04/09/2019
For the wise....
Guide your wards and children as soon as they gain admission into the University......
You went to school
Spent 4 years reading
Came out with a 2-1
Waited a few months
Began NYSC orientation camp
Jogged. Ran. Marched.
Served as a teacher in a public school.
A year's almost over.
It's time to job hunt.
You are told to construct a CV
It features when you had your SSCE
And when you bagged your first degree.
Period.
It's empty sheets from then on.
You joined no groups in school.
Competed in no sports.
Volunteered for nothing
Didn't campaign for any NGO
Lead no initiatives.
Started no businesses
Just a flat, asystolic life
Clean. Cold. Pulseless. Dead.
Then you say they didn't pick you for the job because there's too much competition.
That's right. You knew that before you graduated judging by how many people were in your final year class but did nothing about improving your chances.
School was supposed to be the place you read.
But it was supposed to tell where you'd invest your time in, if books were not in the way.
A 2-1 doesn't tell any story about you.
It tells what your lecturers felt about your grades.
They are not your employers. Scarcely would be.
Now that you want the attention of rich business moguls in titanium spectacles to give you a slot in their empire...
They'll need to know what kind of risks you take
What kind of ventures you have led
What kind of movements you have joined.
The ones you abandoned and the ones you accomplished.
This is the weight your story has to carry.
If you don't have that on your CV, you don't have a CV.
If you have younger siblings, don't be merely interested in their grades.
Make them volunteer.
Let them sell something,
Let them learn something,
Let them do something.
Let them live.
Having a blank CV after 4 -6 years of university education and a year of national youth service is a fatal ill preparedness for the future, for which there is no reversal.
There are times you can never make up for.
One of it, is time you should have truly lived, and you didn't.
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