Couch Potatoes

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A  r ecent research has shown that many young people worldwide are opting for internet-related jobs. This includes jobs like influencing, digital marketing, or remote jobs. They argued this generation is lazy and would rather spend a whole day surfing on the internet than working. This research must have been carried out by African parents, who think the internet is a waste of time, part of which is true even though the internet has not failed to prove itself useful. Parents are mad because this is that one thing, they have failed to control. They are jealous our life is much better and full of fun compared to their 80s. They seem to not accept that you can learn about what is happening in Iran without watching Aljazeera. Have you tried watching world Today? You will get depressed; all they talk about is which western country should host Afghan immigrants. Sharing people like a bunch of bananas. Imagine listening to that for two hours, sick. This is why the youth pref...
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How undergraduates turn into ‘errand guys’ during attachment programs

If you say jobs are hard to find in this country then you haven’t searched for an attachment. Where do I even start, everybody anticipates to getting placed in the best firms and institution of whatever course they are pursuing, good start.

This Kenya without connections is what they keep telling us, who cares about connections anyway?  You do!  Yes, you self-doubting newbie.

Liars! what you need to do is write a gazillion application letters, drop them to the potential employers; don’t give up! Motivating, isn’t it?

God is for us all am talking to those who don’t have godfathers. luckily, those who have connectors don’t go through rejection and disappointments; you still won’t get what rejection is if you haven’t been told no by more than five offices for offering free labor.

Human resource managers who tell you they have no vacant in their firms be blessed, we have those who hit you with wait for our call to only make you feel better knowing very well they will never call; politely asks you not to leave your papers behind.

 How will they even contact you in the first place and to fool you they ask your name again as if they will shout out loud the name when a vacant appears. What should happen to them? Damn, you mean.

 Miraculously you get placed, so excited you report on the first day in a borrowed suit believer of first impressions, huh. 

 The truth is nobody notices.

Wear your ten shillings shirt, you are here to learn not impress people who have worked for the last thirty years nothing impresses them anymore. You know what scares them being better and smarter that is not impressing, is it?

 They are not about to lose a job to a twenty-two-year-old who can’t spell amateur right because that is who you are…. an amateur!

Shock absorbers should be given to Journalism students for thinking they will get placed in large media houses only to find themselves in radio stations only the owners and a few workers know of their existence am talking about a radio station like Wewe Fm. have you heard of it? I also haven’t. The kind with no frequency and looks like a cyber.  Start from somewhere is enough consolation.

Supervisors are good observers if you give them the impression you don’t know what you are supposed to do, they will gladly make you the errand guy. Spending time getting breakfast for the whole office, airtime, water and cook If the office is privileged with a kitchen. Did you go there to exercise your kitchen skills?

 Just maximize your time and learn as much as you can.

See you in the next article.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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