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I (I don’t know
about you) have waited for more than 16 years for my constitutional and
God-given rights. The Nations of Asia and America are moving with jet-like
speed towards providing employment for their youths, but we will creep at
snail-buggy pace towards providing the simplest of basic amenities, not to talk
of provision of employment and even employment opportunities.
One
thing
that cannot be under-emphasized is the wrong perception about
unemployment and
joblessness. While unemployment is the situation that arises as a result
of not
getting a job (whether qualified or not), joblessness is more of a
mindset
thing. To say that we are not all jobless, but we are just not thinking
in the
right direction is a testament to the fact that getting a job is indeed a
job,
as rightly put by Aruosa, in his book 'getting a job is a job'.
Sufficing the
aforementioned statements is the fact not all youths can be
entrepreneurs or
self-employed because, once you know yourself, you will realize what you
are
exactly cut-out for. For instance, I first thought I would be an
entrepreneur
and ultimately independent ‘work-wise’, so I started selling recharge
cards and
even wanted to be affiliated properly, so I could be printing them on my
own
(legally oooo), but when I saw my contemporaries who had contrary ideas
after we
left university, ‘making it’ by working for other people, I realized I
needed to
take a course called ‘Myself 101’. Basically, ‘Myself 101’ involves
introspection, meditation and ultimately, sleepless nights, but I didn’t
care
about all these, so far it would yield the proper fruit. Maybe you, yes
you! are just cut-out to help others build their dreams and make enough
money to nurse your own and attain the difficult, but very possible
'self-actualization'.
It is easy
for those who have not tasted the stinging darts of unemployment and the
forever-haunting perception of a bleak, insecure future to still say “wait”;
but when you have seen vicious managers hire and fire at will; when all youths
have been hypnotized about the calamitous dangers of unemployment and see an
ominous cloud of insecurity begin to farm in our already confused mental sky;
when your speech stammers and you stutter as you try to concoct an answer for
your 14 year-old sister, asking you why you have not landed a job and you see a
misplaced sense of humor in her somewhat fresh mental habitat because, she thinks strongly that you are confused; when you are
hurried by the day and haunted at night (traffic spice); when your first name
becomes ‘C.V’ and your last name becomes ‘interview’ ; when your extroversion
becomes almost thwarted and gradually resorting to unwarranted quietness and
you become the proverbial lone-way farer, who babbles to himself to keep the
tears away and when 2013 suddenly becomes 2015; when you are forever having the
degenerating sense of nobodiness; then
you will understand why we find it difficult to say “wait”
Meanwhile,
there's still more to come, but pending that time, drink some glass of
juice while reading this, to cool your nerves or probably take a
shower................................either choice helps surely.
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