Édder Peña Barranco

I was born in Santa Marta, Colombia in 1982. Son of a public employee and a teacher, I surprised everyone in my family showing a fast rate of learning, being able of read and write at 3. I did my elementary school, finishing all the years with honors and repeating the process in high school, when I considered everything easy up to that moment. Time after, I have to make a choice at the time of entering university. I didn't want to study and take some kind of sabbatical year but considering that I was an "obedient" boy, I follow the recommendation of my mother and enter to the system engineering career. I had my ups and down in the career and after seven years (I finished all my subjects five years later, and took two years to finish my thesis) I graduate as an engineer. I took a chance to coming to Bogotá (the Colombian Capital) and started to work in there. I had worked in many companies, ones better for me than the others and actually I work in Asesoftware Ltda, when I had worked for Asobancaria, Banco de la república and lastly Davivienda. Almost nine years has been since then and I try to make a change in my life by pursuing all the things that I left behind (like the music), and the financial freedom. but I had a strong enemy: myself.

In the last trimester of 2013 I finally decide to make that dreamed change and started a new career: Marketing in Konrad Lorenz University Foundation. It has been difficult to balance my work, my studies, and my social life (really?) and I realize that maybe wasn't the easiest option but I think it is worth.

My next goal is to do an educational exchange, but I haven't define the destination. What do you suggest?

"Si algo no te gusta, cámbialo. Si no puedes, cambia la actitud".

Maya Angelou.