Crunch Time!!

Chasing a dream is hard. This is what many people lack to disclose when they advise to follow them. Running beyond a reality, you know, to reach for something you have never seen but lives only in your wildest dreams. I want to say in my book its different, but the reality cannot be changed. Living in a world where rules are bent for others or corners smoothened for them while in the same race, can be discouraging. I would like to hope for a silver lining, but you have to work twice as hard if not thrice.
This cuts across all paths in life I would like to presume. Follow the system, and in the hope that it will work for you. Unconventional as it may seem for our generation, the results are non-existent for those who have gone before us, making us go back to the drawing board since we wouldn’t want to succumb to the same fate. For all those studying in their various careers, the uncertainty in it all is something they can’t ignore. Making the papers which are to highly value you become just a reminder of how obsolete the system is failing us. It is not enough to get educated on any field to get a worthy return on your investment without having to start from ‘strapping the floors’ unless you have lady luck on your side.
Systems aside, I don’t understand why someone would not reward you for any work you do? Even an allowance for the troubles one has to endure to gain experience even guaranteed incorporation on completion of an internship/attachment would only be humane. I guess for some, slavery is still blood deep. Shame on all organizations and individuals who feel teaching, mentoring, and training is a waste of resources, however, a time will come when it won’t be a matter of option but an obligation.
With the new reality, it will only get worse before it gets better. Therefore, the new norm demands the restoration of quality in the education that has been lost, even pushing for the change that most of us as citizens want. As a parent, student, employee, and entrepreneur, we want a country where we put our graduates to work and not vice versa. We are tired of studying for one thing and then working in another in the name of kazi ni kazi. No, this is just wrong! If it means phasing out irrelevant courses, revising the curriculum, and putting up policies that ensure that organizations take in the graduates for training, building a better rapport between the industry and the learning institutions ensures the students are ready for the job market, so be it.
We can’t talk about development without the people. It makes no sense to have a country with good infrastructure built on the taxpayers’ backbone while they are not putting their own to work. Until when will we grow other people’s economy so that just a few of us rob us blind from such selfish agreements. Last I checked this country is for all of us, not just the chosen few. Moving forward, we need to take education and the work-industries in our country with the seriousness it deserves. Deep down, I am happy that this pandemic has finally shown how undeveloped these sectors are, since the building of most of our institutions, renovations, upgrades, conducive and/or adaptable environment are foreign to most. We are still living in the 19th century and expecting to grow in the 20th century, it’s impossible.
As we try to rise above this mediocrity, let’s try to put up solutions that are long term and demand accountability when the right action is not taken. Individualism will only get you so far, but when we work together, we get further. During this break, as strategies are being reviewed on how to get things back to normal, let’s not shy away to question them, give our reviews, and hopefully be part of the new normal. For the distorted voices in everyone’s ears but are not heard, let them be represented moving forward. Since I don’t have all the answers, what do you think should be implemented in the education system, industries/job market to ensure we are all actively and purposefully contributing to the economy?