"NO JOBS !", YOU CRY: Ebika, Ken and Becky say "THINK AGAIN"
It's that time of the year following the passing out ceremony of NYSC members;
The time when the incessant cries of "No Jobs" rent the air.
A time for each and every one of the "äpplicants" to take stock of what their priorities really are.. Are thet sure that there are no jobs or perharps maybe they "look" in the wrong places for these elusive jobs.
While pondering on this, I came across three different takes on the issue of unemployment on the status posts of three friends on Facebook which very much captured my thoughts:
There's a young boy who washes cars around, and he charges 400 naira per wash. He starts at 7am and spends at least an hour on each car. He can wash up to 10 cars per day. 400 multiplied by 10 is 4,000 multiplied by (gain or loss) 5 days in the week equals 20,000 naira. Multiplied that by 4 weeks. Yep! He is capable of making that much per month. (He reminds me of me when my salary was 10,000 naira per month. :))
Yet, people complain of unemployment because they are waiting for that big office job. Take a look at this young man. He is his own boss, humble and knows he has to feed. As a young boy, he is not doing 'hip-hop' or sagging his pants. All that can wait. He has to work hard to be someone tomorrow and live to sag his pants as much as he wants and he won't be wearing filthy-looking boxers by then because he has made enough money to buy designer ones; that is, if he still thinks sagging is a fabulous idea by then.
Think about your life. Start doing for yourself and your path will open up. Don't look at what people would say. If that job will fetch you some good pay, go ahead and do it! As long as you don't have to steal.
Money makes the world go round.
I liked the shock I saw on the faces of undergraduates yesterday when I told them they won't get jobs when they leave school. I wasn't trying to kill their hope,I was giving them a paradigm shift so they stop deluding themselves and so they don't get disappointed when they discover this truth when it might be a bit late. Apart from Convenant University, no Nigerian university teaches Enterpreanual Development as a compulsory course in the university. Undergraduates must be thought how to set up micro enterprises and grow them so they can better their lives and the lives of others . The private sector drives capitalist economies and we should concentrate on this sector. Government has no business doing business.
It is not true that there are no jobs in Nigeria.
The truth is the warped lop-sided orientation of our people.
A jobless accountant will sleep on a friend’s floor in Lagos for years waiting to get a job in a big new-generation bank or firm and will not think of working in a farm that urgently needs an accountant in Ondo state.
A graduate girl will bend over hustling in Abuja and will not think of teaching in a school in Warri.
A talented technician will sit around waiting for an opportunity to fall from Aso Rock when he could set up a mechanics shop in Kaduna or invent a device in Aba.
Some people have even stopped looking for jobs. They are more comfortable blaming the system for their lack of progress and laziness.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO HAMMER!!
... They even ask the stupid question “how has the Government helped the ordinary people?”
Yet everybody is ignoring the thousands of jobs in Nigeria I see advertised every day!
It is not true that there are no jobs in Nigeria.
The truth is the warped lop-sided orientation of our people.
No be lie!
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