If I knew what I know now 5 years ago, I probably wouldn't have gotten through the University. It's for this reason that I worry a little about the young Nigerian guys on Hive who are still students but are making some really cool cash here on Hive.
If I was them, I would have no passion for my studies. If I still had a hot head for studying like they currently do, I would be spending my time delving into a lot of other stuff at the same time. Heck, if I had gotten into the university to study anything other than a Computer Science course, I would change courses immediately.
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No regrets, my mass communication degree becomes more useless as the years go by and even my 2+ years working experience in my field seems very irrelevant at the moment. Sort of makes me feel like I wasted those years but it was all a part of the story and who says I can't be anything I want?
Last night, I was looking through a couple of Canadian jobs available for immediate immigration and the skills each of these jobs required was far from my jurisdiction. This was asides from the blue-collar jobs like cleaning.
This means that with my current degree and all if I left my country, I would have to settle for a job that is far beneath my qualification just because what I know is not globally sought for.
It further solidified my decision to change my field completely. Although I already began to do that, I still have a long way to go before achieving mastery and maybe I could even bring my skills over here to Hive and help develop the ecosystem a little. When the time's right though.
At the moment, a lot of skills don't matter unless you become an expert in them. And by an expert, I mean a known expert that at least 100 people within every environment you find yourself can attest to how great you are at your field.
However, that isn't the case for tech skills. I can't explain how silly I feel for not taking this up years ago and with the amount of energy I had as a student, I could have easily become an expert right now. But better late than never...
A lot of skills are important, heck, every skill is important depending on how great you are at it. I mean anyone can have a great voice and be called to work at a radio station, doing the job I was trained to do for 4 years. But not everyone can have great hands and programme a badass website, do you get my point?
It's why I encourage my brother who's a doctor. Not anyone with a little knowledge of the human body can profer solutions for it. But unfortunately, even fields like engineering where a certain amount of mastery is required has gradually become somewhat irrelevant, somewhat though, not in all places.
The point I'm making is that it's hard getting yourself among the selected few. The best everyone can do is follow the trend of the world and pick up what the world demands. I sure as hell will not be a cleaner in a strange land just because I want to immigrate and have a different life.
Have you ever considered the skills the world's searching for at the moment? What do you think can be done to make yourself relevant in whatever skill you possess?
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