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I think thoughts beget
ideas, ideas when acted upon can result into something worthwhile or that which
will not be substantial enough to see the light of day. The excitement of
conjuring ideas is that we tend to develop a backtrack approach when things are
not working. We end up looking for the easy route as opposed to being patient
and persistent to reach the desired objective even when the going is tough and emaciating.
Sometimes I regret having
left the noble profession of teaching. I am enthused about the fact that it one
of the most imperative careers that we cannot do without. However the doors are
not closed as such. They will be open in the future. When another door opens,
you grab it with open arms. And in the event they do open (lecturing), I want
to have a large student base. Not teaching a single student which is not only
boring but also very less on boosting one's morale. I now know how PHD tutors
feel when they have a single student in class. It truly its demotivating, but
that is behind me now.
"What to do?"
Exactly, that is a question. One which you must answer in terms of providing
solutions that are tangible, profitable, long-lasting and dependable. Ideally,
it is quite funny when you are talking with someone and when she is stuck, she
asks you, "What to do?"
Albeit I am clearly not
under this boss who frequently asks us what to do, never mind that our boss has
been in the country for the past few years and she still has not yet acquainted
herself to the Queen's lingo due to factors ranging from being conservative,
old age because it makes it difficult to master the language of other or
utterly looking down upon it. Her grasp is belligerent and amusing. Still she
is madam boss in the meantime.
Either way, methinks
continuous interaction with this employer will have Grammatical consequences on
the kind of English we speak. What with the elimination of very essential elementary
components of language all in the name of communication? It is not even fair
that we insist on making the employer not taking steps to improve on her spoken
language. We are a letdown to ourselves and to the employer. Even some of
the employees have been affected by the lingo and easily never realize it.
Looking at the bigger
picture however, this platform provides us with the necessary experience in the
event we find greener pastures and the experience bit will demarcate us from
those who have never worked before. It is also a way of being busy. Man must be
busy. Working or thinking.
You realize that most
employers never 'sink' sorry, think, that someone can stay at home idle while
there are many jobs to do (Just realized we most people don’t look for jobs
thoroughly. Mtafuta hachoki, akichoka keshapata). They want you to at least
be doing a job, whether it is mjengo or anything
constructive. Yet not everyone can do these jobs or want to do them. Most of us
love to hustle less, we want things on a silver platter. That is why I sit from
eight to five everyday behind a computer looking for ways to earn a living. But
who does not want to earn money? Unless you have no needs, you can afford to
sit and do nothing because you are being provided for everything that you need.
However, unemployment is
real- we bury our heads in the sand like an ostrich feigning it does not exist
when we get employed. Just the tag that you have somewhere you are doing a job
is better that sitting slothfully waiting for someone to bring in what to eat.
Reminds me of a certain chic who refused to sit at home even though she was
employed, she could not be able to raise enough transport to bring her back to
Nairobi because the figure she was earning was paltry. But since she had
nowhere to go and earn some better pay, she was hanging around till that time
when she will be smiled upon by mother nature and get that big break. Money is
scarce. We can do virtually anything to earn it.
Which leads me to the
question: How to people who get a big break earlier on in life behave? Do they
feel like they own the world? Or is it that they realize that with a
breakthrough comes what we call, class association. Where you want to join the
clique and act like them because of the new found status. Yes most of us want
to be employed, but looking at the bigger picture, employment is never
satisfactory anywhere.
When you are at home unemployed,
you usually have worries, like why am I the only one going through this hard
moments? Why did I have to struggle in school to become a person the society
belittles with the education I have? Then when you get employed you realize
that your employer is not quite elite (in some cases). He pays driver more than
he pays you even though you are a graduate and employed at the same time. But
he pays you end month, right. He speaks broken English yes, has uncouth
demeanor you wish he was schooled to a certain level. Whatever ideas he has are
quite parochial but you weigh the options and after introspection, you come to
a conclusion that the world is not static. So are the ideas of the
employer.
There is something about
being in the workforce that many fail to understand. We need to be in a
continuous stream of updating ourselves with that which will aid us in not
being utterly redundant. Learning in the workplace is even more harder because
if you are not meeting the targets, you are a being a general waste to the
company which may mean being shown the door anytime.
Job security is not normally
assured. However, when you are in the workplace, you need to do your able best
until that point in life when you cannot do it anymore. In most scenarios, we
focus on what we are being paid rather than what we can deliver. We are of the
opinion that since we earn less, we cannot stretch our elastic limit just a
little bit more. We are not like a rubber band which when pushed hard, it
breaks or a ductile object that deforms when it goes past its elastic limit.
But the pay is not equal to
the qualifications? The labour-force is too congested we are told. Those with
the requisite skills however are not many. They are few. That is the reason why
someone sticks to a job because of the fear that there may not be another place
in the event you quit or get sacked.
Working with no aim is
however not good. I am a slave to my work for the short while I will be doing
it. The short while maybe years, decades or even jubilee. What is for sure is
that the much that I will have learnt will be able to demarcate me from those
who never take stock. Since I used to lament about wanting paid employment, no
matter how little the pay may be, I realized I need to be making steps towards
moving to the next level and ameliorating my status quo. That I will figure out
when life smiles on me abundantly given I know the measures I need to take.
What I however will never
forget is the fact that I have grown in breath and width with this blog. Now I
am not even thinking of being unemployed. I am thinking of how I can unleash my
potential to splash it like a mustard seed does in it being a tree.
HASTA LA VISTA BABY
