My Mother Knows Best (On Negosyo)

ACCOUNTANTS. MADALI AT MABILIS NA ANG PAG-ASENSO

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From the time that I entered the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) until I graduated in 1986, my Mother seldom missed a chance to lovingly remind me about the beauty and benefits of having a college degree. 

I know right there and then that she doesn’t want me to replicate her ‘labandera cum plantsadora’ lifestyle. Although, she did not complete her formal studies, she led me to understand the (1) principles of matching costs against revenue, (2) strategy of a meeting, (3) marketing and selling techniques, (4) structural pricing, (5) cost and quality controls, (6) customer relation, (7) business ethics, and (8) time management. Little did she know that she profoundly helped and assisted me to become what I am today.

I am thanking the Almighty God for making my Mother a business person, - labandera cum plantsadora, because to be an employee, she would always be racing to punch in her card before 8 am and too tired to share a wisdom after 5 pm. Notwithstanding the fact that at that time her revenue is more than what a minimum wage earner is receiving, it is still insufficient to our family needs due to the fact that businesses have erratic and unpredictable sales and revenues.

Now let’s talk about your Dream.

Dreaming to be an Employee is a nightmare. 

I was also brain-washed and brain-conditioned that after all the schoolings are done, the next best thing to do is to write a biota (resume), submit it to as many employers there are, compete with your friends and schoolmates for a preferred job-opening, wear proper attire during interview, impress potential employers, work from 8 - 12 hours a day, do an extraordinary and exceptional work, wait for the boss to notice it, wait either for a promotion so that an increased compensation may become a reality, or legislated wage-increase, etc., etc., etc.

Dreaming to be an Entrepreneur is a successmare.

I am so lucky to realise early enough that to be a successful Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is too difficult, dirty, and dangerous. In the Philippines, only those who either have tie-ups with big, famous and foreign-owned CPA Firms (difficult), political connections (dirty), or a dishonourable character to perjure, lie, misrepresent and bribe (dangerous) are the factors constituting ‘success’. I, www.emelinotmaestro.com, have neither hitched-up with any giant CPA firm, attached to any political powerhouses and clans, nor engaged in immorality in order to be successful.

Surely, in the beginning of being a Tax Consultant (For more substance, let it be called ‘Taxation Professional’.), I made so many mistakes and failures. For that reason, I am inviting you to attend the TRABAHO AT NEGOSYO: For Small and Start-up Accountants, Bookkeepers and Consultants in order for you not to  REPLICATE MY ‘MISTAKES AND FAILURES’ LIFESTYLE. 

Truly, what I learned from my school, the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila didn’t make any great impact or dent in my life but from what I experienced in dealing with so many business persons (presidents, accountants, lawyers, bookkeepers, beggars, security guards, etc.), revenue officials and other government employees made and is still making me a relevant and competent educator in  Philippine local and national taxation. 

Would you like to continue learning from inexperienced persons or wait for your lucky stars rain down on you? 

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