I recently saw a news post on Facebook that had a photo of
youth from an East African country in a public demonstration. The young people
were on the street in a protest to highlight growing unemployment among
university graduates. One placard read: ‘For every ten applicants only one gets
a job. Where should we go?’
Young people find themselves in difficult times with growing
unemployment in all continents. And instead of joining everyone around you
moaning, what else can you do?
Think for yourself. All along you have had a teacher or
parent come to your rescue when there seemed to be darkness all around. It is
your turn to establish why you are here, what you are living for and what you
will do with your time and gifts (yes, you have some). You are likely to end up
on a path to slavery if you let other people do that for you.
Finding a job after graduation lets you have a place where you
are serve clients in a business that other individuals have struggled to set up
over many years. You probably do not know their story. But they may have taken
loans, begged help from family and perhaps failed many times before managing to
stay afloat. No one is entitled to entering that safe place straight from
college. Would you like to try square
one?
There are opportunities in the various circumstances we find
ourselves in if we bother to stop and ask: how did I get here? Why did I enroll for a course that makes one
feel useless unless they are looking at the job advert supplement of a
newspaper? If you chose the easy way through college, you may want to consider
finding a course that gives you hard skills and empowers you to provide
services and produce goods that society needs.
The days of secure, paid employment in government offices or
the private sector are over for the majority of the population. There will be
more workers offering their services for pay in short or long-term contracts. Prospective
customers are no longer those within country boundaries. New opportunities can
be accessed in new ways with technological advancement.
Stop moaning about jobs and go after the markets.
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Quote of the day:
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
(Leonardo da Vinci)
