DEAR YOUNG PEOPLE.
I know you must have heard this but I am happy to remind you again; you were born to win but you should know that you can only win with passion, hard work and discipline (keyword: discipline), and not pride or arrogance.
In my experience of working as a Bar man, Okada man, class teacher (precisely primary 2), online and walk-in customer agent and now a Broadcaster I have learnt alot, being people-centric jobs that are stressful and require discipline and professionalism. I have seen, met, heard and experienced a lot and I understand that Rome wasn't built in a day. It was a project of hardwork, dedication and passion.
Interestingly, when you see young people these days, especially in this creative industry, one begins to wonder what orientation is given to them in school. There is absence of discipline and passion. As if that is not enough, you see high rate of illogical reasoning, desperate steps and self destructive ideologies that leave them hopping from one place to another with no result show.
Young people want to make it but do not have the ingredients that will make them get to their destination. They are clogged in the wheels of multiple dreams with indefinite focus. They display erosive arrogance, poor understanding of service and palpable lack of patience to grow up slowly. You cannot aspire to establish yourself and have people work under you when you lack the understanding of teamwork and working under others to build supervisory skills. Jumping from job to another in the name of hussle without a clear cut focus is not hussle. It is tussle against yourself. It is lack of ambition laced with laziness and impatience. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying you can't change your job. You can do it with honour and reasonableness
I have learnt the act of patience amidst turbulence. In the process, I have passionately built myself for what I want to be both in leadership and followership. This has paid off in different ways.
I just want you know that it is green out there but are you ready to submit and be patient? Be ready to plough and plant passionately. Be ready to accommodate and learn. If you cultivate these virtues and more, then you are headed in the right direction
Tok Morgan (BigBlunt)
Broadcast Journalist.
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