WHERE DO WE GO? HOW DO WE GO ABOUT?
By Rebecca Masina
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Life doesn’t always give us what we want.
Only your believe and determination will get you where you want to be. In life we go through different challenges,
be of easy or hard they are all part of a learning curve. We learn something
with that, even our mistakes do count. Self-motivation
goes a long way and it is not for the faint hearted. One needs to know how to
motivate themselves especially when times are hard as it is not every time that
people do give positive motivation.
In this life nothing is smooth sailing, you
work for it, you sweat for it, well unless otherwise. Have you noticed that we are motivated to go
to school and learn so that we will become better people for tomorrow? Well
most people believe in that as it is said you can never achieve anything without
education because it is the key to your greater opportunities/success.
This has become so overrated. Why? It is
because in this nowadays one goes to school for the whole three years and learn
all the traits of the career they want to be in, then after so much dedication
to their work, they graduate then stay at home for years only because
everywhere they want people with years of experience. Well am a fresh graduate
where will I get experience when you don’t allow me that opportunity?
Moments later we end up settling for any job
just because we need to support our families and help our siblings to also go
to school and be the same as us, waiting for experience that will come from
nowhere then get hired. Why are we forced to get educated only to be refused
opportunities because of experience? Isn’t that by given a chance that’s when we
going to learn and gain that experience?
Not all of us have the heads to be
entrepreneurs. If we did then we would be talking another story. Everything has
its person/people. We do volunteer at NGO’s but at the end we also need to put
something on the table for our families. They sacrificed a lot for us to go to
school now it is time for us to give thanks to them.
Are we supposed to be standing on the streets
with boards written “please help with a job; I have a BA in Journalism”? Before
we can get hired? That seems to be the only way because that’s only when we get
recognized.
In this generation we live in. it seems like
you only get a job by knowing someone, not by your qualifications that you have
worked hard to get.
The next thing you will see a BA graduate on
the streets smoking weed/nyaope because they waiting for experience to come
since all companies told him that he is well qualified but need experience.
Really? Is this how things are supposed to be?
