Gone are the days when our major source of stress was from school activities, house chores and playing with friends in the park or at home. The process of growth took over, adulthood came, and now, from a time when we expected to be gifted during childhood, we are the ones that are doing the gifting.
During those days, a frown, or cry will get us our needs and even, our wants, but now, crys will not help, rather, hard work and smart work is all it takes to bring goodies to our tables.
Stress levels increased. From a time when our major source of stress is school activities and house chores, we currently have diverse sources of stress, including work, relationship and love life, friends, and other things. Overthinking is now the order of the day. With the taste of every sweet meal comes the thought of - what I'm I going to eat after this meal?
Jobs become hard to find. University, once seen as a major requirement to get steady and trusted job, is now not worth as it used to worth. Unprofessionalism is everywhere. Private institutions fire their employees for the slightest mistake because they know that there are thousands, probably millions of people to replace you with.
Stress levels increases. Health gradually fails, gradually pointing to the left side of the Illness-wellness continuum. Nonetheless, the hustle continue. In a country where the search of steady income really hard, people find themselves doing many things for money, including begging and spiritual things. Illegality is the order of the day. The number of scammers grow. Thieves and kidnappers do everything possible to make some cash, even if it means silencing their victim for eternity to prevent their identities from being known.
Irrespective of may illegalities, there are many beautiful ways to make money in this country. This post is an entry for India United's prompt, How Easy (or Hard) Is It to Earn More in Your Country?. In this post, I would write how easy or hard it is to make money in my country.
Being from a country where not everything works perfectly, making money has proven to be one difficult thing. Though the cost of living over here is not as expensive as many country, with the rate of unemployment, the cost of living wants to claim the life of the living.
Honestly, it's not easy to make money in this country. Here is not a place for laziness. Hard work gets you peanuts. Smart work gets you called cunning. However, I think it's better to be called cunning and too smart than to be called a fool and be broke. Cunning not in the aspect of doing illegal things, but in the aspect of being smart enough to understand how the world works and play by it.
People go to school, graduate and serve the country only to end up as a cab driver afterwards. Making money here is really difficult. I'm just grateful that I studied the course I studied, if not, I can't imagine where I would be.
This country is not for the weak. There are diverse ways to make money, but it does not include educational professionalism. Some of the ways we make money here is - by serving someone so that they teach you their trade and settle you afterwards, learning a handwork (barbing, shoe making, generator repair, e.t.c), being an Uber driver, being a keke driver e.t.c... These are the things that gives somebody money before they get a good paying job (which majority of people here don't get).
In the country today, people's mentality has shifted. From believing that education can give them money, they now believe that hand work is the way forward. Keep your education, they prefer to learn a skill. At least, with that skill, they would not be left unemployed and can begin to make money for themselves.
Thank you for reading.
