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Now that they have hung the jungle boots and folded
there khaki away, life has just begun as a Nigerian
graduate. You know all the dreams and ideas, they had
while in school and waiting to hit the ground running with
after NYSC, well, the time has come to make it happen.
Your destiny is in your hands now and you have o make
the best of your time – And because life doesn’t always
go through the pattern we dream of it,
Below are 6 things most of these ex corp members will
definitely go through…
Getting ready to trek: We all know the jobs in Nigeria are
fewer than the available number of graduates hence the
struggle to grab the few available ones are too real for
those people who have no ‘oga at he top’. This isn’t the
endurance trek -NO! This is the one where you deck up in
your best shirt, skirt/trousers and the traditional brown
envelope, head out early to make that appointment for
your first interview and subsequent ones or to submit our
cv anywhere and everywhere just in case there is an
opening.
Parents don’t care anymore: Now you are going to
realize that your parents who provided for your every
single need back in the university, will no longer do. they
are either focusing on your siblings in school or easing
off the stress of child rearing. So, all they do now is pray
and hope you get a job, so you too can come and take
care of them.
Nigeria as a student is different from Nigeria as a
graduate: Now you are going to realize that life is not a
bed of roses. Things have changed and you are now your
own boss. Life is going to step on your toes, there will be
times when it looks like your dreams will never come true
or that God doesn’t answer prayers anymore but you are
going to gave to keep moving.
Uncles don’t really care: Sadly, you are going to find that,
that uncle who ave you a pat on the back and said ‘send
me your cv when you graduate so I place you
somewhere’, would now tell you that he has very little
power to do anything for you. The sadder part, their child
who also just passed out of NYSC the same time like
you, wouldn’t have a problem getting a job.
Bills won’t pay themselves: Now you are now an adult.
Like your parents say ‘we won’t always be there for you,
a time will come when you have to stand upon your own
too feet.” Now that time has come, and you are standing
on your own two feet without a job in a sight and bills o
pay but keep strong, there is God.
No more allowee: This is the moment where you realize
that the constant N19k which you were paid as a corper
and took for granted, will no longer come your way. This
won’t matter to you, if you get a job immediately (which
we hope you do) but would start to look like the whole
world is against you, when you check your account
balance and the little you saved up is about to finish.
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