Works Changing Life
During the pandemic’s time, many people told they finally had enough time to spend thinking about themselves.
Maybe finally they have “time”, to look on the mirror and ask who am I? Others told with time to spend with their couples, parents were a hell.
And a large number of people in my country (Brazil), was stopped without jobs, food until need to leave their poor houses and go to leave on the streets.
The SARS-COVID-19 brings up all garbage humanity has hidden under the rugs. The economic differences and all others (racial, gender, religious, etc) were accentuated.
Becomes clear in Brazil what people at risk situation (poverty, not academic qualified, Afro-Americans, women) has no conditions to work remotely, to keep their jobs, to survive.
The inequalities come for everyone to see and know. And who should take action to solve the problems, chose to create more problems, and thus try to dress the naked reality that paraded around the country without any shame.
Seeing all that, I felt like a stranger in my own country. I’m a multiracial person, the result of beautiful love stories from all my ascendents, who never left to love someone because of any social protocols. My father was a carpenter and self-taught, my mother was a dressmaker and has just the basic education, but they teach me and my brothers the education was the most valuable thing they could give us, after health.
Then, me and my brothers, all never give up on our studies, we all start to work with thirteen years. Work eight hours a day and study four hours at night.
We didn’t have a teenager’s time like most young people, no commitments and lots of fun. In opposite, we had many commitments, because at this point my father died and we had to help our mother with expenses, pay for our studies, and when possible, we had fun.
We all are graduates and talk at a minimum of two languages besides Portuguese. All of us today have executive positions, our own houses, and a life quality usually peoples with our origins in any place of the world do not have.
Looking at the actual world, I could understand my studies and my job turns my life different. All sacrifices during my young’s days become a prize now.
When I decide to start my career in the information technology area, all people told me that was not a women’s career, that is not for poor people. But I had a boss, a woman boss, who told me to choose a career that had something I love to do. And do not be worried if, during the start phase, I do not be recognized. Because when we do something, we love, we don’t care about the others think, we just want to do our best.
And I did that! My technology career gives me a chance to work overseas on the majority of big techs of the world (IBM, NCR, Teradata, Unisys, and others). I could do technology specializations on the most valuable universities around the world.
My parents never could pay for it for me, but they give me the “most valuable thing”! They give me education.
Now I’m a professor at a Brazilian university, I’m an entrepreneur and have a lot of titles. I could tell my work turns into reality in all my dreams and others I cannot dream I could have.
Because that now I’m part of many initiatives to teach and stimulate young people to start their technology careers. And try to capacitate orders ones too. Because now the world is digital! Has no other choice to work without any digital tool.
I am trying to give back to the universe all the good that I received through my work. Transforming that people’s lives, and allowing that, one day they can feel so grateful for their work as I’m now, and could continue that change lives forever.
