When we were young and still in our elementary schools, we had this habit of singing our ambitions. We always go like Daddy, Mummy when i grow up i want to be a lawyer, i want to be a doctor, i want to be an engineer, i want to be an astronaut. This will get our parents smiling at us sheepishly and you see the pride in their eyes and they will probably buy you biscuits as a follow up. They were some occupations you will mention that will earn you some major ass whooping like back then my friend told his father he wants to be a farmer his dad was so disappointed and gave him some good beatings that i am sure made the young man study medicine and surgery.
Occupations like being a driver, tailor and even a footballer were always being frowned upon, if you ever told your parents you aspiring to be one of these you will see disappointment written all over their faces some parents will go as far as taking you to a prayer warrior to help them straighten your future.
This post is for the new age parents that should not discourage their kids from aspiring to be any of these. We have rich ass drivers in the likes of Alonso fernando, lewis hamilton and our local uber driver Tunde who is equally doing very well with his life. We also have rich tailors with the likes of yomicasual on instagram and the almighty gucci on instagram too though they had to change the names from tailor to fashion designers, all na packaging tailor na tailor. The footballers i do not even have to mention cause i am sure we all know the least footballer in the turkish league earns nothing less than $7,000 per week.
PS I am tired of typing so i will conclude here, anything your kid has passion for try to encourage them and help them be the best in it. they will definitely get paid from it. I know couple of rich ass dry cleaners too. PEACE.
This makes alot of sense. Our generation can only do better
We really need to do better.