INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION
Jobless ?
Stop Complaining and Do Something !
The current job crisis in Kenya , with the youth now taking to the streets carrying placards advertising their qualifications to any willing employer who is kind enough to give them a job . The situation has become so bad that there was a time the hashtag # JobCrisisKE was trending at the top on Twitter , and one tweep said it is easier for a chopper to land on your head than get a job in Kenya . Very true .
Yesterday someone posted in one of the many WhatsApp groups I am in that the latest youth to venture onto the streets begging for a job had been contacted by CEO of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund . Fantastic ! A weekly publication immediately after contacted the overjoyed girl and she had this to say to the youths , ‘ You should be aggressive . Jobs will not come on their own . You have to go out and work towards getting one .’
I had to quote her directly because I could not have said that in a better way . Can we all stop complaining about the lack of jobs and do something ? Can we all just get up , get off our phones , and start making steps towards getting that job we want ?
We have complained , they have heard us , they are doing nothing . Are we , the youth of this country , going to continue sitting down Facebooking and Tweeting all day complaining how everything is so unfair and education is so useless and employers are so corrupt and- Stand up and go do what you gotta do !
We cannot all throng the streets with placards , but each of us can do something .
I ’ ll tell you this , I currently don ’ t have an 8-5 job that assures me of a salary at the end of every month . And I will never sit down and start pitying myself and worrying and beating myself up and cursing everybody I think is blocking my path to prosperity . No one owes me anything .
It is up to me to think , creatively , innovatively , actively take the lead in the direction my life takes . I am happy that many youths are part of this team . The ones carrying placards in the streets , those knocking on Uwezo Funds / YEDF doors with great ideas and vision , those starting small businesses to keep going , those sending out CVs everyday , those volunteering their skills and getting better at what they can do , making valuable connections . Everyone doing something . Those of us who have refused to lie down and complain and weep and curse .
We are already a generation that has been labeled as lazy , undecided and the worst to ever exist . I don ’ t think these labels are true . But if we continue complaining and sleeping , then they will be true . Let ’ s do something .
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