If I knew what I know now 5 years ago, I probably wouldn't have gotten through the University. It's for this reason that I worry a little about the young Nigerian guys on Hive who are still students but are making some really cool cash here on Hive.
If I was them, I would have no passion for my studies. If I still had a hot head for studying like they currently do, I would be spending my time delving into a lot of other stuff at the same time. Heck, if I had gotten into the university to study anything other than a Computer Science course, I would change courses immediately.
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No regrets, my mass communication degree becomes more useless as the years go by and even my 2+ years working experience in my field seems very irrelevant at the moment. Sort of makes me feel like I wasted those years but it was all a part of the story and who says I can't be anything I want?
Last night, I was looking through a couple of Canadian jobs available for immediate immigration and the skills each of these jobs required was far from my jurisdiction. This was asides from the blue-collar jobs like cleaning.
This means that with my current degree and all if I left my country, I would have to settle for a job that is far beneath my qualification just because what I know is not globally sought for.
It further solidified my decision to change my field completely. Although I already began to do that, I still have a long way to go before achieving mastery and maybe I could even bring my skills over here to Hive and help develop the ecosystem a little. When the time's right though.
At the moment, a lot of skills don't matter unless you become an expert in them. And by an expert, I mean a known expert that at least 100 people within every environment you find yourself can attest to how great you are at your field.
However, that isn't the case for tech skills. I can't explain how silly I feel for not taking this up years ago and with the amount of energy I had as a student, I could have easily become an expert right now. But better late than never...
A lot of skills are important, heck, every skill is important depending on how great you are at it. I mean anyone can have a great voice and be called to work at a radio station, doing the job I was trained to do for 4 years. But not everyone can have great hands and programme a badass website, do you get my point?
It's why I encourage my brother who's a doctor. Not anyone with a little knowledge of the human body can profer solutions for it. But unfortunately, even fields like engineering where a certain amount of mastery is required has gradually become somewhat irrelevant, somewhat though, not in all places.
The point I'm making is that it's hard getting yourself among the selected few. The best everyone can do is follow the trend of the world and pick up what the world demands. I sure as hell will not be a cleaner in a strange land just because I want to immigrate and have a different life.
Have you ever considered the skills the world's searching for at the moment? What do you think can be done to make yourself relevant in whatever skill you possess?
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If you feel silly with your degree what about mine? I have a degree that should be sought after in this country because of how low safety is here but still.
I think tech skills are very important and I hate that when I was being begged to learn, I didn't.
It's never too late to restructure and start over. At least that's what I tell myself.
It isn't at all
The plan is to use this year to make up for all the lost years already.
Good luck with that.
Thank you baby girl.
Sometimes I get scared because I feel my degree won't be worth it in a few years to come. So I plan to acquire new skills to help increase my chances of earning more.
Get the degree, but get skills that matter too. They're both important.
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Good point. I have a degree that's in demand and it probably will be for a long time but I never actually used it because I chose a completely different line of work.
Tech skills are in high demand right now and they will be for the foreseeable future so that's a safe bet in my opinion. And it's even restricted to programming. Those who prefer to be more involved in the business aspects may find great opportunities as project managers, product managers or things like that. Those are all in high demand as well.
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Right now, if your degree isn't tech or health-related, it probably isn't in very high demand.
Heck this is the sad story of an average Nigerian who schooled in Nigeria, we go to the university to study courses and systems that the world has left behind decades ago and even in some cases, centuries. I remember back then, the idea of schooling and doing business as a student was seen as distraction and an unserious thing to do! Just like you Karina, most young Nigerians would say the same "i wish i knew then, what i know now"
Today, i am always very quick to advise any student that i see to take up a high in demand skill and not live in the illusion that there's a job waiting out there but las las, i figured many of them would never understand from their current situation and location. Moving forward, having the right skill-set would help immensely like u rightly stated. God help us all
Everyone feels at a young age that they're the ones to make a difference with their profession. It'll take them a while but they'll realize, like we have, that we're just a part of the masses.