"You stop learning today you will be illiterate tomorrow" - it was quoted by C/E Alfredo Haboc Masters in Shipping Business Management (MSBM) batch '95 Philippine Merchant Marine Academy Graduate School (PMMA GS),Training Director of Philcamsat during my interview with him and other successful graduates of the Masters Degree Program from the PMMA GS. Wherein their is a urgency for every seafarer to continue for higher education to meet with the ever constant evolution in the shipping industry, whatever knowledge you had accumulated from the past without continuous learning and upgrading it is an obsolete theory from the present times. Taking your Masters Degree earlier in your career will better prepare you with all those arduous challenges and uncertainties ahead of you." It gave me a better comprehension and analysis on maritime law, marine insurance, chartering, ship acquisition, port management, human organizational behavior and financial management etc......" -Capt. Tomas Cristino MSBM batch '95 PMMA GS, Fleet manager and Owners Representative of Virjen Ship management. With a Masters Degree in your belt it will give you an in depth understanding of the entire dimension of Ship management. It will further develop and enhance you with the up to date teaching methodology when you take up Masters Maritime Education and Training (MMET).
"Once you finished your Masters Degree it will open new doors and opportunities. And will be trained to become employers and not employees"-Capt. Joel Garcia (PCG) MSBM batch '96. It is an eye opener statement that I ever encountered here at PMMA GS as a student. With that statement I reconsider my decision to halt my seagoing career temporarily. I firmly stood into my decision to finish my Masters Degree .We as seafarer receiving a high paying job as officers and engineers onboard international vessel is only a short term solution for a long term problem. It is customarily for some seafarers once he doesn't have money to spend, he is forced to go back onboard and the cycle repeats over. I believe in each and every human being that we have a weak and needy part that in our soul that can be bought by "MONEY". But I also know that as a human being we also a part of our soul that is strong and filled with resolution that could be never be bought. If we start investing on our knowledge instead of material assets we could eliminate the fear within us .Without fear we could question with confidence the old paradigm that working abroad as an employee sacrificing your precious years of your entire life is the only way to the path of success. To spend your lives in FEAR, never exploring our dreams is cruel. History my speak by itself many respected alumnus who went further on higher studies, conquer their fear and sail the unchartered ocean and were able to put up their own Ship management Corporation and Training Center .They are now employers and not employers for the rest of their lives. Pursuing for higher education is knowledge that no one could ever take away from you, it will protect you and it will give you a better perspective in a game called life.
-Engr. Marlon Bo
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