Many of us have been brought up knowing there is always one source of income and that is through education. We used to be told “Go to school and make your future bright” and we went and everyone was aiming to get a good grade and be number one in class.
Once a person failed, he/she was considered to be
useless in the society, even the parents/guardian get angry at the individual.
I remember when I was in primary school, one day I didn’t get the marks which I
was aiming, and I had told myself that if I’ll
not get this points am aiming for, then am not capable of doing anything
great. That day I cried even the teachers asked me what’s wrong.
But we shouldn’t put all our mentality on education
alone, there are other ventures that we can prosper in. I’m not trying to
dismiss the fact that education is key to success here; all am trying to imply
is that education shouldn’t be the only way we know way to be prosperous.
Yes, we went to school and probably we are in
campus; we are waiting to graduate so that we venture into the professionalism.
Do you want to tell me you will only rely on that job the rest of life? No! We
have to find other sources of income to boost our gross earning.
And that is why a lot of our youths are crying “oh
there is unemployment”, it’s just because they don’t want to find something
else to do rather than what they are trained for. For a moment let me ask, do
you want to tell me that all the students in the University of Nairobi will get
their profession job? Keep in mind the
University of Nairobi is not the only university we have in Kenya.
Let’s be realistic here, a normal university has a
population of around 1,000 students doing a particular course in a certain
year. And we have around 50 courses, mathematically speaking that is 50,000
students in a particular year. And there are always four groups; first, second,
third and fourth years. In simple terms am saying, in a span of 4 years 200,000
students graduate from a single university,
keep in mind averagely we have 40 universities in Kenya.
It is so unrealistic to say after every four years
there will be eight million job vacancies. That’s why I’m saying education is
not the only way one can succeed in life, even though it is believed by many to
be the only way.
Today, many university’s students waste a lot of
their time when they are off the curricular program; long vacation for example.
All they think about is going to parties, instead of finding ways to generate
income. They only use their parents’ money recklessly.
The reason why I say one source of income is a
danger zone is that the net salary from
any professional job will never make anyone wealthy! And if it does, probably
not on planet earth because any gross salary is almost directly proportional to
one’s spending, and I can prove it.
Let’s say I
earn Ksh 80,000, I pay my house rent around 30,000. I’m left with 50,000, probably I have two
kids and they both go to school and the fee for the both of them is around
20,000. Maybe food and clothing is around 10,000. Other unexpected costs may
incur and that maybe around 10,000. For transportation cost can be around 5,000
and finally maybe I want to take my family to have fun and I spend 5,000.
And that’s how my 80,000 got finished without even
saving. This comes to my conclusion that gross salary no matter how much it is,
is equal in everyone hand. Furthermore, it is directly proportional to what you
will spend that particular month.
So don’t ever rely on one source of income, you could
start a small business to boost your income at the end of the month. It doesn’t
have to be big, because small bits when they many they make up one huge
magnificent thing.
