Unemployment seem to be the highest challenge faced by most youths today. To some "looking for a job" has in itself become a job. They wander from office to office in the hot sun in suit, perfectly plumb knotted tie around their necks and carrying office flat files expected to be filled with documentaries of who they are and what they had studied.
Its rather a bit unfortunate that most graduates are not getting it right. Some think that the single privilege of acquiring a degree entitles them to sitting side by side with Buhari in Aso rock or Obama in the white house but with the situation of things today, any acquired degree whether Bsc, Msc or even PhD seem to be nothing but a mere preparation to see if one can start earning some money. Some get opportune while a vast majority don't.
Daily you walk through the market and see shops, stores e.t.c marketing various commodities supposedly maned by less educated or entirely uneducated persons, they make their money, are at least able to foot their bills and live lives to some extent financially independent, but some graduate beg sometimes for a #100 to transport themselves to another office in search of being accepted for a job.
In the job search/interviews they are taught before hand how to sit and how not to sit, how to greet and how not to greet, what to say and what not to say, even if one is not gentlemanly he learns it by force just to land a job and often time when they do, it will be this funny jobs that pays #10000 a month and before the next month they are already running a debt of #20000 or more waiting for the next salary to take care of the debt. The question is, how long will graduates continue to live their lives like this? Its not as if some have not got good paying jobs but that could be a person in every hundred and that is rather unfortunate.
If a mechanic apprentice who learned work for three years can be successful, a carpenter, bricklayer, market women are all financially sustained then a graduate whose scope of understanding has been expanded or broadened can do better. All that is needed is to pick these little things these people do and handle them in a more refined way. The concept of skill acquisition must never be sidelined. What can you do away from your certificate? This are genuine questions to ask oneself. One is not paid for what he knows but the service he renders vis a vis the thing he knows.
Some always complain of capital; you hear things like "I know what to do but no capital". Good enough you know what to do but some don't even know what to do. Even if a huge capital jumps out of no where they have no ready idea in mind to put it in, that's where such a one needs to start from, to identify that which they can gladly do. But for those who know what to do, put your faith to work. Starting small is never a crime you know. A business started today will definitely look differently/bigger in ten years to come. And this ten years could have been wasted gallivanting between all the offices of the federal republic. One can render free service to bring to awareness the service he or she renders. In the process of running this business you may still use your spare time to look for a job and that is if there's any need for it. Courage in the mind and faith that you can do great things methinks is the best capital. The humility to start small and the patience to continue are indeed great sacrifice for yourself and you are worth that sacrifice. A time comes when a man takes his destiny into his hands and Nigeria is in that state today. Never despise little beginning, put that kind of effort you did put in your studies while in school into entrepreneurship and you won't regret you did because it will definitely work.
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