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I realized that I love a sedentary lifestyle. The kind of life
where I am not supposed to be in motion if it involves a job that I am required
to do. However, I love travelling. It’s fun travelling, but when it is work
related and it determines your stay in the workplace in terms of contributing
towards pay, then am not in for it. Truth be told, I love being in a comfort
zone. Where you are not pressurized to meet people or such like stuff.
Ideally, I work with some of the best people who have received
awards for having been the best in what they do. They are the kind of people
who give me hope. However, the immediate person I work with as my boss does not
seem so even though I find him quite affable when it comes to his former clients
when he was still a teller in the bank. Like me, he is clueless on what I am
supposed to do. However, he tries his best whenever possible. The job though,
quite lousy. Sometimes I usually ask what I am doing but what keeps me going is
the hatred for idleness.
Yet, there are times I find myself idle I normally feel like I am
taking the bank for a ride. What then can I do? When you know your character
quite well, you will not let things that are not working out be part of you.
For a fact, I know that I am not as able to chase after people. That is why I love
the sanctuary that is the office. It’s not that there is much you earn, but the
fact that you are in the office gives some form of legitimacy.
Clients love it when they come and find you seated somewhere
waiting to serve them (some). Then there are those who want to be served at the
comfort of their workplaces which is also alright. I have experiences both and
I think that what works for one does not work for another. What I know is that in
the event I am forced to depart from this comfort to be a field salesperson, I don’t
know whether I will last long.
The truth is that we are rarely satisfied with where we are. We
want something better while others envy where we are. There is no place that is
better. The best place ideally is in utopia. Methinks even Bill Gates is still
searching for that place. Reason why he is also serving humanity in various
facets through his foundation. While he is not after financial autonomy like
yours truly that has been quite farfetched, there is something that keeps him
going- hope.
Even the guy I work with is hopeful that one day he will find a
good job. I thought I would have looked up to him but he only inspires me with
his people skills. They are top notch. While I am appalled by his ease of doing
it, I sometimes find myself in mental delusions or let me all them fantasies. I
think deeply in retrospect and what I end with is nothing that I have ever
wanted. School looks like failed me. I have lost the little verve that I had.
So last year, while waiting for the bank to be opened, I watched
as Mucheru the CS in charge of information and communication talk about ajira
digital. Well it is an online platform where Kenyans can find jobs to engage in
given that this online jobs have been on an upward trajectory in the country. I
never finished watching it but I got the rationale of why it was started. Well,
the site is quite shady and reeks of ineptitude in helping the average Kenyan
find a job.
Ideally, this was a website hurriedly patched up so as to appear
like the CS was working. On the contrary, it worked for me to some extent
because I got an invitation to attend an interview which would lead to work in
a certain online platform called cloudfactory. Ajira digital is not for the
average folk, for one, I am a graduate but I feel like it does not serve me.
What with the fact that there are so many Kenyans out there who are in need of
jobs but find it cumbersome to navigate the site to look for work?
Well, the CS needs to realize that it for the platform to work, a
feasibility study needs to be done in order to model it in the Kenyan context.
I tried to refer someone else to the site to go look for a job but it did not
work. That is how impotent the site is. What irked me was the idea of MPOST, a
modern platform for receiving snail mail. I will not comment on that because it
is a sales job which involves recruiting people. As for yours truly, I would
not like to comment on it.
Ajira digital is lame. It is a link to other sites. It does not
offer someone a chance to equip himself with skills to be able to bid for work.
In a nutshell, it’s an idea that was hurriedly executed.
Like I intimated, I got a job offer from cloudfactory after taking
part in online interviews where there was one I did not meet the minimum score
but was still invited for a face to face interview. I declined the offer which
I am not regretting even though there are signs that I might one day call those
guys to request for work if things go haywire where I currently am.
Green pastures should come with an enticing offer. There is need
for the package to be better than what you currently have. I did my cost
benefit analysis and concluded that it was better I struggle where I currently
am. Not that the offer was bad, but I remember the hustle that I was going to
put myself in and rescinded going for the interview.
As for Mucheru, I must comment him because I thought he was the
genius that I think people at Google normally are. As it turns out, he has been
a lackluster performer who nothing can be written about. Where did the success
at Google go to. Does it mean that he was riding on the effort of others in
propagating flourishing ideas. This ajira thing is a still born. Even thiugh I
am not sure of the statistics, what I am sure about is that it does not work
for me. Hitherto
Hasta La Vista Baby.
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