Goals and Dreams

Goals and Dreams

By Nelson Rivera

Since I was a child, I have shown extremely easiness to learn new stuffs with minimal guidance. For instance, I learned by my own to speak English and the many uses of the computers. The first computer I had was one discarded by the company where my mother used to work, although it was old I was amazed the first time I used it, it was a new world for me and the more I knew about it the more questions assaulted my mind.

But was until high school I immersed in two of the more complex branches of the computing, software development and networking; in this part of my life some friends and I developed a navigable map of San Salvador and a website showing the best places of El Salvador to promote the tourism in our country. In addition, the same year I achieved one of the highest scores in the PAES: 9.6.

Because of my good marks I was eligible to a high performance study plan called PILET, in this plan I was able to take college’s subjects during my third high school year, this is why I have got my IT degree one year before than the regular study plan.

And in order to be integral I am also active in sports, such as soccer, basketball, volleyball and more recently I have begun to lift weights.

Besides my academical growth my family has also instilled in me the spiritual growth, they have shown me morals, to love and respect God and to show my gratitude to him, helping other people and attending to the church. I have studied my whole life in Catholic institutions, which have helped me to build character and to be a better citizen.

I will always be grateful for the effort my family has made in giving me the best education possible, but especially grateful with my mom, a single mother who raised three kids with love and abnegation, she faced all alone adversities and never gave up. She is my inspiration and one of my biggest motivations to pursue my dreams and goals. 

Despite my vocation is not politics, I know I can help to the improvement and growth of my country from my job. One of my goals is to establish my own software development and networking company not only for my economical stability but also to have a bigger impact in the economical growth of my country, to generate jobs and to lay a new precedent of social responsibility.

The big corporations and companies in El Salvador influence not only in the economy but also in the political direction. That is why I rather to become an employer than an employee, to have a bigger influence in the progress of my country.

I am also a huge lover of the nature and the animals, I do my part recycling and taking care of the environment but it is in a low scale, my projects for the future is to establish recycling centers in strategic areas and promote campaigns of recycling, my goal is to reduce the unwillingness and the carelessness of the Salvadorians to recycle, and to give my people more choices to take care of the environment, because many of us are eager to help the nature but we don’t have the tools, like recycling centers, to do it.

I know my aims are ambitious, but with hard work, dedication and most of all God’s guidance I am sure I will achieve them. All El Salvador needs is good and unselfish leaders to overcome the crisis and difficulties, and my biggest dream is to become one of them and leave a legacy to my country, do something to make a difference, change not only the way Salvadorians see El Salvador but the way the world see El Salvador.