As a concern student, time and again we have been told to be job
creators not job seekers. As much as having a lucrative job and earning some
income is a good thing, we should never stop thinking that life is full of
surprises. For most people, the future does not unfold as planned. Frightful
accidents often change a person’s life forever. Financial security may vanish
like the morning fog, forcing us to rethink our plans about college, or to make
room in our homes for parents who no longer are capable of caring for
themselves. If anyone in the bible was a survivor, it surely was the
prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah had difficult experiences that were not of his
making.
We as young people need to make an inventory today of our
preparation for whatever surprise or crisis may be around the next turn in the
road. I can think of one area that need special attention while we still have
time and opportunity to prepare for the unknown-economic independence. In the
event that we are not absorbed in the job market after campus or college life
what next? Will we sit back and wait for all the knowledge we have acquired
vanish? Or we can beat the odds and make something for ourselves? The future
will not be kind to the unprepared. But the rewards of preparation are great.
I am not a pessimist who
sees only trouble ahead neither am I a romantic idealist who ignores those same
problems. Let’s be determined to be aware of the potholes in the road of life
but absolutely committed to working our ways around, maybe even through them.
We have banks that offer affordable loans to young people, why can’t we
approach these same banks and ask for financial assistance, and then we can
begin venturing into a small business that generates us an income? We can begin
this while we are still in college or campus. Let us engage our lecturers,
mentors and seek their support as we seek to find meaning in our lives.
This may be a tall order
but let us engage our minds and think outside the box, get out of our comfort
zones and become small entrepreneurs. Lets us not sit back and wait for
opportunities to come, let us create those opportunities. It is from these
small opportunities that the world will notice us and give us opportunities to
prosper.
Lets us remember that we
are marketable when we are busy doing something.
Reagan Nyadimo
Kenyatta University.
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