A reaction on Profession

What is a profession?

A "calling requiring special knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation" to prepare individuals for future career deployments in respective fields. This means, that a professional must at least practice a certain profession (i.e. law, medicine, etc.) and that defines the nature of the relationship between a professional and the profession he/she might have.

Source: www.merriam-webster.com

What is professional?

A professional is a member of a vocation founded upon specialized educational training.

The word professional traditionally means a person who has obtained a degree in a professional field. The term professional is used more generally to denote a white collar working person, or a person who performs commercially in a field typically reserved for hobbyists or amateurs.

In western nations, such as the United States, the term commonly describes highly educated, mostly salaried workers, who enjoy considerable work autonomy, a comfortable salary, and are commonly engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work. Less technically, it may also refer to a person having impressive competence in a particular activity.

Because of the personal and confidential nature of many professional services and thus the necessity to place a great deal of trust in them, most professionals are held up to strict ethical and moral regulations.

Thanks to Miss Juvelyn Lumongtad for the whole idea. But the next question and answer is already taken from me.

Now, can I consider myself as an IT professional after I graduate?

The follow up question sounds annoying to me. LOL. However, this question I think is the most challenging question to answer and is debatable as well. That is, I think, applicable for our school only.

I can’t tell, but I’d like to, but I cannot.

You see while thinking for an answer to this question, my mind was stuck in between. Whether, I can consider myself as an IT professional or not after I graduate. Now, if we are going to base my answer on the above definitions, Yes, I could be considered as an IT Professional, since; firstly, I am a member of a vocation founded upon specialized educational training and secondly, after I graduate I already earned a degree in a professional field. These are included in the definition of profession and a professional. But, the question is, for Tate’s going to be IT Graduates, after graduation are we going to practice our degree, or what we call our profession? Meaning, are we going to apply for an IT related field job/work? Perhaps, that is not the real question after all.

Come to think of it! You see, dear readers, from the very first graduates of IT in the college, there are only few, very few or none, have worked in their profession or related fields of IT. That is because; graduates/students have already developed feeling of self-incompetence in their field. Who’s to blame? No one should be blamed of. Some students lack resources like owning a PC, resulting to lack of interest in the subjects’ esp. those with laboratories. Tendency is, if there are assignments that is going to be passed on a deadline, students with no resources would just tend to copy and paste it. Now is this the kind of a professional what we are trying to define? I can tell this because I have observed this to some and I have felt this too. Maybe faculties could think of some possible solutions like taking into great consideration the requirement for each student to have a pc in the first year. By this we wouldn’t be worrying anymore of this self-incompetence anymore. It’s just a matter of good implementation and managing for the betterment of IT in the college.

I hope this could be made possible. I hope this would be an eye opener. I don’t want to see IT in tate become worse. But so much for that, let’s go back to the challenge; let’s try to rephrase the follow-up question. Are we going to work in our related field or not? Or, can we dare to find a work in our related field? The answer is a matter of a Boolean function, 1 or 0, yes or no. haha!

For me I can do it, but not after graduation immediately. Maybe I could take some assessment or some reviews to take examination that would yield and develop more my potentialities as an IT because truly I am not confident with what I have right now in my database. It’s up to me. LOL. I think I just need an additional learning, and after that. That’s it.