17/06/2019
In 2007 I was unemployed living in a shack in Diepsloot.
Today I believe God was giving me direction to entrepreneurship...and it had to happen immediately for me to get that lesson. I must add that it is demoralising to be an unemployed graduate...you there with no hope...no prospect...just you and your boring Ricky Lake shack life....then finally you let the emotions subside ....
you take the opportunity to empower yourself and start reading wildly on development...then you start a small business.. then you take up work that is not at your standard...you do it better than anyone else...then suddenly you get it...life is not a race...it is a personal journey.
I wouldn't have had it any other way. I am what I am today because I was an unemployed graduate. With a maths degree we started owing newspapers....so impossible that the Head of school at Wits School of Journalism was shocked upon my credentials for honours in Journalism. Lesson...we were taught then as unemployed graduates that we could start any business we wanted to start...we were taught qualifications mean nothing for an entrepreneur...just a willing heart and truck loads of bravado. In those days we prided ourselves as "Unemployable." Today Sinkie Shumba runs his paramedics company ...Mpho construction. We have made a lot of mistakes in business ....we had to...it was part of entrepreneurial training...
If you are unemployed today, dont miss the opportunity by shutting yourself in your sorry cocoon. Someone said, I have never seen a wild thing feeling sorry for itself. Take a moment and cry...cry....cry...when you are done...don't cry about the same thing again. Accept that life is hard...then it can never be harder cause you have already accepted it to be tough...mould yourself...When you finally get a job...compensate and show the world what they been missing a rare diamond...polished by toughest of conditions to shine brighter then the rest when unleashed
