Why I chase for education. Hmm?
Years of experience. This is something that I don't have control over, despite the passion and persistence to learn. Quite suckish is that I look like a child for some cause am asian (we know how Filipinos work with that) and sometimes am not taken seriously with my ambitiousness.
So….how can I gain credibility and proper knowledge, the fastest way I know?
Being in my early 20's, people tell me, learn how to save as early as now. The constraint being time and money, I had to choose which is more valuable. It's time. It's time because I can use the little money I have to save for education for my next step.
If I can learn from people who has dedicated years to collectively learn a specialized side in coffee, a.k.a finding mentors for every aspect of it, it is to my greater advantage to have that head start and to apply it myself, and just go from there.
If I need to buy equipment that is necessary for self learning or experimenting, I will definitely put that as priority to acquire, to have better understanding of a topic. Should I have a reason for traveling, it has to be related to learning something in coffee.
If I invest my money on the time I am learning coffee, I know that I’ll be able to save (labor wise) in whatever business I choose to do in the future, and that I can say that I can trust myself on this aspect.
Education is my investment, to add value for the time I spend to gain credibility as quick as I could. I may be young, but if I could learn correctly throughout the process of understanding the chain, I could achieve more, so that one day I could bring myself to educate, to have greater impact, and to give more.