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Many times in life we have experiences that are meant to shape us for the better and change our perspectives on how we see life and people in general.
I have often heard about the concept of volunteering with your skills when you are going through a learning process in order to help you sharpen such skills.
For a long time, I believed volunteering was only meant for beginners, but my perspective on that changed a few years ago.
As an event decorator, I worked with some big event brands back in my state before I gained admission and had to move.
After moving I decided to try out sending messages to some big brands in the city of Abeokuta, Nigeria, but I got no response, and so I decided to just try and create some awareness within my local church and within the school environment.
I got a job through someone in church, and after we discussed the price and details, I had already started calculating how much I would earn at the event. The person approached me and said they had to cut down on the budget because the money they were expecting wasn't forthcoming.
Reluctantly, I had to create a list of decoration items we needed for the event so they could rent them at the location since the event wasn't taking place in the city of Abeokuta.
They told me they could only afford to pay my transport and give me a little token for the job done, and at some points I wanted to refuse, but somehow I carried through, not knowing that something good was waiting.
So I went and did the job. I'm putting in my best even though the money was sent late, and while I was working, the senior pastor of my church came in to defend you and saw me working.
I greeted him, and he asked if I was into events, which I affirmed, and continued my work. I finished the work, and it came out nice.
A few weeks later I got a call from one of our pastors with a list of activities needed for an event, and they asked what I could do, and low and behold everything on the list was what I do, so I was linked with the planner of the event, and that turned out to be the biggest event I have handled in terms of pay.
And the experience taught me that sometimes money will come later; doing that job for the amount offered taught me that credibility cannot be bought because I could have chosen to do the job according to the amount offered.
It also taught me that the quality of our service should not be determined by the paycheck because I could have chosen to do the work anyhow, but I put in my best, and the quality of work made someone interested, and I eventually got more than I could have made from doing the first event.
I learned that day that when we volunteer or do work with low pay yet put in our best, there is always a reward for hard work in the near future.
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