Juan Miguel Severo Journey

Gone are the days that you feel so lost. Last September 21, 2015, a seminar was held at the Math Building Lecture Hall about career and passion. The speaker for that event was Mr. Juan Miguel Severo. He shared his stories about how he started and how he came to be what he is now. From the start, what you may be doing or thinking of being might not be your end game. You have to explore and once you have explored enough you can now commit to one of those career paths that you have engaged in. In choosing your career path, your passion will lead you to become the best that you can be and attain that sense of fulfillment while working.

As a kid you already had dreams on what you wanted to become. You wanted to be an astronaut, a chef, a singer or whatever you can think of. In Severo’s stories, he shared that your career in the future may not always be what you wanted to be when you were little or what you were good at. When he was a child, he was always chosen to be the representative in drawing contests. He was proud of himself for he gained medals and enjoyed what he was doing. So he thought that when he grows up, he would become an animator. But when he entered high school, his drawing skills did not make it to the top anymore, so he tried out singing -he was an aspiring singer back in elementary. He was able to form a band and tried music for a degree program in college. He got accepted but was not able to make it for the talent test. He somehow felt relieved that he was not able to make it. It was as if a sign saying that this is not for you, something better is meant for you. He though of trying out for a degree program in Film. In that moment he felt as if it was the

Inspiring us with his stories, he left the hall with a seed planted in each of us about how our passion will lead us to our success in having a