Happy Sunday fellas.
I hope this week offers a lot of valid opportunities for us. So I decided to do
a little story about holidays.
According to Wikipedia, a holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law
on which normal activities, especially business and work, are suspended or
reduced. The importance of a holiday to
FUTO students cannot be overemphasized however long or short it may be.
Every student will like to stay home and relax, and most importantly, enjoy a
stress less day or some stress less days or weeks or months or hmmm. Shout out
to some "hardworking" lecturers that will always load us with
assignments prior to any public holiday
or worst still, keep us in class on that very holiday. Bad right? Some go as
far as making sure that our practicals
are organized during an after- semester holiday. That’s by the way though.
So what do we really achieve while
"holidaying?". Many student prefer spending their time with family and friends, having
fun, and all that. That’s what holidays are for after all! but hey, lets view
it from a different perspective. The real perspective.
Nowadays, many employers of labour are not too
interested in your "primary skill". They usually need you to do
something extra, something you probably never really learnt at school, some
"secondary" skills like driving,
a good knowledge of some pc
utilities like MS spread sheet, excel, little idea about programming,
fabrication and countless others. We may think that these things are of little
importance or can be learnt when needed but the truth is this; experience
counts and it is easier to learn things when we are not under pressure. It
feels much better when we learn things at our own pace. So folks, what are you
doing? Think and start learning. You can learn many different things during
many different holidays. Who knows what awkward skill our employer may seek in
the future? Some dream of being self
employed after graduating but the reality is that self employment require
little capital and the requisite experience. Fact! So ultimately, we may just
have to work as employees for a limited period of time and gain few years of experience before being
self employed. I hope you find these advice useful. Any suggestion or counter
suggestion? The comment box is yours.
