Dear Graduates,
These regalia will not do anything for you if you are not
street smart. For the sake of experience, you will take on
internships that will pay you K3,500 while in this same
country there are other street smart interns getting K8,000
stipend in the same field as yours.
And other privileged ones
who will move straight from varsity to getting permanent
jobs which pay them K15,000 with the same 0% work
experience like you. You will not question all this, you will
take your K3,500 internship and shine. Because you are a
hard worker, you will finish that internship after a year of
being a "good intern" and they will give you a permanent
job offer where you will earn K10,000.
After 1 year, they will
give you 10% increase and your salary will sit at K11,000. In
that K11000, there's rent, transport money, food and BLACK
TAX back at home.
You will get another job and they will give you K16,000 if you
have more than 3 years of experience.
Three months into
the new job you will buy a car. You will wake up at 5/6am
and get home after 6/7pm everyday. You will see nothing
wrong with this because "you are educated" and that's how
"educated people" do it. Your street smart friends who have
flexible careers will visit you at work because if its not yet
5pm you are not allowed to leave, even when there's no
work. You will be focused on your career and you will not
want to hear anything about starting a side hustle because
"you are educated". Your excuses will be "I don't know how
to sell" or "I don't have time". At that time you are struggling
financially. Debit orders are busy with your salary. You won't
see a side hustle as a way out, you will see another job as a
way out.
Companies will take advantage of you, overwork
you and underpay you because you are not street smart to
beat them at their own game. You will work for horrible
bosses who dont understand the importance of family time
and you will always be forced to choose work over your
loved ones. You will win employee of the month left, right
and centre and you will get stupid vouchers as a reward. You
will go back to school and study ENDLESSLY, this course and
that course all in the name of "I want a better life" and chase
promotions at work . You will get your 5 years/ 10 years
certificate of service with K2,000/ K3,000 incentive that will
only get you a weekend in Siavonga.
You will buy a house in your 30's just after paying off your
car and commit yourself to a 20-year debt. And you will not
want a house in the township or a starter pack house that
you can actually afford to pay faster. You will go straight to
the "burbs" because "you are educated". You will feel the
punch of rates and taxes and learn a new bad habit of
buying grocery, petrol and data with a credit card.
After
paying off this ONE house for 20 years, you will be in your
50's.
At 55 you will retire. First thing you will do with your
retirement money is clear your debts. Then travel a little
since you never had money to travel in your working days.
Once you are done with the debts and leisure....wait for it....
With your remaining retirement money you will now want to
start a business after spending 30 years in corporate. Street
smart people will never spend 30 years in corporate no
matter how much they got paid.
At 55, when that business
fails it's GAME-OVER for you. But if you are street smart and
decide to start a business in your twenties or thirties, you
will have time to fail as many times as possible until you get
it right. At 55 you will get a heart attack if a business started
with retirement money fails.
Having the "I'm educated" attitude will leave you broke,
struggling and in debt.
Street smart people will make more
money than you and progress faster in life because they do
not have the "I'm educated" pride. They are open to selling
stuff from the boot if their cars and they are open to any job
or business no matter how undignified it may be viewed by
society. They do no suffer from "what will people say?"
What's the point of having a dignified job title when your
bank account is shameful and on overdraft? What's the point
of "being educated" if you are going to achieve your goals
with personal loans?
Graduates, don't let your qualifications prison you. Be open
to anything until you find your big break. In most cases, your
big break is not even related to your qualification.
Don't let
your qualifications stereotype you into thinking that there's
only one way to make it in life.
Great wisdom which I found online. Let it open someone's
eyes.
Credit: Unknown
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