Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you lack may not be a job but marketable skill. Imagine the amount of billion of naira that exchange hand daily in various form of buying and selling transaction. I am so sure you too have spent some amount today even if you are a monk living a secluded live somewhere you are directly or indirectly engaged  with commerce one way or the other.

Skill inborn like the artist who work with their ingenuity to create master piece from log of wood or piece of marble of rock. To various acquired skill that is marketable all help in earning income for the owner of the skill.

If you have the simplest skill, take for example cooking and you choose only one aspect of the skill. Local food or confectionery. If you add sales/marketing skill to it what do you have, a source of income. So many people have degree fine but degree is just the beginning of personal education. Honestly degree except in Medicine and Pharmacy may not worth so much this day. The rate of production of degree is more than it is needed, One million nine hundred thousand enter Nigeria labour market every year. Remember the simple law of demand and supply, when the  supply of a good is higher than the amount required what happen the price will fall.

But that is not the end the smart ones among the degree holder must think out of the box, do I continue to apply for job or should I  further my education to acquire more degrees or what are the available options. Acquiring skills such as sales/marketing with your degree will go along way to boost your personal economy. And such skill can be easily acquired by joining  Multi level marketing MLM such as forever living product program, Kedi etc they will train you for free.

Adding such useful skill as driving to your degree will also stand you in good stead to get the job of your choice, so many manufacturing company do required the service of sales agent,  who can drive delivery van. You may not believe this people driving cab on our street with their driving skill save as much as 3000 minimum daily after their daily remuneration. If you have the strength and the agility what stop you from taking into cab driving. There is this real life  story while I was in the cooperate world. One of the driver then was a graduate, well mannered and he kept developing himself, he used all the spear time he had to read while driving one of the executive director of the bank while other drivers a talking and wasting away he qualified as a chartered banker CIBN. Today he has being staffed and made the head of transport of the banking organization. Remember Emerson said a Farmer on his feet is better than a gentle man on his kneel.

I am not a fan of current curriculum, it was designed by the imperialist to make us dependent upon them forever. Parent who want a good future for their ward must build their children with multiple skill for the twenty first century. Don't just send your kids to the University of Polytechnic to earn a degree let the become professionals. Let them start with ATS in secondary school and program them to pass ICAN/ACCA also the must carry Certification in computers such CCNA, Microsoft certification etc. Also pupil must be trained to play musical equipments such as Piano, violin etc. These skill will go a long way to build a total man.