It’s a week to pop. ‘’Finally! Service is
over and done with. Now, just have to focus on getting a good paying job and
soar high’’. ‘’ Wow! Service would soon be over and, I haven’t yet gotten a job….
Anyways, no worries, am heading into the favour market I know the lord is on my
side.’’ ‘’Thank God service is finally over… now, I can go back home; I've really missed home’’.
These
and many more are the thoughts of would be ex-corps members. A wise man, (my
father) once told me ; life is not a straight line graph, you have to make
plans for your life but, leave room in case the plans needs to be altered or
adjusted. Thus, the future is so uncertain. The future by the way is not a faraway
time as we all sometimes erroneously portray it to be. The future is the next
second. The next second is so unpredictable that, you never can predict with
100% accuracy about what would happen next. Does this however mean that we
should live the seconds, minutes, hours etc. as it comes, without any
prediction and possible plans for the future? If we can’t predict the future
with 100% accuracy and thus plan for it, we can at least predict it with 70%,
80%, 90% or even 99.9% accuracy. Thus, we should have 2 plans or at least one
plan for our future.
More
often than not, some soon to be post NYSC corps members have no concrete plan
in place as to what happens after NYSC. It’s easy to forget to think of the
future when you are enjoying the present. A great many plan to search for jobs
after the NYSC (forgetting that over five thousand people can apply for one job
opening in a firm in Nigeria). Often
times, after staying jobless for about
six month (by then, the saved allawee would have completely exhausted, if spent
miserly ), depression and reduced feelings of self-worth sets in. now, I didn’t
write this article to dissuade you from
searching for legal jobs in Nigeria after NYSC. Rather, to present an alternate
method.
1. In the midst of the fun of NYSC,
take out time to equip yourself with skills that you could fall back on if your
hopes of white collar jobs get shattered.
2. Think of your life. There’s no
better time to do so than during the NYSC. This is because once you are through
with the NYSC, if you are new to taking responsibilities of yourself and people
around you; you’d be amazed as to how great your responsibilities are.
3.
If
after your thoughts, you have concluded that it’s a job you need, start
applying for jobs immediately you leave the orientation camp or during the
orientation camp (for those who did not apply while in school).
4.
Finally,
never forget your hobbies. You never can tell the heights they can lead you
to.
Cheers and good luck on your job
hunt.
Chikezie Monalisa.
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