What's the essence of all the hustle and bustle and learning and reading and keeping all the sleepless night? Isn't it all about money?
What if I don't want to go through all these process, don't care if I'm a graduate or not or if I'm good at speaking good English or not buth I'm just focused on how to make the money and end up making the money, won't the end justify the means?
I sometimes feel that some of these ideal process that has been accepted by the majority of the people in the society as a part to be taken to greatness is too complex. I mean, we can just learn how to read and write and focus on how to make money. Those who want to become engineers can choose to do so but those that don't want to pass through those route shouldn't be seen as less of a person because at the end of the day, it's mostly all about money.
I totally agree with you, this is one of the biggest problem we a facing in Africa as a whole. In most advanced countries let take Europe as an example, a lot of individuals are doing very much well without even going to school or not even having a tertiary education. In Africa we believe so much in school, like our parent believes you have made it in life already when you able to complete a tertiary education. I have a friend who never wanted to go school after his secondary education. He told me he just want to engage in selling car part. His parent didn’t like that ideas and did not even support him with capital to start that business. Due to lack of capital he later went back to school and his parent paid his school fees during those for years. After several years of completing his tertiary education with no job, he was able to gather capital for the business through friends and family contributions and personal hustle. I think his business is about 4 years old now and he is doing very well for himself and also taking care of his parent and family. All I’m saying his if his family had supported him with capital since when he wanted to start the business he will be doing far better now. African parents need to start listening to their kids and also supporting their dreams. It not actually about going to school because at the end it about who is doing well financially in life.
I think in places like Africa why money is actually considered to be the road to wealth is because most African countries are under developing economy and you can’t have a reasonable work if you don’t go to school, but in advance countries working in the sport sector can make you be a millionaire if not a billionaire. Let take the footballers for example, they make millions every months without even going to school, and not to talk of endorsements deals they get. Nike, puma, Adidas also pay them for wearing their products too. So I will always say it “Pick a dream and chase” especially in Africa.