Journal Entries Week 3: #3

Part A: Professional Career Reflection

Part B:

As I look at my professional career, this experience was extremely meaningful because it opened a career path for me that I never consider before. I have always been interested in development economics, and before this experience I never envisioned working in a multinational company as an option. Working with Fundacion Alpina, helped me to change the paradigms that I used to have about multinational companies and realize that many have an important social responsible component. Companies like Alpina, have as a main part of their corporate culture to dedicate their efforts to guaranteeing sustainability, not only in production, but also in terms of creating sustainable communities that will be able to be economically integrated in a successful way.

As part of my goals in my future career, I want to keep my options open to paths that I haven’t considered before. I was not expecting that I would enjoy this experience as much as I did. I would love to have the opportunity to work for F.A or Alpina again. They truly represent the principles of social responsibility that I am looking for in my personal career and I believe I definitely fit in a corporation like this one. For this reason, I believe that continuing to change paradigms or ideas that I have from multinationals in general is an important step to open my career possibilities and to finding a place where I would truly enjoy working at. I would also like to continue improving my analytical skills, since I would like to work in a place where I am able to do research and evaluation of these types of projects that create socioeconomic development. Most importantly, I want to strengthen my ability to work directly with the communities involved in these projects, in this case due to the limited time I did not have as much time as I would have wished to interact with the Sopo community, but I believe this is something that I need to do more in other projects.