Life As a High School Valedictorian-turned-Online Freelancer

They say that planning is half the battle. But is life a battle, a life that needs to be planned? Regielene S. Gonzales, a PhD and former professor of Biology tells us of her early years of innocence and joy, that which she has sought to keep up to today and hopes others might do the same, with or without a plan. After all, life is not a battle.

Highlights:

5:20 Early life, living inside a suitcase

11:45 Entering UP Diliman, BS/MS Biology then and now

33:50 PhD, first encounter with sadness and loneliness

45:26 Seeing her career in a different light

1:00:40 Regielene's vegetarianism, more about compassion, with a bonus of a strong immune system

1:10:35 Current life as an online freelancer, philosophy on wealth

1:16:55 Waking up in the morning, looking forward to something

1:22:00 Valuing flexibility in her life

1:27:27 (Best part of the interview)

1:28:30 Life not married, but with a life partner

1:35:41 Putting one's own happiness first...with a catch; a mother's care lasts a lifetime

1:39:27 Parting words for friends and prospective graduate students

1:41:55 Epilogue by Ryan Madrid

Reference:

https://stearnslab.yale.edu/some-modest-advice-graduate-students