We live in troubled times. The last few years have brought us a steady
parade of fear and panic in the headlines, boardrooms and kitchen tables
across Nigeria. Globalization, outsourcing, downsizing, corruption,
Bribery, Insecurity… it’s just one piece of bad news after another.
The rampant decline in gainful employment is a ravaging epidemic to which few are immune. From executives and middle managers to administration employees and white-collar workers, from bankers to retail clerks, all are at risk. Even the healthcare industry, until recently considered a job-safe zone, is trimming away significant chunk of its workforce.
Ofcourse, you already know all this this. But here’s what you may not know: None of this is really news. Sure, it took a major economic crises and retrenchment for people to start waking up to the fact that their livelihood were at risk. But your income didn’t become at risk overnight– it was always at risk.
The number of people living officially below the poverty line is rising rapidly. The number of people who are working beyond the age of 65 is increasing. Has all this bad news got your attention? Sure it has and you are not alone. Great! Now you are awake to what’s going on and it isn’t pretty.
The old tradition or formula for success: go to school, study hard and get good grades so you can get a secure, high-paying job with benefits and your job will take care of you is no longer a reality in this century because that was the industrial age thinking and we are no longer in the industrial era. Your job is not going to take care of you. The government will not take care of you. Nobody’s going to take care of you. It is a new century and the rules have changed because we are in the information age now and we need to use information-age thinking.
The economy is not the issue. The Issue is you.
Life is tough. The question is what are you going to do about it? Moaning and groaning won’t secure your future. Neither will blaming Corporate organizations, the big bankers or the government.
If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own big business. You do not need to start from the scratch, pay for business name, design a website, pay for business area, pay for office, hire employees e.t.c rather you just need to make use of the robust, strong and durable platform of those company that has these equipments already in place and are willing to take you through trainings for you to become a big business owner.
The rampant decline in gainful employment is a ravaging epidemic to which few are immune. From executives and middle managers to administration employees and white-collar workers, from bankers to retail clerks, all are at risk. Even the healthcare industry, until recently considered a job-safe zone, is trimming away significant chunk of its workforce.
Ofcourse, you already know all this this. But here’s what you may not know: None of this is really news. Sure, it took a major economic crises and retrenchment for people to start waking up to the fact that their livelihood were at risk. But your income didn’t become at risk overnight– it was always at risk.
The number of people living officially below the poverty line is rising rapidly. The number of people who are working beyond the age of 65 is increasing. Has all this bad news got your attention? Sure it has and you are not alone. Great! Now you are awake to what’s going on and it isn’t pretty.
The old tradition or formula for success: go to school, study hard and get good grades so you can get a secure, high-paying job with benefits and your job will take care of you is no longer a reality in this century because that was the industrial age thinking and we are no longer in the industrial era. Your job is not going to take care of you. The government will not take care of you. Nobody’s going to take care of you. It is a new century and the rules have changed because we are in the information age now and we need to use information-age thinking.
The economy is not the issue. The Issue is you.
Life is tough. The question is what are you going to do about it? Moaning and groaning won’t secure your future. Neither will blaming Corporate organizations, the big bankers or the government.
If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own big business. You do not need to start from the scratch, pay for business name, design a website, pay for business area, pay for office, hire employees e.t.c rather you just need to make use of the robust, strong and durable platform of those company that has these equipments already in place and are willing to take you through trainings for you to become a big business owner.
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