1. Find God. Yes, not because you need a job. But because life needs a compass. We are not goats. We are God’s children and so our life is not by bread alone. We are here to fulfill purpose not to fill chopbox.
2. So ask God all the questions you don’t understand. Develop a prayer life mightily. Ask your stomach to hold on for some days so you fast. Read job adverts. But read the Bible more.
3. You know this already but forget about your degree. Before life’s regimented schedules of schooling and exams-passing imposed itself on you, what were you good at? What were you also good at in school? And what have you loved doing? Talent is more important than transcript. Focus your energies on finding yours.
4. A talent-driven career means you may be set back perhaps a few years. Your colleagues are more likely to take the lead. You may be hungry for a while. If fashion, makeup, photography, hospitality, cooking or service-rendering is your niche, you need to give yourself sometime to break out.
5. Be open to new things, new suggestions, new plans. Starting again. Be ready to even learn new skills. Most of you focused too much on courses that, well, let me just say the Lecturers needed more than you did. Extracurricular is always the key when your courses are in the Humanities.
6. It’s okay to be desperate. But find strength in the knowledge that God has a plan for you too. He does. Everything will make sense in a few years.
7. If God allowed the peer pressure that also pushed me into applying all over the place, I should have now been a banker, perhaps on trial for causing some financial loss to the bank.
8. Because, I hate counting money or anything!
Source: Edwin Appiah/ Fourth Estate.
