Not what you know; it is who you know.

Hello, everyone.

I welcome you to my blog. Growing up, we were made to understand that education is the key to success, and if you really want to achieve greatness, you must be educated. This made us bed down to read, and we took our studies very seriously since we all want to be great, but growing up to see the complete opposite of what we were promised is really disheartening. The highly educated ones are unemployed, while those with little to no education at all are in power, ruling and controlling those who are way more educated than them, and this has caused the zeal for study and education to die down.

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Those days people studied really hard, as companies and firms were out looking for the best students to employ for what they knew, but it is no longer so. These days you can know it all and not get any job offers while those who know little or nothing are getting job offers to choose from because of who they know. Those days, knowing fully well that after school there was a 90% chance of securing a good-paying job, was a motivation to study really hard, but today the rate of unemployment has skyrocketed, and instead of people facing their studies, they are looking for alternative ways they can make money since school and education that was key to success is no longer the key.

They made us believe education is key, but that only happens in a working country, not a country like mine. Sometimes when I check the number of unemployed graduates from a particular field, the number of people in school studying the same course, I tend to ask myself questions like if going to school in this country is even worth it. With how expensive education has become, only to undergo the stress and expenses that come with it and, in the end, not being able to secure a job. The rate of unemployment is increasing by the day; the number of unemployed graduates is on the rise; our corrupt leaders are only out for themselves and their generations to come; they care very little about what happens to the masses.

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In conclusion, education is the key to success, but that key only works in sane and working countries. Like I said earlier, many African countries have failed, and education is no longer the key in countries like that. Corruption in these countries has made education look very bad and like a total waste of time; undergraduates who know people in power get jobs and occupy positions meant for graduates while graduates are left to move from one office to another submitting CVs and going for interviews without landing or securing any jobs as those who know people have already pulled some strings and secured the job for themselves.