Month: June 2016

The Effects of the Knowledge Economy

This is brilliantly written.

Sne Vilakazi's avatarSolving Unemployment

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So, it’s been about a month since I’ve posted anything. Some of you are probably wondering why. Well, the past few weeks have been hectic for me emotionally, spiritually and workwise.

Life has a tendency to throw curveballs at you, and if you’re not careful, you may get gusted away by the winds. There are violent but quiet storms that happen to many of us at some point in our lives. Outwardly, we look ok. Inwardly, we’re facing the fight of our lives. The good news is, they pass. And when they do you see much clearer, dust yourself off, and keep on walking.

I’m one of those people that life has forced to be self-employed. Inasmuch as it’s exciting and fulfilling, there are times when you feel like quitting. Being self employed is challenging because it is literally no work, no pay. And this is not to say that…

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Don’t judge me V 2

 

Over the past few months we have seen many young graduates standing by the roadside with boxes written their qualifications in an effort to raise some awareness about their challenges of unemployment. In essence, they are saying:

Dear Society, 

I have done everything that you asked of me. I avoided drugs, teenage pregnancy, alcohol in school and even though at times I had to eat corn flakes for supper I made it here, even though at times I had to wear those high heels to go to Cubana and be relevant just so that I can feel human, I made it here. All those sleepless nights in the computer lab and library, I am here.

But what is this; you never prepared me for this? All you said, Society was that if I do all this, I will be fine. And really towards the end of my studies, I could taste it, I already looked at cars that I would buy first, I already saw that fridge that I was going to buy for my mother, the shoes I want to wear. This was a few months ago.Mind you, I also have my sibblings who have been waiting for me so that their lives could change. But it is tougher now, I knock and knock no one opens, I am now classified as an unemployed graduate, and only now I see that those that were ahead of me, are the same, if they are not employed in retail shops, they either walk around with their envelopes responding to any call for leanership, flip some are even registering companies now and calling themselves entrepreneurs even though they never imagined themselves being that. 

So, know that when I stand by the street corner, I have tried it all, and actually, my whole life has been about trying.

Yours in Unemployment

This is the reality we live in now, and no one seems to be coming up with the answers, and once again this shows how divided we are and how some legacies still persist in society.

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