[url][/url][url][/url]I could not hold my breath for laughter when I heard this story. It was more than “you won’t kill me with laughter”, it was laughter made alive. Somebody offered to come around the house to teach a young lady how to bake cake for free. According to her, why spend money to learn such a simple stuff that was as easy as cooking. At the end of the cake class, according to the young lady ‘one cake don the other one no don, no mean say she no try”. This was not a dent on her practical class; she has suddenly become a professional cake baker.
So when one of her elder sisters wanted to have a birthday for the son she offered to bake the birthday cake for the event. The party was going to be a big one with guest travelling all the way down. Funmi was going to be in charge of the cake. For her this was a test of her competence in a business she hoped to start generating income from.
And she set forth with all effort to accomplish the task of making a splendid cake for the occasion. In her mind, this was not going to be too difficult since she had learnt the trade and all she needed was to use this as an opportunity to bring her dreams to reality.
Nobody bothered her because of the confidence she exuded in her ability to deliver and indeed she did deliver on the day.
The day came and the cake stood out laid on the corner of the house in preparation for the center table, Guess who went to check out the output of Funmi boast of being a professional cake maker, funmi’s younger brother. After checking on what Funmi had done, he went straight to the Auntie whose son’s birthday was being celebrated.
“Auntie”, he said quietly. “Please we need to send somebody to the market to buy a special knife, the meat seller mini cutlass will be most suitable”.
And the aunties asked “but why, we don’t need such for this occasion”.
His response was “Auntie that is what we will need to be able to cut that funmi’s cake”.
“What do you mean” the auntie shouted and rushed to the location where the cake was kept just to find out what the younger brother was talking about. By the time she got there with her younger brother following closely behind, they both found the celebrant climbing the cake and playing on it.
At this point, even the auntie was choked with laughter “what kind of cake is this that even my baby is on it and it has not shown any sign of breakage or damage. It is a stone cake? It is so strong it can even break someone’s teeth. Where did you learn this method and style of cake making? She asked.
Well the party turned out to be a celebration of laughter as Funmi’s cake landed in the dust bin with no cake for the baby to celebrate with. Not even for the visitors to taste, except they want to lose their tooth.
Funmi learnt the lesson of her life. Why put in so much to learn if indeed you want to be taught only to mess it up using the wrong folks. Always use the right people to learn a trade and get the best even if you have to pay for it, after all you are learning in order to earn.
If you use a carpenter as a teacher or trainer for catfish business, you may end up losing your entire farm and probably your investment as well.
You want to set up a business and you have somebody who has never set up one before as your mentor you may be stirring that ship called a business for the iceberg; it may never survive the impact
Go for competence, go for the right knowledge, and go for those who know what they are doing
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