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PigTormentor:
Graduates?

Rubbish trash.

Going to a University is way overrated in Nigeria. Any slowpoke that went through a University automatically thinks that they deserve to be worshiped and given a job on a platter of gold.
Yeah may be in 1960 when most didn't to go Universities, now you need to be creative and imaginative to be desired and employable.
Everyone, their MAMA and GRAND MA have a university degree now, so it means NOTHING. Not just in Nigeria but all over the world.
In fact in the US, your work experience is more desired than you so called College/University degree.

Someone pls tell all these Nigerian kids who still think that just because they went to some 8th grade high school masquerading as a University means that the [b]government must provide employment for them.....[/b]Better wake up from you day dreaming.

People like you keep aiding those fools we call leaders, nobody is asking them to create jobs cox even if they do na dem dem go still Dey there, but what happen to enabling environment, quality education, provision of basic amenities etc. FYI I’m not concern about looking for jobs. But we just have a lot to benefit from govt policy and intervention

truth should be said abeg
nigeria"s educational system need a total overhaul
i mean a situation where ur lecturer is using his notebooks he used as a student in the 1960s and early 70s to teach today"s students tell me what such such students can achieve in a modern world.I dont even want to start with some of the course programmes in nigeria"s university that need complete phasing out.A student will study a programme that has been phased out in other climes and when he graduates he sees the course he read is no longer applicable hence he has no choice than to be selling recharge cards on the streets or doing scam or coming to nairaland to advertise and sell fake internet mtn and glo megabytes to customers.even at that if the nigerian govt encourages banks to offer loans to fresh graduates who have just finished their degrees or the nysc gives them something tangible i am very sure such graduates will be able to set off businesses for themselves though i know there might be a few who might squander the money on alcohol and women.

Haywhymido:
Leave story, when it's your time it is your time, evenif you wear wrapper you go follow play for the match, if you dey sing rubbish people go dance, you go blow, if you dey say rubbish for mouth people go like am, you go blow. so forget, it's all about "time"

forget que sera sera.if u no work, u go suffer. manna doesn't fall as you've described. luck only smiles on people who've set up themselves for the big opportunity working underground.

Mrpsly247:
Skills kill you there. Jjc skillz abi. Which special skills u get

Skills will not kill me. While in university I was also learning programming and software development, it is the skill that I use to bring in the money today and I work for big organizations with good pay. My certificate is still there, I hope to make good use of it, till then let me keep profiting with the skill I learned.

Being Worthy in learning and character is the shield that a graduates often times will have to carry. A rigged system as Nigeria wll have you thinking that you have failed if you don't fit into a system that is rigged to favour the brute pseudointellectuals ( not worthy in character) who are in leadership. For my fellow graduates, if you can, find your way out of this country and see how you are better compared to your counterparts abroad. Sane countries work on the assumption that the sum equals the whole, that progress is achieved if all hands are on deck, read an article where doctors where protesting their wages in Canada for being to high, whereas in Nigeria the doctors, lawyers, and lecturers are always on strike to get better t&c. it's only in Nigeria that individuals thrives on the false optimism that they are going to be among the 3% who makes it out of poverty every year in a country where as much as 86% exist in celeberating poverty and daily struggle without a collective attempt at increasing the general economic output and standard of living. We applaud corruption and think we are being smarter than others not knowing that we are sinking deeper. Keep your b.s mallam whatever we have heard it all and perhaps even preached it too when we hadn't reached the Matterhorn. I believe in my ability to make me rich, but the struggle is made albeit too difficult by cutthroat opportunist bastards who are perhaps misa

Donpaper:
hmm, and what time is your time?

nthropic and idiosyncratic in their views of human existence.

PigTormentor:
Graduates?

Rubbish trash.

Going to a University is way overrated in Nigeria. Any slowpoke that went through a University automatically thinks that they deserve to be worshiped and given a job on a platter of gold.
Yeah may be in 1960 when most didn't to go Universities, now you need to be creative and imaginative to be desired and employable.
Everyone, their MAMA and GRAND MA have a university degree now, so it means NOTHING. Not just in Nigeria but all over the world.
In fact in the US, your work experience is more desired than you so called College/University degree.

Someone pls tell all these Nigerian kids who still think that just because they went to some 8th grade high school masquerading as a University means that the government must provide employment for them.....Better wake up from you day dreaming.

if u have a college degree(university degree) in the US u are more better paid than the ones who graduated from high school.Many americans have the desire of going to college but then going to college in the US is quite expensive even for the average american except he or she gets a scholarship.An american parent who has a big business of his own but wasnt lucky to have a college education would want his son or dauther to get a college education so when he or she graduates and maybe the parent retires he or she can take over the business and hjis or her education can improve on the business.

MansoryMX:
What are you trying to say now because one minute y’all will say Education is the key? Of what use is going to school if you cannot practice your profession or make use of your certificate. Hellooooooo! Are you okay, Are you normal. Instead of you to fight for your right as a graduate you are here giving reasons why you are poor as a certificate holder? Na your teeth you wan use invest or go into entrepreneurship? Yes you, I am talking to you! Na wa o??

School has made a lot of people rich in overseas. People who just went for 3years courses, just 3 years! My elder sister was a dropout here in Naija. She struggled and traveled to Florida. Did a 3 years course in nursing. Today she has built more than 4 houses here in Nigeria. The Op, The mod who pushed this rubbish to Fp and all of you in support are all mad. You can’t tell me after going to lectures 4am just to secure a sit to enable me avoid standing outside window for 4 good years in school is a waste. God nova punish una reach for this country o! Una go suffer die. I pray my visa is approved so I can leave abeg. Make una continue to dey justify nonsense. Motivational speaking kee u there! Rubbish

tell them oo .all these old politicians are deceiving youths that they dont really need education but many ppl in other countries are rushing for a college degree.with a college degree u get more opportunity of improving ur business if u want to be an entrapeanur.When more thanhalf of the populace is not educated the country will suffer backwardness.

GoodBoi1:
Skills will not kill me. While in university I was also learning programming and software development, it is the skill that I use to bring in the money today and I work for big organizations with good pay. My certificate is still there I hope to make good use of it, till then let me keep profiting with the skill I learned.

A hustling graduate, I Stan. Tot u were a resounding cymbal for the many lousy speakers clamouring on skills like it's some spiritual impartation that confim their expectation b.s that you are not enough.

Good day everyone,if you stay in Suleja or Abuja and need a private tutor for your kids,my kid sis is available. She is a 400l medical student of uniport.you can reach her via this phone number: zero,eight,one,six,five,three five,two five,one,nine (08165352519) or contact me via my email,thanks
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Factual points he made.

some mumu with impaired level of understanding will still come and attack him.

they don't see some sense in the article because they themselves have none.

Never Joke with opportunities.
some might be lucky or connected,but never joke with opportunities because even the ones wey get connections nd Don blow na the opportunities before them they still dey use.

That thread about abandoned places and buildings, only legendary business people will see and understand the opportunity therein.

If u cannot see the story and opportunity behind that, then nobody can help u, in fact that is a clear major factor that should spur or compel one to start a business

You are right..

Life has no formula!! Some people make it with their certificates while some make it without. Don't let people deceive you into thinking that certificates doesn't matter, it really do matter.

As for me, be you a certificate holder or none certificate holder, pray for the right information! Right information drives people to success in every aspect of life.

Pray for the right information always, its key!�

Horlayhemy:
Well said.
But have you also seen those who see opportunity but couldn't seize it because there's no financial support. All in all, destiny is above all.

childuptojoy:
This write-up was sent to me by one of my lecturers in school and I feel like sharing it on Nairaland

7 REASONS WHY DEGREE HOLDERS ARE POOR?
Writen by

*MALAM MAMUDA KABIR DUTSINMA*
1. I have a very painful truth to dish out to graduates out there: Your degree or certificate is not the cure to poverty; the cure to poverty is your ability to see and seize opportunities. In this Article, the word P.O.O.R means: Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly.

2. Dear Graduates, if somebody offers you an amazing opportunity, but you are not sure you can do it, say yes then learn how to do it later!, never should you say you don’t know. School rewards people for their memory. Life rewards people for their creativity and ability to solve problems. School rewards caution; life rewards daring. School hails those who live by the rules. Life exalts those who break the rules and set new ones.

3. Being on top of your class does not necessarily guarantee that you will be at the top of life. The world is filled with poor graduates but rich opportunists! Kevin Ngo once said, “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want”.

4. Your certificates and degrees are meant to help you garner the experience and expertise needed to fulfill your dreams; they are not your destination! I have watched pitiably many graduates with degrees and certificates languishing in poverty looking for jobs that don’t even exist while people with keen eyes for opportunities reach the pinnacle of success in the most unlikeliest of ways.

5. Do you have a graduate or degree holder around you that is poor? I bet you have as they are everywhere! I have a very painful truth to dish out to graduates out there: Your degree or certificate is not the cure to poverty; the cure to poverty is your ability to see and seize opportunities.

BASICALLY, there are seven (7) reasons why degree holders are poor.

1. THEY DON’T THINK BEYOND THEIR CERTIFICATES

Albert Einstein said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Have you ever heard creativity term “Think outside the box”? One of the major reasons why most graduates are poor is simply because they can’t see and think beyond their certificates.
I have seen engineering students work as bankers. I have seen medical doctors with great skills in web and graphic designs. I have seen lawyers that are very dexterous with finances. The list is endless!

The basic truth of life is that the skills that are needed to be much sought after and become more successful in life are not really found within the walls of the classrooms. Your certificate is just a proof that you are teachable, it does not suggest what you are totally capable of doing. You are full of possibilities when you think beyond your degrees and certificates.

2. THEY PRIORITIZE THEIR CERTIFICATES MORE THAN THEIR GIFTS AND TALENTS

I have often advised some of my colleagues, never to leave their gifts dormant while pursuing and hunting for jobs with their certificates. There must be a complementary balance in the pursuit of your passion and in the search for jobs.

Everybody is gifted for something, but the winning edge comes from our ability to work on our gifts and bless the world with it. The very best way to develop yourself is in the direction of your natural talents and interest. In order to live a fulfilled and impactful life, we need to work harder on our gift than our job. We need to discover our gift, develop it, and sell it. Don’t bury your TALENT with your certificates.

3. THEIR CERTIFICATES PREPARE THEM FOR A WORLD THAT NO LONGER EXIST

It has been found that most of the skills taught in schools are becoming obsolete in the present world. The world has changed a lot, and so are people’s need! It is imperative to know that the present form of university education does not prepare students for the future.

Graduates are becoming endangered species in the face of a changing world. Our archaic methods and approaches of learning are preparing graduates for a world that no longer exist, as we are churning out degree holders every year with certificates that have face value but no intrinsic worth. Most learning institutions are filled up with lecturers and pseudo-educators with lecture notes, methods and approaches that have lost relevance in a changing world.

4. THEY KNOW LESS ABOUT THEMSELVES BUT MORE ABOUT THINGS

Certificates and degrees don’t reveal people to themselves; they at most measure our IQ (Intelligent Quotient). I have often tell people that there is no Recovery without Discovery. A poor man is simply someone that has not discovered himself.

The more you discover yourself, the more you realize the treasures that are hidden deep within you. We carry inside ourselves latent treasures that can only be unveiled through self-discovery.

5. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES CAN KILL INITIATIVES

Degrees and certificates can close up your minds to ideas while initiatives open it up. If you are not careful, your degrees and certificates can close up your mind. The purpose of education is to keep your mind perpetually opened towards limitless possibilities!

Fred Smith saw an opportunity for overnight delivery of anything anywhere in the USA, and ultra- fast delivery anywhere in the world, FedEx was born. It will be interesting to know that Fred Smith got a grade “C” in a Yale economics class for an idea that the professor belittled as unworkable.
Fred Smith’s company became the first American business to make over ten billion dollars in annual profit. Beginning with just 186 packages delivered the first night, FedEx now delivers in over two hundred countries using over 6,030 aircraft, 46,000 vehicles and 141,000 employees.

6. DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES POSITION YOU TO LOOK FOR JOBS AND NOT FOR OPPORTUNITIES

Our certificates and degrees prepare graduates to look for jobs and not open our eyes to life-changing opportunities. You are not poor because you don’t have a job; you are poor because you are not seeing and seizing opportunities.

Being POOR is simply Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly! What keeps people ahead in life is not their education or degrees, it is simply the opportunity that they seized. Jobs may be scarce but not opportunities.

As long as there is a problem to be solved, there will always be opportunities. It is a waste of our education, exposure, and experiences if after we graduate from school, all we think about is searching for a job. An enlightened and educated mind should be able to see and seize opportunities.

7. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES PREPARE PEOPLE TO LOOK FOR SECURITY AND NOT TO TAKE RISKS

We must be willing to make mistakes and take breakthrough risks. Taking risks and learning from mistakes help us in knowing what works and what does not! When Thomas Edison was being questioned by a mischievous journalist on how he felt for having failed for 999 times before getting the idea of the light bulb, his response stunned the whole world when he confidently said, “I have not failed 999 times, I have only learned 999 ways of how not to make a light bulb”.

Many graduates and degree holders are becoming progressively poor because the skills required in the modern world to get rich are not taught in schools and institutions. By 2025, we’ll lose over five million jobs to automation. This means that future jobs will look vastly different by the time many people graduate from the university.

Future jobs will involve KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION/CREATION and innovation, and people that are only equipped with skills found in the classroom will definitely be a misfit in an ever-changing world. Skills like critical thinking, creativity, people’s skill, STEM skills (e.g Coding), complex problem-solving skills etc. are central to living a more comprehensive and productive life.

8 THEREFORE, in conclusion, My humble and candid advice to graduates and students in institutions is to think wide, deep and outside the box. Take volunteer jobs, and don’t be afraid to navigate fields that are different from your field of learning. Your future career will require you to pull information from many different fields to come up with creative solutions to future problems.

Start by reading as much as you can about anything and everything that interests you. Once you get to college, consider double majoring or minoring in completely different fields. Trust me, it’ll pay off in the long run.

Don’t limit yourself to the classroom. Do something practical. Take a leadership position. Start a business and fail; that’s a better entrepreneurship. Contest an election and lose. It will teach you something political science will not teach you. Attend a seminar. Read books outside the scope of your course.

Think less of becoming an excellent student, but think more of becoming an excellent person. Don’t make the classroom your world, but make the world your classroom. Step forward and try something extra. Invest in something you believe! Real financial security and freedom is not in your job, but in your passion, gifts, talents, and your ability to see and seize opportunities.

Writer by
MALAM MAMUDA KABIR DUTSINMA

written by someone who probably was conceived and hatched from the stolen wealth of the NIGER DELTA
baba shorrop your mouth - why wont you demonize education when your arewa brothers can not keep up with the south in western education
please go and educate Buhari and your fellow northern oligarchs to stop using billions of dollars from the Niger Delta to look for oil in the north

yeye fawo coming here to lecture us on success after successfully stealing our oyel

There are more rich educated certificate holders than non certificate holders

This may suffice in Nigeria but this isn't applicable everywhere. This information is counterproductive and indicative of why some people are apprehensive about employing Nigerians/Africans

Stillthebest:


Nothing guarantees success. Working and hardwork only give food.
Success in it's entirety is phenomenal.

Or haven't you seen someone who is just contacted by a random fellow and asks "can u do a contract thoroughly just because may he or she loves the fellow?

That's the phenomenal of success! Graduate dey poor non graduate dey poor.

Grace and luck supercede all the things you mentioned above.

Late Adefarati was an old retired teacher waiting to die whenever God calls but people left alll the accountants, Medical Doctors businessmen, profs and more then went to him to beg him to come and contest for Gov.

go and sit down!
you dey yarn rubbish
Luck is when opportunity meets preparedness.
Nobody is born with it

I started my cashew plantation with N100,000 (I didn't buy the land) at a time I was earning N12,000 monthly. You're already thinking I saved that sum? My Mom gave it to me.
The first good job I got, it was my sister who made the connection. I was called one friday afternoon to show up for an urgent interview. I was not at home, so I was not properly dressed. I attended their AGM the next day (na so work start).
Without money and or people to support you, the best you can have are ideas. Even skills, you can't acquire for free. I needed several millions of naira to be trained a Software Engineer (I know because I've been through it). You need money to become a chartered Accountant.
We all need helpers.
Everyone who got where they are today, got there through someone, not necessarily what they know. That's why you can see a 3rd Class graduate doing better than a 1st Class counterpart.
It's true that if you're asked if you can do a thing, never say no. My Uni. Education enables me to learn new things.

Am just speechless..... person suffer go school graduate finish come out with a good grade,to get get work na wahala...this country just make pipu wey no go skul dey get mock pipu wey go
It's really pathetic.

TheManOfTheYear:
Except you want to be an academic.
Depending on your certificate alone is suicidal. You better face reality on ground, even the US signed it into law that skills will now be prioritized over degree. You dunno warris going on

Pure lies, people who studied STEM courses are of high priority because the nature of such courses solve day-to-day problems in the society. so think well.
We need to take all our careers to a full business dimension then we can develop, create, make huge cash and improve on our living standards, that's what most western countries do, but Africa, zero.

Well said...

ednut1:
if they government created an enabling envoironment for industrialisation and if people reduced the number of kids from 4-5 to 2. Things wont be this way

Please how do students study in Nigeria while taking a course because no 24hrs electricity, especially off campus, plus fuel scarcity.

onyechez:
Pure lies, people who studied STEM courses are of high priority because the nature of such courses solve day-to-day problems in the society. so think well.
We need to take all our careers to a full business dimension then we can develop, create, make huge cash and improve on our living standards, that's what most western countries do, but Africa, zero.

Okay, continue wallowing in self delusion. Isn't it obvious the reality on ground?

Wake up bro, if your father ain't Dangote-like, nor you having connection, you may likely be caught off-guard.
Just learn a skill to be on a safer side.

THANK you for this, really empowering!

abbey621:
Read the post very well this is not about illiterates, it is about those who put all their hopes in certificates rather than skills to solve problems. Job openings in 9ja is less than 30% of the amount of yearly graduates. What will happen to the 70%? Nobody wants to farm even tho it is guaranteed that tomatoes, rice will increase in price yearly. Nobody wants tolearn importation, even tho people in places like USA are dying for cow skin, dried fish and so on. It's like we attend school to become more educated but less useful.....lol.

Please how does such funds come from especially from a very corrupt country like Nigeria,hahaha imaginary..
During USA VS China trade war, USA approved billions of dollars funds for farmers who are underfunded, poor funds to keep their farming business alive, so many people were encouraged to start farming and were fully supported and funded by the government. That's a country that works not Nigeria, guy please forget it.
what Nigeria needs now is basic things like electricity, good roads, security, good government policies that would work, Nigerian youths would start engaging is serious entrepreneurs, farming would commence with value addition of processed products which in turn would change our economy.
How can one feel safe and farm when there's community dispute, herds men killing, no electricity to store and process.
How? Let Nigeria get the basic first.
Remember the SDGs.

childuptojoy:
This write-up was sent to me by one of my lecturers in school and I feel like sharing it on Nairaland

7 REASONS WHY DEGREE HOLDERS ARE POOR?
Writen by

*MALAM MAMUDA KABIR DUTSINMA*
1. I have a very painful truth to dish out to graduates out there: Your degree or certificate is not the cure to poverty; the cure to poverty is your ability to see and seize opportunities. In this Article, the word P.O.O.R means: Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly.

2. Dear Graduates, if somebody offers you an amazing opportunity, but you are not sure you can do it, say yes then learn how to do it later!, never should you say you don’t know. School rewards people for their memory. Life rewards people for their creativity and ability to solve problems. School rewards caution; life rewards daring. School hails those who live by the rules. Life exalts those who break the rules and set new ones.

3. Being on top of your class does not necessarily guarantee that you will be at the top of life. The world is filled with poor graduates but rich opportunists! Kevin Ngo once said, “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want”.

4. Your certificates and degrees are meant to help you garner the experience and expertise needed to fulfill your dreams; they are not your destination! I have watched pitiably many graduates with degrees and certificates languishing in poverty looking for jobs that don’t even exist while people with keen eyes for opportunities reach the pinnacle of success in the most unlikeliest of ways.

5. Do you have a graduate or degree holder around you that is poor? I bet you have as they are everywhere! I have a very painful truth to dish out to graduates out there: Your degree or certificate is not the cure to poverty; the cure to poverty is your ability to see and seize opportunities.

BASICALLY, there are seven (7) reasons why degree holders are poor.

1. THEY DON’T THINK BEYOND THEIR CERTIFICATES

Albert Einstein said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Have you ever heard creativity term “Think outside the box”? One of the major reasons why most graduates are poor is simply because they can’t see and think beyond their certificates.
I have seen engineering students work as bankers. I have seen medical doctors with great skills in web and graphic designs. I have seen lawyers that are very dexterous with finances. The list is endless!

The basic truth of life is that the skills that are needed to be much sought after and become more successful in life are not really found within the walls of the classrooms. Your certificate is just a proof that you are teachable, it does not suggest what you are totally capable of doing. You are full of possibilities when you think beyond your degrees and certificates.

2. THEY PRIORITIZE THEIR CERTIFICATES MORE THAN THEIR GIFTS AND TALENTS

I have often advised some of my colleagues, never to leave their gifts dormant while pursuing and hunting for jobs with their certificates. There must be a complementary balance in the pursuit of your passion and in the search for jobs.

Everybody is gifted for something, but the winning edge comes from our ability to work on our gifts and bless the world with it. The very best way to develop yourself is in the direction of your natural talents and interest. In order to live a fulfilled and impactful life, we need to work harder on our gift than our job. We need to discover our gift, develop it, and sell it. Don’t bury your TALENT with your certificates.

3. THEIR CERTIFICATES PREPARE THEM FOR A WORLD THAT NO LONGER EXIST

It has been found that most of the skills taught in schools are becoming obsolete in the present world. The world has changed a lot, and so are people’s need! It is imperative to know that the present form of university education does not prepare students for the future.

Graduates are becoming endangered species in the face of a changing world. Our archaic methods and approaches of learning are preparing graduates for a world that no longer exist, as we are churning out degree holders every year with certificates that have face value but no intrinsic worth. Most learning institutions are filled up with lecturers and pseudo-educators with lecture notes, methods and approaches that have lost relevance in a changing world.

4. THEY KNOW LESS ABOUT THEMSELVES BUT MORE ABOUT THINGS

Certificates and degrees don’t reveal people to themselves; they at most measure our IQ (Intelligent Quotient). I have often tell people that there is no Recovery without Discovery. A poor man is simply someone that has not discovered himself.

The more you discover yourself, the more you realize the treasures that are hidden deep within you. We carry inside ourselves latent treasures that can only be unveiled through self-discovery.

5. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES CAN KILL INITIATIVES

Degrees and certificates can close up your minds to ideas while initiatives open it up. If you are not careful, your degrees and certificates can close up your mind. The purpose of education is to keep your mind perpetually opened towards limitless possibilities!

Fred Smith saw an opportunity for overnight delivery of anything anywhere in the USA, and ultra- fast delivery anywhere in the world, FedEx was born. It will be interesting to know that Fred Smith got a grade “C” in a Yale economics class for an idea that the professor belittled as unworkable.
Fred Smith’s company became the first American business to make over ten billion dollars in annual profit. Beginning with just 186 packages delivered the first night, FedEx now delivers in over two hundred countries using over 6,030 aircraft, 46,000 vehicles and 141,000 employees.

6. DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES POSITION YOU TO LOOK FOR JOBS AND NOT FOR OPPORTUNITIES

Our certificates and degrees prepare graduates to look for jobs and not open our eyes to life-changing opportunities. You are not poor because you don’t have a job; you are poor because you are not seeing and seizing opportunities.

Being POOR is simply Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly! What keeps people ahead in life is not their education or degrees, it is simply the opportunity that they seized. Jobs may be scarce but not opportunities.

As long as there is a problem to be solved, there will always be opportunities. It is a waste of our education, exposure, and experiences if after we graduate from school, all we think about is searching for a job. An enlightened and educated mind should be able to see and seize opportunities.

7. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES PREPARE PEOPLE TO LOOK FOR SECURITY AND NOT TO TAKE RISKS

We must be willing to make mistakes and take breakthrough risks. Taking risks and learning from mistakes help us in knowing what works and what does not! When Thomas Edison was being questioned by a mischievous journalist on how he felt for having failed for 999 times before getting the idea of the light bulb, his response stunned the whole world when he confidently said, “I have not failed 999 times, I have only learned 999 ways of how not to make a light bulb”.

Many graduates and degree holders are becoming progressively poor because the skills required in the modern world to get rich are not taught in schools and institutions. By 2025, we’ll lose over five million jobs to automation. This means that future jobs will look vastly different by the time many people graduate from the university.

Future jobs will involve KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION/CREATION and innovation, and people that are only equipped with skills found in the classroom will definitely be a misfit in an ever-changing world. Skills like critical thinking, creativity, people’s skill, STEM skills (e.g Coding), complex problem-solving skills etc. are central to living a more comprehensive and productive life.

8 THEREFORE, in conclusion, My humble and candid advice to graduates and students in institutions is to think wide, deep and outside the box. Take volunteer jobs, and don’t be afraid to navigate fields that are different from your field of learning. Your future career will require you to pull information from many different fields to come up with creative solutions to future problems.

Start by reading as much as you can about anything and everything that interests you. Once you get to college, consider double majoring or minoring in completely different fields. Trust me, it’ll pay off in the long run.

Don’t limit yourself to the classroom. Do something practical. Take a leadership position. Start a business and fail; that’s a better entrepreneurship. Contest an election and lose. It will teach you something political science will not teach you. Attend a seminar. Read books outside the scope of your course.

Think less of becoming an excellent student, but think more of becoming an excellent person. Don’t make the classroom your world, but make the world your classroom. Step forward and try something extra. Invest in something you believe! Real financial security and freedom is not in your job, but in your passion, gifts, talents, and your ability to see and seize opportunities.

Writer by
MALAM MAMUDA KABIR DUTSINMA

U mean Nigerian degree holders?

TheManOfTheYear:
Okay, continue wallowing in self delusion. Isn't it obvious the reality on ground?

Wake up bro, if your father ain't Dangote-like, nor you having connection, you may likely be caught off-guard.
Just learn a skill to be on a safer side.

I didn't disregard the importance in learning a skill, my point is STEM courses solve problems that a skill would, please understand that.
I know a brother who studied mech in polytechnic in Nigeria but went to UK to get the requisite certification in mechanical engineering (that comes with a skill in his profession) came back to Nigeria, was contracted by shell Nigeria, earning hugely, shell renumerated workers, he quickly resigned to save his CV from embarrassment but he later went on to offer same services 247 by other oil firms in Nigeria, and still made huge cash. The course he did was up to professional level that includes skills to solve problems but it is still a course he studied. not just paper and pen.

Righteousness89:
Whatever you do in Life, Just Seek for God's Grace and Favor!

They will take you to Great Height in Life!

God's Favor will Qualify you where you are not Qualified!

onyechez:
Please how does such funds come from especially from a very corrupt country like Nigeria,hahaha imaginary..
During USA VS China trade war, USA approved billions of dollars funds for farmers who are underfunded, poor funds to keep their farming business alive, so many people were encouraged to start farming and were fully supported and funded by the government. That's a country that works not Nigeria, guy please forget it.
what Nigeria needs now is basic things like electricity, good roads, security, good government policies that would work, Nigerian youths would start engaging is serious entrepreneurs, farming would commence with value addition of processed products which in turn would change our economy.
How can one feel safe and farm when there's community dispute, herds men killing, no electricity to store and process.
How? Let Nigeria get the basic first.
Remember the SDGs.

But you feel safe enough to type on social media, to visit your favorite suya spot, to watch sports or subscribe to dstv? Every country has its problems, the USA that you mentioned, you would be surprised that less than 1% of its population actually farms and out of that percentage most farm workers are actually illegal immigrants. The USA produces almost nothing even common face mask must be imported.

The main point is simple, if you wake up everyday and only see problems then you'll never rise above it but if you change your mindset and actually start thinking about solutions then you've already defeated your limitations. This is not about Nigeria, it is about individual resolve and self determination. Nigeria can be jaga jaga but those wey go make am go make am and those wey go fail go fail!

MansoryMX:
What are you trying to say now because one minute y’all will say Education is the key? Of what use is going to school if you cannot practice your profession or make use of your certificate. Hellooooooo! Are you okay, Are you normal. Instead of you to fight for your right as a graduate you are here giving reasons why you are poor as a certificate holder? Na your teeth you wan use invest or go into entrepreneurship? Yes you, I am talking to you! Na wa o??

School has made a lot of people rich in overseas. People who just went for 3years courses, just 3 years! My elder sister was a dropout here in Naija. She struggled and traveled to Florida. Did a 3 years course in nursing. Today she has built more than 4 houses here in Nigeria. The Op, The mod who pushed this rubbish to Fp and all of you in support are all mad. You can’t tell me after going to lectures 4am just to secure a sit to enable me avoid standing outside window for 4 good years in school is a waste. God nova punish una reach for this country o! Una go suffer die. I pray my visa is approved so I can leave abeg. Make una continue to dey justify nonsense. Motivational speaking kee u there! Rubbish

I totally Agree with you!!

Many of them need to travel out...

EDUCATION IS KEY TO SUCCESS and RICHES!!!!

cc lefulefu

Your certificate still useless abroad

You'll need all said here over there

MansoryMX:
What are you trying to say now because one minute y’all will say Education is the key? Of what use is going to school if you cannot practice your profession or make use of your certificate. Hellooooooo! Are you okay, Are you normal. Instead of you to fight for your right as a graduate you are here giving reasons why you are poor as a certificate holder? Na your teeth you wan use invest or go into entrepreneurship? Yes you, I am talking to you! Na wa o??

School has made a lot of people rich in overseas. People who just went for 3years courses, just 3 years! My elder sister was a dropout here in Naija. She struggled and traveled to Florida. Did a 3 years course in nursing. Today she has built more than 4 houses here in Nigeria. The Op, The mod who pushed this rubbish to Fp and all of you in support are all mad. You can’t tell me after going to lectures 4am just to secure a sit to enable me avoid standing outside window for 4 good years in school is a waste. God nova punish una reach for this country o! Una go suffer die. I pray my visa is approved so I can leave abeg. Make una continue to dey justify nonsense. Motivational speaking kee u there! Rubbish