Within you lies your Job

“Everything--a horse, a vine--is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created?
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.”  Marcus Aurelius

Twenty people lost their life in a bid to secure job with Nigeria Immigration commission. After trying without success for ten years to secure a job, a job seeker went to the prison and plead to be  admitted as a prisoner or a prison warder should just kill him so he can end his misery life. This is an evidence of failure in our educational system breeding certificate dependent people. If all you relied upon to survive is your certificate you do not have a proper freedom. When salary are not paid your family suffered, loss of job will bring untold hardship on your family and you are daily subject to fear in trying to keep your job, meeting various targets and you are at the mercy of your employer and management decision they can hire and fire you to ensure profitability.

To survive in the jungle of the world one will need more than certificate and job hunting in the wild wild world. The economics system we are running is design to produce employee for the labour market. But today's labour market is over saturated. That is why One million people will apply for five thousand job with a thousand naira application form and travel to their state capital only to be crushed to death and some died due to fatigue. What a life

The reality is that two much people are chasing too few jobs. So what is the solution should we continue to apply for jobs and create new curricula vitae CV, and search Guardian newspaper every Tuesday and Thursday. Attend available job interview make oneself available, pursue higher degree. There is no crime in doing all these. In fact continuous education is the hallmark of development.

The best form of freedom is derived from internal locus of control. As long as you  look to external factors as a determinant of your success you will feel you are not in control and that external events is much more powerful than yourself. For example if you believe that your Government is responsible for creating amenities you become helpless when this is not done. When you look up to Employer to give you job and this is not done, you become helpless and wait until the employer will be ready to give you job and when this is not done your life become miserable. If you are on a job and you entrust your promotion to management decision and when you are not promoted or a sapling or green horn  are promoted ahead of you, you become frustrated.

But if you look to yourself as the solution to your challenges and problem you tend to have control over yourself. You hold yourself responsible for your failure and for your success you will either find way or make one. You will task your brain until you produce solution to the problem at hand. If you cannot find solution to your problem within yourself "for the consciousness that create a problem may not be able to solve it" Albert Einstein. You aspire and create higher consciousness to be able to solve the problem. You will think solution to your problem.

Take for example you have no job, external locus of controlled person will hold government responsible for job creation or private sector to provide ready job for you when this is not done you get frustrated. An internal locus of control person will sit down and say now I do not have a job what can I do about the situation, what are my options can I hire myself, can I create a job by myself. If you choose to create a job it will spur other questions such as what job can I create and when you finally arrive at what job you can create you face another challenge of providing all factors of productions, land labour entrepreneur and capital. You take each problem at a time and think through it. Land can I use my present room for the production can I rent, lease or share a place, all silicon valley blue chips company started from a room apartment and basement , Labour this is no problem since you are hiring yourself, entrepreneur this not also a problem since you will start off as your own business owner you have  being able to solve three problems and there come the last one capital the most simplest and yet most difficult depending on the level of your financial consciousness. While people think of capital constraint whenever you talk about business they don't know that in business virtues such as Determination, Courage, Ambition, Faith, Ingenuity, ability to drive sales is much more than capital.

Depending on the way you see capital if you see it as money you need to provide to start your business it may be difficult but if you see it as stock/credit, pleasing personality it is easier. Take for example all producer want market/sales for their products and if you position yourself as a retailer of  goods,  Producer will give you goods that can be sold and you return the sales proceed and retain your own profit after sales. That is number one ways. Do you know that your voice is itself is a capital. There was a time I had no job, I had no money, I had nothing. I sat down to think I check through myself and I discovered I have so much resource.

1. I have my life health and vibrant

2. I have a 32 Inches television

3. I have a tiger generator

4. A stabilizer

5. A speaker

6. A DVD player

Do you know with the above material that is available in any home, I generated more than One hundred thousand naira in cash and invaluable amount in influenced life. What I did is to print hand bill for two thousand naira only. I moved from one secondary school to another armed with the hand bill with sales skill, booked an appointment to show film and make seminar presentation on career development for their pupils for a token with a percentage for the school authority. Pupils rushed to watch both the seminar and film show. That is a case in raising capital. It is good to dream big but always plan to start small. Remember the book small is beautiful inspire the Virgin cooperation they started Virgin record in a corner of the street. It is also good to start with any tool no matter how crude; you will have better tools with time. Today we show the program with Projectors. That is how to overcome challenges of capital. It depend the way you sees it, I have a friend who get goods in millions supplied on credit.

You can see what you will go through if you decide to become responsible for the issue of your life. No doubt it is very tough, it is very challenging it take out the whole essence of life and it take thinking which is very tough.

Your job is not outside you it is within you. It only take you sitting down and think of what you can do with what you have. Chris Maduka the group managing director Of Coscharis Nigeria said there was a time he did not have a dime in his hand no job, no money, nothing what did he do. He approached a shop where they sell bathroom scale and get one on credit and started approaching people to check their weight for a token and he paid off  the bathroom scale money and made a lot of money to start other business. The publisher of complete sport said he has to sell newspaper to raise money to start other business concern.

Please note that you may not succeed in your first business venture, in fact it is certain that you will burn your fingers many times before you master the rope. If I catalog my failure in business within this short period you be scared with loss of substantial amount of money. The best way to treat failure is that you must not personalized failure you are not the failure it is the business. Failure is an event and a lesson of how not to do business. If you are learning to ride a car especially manual cars with all you have studied about driving and various demonstration your car will jacked and stop again and again until you master the driving, don't be discourage. Failure is an opportunity to try again and again until you become a master.

If you are on a job no matter how tight your schedule is even including Saturday and Sunday try your hand on some business, even if it just selling SMS online see how many customer you can generate, what goes into production, cost incurred and how profitable is the business, this will give you a new perspective about business world.

Finally don't look elsewhere for your job look within yourself for your job, hire yourself, become your own CEO. No matter what you do you will still find yourself in the business world the earlier the better and it is even better to be your own boss from the beginning and safe yourself job headache A laborer on his feet is better than a gentleman on his kneel . To your success