'Strategy, it turns out, is really about trying to work out in a sensible way how to get from one stage to the next. With each stage a new set of problems has to be negotiated before you move beyond it. There is no end point: strategy is not simply a grander name for a plan, something that moves you forwards in predetermined steps. As Helmuth von Moltke, a 19th-century German field-marshal, put it: “No plan survives contact with the enemy.” Or Mike Tyson, still more pithily: “Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the mouth.” A strategy that starts with objectives and works backwards is one that is likely to fail.'

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-6 months after grad:-

• The search for stable employment which will allow for growth
  • Corporate, or-
  • Government
• Freelance in the meantime
  • Content-writing-
  • Market research

-Within year 1 of work life:-

• Stable employment at Wallace Business Forum-
• Writing gig
  • Sports-related at Tiebreaker Times-
  • Try something not sports-related: Cup Trails!-
• Invest-
• Learn how to drive-

-Within 2 years:-

• Develop a strong work ethic
  • More of the application of the athlete work ethic. It's still there. That's still me.
• Keep overhead low-
  • Overhead increases over time (and with salary)
• Save and invest-
• Travel, fitness, write-

1H2016:

• Quit job at Wallace-
• Focus on projects for 3-5 months
  • Freelance
  • Take online classes for quanti stuff
• Look for job in QC-
  • Still on the research track because admit it you will feel mundane writing copies for companies

2H2016:

• Start job at PPP Center-
  • Started as COS by virtue of being a "midnight appointment"
  • Enter plantilla life by November
• Get back to writing-
  • Back to basics journal-writing

2017:

• Hurdle first evaluation process-
  • LOL
• Online course-
  • Making Governments Work in Hard Places via edX
• Start looking for diploma course/MA options-
  • Where?
  • What field? Leaning toward public policy or something related
  • How to apply?
• Apply-
• Do something or write something
  • Fight in a fight again-
  • Write something boxing-related-

Goal while at the PPPC:

• Policy Circular on Gender and Development-
  • YAAS
  • But need to implement it also
• I want to be a fit grad student
  • Doing well enough; equal 3 units to MA and MMA haha
  • This is an on-going task

Within 5 years after grad (2018-2019):

• Apply for scholarships abroad
  • Application #1: Australia Awards
• Start(finish?)MA
  • If not abroad, UP is near the house
  • Enrolled at NCPAG wow-
• Find work-related research interests
  • Gender
  • Safeguards
  • Environment
  • Solid waste management

Noted research interests:

• Public-private partnerships
  • And got a job at the PPP Center (!)-
• Women's history / Scholarship of sports things
• Coffee and coffee culture-
  • Mag-kape ka na lang and think about life

Peg in life research interests:

• Impact evaluation-
  • There are more pressing issues in this country. Not yet time for ex-post evaluation in a country with poor knowledge management

Suntok sa buwan:

• Organize a Women, Sports, and Media summit-
  • Meron na nito organized by the Aus Embassy. It was a good idea, but your role may not be an organizer. You neither have the resources for this either. But do, do put yourself out there with your ideas.

Masasabi ko na I'm over college and I feel the professional world opening up in front of me. Some things as of December 2019:

• Leave your current role when you feel like you have a legacy in the role. Tbh I already have one, but I will finish this goddamn SWM-PPP Guide and implement the damn safeguards
• Finish your MA degree because it's necessary to get to the next level
• Key constraint in working at the PPPC is the lack of supervisory experience
• I can imagine myself working in government for at least 10 years but I don't want to be trapped into the government way of looking at things (i.e. "Act according to your SG")
• I can imagine myself studying and studying. Baliw na baliw talaga ako sa research
• Being a policy advocate is something I strongly identify with and will continue to build on.
• I will forever work for WE/GE and also for someday owning an espresso maker