It is really sad that after all the years, money and sleepless nights in school, you graduate with a degree, but only to an even more daunting degree of job hunting. Waking up every morning, praying to God for luck, wearing that oversized shirt that your uncle gave you, or that atrocious '80s suit that you bought from Salifou Jaiteh's, credentials in brown A4 envelopes, going from office to office looking for a job that wouldn't stop you from envying your unemployed friends, because even if the experience requirement is waived and you get the job, the best part of your life is dedicated to making your employer's dreams.
A few years down, your homeboy comes from foreign, marries that girl of your wet dreams, because the same parents that said they admired your tireless devotion cannot say no to someone who can do in two weeks what you were dying to do in donkey's years, and then you start to ask yourself: where the hell is the financial independence, the social acceptance and the personal happiness that I thought was attached to this job. Then you end up joining the company of those gossiping no-live colleagues at your workplace, who have nothing better to do with their time than to talk trash about the boss.
If you ask me, higher learning is great, but our institutions of higher learning should go beyond teaching us to become employees. We don't need to be taught to write CVs my friend, or schooled on how to not look frumpy at job interviews. We need to be groomed to become creators and not seekers of employment, because until then, most of us will end up working for those who chose the real world as their source of instruction, and not your formal education.
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