After school, what next? Hunt for a job or go into a business with skill?
I have had this conversation countless times with regards to the advice given to young graduates.
One of the users I on boarded recently graduated from school, and while doing her NYSC, she asked me which advice I would give her immediately after she's done with her NYSC — whether to go out there to hunt for jobs or get into business. Yeah, those were the two options she offered me, and I didn’t think twice before giving her my thoughts, which leaned more towards going into business rather than hunting for jobs.
But I presented it in a way that business should be the main option while she should also spread her wings in searching for jobs if she's really very interested in working as a staff.
Oftentimes, whenever I'm having this conversation with a young graduate, they all consider me to be a very rich person for deciding and choosing to tell them to get into business instead of hunting for jobs, just because I have a business running. But I tell them the truth — it’s not like my business is booming very well, but thinking deeply, getting a job in a country like mine is very difficult. Don’t get me wrong, I mean getting a well-paying job and not the $50 monthly salary job.
I would advise a young graduate to establish a business, no matter how little it may seem. Let it keep running and growing. Then, if the person still wants to be an employed staff, they can look out for well-paying jobs while still running the business. And when the job offers come, the person could employ a staff to take over the business while they switch to becoming an employed staff.
Some may say that a young graduate going for job hunting and accepting low-paying jobs will grace the young graduate with experience. Well, that's very true, but the way I look at it, it seems like a waste of time.
The job hunting thing should only be chased by those that studied "essential" courses in school such as medicine but even at that, in a country like mine, it's still very challenging to land a good paying job.
Okay, when I graduated from school, I went about hunting for jobs, and I really spent a lot traveling for interviews because most of them required physical presence. No lies, I wasn’t lucky to land a good one. The ones I got were the cheap salary jobs, but I wasn't ready to settle for them. I was aiming too high, right? Okay, I agreed.
It was after spending the money and wasting that period that I decided to switch to establishing something I could call my own, and I haven’t regretted it.
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