MARICEL ROQUE - EXPERT WELDER
August 5, 2007 start of training – January 7, 2008 Graduation
Before Graduation of December 18, 2008, Maricel and her classmates were hired by AG&P as 3G/4G SMAW welders. Maricel was assigned as rookie welder in the Production Welding Department under the supervision of Mr. Dapat and also became a part of the In-House Special Operations projects being handled by Mr. Renato M. Alarcon, Executive Director of AG&PFI.
Maricel was the youngest of 6 by Rolando Roque and Erlinda Ilagan. Her father was an AG&P employee assigned to work in Nigeria as a Welding foreman. Unfortunately, Maricel's father died of Malaria in Nigeria while finishing a year contract with the company. Two (2) of her brothers also died early.
At 18, a highschool undergraduate, Maricel tried her luck in Laguna to work with Tech
no Park as a line assembler in an electronics section. She also worked under the Technopark production department then became a visual inspector.
The first work she had was in an auto shop where Maricel helped technicians and mechanic handle tools and company materials.
Maricel narrates that if it where not for her mother who single-handedly brought the family up, she could not have achieved more. The challenge was enormous, compellingly hard but rewarding.
Due to insufficiency of income, Maricel was forced to return to Batangas to assist the mother in rearing the younger kins. She helped inside the house until an invitation came to her from the sangguniang Barangay of San Roque, Bauan to attend free trainings in AG&P. Maricel without any better option got enlisted. By pure luck she was called by Training Supervisor, Mr. Ben S. Aclan, for an interview. She went to regular recruitment processes and passed the examinations.
45 days training was Maricel's solitary investment to a new skill."I thought life was filled with hardships with an unending trail of frustrations. I was accustomed to street labor and rowdy environment. What love to me wasn't that relevant. Sex was just part of growing up as drugs were to some of my contemporaries. I grasped the unfiltered air near dumps day-in and day-out as I saw my mom and relatives grappled over dried 'galungong'.
The more I searched for better life, the more I became frustrated. Was it because I lacked education? Was it because I was a town mischief? Was it because I was the family's blackship?
The 45 days training in welding NCII with AG&P Company of Manila, Inc woke up this stone heart to realize that there was hope for a lowly girl of San Roque. Mr. Ben Aclan's value formation opened my eyes to realize that behind this perfidious life hid a better part of Maricel, the skillful one, the earnest one! Mr. Aclan made me feel important. He made me feel needed. I graduated a common welder but because I had goals, I excelled over my contemporaries in a years work.
I am still working with AG&P and became FCAW and GTAW welder in less than a year. My salary wasn't that much but I was able to sustain a family of my own. I was married to my welding classmate and we just finished building our bungalow shed.
Life was filled with hardships with an unending trail of frustrations but I got over them by making each my strength to move ahead. Without challenges, life would be dull. I survived with AG&P. I am and will always be ON-THE-JOB!" Maricel Roque, a mother.
August 5, 2007 start of training – January 7, 2008 Graduation
Before Graduation of December 18, 2008, Maricel and her classmates were hired by AG&P as 3G/4G SMAW welders. Maricel was assigned as rookie welder in the Production Welding Department under the supervision of Mr. Dapat and also became a part of the In-House Special Operations projects being handled by Mr. Renato M. Alarcon, Executive Director of AG&PFI.
Maricel was the youngest of 6 by Rolando Roque and Erlinda Ilagan. Her father was an AG&P employee assigned to work in Nigeria as a Welding foreman. Unfortunately, Maricel's father died of Malaria in Nigeria while finishing a year contract with the company. Two (2) of her brothers also died early.
At 18, a highschool undergraduate, Maricel tried her luck in Laguna to work with Tech
no Park as a line assembler in an electronics section. She also worked under the Technopark production department then became a visual inspector.The first work she had was in an auto shop where Maricel helped technicians and mechanic handle tools and company materials.
Maricel narrates that if it where not for her mother who single-handedly brought the family up, she could not have achieved more. The challenge was enormous, compellingly hard but rewarding.
Due to insufficiency of income, Maricel was forced to return to Batangas to assist the mother in rearing the younger kins. She helped inside the house until an invitation came to her from the sangguniang Barangay of San Roque, Bauan to attend free trainings in AG&P. Maricel without any better option got enlisted. By pure luck she was called by Training Supervisor, Mr. Ben S. Aclan, for an interview. She went to regular recruitment processes and passed the examinations.
45 days training was Maricel's solitary investment to a new skill."I thought life was filled with hardships with an unending trail of frustrations. I was accustomed to street labor and rowdy environment. What love to me wasn't that relevant. Sex was just part of growing up as drugs were to some of my contemporaries. I grasped the unfiltered air near dumps day-in and day-out as I saw my mom and relatives grappled over dried 'galungong'.
The more I searched for better life, the more I became frustrated. Was it because I lacked education? Was it because I was a town mischief? Was it because I was the family's blackship?
The 45 days training in welding NCII with AG&P Company of Manila, Inc woke up this stone heart to realize that there was hope for a lowly girl of San Roque. Mr. Ben Aclan's value formation opened my eyes to realize that behind this perfidious life hid a better part of Maricel, the skillful one, the earnest one! Mr. Aclan made me feel important. He made me feel needed. I graduated a common welder but because I had goals, I excelled over my contemporaries in a years work.
I am still working with AG&P and became FCAW and GTAW welder in less than a year. My salary wasn't that much but I was able to sustain a family of my own. I was married to my welding classmate and we just finished building our bungalow shed.
Life was filled with hardships with an unending trail of frustrations but I got over them by making each my strength to move ahead. Without challenges, life would be dull. I survived with AG&P. I am and will always be ON-THE-JOB!" Maricel Roque, a mother.
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