We Were Told we Would get a Job After Earning a Degree

In my country, I have seen students who studied hard in order to gain admission to study medicine. Not because they had a passion for saving life buy because they see studying medicine as an escape route out of poverty.

And after becoming a Doctor, they later realised that medicine wasn't as lucrative as they had thought and Doctors aren't rich. They only make enough money to feed d live fairly comfortably. Well I have seen alot of cases where doctors who are mostly underpaid had to leave she shores of the county in search of better opportunities.

Like wise engineering, law, and banking. People tend to drool or imagine that these courses are marketable and their practitioners earn very attractive salaries. But today, I have seen countless jobless engineers, bankers and lawyers.

It then follows that a "marketable course " does not exist. The earlier a young person begins to realise that, the easier his or her adult life would be.

A mentor once told me that students who look for marketable courses to study in the university are lazy folks. They want a soft life, they want to earn a salary and line in comfort only for them to realise later that things are not as simple as they look at the surface. Hence they get disappointed.

And those who never got the opportunity to study a "marketable course" would most likely into the same if not deeper misery since they have allowed a price of paper called "certificate " to control their happiness.

No course, wether marketable or not will make you great. Take charge of your life and determine your own destiny by succeeding in things that you do or rather, in your own way.

Do the things that you love so well that people would come back and pay you for doing them.

Ha e bigger goals in life, learn valuable skills, keep an open mind by becoming more interested in many things. Learn and unlearn. Be versatile, after all the most successful people in the world are self taught.

Don't limit yourself to the class room or your certificate. Make the world your classroom and your playground. Strive to build an horizontal profile and not a vertical one.

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