THE 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS
The invent of the Victorian
System of Education brought about the Introduction of the White-Collar jobs.
Jobs that require professional skills more than physical labour. It was the
most lucrative, most enterprising and most rewarding. In the early 90’s, a
school cert holder is well respected far more than an elder in the village. The
Victorian system of Education created living machines or robots suitable for
administrative work (the corporate world) even till today. Now, there is nothing absolutely wrong with
being a Career person but everything is totally wrong when we are not malleable
to Change. Change they say is a constant thing.
Today, working in the Corporate
world/economy is no longer guaranteed , how much more help fulfill everyone’s
dream because, there are less administrative work to do, those in the system do
not want to leave at the appropriate time and if they do, they put their own
persons. It is always assumed that the corporate world is the safest and most
respected place to work. Today, every now and then, the government and other Corporate
public and private entities are
downsizing, implementing pay cut, cutting down cost at any slightest chance. Do
you still think your job is safe? An average pensioner barely gets his pension,
yet an average graduate dreams of working in that same Corporate world. What an
irony?
Personally, I wouldn’t blame
anyone who sticks to his gun on Corporate world because the readily available
alternative such as physical business ownership in the form of
semi-professional skills like hairdressing, mechanics, fashion designing etc.;
Provision shop amongst others; have need
for a reasonable capital which is barely available. So we are stuck!
Just take a look at the trend
100 years ago:
- · Go to school to learn to be an employee
- · Join a company waiting to employ you
- · Work for the company for donkey years
- · Retire and be redundant till death comes calling
A few decades ago:
- · Go to school to learn to be an employee
- · Find a company that will employ you
- · Switch companies for various political/economic/financial reason till you are satisfied
- · Make sure you do not retire because you have nothing tangible to fall back to by adjusting your documents, so you can stay a little more while you do everything you can to retire massively and financially stable at least.
- · Retire and be redundant till death comes calling
Today:
- · Go to school to learn to be an employee
- · Find out you are either unemployable because you lack basic skill now needed by recruiting companies or you are one hell of a lucky dude who is employed which can be due to several factors, one of which I call the NIGERIAN FACTOR.
- · Go into entrepreneurship or go to learn a skill to start a small scale business which may or may not survive the first two years
- · Continue to switch between jobs or join the political terrain
·
Whichever path you choose, you are still a low
income earner, one with a Journey
Of Borrowers
earning Something Always Low And
Ridicules You .
Just like Robert Kiyosaki said
“Your job is not going to take care of you. The government will not take care
of you. Nobody’s going to take care of you. It’s a new century, and the rules
have changed. My parents believed
in job security,
company pensions, Social
Security, and Medicare. These
are all worn-out,
obsolete ideas left
over from an
age gone by. Today
job security is
a joke, and
the very idea
of lifetime employment
with a single company—an
ideal so proudly
championed by IBM in its
heyday—is as anachronistic as a
manual typewriter”
If you’ve spent years climbing
the corporate ladder, have you ever stopped to notice the view? What view, you
ask? The rear end of the person in front of you. That’s what you get to look
forward to. If that’s the way you want to view the rest of your life, then this
write up probably isn’t for you. But if you are sick and tired of looking at
someone else’s behind, then keep tab with NETWORK 101 series.
Now, it is important to know that
the economy is not the issue. The issue is YOU.
Life is tough. The question is, what are you going to do about it? Or are you
part of those who keep on blaming witches and unverifiable phenomenon of your
challenges
In as much as the above scenario
is still at play in Nigeria, the world’s paradigm has changed from corporate
time economy to performance economy. In the nearest future, YOU will be paid
according to your performance irrespective of your profession. Already, it is
happening in several sectors top on the list is the banking sector. . If you
want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future
only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business. A
21st century business called Networking.
NB: No one will employ you a
graduate because of your certificate, but the skills you have acquired
wherever, whenever which is the key to your performance. Its not gona be
business as usual anymore. STEP UP
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