Fellow Ghanaians, I hope you are having a wonderful week. My name is Native Boy, I live in Ghana, Tamale and this is the things I do offline.
I work as an office and logistics manager at an agricultural business non governmental organization called Winesome.
Winesome is an agric business NGO that produces crops such as maize, rice, and soybeans in commercial quantities. We also provide inputs and logistics services for small holder farmers.
My work at Winesome basically involves me collecting data and making meaningful informations of it. Sometimes these data is collected primarily by other colleagues, but very often, I collect the data from the field myself.
This usually means I would have to travel a long distance to a remote community where our farms are located. We also worked with small farm holders in groups where we provide inputs and logistics services in return for repayment in kind. Repayment in kind involves repaying with agreed quantities of produce ( rice, maize, or soybeans) that the farmers cultivated, or repayment with quantities of shear nuts.
Due to the fact that all our farms and farmers are located in the northern regions of Ghana where there is a very limited rainfall period, my work is hugely dependent on the time and season of the year. I usually do not have off days or holidays during the rainy season. At times I even work on weekends.
I work on data collected from more than five hundred farmers in seven communities from three different districts in the northern regions of Ghana. Annually, we cultivate more than two hundred acres of the various staples in each of our four farms.
During the dry season, I’m usually left with little to no work to do. And this is when I get to rest and do other things.
However, despite my tight work schedule, I’m still very much available for my family and my few friends. Fortunately, I have never been put in a dilemma to choose between work and family. I enjoy being with my family and friends as much as I enjoy working. I speak with my mom everyday. And whenever I’m around, I always eat dinner from my mom.
Interestingly, I school as well. I’m currently hustling a degree that I abandoned two years after I graduated with a Diploma. I study off campus and I only attend classes on weekends, which I miss mostly due to my work schedule and also due to the fact that I don’t like classes. But I do sit for exams and thankfully, I’ve been having decent grades. I’m looking forward to graduating soon.
One would have thought that my online involvements would be pretty much nonexistent due to the things I already have on my table offline. Well, I think it’s accurate to say these are times that we don’t have to come online anymore, in fact, we now live online. Except when I’m in the field where the is network coverage limited, I’m always connected to the internet all the time. My work involves a lot of research, sending and receiving data from and within and I often take some time to glance through my social media to catch some fun and reply some messages.
Synchronizing Hive with my work is very important to me because I understand the importance of telling my stories on Hive. Even when I was not posting on Hive, I had a diary that I documented all my stories and activities on.
Therefore after realizing that I could save my stories on Hive, I placed even more significance on my presence here and I make sure to always make it count.
However, combining Hive and Work hasn’t been easy no matter how I try. Coming up with creative ideas to write about has always been difficult. Another hurdle on Hive has been engaging with other people’s posts. Reading and commenting on posts from other authors has become a challenge ever since my work became intense.
But because I understand the importance of engagements in building my Hive journey, I’m trying my hardest to read and comment on posts that I find comprehensive and relatable.
This is my first entry of this week’s engagement topics by @hive.Ghana
I hope you enjoyed reading and I will be looking forward to your comments.
Thank you.