Assignment no. 2

            Every person in this world has his/ her own views and ambition in life. Some other persons are being well- prepared for their ambitions. Some also doesn’t have their own true goals in life. They just go beyond of what they can actually do. Every person has his/ her own capacity in doing his/ her best in their different career in life. But above of all of the ambitions in life you would like to take up in the near future, you must know your traits, or what are your limitations of your own personal traits. With these personality traits, you can have your own understanding on how much you can be able to cope up with your own traits. Personality traits can be interpreted as both positive and negative. For instance, being critical is one of your traits. This could be a plus if you are an editor of a publishing company, or a meat inspector. It would be a negative if you are a supervisor trying to gain rapport with an employee.

Last week, our facilitator conducted us an examination about our personality traits. I had no idea of what kind of examination we had to answer. I was nervous at that time, but our facilitator told us not to be nervous because, it was just easy and I thought to myself, what kind of examination I had to take, then, our facilitator post out the questions on the projector screen, as I see it, I was wondering what kind of examination was that, until our facilitator told us this kind of examination is all about your personality traits examination, but, he did not told us what it is all about. Suddenly think about what is the purpose of the examination because of as I took up the test; it is all about your personality about being an entrepreneur because most of the questions that deals with business and also, with money. Every question, there is a corresponding letters with an appropriate number of points. After the examination, I had a score of 40 points; it was by adding all of the scores in it. At first, I had no idea what is my corresponding grade of the points I get from the test. Our facilitator told us about the corresponding interpretation results of the exam. My interpretation is that I am somewhat entrepreneurial. I was happy at that time because I had the chance to become a technopreneur or an entrepreneur; it was because I had the ambition to become boss in my own company. I was able to come up an answer that suits both friendship and business, because there questions involving about business and peer activities. About the personality traits test, I was glad to have taken it because I was able to determine what kind of person I am. About my personality traits, let me share some of it so that you can judge what kind of person I am. Unfortunately, being just a “somewhat entrepreneurial” bothers me, it is because I want to improve my skill more than a simple entrepreneur can do. In my age as of now, I think that I can do a lot if I’m pursuing my dreams. I want to improve more on entrepreneurship. As far as I have remember, when I was in my high school days, I took up an elective course during my third year and fourth year. The elective course I took Is on Business Management, it is because, I have no plans on that age of being an Information Technology, as I have remembered, on the first 2 grading, we tackled about on how to manage a business, somehow, I barely manage that kind of subject because I liked being a “tindero” in a sari- sari store. We have a practical exam in wherein we actually demonstrated being a sales boy in a store wherein we will count in the end our profit with it. As I was selling that time, I was enjoyed by what I am doing because I gain a lot of profit just by selling different kinds of goods and also school supplies, My teacher said to me that time that I have a chance to become an entrepreneur some day because I was determined to my work and also I have the guts of what it takes to a successful entrepreneur. As I go along with my studies in high school, I noticed that there was something the customers would like to buy, something new and also something hot to their eyes. I barely notice some of the person walking by saying that they wish to have a high technology store that there will be more convenient them to buy on. I was thinking that time if I have chance to have my own business, I would choose to put up a business something like a coffee shop with a twist. After that, we have a final project in our subject; the instructor said that we will make a business proposal, something new, and something fresh. In my mind that time, a had an idea of what business what I want. After submitting the project, my teacher told me that my business proposal is quiet good however, it takes a lot of investment in order to build or set up a business like this. I was discourage that time but my teacher said back to me that if I am a professional someday, he would like to see me putting a business like what in my proposal had, that makes me more aggressive in being an entrepreneur.

One of my personalities that affect my technopreneurship skills is being Honest. Being honest is one of the best ideals in attitude for me in being a good technopreneur, it is because I believe in the saying, “Honesty is the best Policy”, so that means that you must be honest at all times to your future clients or future customers. You have the integrity, and also you must keep in one’s promise in order to have that kind of trait. Many customers will buy or go back to your business because you are honest about your products and you did not cheat them. You will gain respect and also you will increase your profit. I can say that I’m an Honest person because even if sometimes, I am clumsy, or a joker, I did not tell lies so that I cannot hurt anyone, it’s better to be honest than to be a pretender and liar at all times for be able to have a “safe side” by the others.

Second personality trait of mine in having well in entrepreneurship or technopreneurship is being Open- Minded. Being Open- Minded does not mean you will open your mind, it is just a matter of thought of being considerate of other ideas, because, there was a saying, “No man is and Island”. You cannot survive without others opinions or other ideas. Being receptive and interested in the opinions and ideas of others. There are sometimes that you could say that your work is better than the others, but try to think of it, if you will not try to comment others of your work, you cannot truly say that your work is good. In myself, I had that kind of trait because even though I was right in my decision, still I managed to ask the opinions of others in my decision so that I can change my mind if there will be some problems with my decision.

The next personality trait I will reflect is about being self-reliance. Being self- reliant is being a good thing in business, it is because, you will able to work at your own best without having help of someone it can lessen your time, but you can less the expenses in your business by not putting up an employee to work with pay for it, have faith in yourself even if others cannot do it. It can create in your own a self- confidence because you will able to cope up a problem with solving in your own. In my side, I can tell that I am self- reliant because many times I survive at my own, in terms of survival of being nothing to eat sometimes, I will always find a way to be able to survive starving, I will go to our farm just to have additional money in order to supply my needs.

One trait of mine that I will reflect is about being determined. Being determined to all of the choices or paths you will take in life is very useful, because if have lack of it, you cannot successfully reach to what desire you want. You will be able to determined even if you are eventually losing hope you must be able to finished your task in able to reach your goal. In other person, determined is just for a fool person because they say that you are fool enough if you will try to achieve a goal even if it is very impossible to complete. For me, in this kind of trait is good but you must be able to calculate if you will know how to be possible a thing that is very impossible to others. In my experience, I had a lot of it if it will talk about being determined. One example of it was the entrance exam in University of Southeastern Philippines. I got a passing score in order to be interviewed in Institute of Computing but, there was a big problem that time, there are so many applicants who wants to enroll that time in Institute of Computing, They said that time that there are already almost 800 applicants who are interviewed at that said college. I was interviewed by my facilitator in this subject but at that time, I did not know him yet. I was nervous that time because I think I will fail in the interview exam because of what the interviewer that time, he also said that I must find another school because there was only a little chance for me to successfully enrolled in Information technology but, my determination keep me going at that time, and successfully, I was one of the 150 students who passed the overall exam. I was very happy that time because I am fool enough to believe in my ambition to enroll in USeP. Like in business, in order to be successful, you must be determined until to the last thing you can do to your business even if it is failure or successful.

Another personality trait I want to reflect is about my being adaptive. Adaptive is a kind of trait or behavior that you can easily respond or cope up if it is necessary to whatever changes in your work even if you say so it was nearly perfect. In this trait is very useful in business because in business many changes in it, for example, in the cost of products, you must able to take the risk to the changes in your business. Another example is about on the fashion of your business, a business that has a fashion is very useful because many people will go back to your business if they can remember your business with style. There are times your fashion is out of date or what called this – old school. It can discourage other customers to come again if they see your establishment is too old and cannot ride the latest trend in technology. You must be adaptive in the new environment so that you will not be out of date if there will be new and fresh styles. In real life, I can say that I was an adaptive person because whatever the latest in the environment, I can easily cope up if it is necessary.

In that personality test I took up last time, I had many questions again hurling me until now, I asked myself that if I am matured enough to be an entrepreneur someday or I want more leanings and more experiences to be able to become a good entrepreneur someday? I cannot wait to see myself being a satisfied and successful being on the near future!