Tumbler) and BOB (Bring your Own Eco-bag), reducing the generation of plastic waste in government premises.

Violators for this ordinance will be dealt with accordingly. Employees and Food suppliers/Caterers violating the ordinance will undergo a warning and attendance to Green Alternative Orientation Seminar for the 1st Offense. Subsequent offenses for employees is a fine of Php 300.00

Second offense for Food Suppliers/Caterers will be fined amounting to Php 3,000 and Php 5, 000 for the subsequent offense and subject the same to be blacklisted from conducting business in any government office/agency in the province.

Medical equipment used by our hospitals, laboratory and analysis services and front-liners such as gloves, plastic vials, sample bags, intravenous fluids or IV drips, plastic syringes and the like which follow the protocol and standards under the WHO (World Health Organization) and DOH (Department of Health) were given exemption. (Jasteen Abella, ID DAVAO DE ORO)

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Davao de Oro Allots 7 Million Pesos to Support Schools on “Blended Learning”

NABUNTURAN, DAVAO DE ORO

 – The Provincial Local Schools Board (PLSB) of Davao de Oro led by Governor Jayvee Tyron Uy, allotted a total amount of ₱7,044,441.12 from its Special Education Fund (SEF) to the Department of Education-Davao de Oro (DepEd-DdO) to be used on its coming shift to the “blended learning” approach. This is in accordance with the directive from President Duterte that no face to face interactions shall take place on the opening of classes on August 24, 2020. 

The aforementioned amount will be used to buy essential tools for public schools such as external drives, WiFi modems, video cameras, transistor radios, learning materials, and workbooks for school levels kindergarten to senior high school.

The Schools Division of Davao de Oro through Dr. Eufemia Gamutin, its superintendent and concurrent Vice Chair of the PLSB, proposed these items to the school board. 

In a recent meeting with the eleven municipal mayors of Davao de Oro, Governor Tyron Uy encouraged everyone to support DepEd’s shift to blended learning. The province’s eleven mayors enthusiastically supported him in response. 

The governor further encouraged individuals and groups to join Brigada Eskwela. In his message, he quipped that this year’s opening of classes fall under extra-ordinary times, and that helping our schools brave through this crisis is of utmost importance. 

“We are all duty-bound to support our students. As they always say, it takes a village to educate a child. Let us be that village”. 

Earlier, the governor signed a partnership agreement with the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to install free WiFi stations in the province’s schools. The provincial government’s official radio station will also be allotting an hour from Mondays to Fridays. Through Vice Governor Maricar Zamora’s initiative, Z Radio will also be allotting four hours a day to help DepEd’s alternative modes of instruction. 

Ex-Wirecard-Vorstand Marsalek will sich nicht stellen

Wegen des Bilanzskandals beim Finanzdienstleister Wirecard werden die bisherigen Chefs juristisch verfolgt. Jan Marsalek ist Medienberichten zufolge im Ausland untergetaucht. Die Aktie indes hebt ab.

Der langjährige Vorstand der Wirecard AG, Jan Marsalek, wird sich offenbar nicht von deutschen Staatsanwälten vernehmen lassen. Das erfuhren die Sender WDR und NDR sowie die "Süddeutsche Zeitung" aus Kreisen der Prozessbeteiligten. Marsalek hatte über seinen Anwalt in der vergangenen Woche zunächst erklären lassen, er werde nach München kommen, um bei der Justiz vorstellig zu werden. Dies solle nun doch nicht stattfinden. Weder die Staatsanwaltschaft München noch sein Verteidiger wollten sich demnach auf Anfrage äußern.

Die Staatsanwaltschaft hatte in der vergangenen Woche einen Haftbefehl gegen den 40-jährigen Österreicher erwirkt. Marsalek werden verschiedene mögliche Delikte im Zusammenhang mit dem Bilanzskandal des Unternehmens vorgeworfen.

1,9 Milliarden Euro verschwunden

Der Zahlungsdienstleister Wirecard hatte am Montag vergangener Woche mitgeteilt, dass ein Vermögen in Höhe von 1,9 Milliarden in Euro auf Konten des Unternehmens bei zwei philippinischen Banken Asien gar nicht existiere. Die philippinische Zentralbank erklärte, dass kein Geld von Wirecard in das Finanzsystem des Landes gelangt sei. Der Börsenkurs des DAX-Unternehmens stürzte ab. Am Donnerstag beantragte die Wirecard AG, die zu den Dax-Konzernen gehörte, ein Insolvenzverfahren.

Jan Marsalek (Wirecard/Leopold Fiala)
Ex-Vorstand Marsalek: Nach China geflüchtet?

Marsalek hatte ein Jahrzehnt lang im Vorstand das operative Geschäft geleitet. Dabei entstand ein weltweit verzweigtes Konstrukt aus Tochter- und Partnerfirmen. Viele Umsätze und Gewinne, die in diesem Netzwerk angefallen sein sollen, hat es offenbar nie gegeben.

Wo ist Marsalek?

Marsalek soll sich zuletzt auf den Philippinen aufgehalten haben, anschließend verlor sich seine Spur. Der per Haftbefehl gesuchte Österreicher hält sich möglicherweise in China auf. Der philippinische Justizminister Menardo Guevarra teilte mit, Marsalek sei vergangene Woche auf die Philippinen eingereist und habe das Land kurz darauf Richtung China wieder verlassen. Sein langjähriger Förderer, der Wirecard-Vorstandschef Markus Braun, hatte sich am Montag vergangener Woche der Justiz gestellt.

Philippinische Behörde untersucht drei Firmen

Derweil kündigte die philippinische Anti-Geldwäsche-Behörde AMLC an, im Fall Wirecard möglichst rasch für Aufklärung sorgen zu wollen. Man werde eine "schnelle und gründliche" Untersuchung starten, um weitere involvierte Gesellschaften und Personen zu finden, sagte Mel Georgie Racela vom AMLC der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters. Genau ansehen werde sich die Behörde vor allem drei Unternehmen, die im Zusammenhang mit dem deutschen Zahlungsabwickler stünden: Centurion Online Payment International, Pay Easy Solutions und Cone Pay International.

Von den Firmen war zunächst keine Stellungnahme zu erhalten. Pay Easy antwortete nicht auf E-Mails, Telefone waren abgeschaltet. Die Telefonnummer von Centurion war außer Betrieb. Auch Cone Pay war für einen Kommentar nicht erreichbar, da Kontaktdaten auf der Internetseite fehlten und ein sonst in der Branche üblicher Jahresbericht bei der Regulierungsbehörde nicht verfügbar war. Der philippinische Zentralbankchef Benjamin Diokno, der der Geldwäschebehörde vorsteht, wollte sich nicht dazu äußern, welche Firmen und Personen noch untersucht würden.

Der von Wirecard offenbar als Treuhänder eingesetzte philippinische Anwalt Mark Tolentino wies eine Verantwortung für die Pleite von Wirecard von sich. Er habe sechs Bankkonten für eine in Singapur ansässige Firma eröffnet, aber bis zum Bekanntwerden des Skandals nicht gewusst, dass sie für Wirecard waren, sagte er der Agentur Reuters. Auf den Konten sei nie mehr als ein paar Hundert Euro gewesen. "Jeder zeigt mit dem Finger auf mich, und stellt mich als Dieb des fehlenden Geldes dar", sagte er. "Ich möchte meinen Namen reinwaschen. Ich bin ein Opfer von Identitätsdiebstahl und gefälschten Nachrichten."

Erneute Kurskapriolen bei Wirecard

Trotz der jüngsten Turbulenzen stach das angeschlagene Unternehmen am Montag am deutschen Aktienmarkt mit einem Plus von zeitweise rund mehr als 200 Prozent heraus, allerdings bei einem niedrigen Ausgangspreis. Das ist der größte Kurssprung eines Dax-Wertes überhaupt. Die Papiere seien ein Spielball spekulativ orientierter Anleger, sagte ein Händler. Die "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" berichtet, Finanzinvestoren und der Konkurrent Worldline seien an Teilen des insolventen Zahlungsabwicklers interessiert. Worldline-Aktien legten an der Börse in Paris um 1,5 Prozent zu.

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