No Job is dirty as long as you are dedicated.
"Good morning Tuesday! Monday is over, so let's enjoy the rest of the week in peace."
Good morning everyone! I hope we are getting ready for what the day would bring? I am sure you are working to achieve all you have planned out to do? Yesterday morning, I started my usual activities and I was pleased with what I was able to achieve and that made me sleep early and sound. If only I had read about the book titled "The richest man in Babylon'' before now, it would have been the best thing.
When I started reading the book last night after finishing up the last one I was reading, I didn't want to stop reading because I was engrossed in reading more pages. This book is so interesting and talks much about savings and investment. If you want to be successful and you haven't come across this book, I kindly recommend it to you and I am sure those who already read it are applying those processes.
Right now, I feel like reading more of it. It is really a good thing when you read books, it gives you insights to what is happening around you.
I read @cool08 articles and the story he talked about made me remember a story of my Aunt which she told me too. In his post, he talked about a friend of his who had a skill in shoe making and has the knowledge, but his friend considered the skill a worthless one and because of that, he left it, not knowing that skill would open ways for him. After advising him and not heeding, he went onto his decision of looking elsewhere but he wasn't making it, not until he returned back to the business and he already had a house of his own.
When my Aunt was still very young and had finished college, she decided to travel to the city in search of a job to start living on her own. The first job she started with was being a staff at a waste bin company. She was doing this and getting little money from it. She wasn't ashamed though not until one day, her younger sister also finished school and already served and she decided to come stay with her Aunt till she has her own job too. When she arrived, she handed over a local iron to her and said "Mummy said I should give you to start washing and ironing for people"
She said, instantly her eyes were red. She couldn't curse her mother because to her, her mother was very wicked and cruel to think of her washing for people. "Why would my mom think of me washing for people? Am I a slave? This is a dirty business" she began to cry while her sister was consoling her.
Her mother knew she could wash clothes and iron very well and because of this, she thought that could help her fetch some money for herself.
She collected the iron from her sister and kept it in the house but was adamant in heeding to her mother's advice. She was still working until something happened and she was sacked. For many days, she couldn't go to work and she wasn't having any money to feed herself and her sister who was staying with her.
Then one day, she thought of the iron her mom sent to her and she decided to try the business. She cleaned the iron, started walking from house to house to tell them what she was doing. From there, she began receiving clothes from people where she would take home to wash and iron them, then she delivered them back.
She was doing this for years and she had gotten a lot of customers as they kept telling others after seeing her neat job. She got so many customers.
From walking from house to house, she got a shop where people would come with clothes. She became popular in Ibadan where lawyers, judges, bankers and others kept coming to see her work. She was successful in the business and one day, she called her mom to thank her, even though she thought her mom was being wicked but now, she had someone who advised her and here she is, eating from dry-cleaning business. Later, she closed the shop and found a room in her house which was meant for dry-cleaning work. Though she is getting old and weak to do the business but she enjoyed the business and made a lot of money from it. She was ashamed at first, but as she continued, she found out that she could actually do it perfectly.
There is no dirty job anywhere as long as you are dedicated and you put your mind into it. Everyone has his or her ability in one thing or the other and when we aren't lazy with it, we would make it. As long as you aren't engaging in illegal business or work, and with God in it, there is no limit to excelling in such skill or business.
Thanks for reading
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[April 19, 2022] (No 109 article for the year)
Oh! I enjoyed this. I usually see people working for lawma as dirty jobs they had to pick, but come to think of it, if no one is there to dispose our dirts then who would. Honestly that was the first thing that came into my mind immediately I saw the title of your beautiful article. There's indeed no dirty jobs anywhere except the illegal ones. Be it in painting, plumbing, Hawking and all... A dedicated mind would go really far.