For Bukidnon Business Manager Des Dales, Human Nature has definitely captured her heart.

For Bukidnon Business Manager Des Dales, Human Nature has definitely captured her heart.

My friends used to laugh at me and call me Six-Month Girl because in every job I’ve had, it only took me a matter of two to six months before I decided to leave it. I did not want to settle for something that did not make me happy nor useful. I was dreamy—I wanted a job that I can say was a perfect fit.

Now on my thirteenth month in Human Nature, with conviction, I say, I was wrong—it’s not a perfect fit. For an agro-enterprise business manager, my only background in farming was my father’s love for it and my childhood experiences with him at the farm.  My business background, on the other hand, went as far as selling homemade brownies to classmates. Often, I’d be frustrated over myself for not knowing more than I know.

Then there was one colleague, Mike Go, who said, “You have to know why you’re doing it and who you’re doing it for. Without the heart, it’s difficult to last in this job.”

The most puzzling part was during my company interview with Dylan Wilk, he only told me four things:

“When you face the community, pray. When you write your records, pray. When you report to us here in Manila, pray. Whatever you do, just pray first.”

But now I know why they said what they said—it is not an easy path. They, of all people, should know. Dreaming for social change is easy. Working for it is the hard part. We have to be properly geared with the right heart and a strong faith to persevere in this mission. Knowing that there are a lot of us who have come together who share and chase the same dream is an added bonus.

So the company with a heart definitely has mine.

This project has given our partner farmers, whose dreams are as simple as being able to eat every day or getting a new pot for cooking rice – a chance to hope. Whenever I find myself complaining, I remind myself to be grateful. Every time I go to the communities, I feel so blessed for having the chance to meet these amazing people of humility, generosity, and strength. They, who barely have enough to fill their stomach, still find the grace to invite me for a meal and share their food with me. They, who live in a day-to-day basis still manage to smile and laugh. It is such a privilege to be welcomed in their homes and in their lives.

I have now let go of the childish dream of a purposeful yet comfortable and easy work life but I am now realistically dreaming of a much better one—an improved life for our farmers and their families. Like what one of the inspiring people I met in this job said, “Be grateful for the challenges. The fruit is so much sweeter when you worked hard for it.”


[LEFT] Des volunteering for relief operations in Leyte | Des (center) with the Bukidnon farmers | Des (in white) at the inauguration of Barangay Imbayao's citronella facility

Do you, like Des, dream of social change? Visit our careers page and email your resume to gethired@humanheartnature.com today!