Only hard work pays! Not only in Kenya but all over the world
The story of an Egerton University graduate who has worked as a tout for the last seven years - aired on a local TV station - is disheartening.
I was shocked by his sentiments, bearing in mind that - like him - I am a graduate from the same institution.
It is true youths are in sheer jeopardy, juggling with the need to survive in one hand and the search for a job in the other. And I have watched many graduates join deadly gangs – Al Shabaab – while others stoop low for jobs worth not their training, on the same tragedy – lack of job. That is when one stops to wonder, why go to the University, receive that degree then get back home to sit as life hangs that dreadful noose on the neck?
But I will ask, what went wrong?
Fine, we have doctors getting poached to developed countries (call it brain drain) and many desperate women opting for countries like Saudi Arabia where they end up mistreated and even killed. I have also heard of many other desperate people cheating death by choosing to dine with the free masons. And have encountered a bunch of cartels promising to solicit jobs on behalf of us graduates in Kenya, only to deceive some of us and drain all our little money.
However, it is rather important for my fellow graduates to understand that good grades sells and mediocrity made in school - all in the name of fun, freedom and hooliganism - will always pay in the end. Don’t expect to pass an interview anywhere with a pass on your papers.
‘Work hard and you will never regret!’ My late father always told me.
The story of an Egerton University graduate who has worked as a tout for the last seven years - aired on a local TV station - is disheartening.
I was shocked by his sentiments, bearing in mind that - like him - I am a graduate from the same institution.
It is true youths are in sheer jeopardy, juggling with the need to survive in one hand and the search for a job in the other. And I have watched many graduates join deadly gangs – Al Shabaab – while others stoop low for jobs worth not their training, on the same tragedy – lack of job. That is when one stops to wonder, why go to the University, receive that degree then get back home to sit as life hangs that dreadful noose on the neck?
But I will ask, what went wrong?
Fine, we have doctors getting poached to developed countries (call it brain drain) and many desperate women opting for countries like Saudi Arabia where they end up mistreated and even killed. I have also heard of many other desperate people cheating death by choosing to dine with the free masons. And have encountered a bunch of cartels promising to solicit jobs on behalf of us graduates in Kenya, only to deceive some of us and drain all our little money.
However, it is rather important for my fellow graduates to understand that good grades sells and mediocrity made in school - all in the name of fun, freedom and hooliganism - will always pay in the end. Don’t expect to pass an interview anywhere with a pass on your papers.
‘Work hard and you will never regret!’ My late father always told me.
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