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"Quick money syndrome" is the reason why innovativeness, decentralisation and entrepreneurship will continue to suffer. Let's look at it in a broader term; A graduate who has spent a whole lot of money going to college never wants to start small, build a business or build a dream rather, they want to work in big firms collect six figure salaries and never be useful to the economy or the country at large rather than only taking care of himself and his family alone. I've seen many graduates and I've spoken to a whole lot of them about starting small, but the mentality or mindset that they deserve makes.
When you go to a lot of colleges in Nigeria, they theorize entrepreneurship to their students rather than practicalise it for them and this of course doesn't impact most of these student in anyway. Truth is, most African countries has failed at job creation that is, centralised job opportunities for direct qualified applicants to occupy after acquiring a degree and what's the worst is that it even directly impedes the opportunity of entrepreneurship, for example the government of Nigeria doesn't scout and support entrepreneurship schemes that might generally benefit the nation at large.
So starting small is something that most people hardly want to do simply because they've got priorities to sort out and they're working under a timeline. The most ironical part is that most college graduate miss out on opportunities to become their own boss, create wealth and decentralised job opportunities and rather prefer to sit idle and wait for the oil company jobs that's already nepotized by huge individual giving the appointment to their friends and families. At the end of the day, they end up doing the things they wouldn't even think of because they've failed at landing that huge job.
So people go for more difficult choices at the end simply because the choices they've been exposed to in the first places seems unpalatable and this is largely ironical. I believe decentralisation of job creation is the only true way to tackle unemployment however decentralising job creation itself is a difficult task since everyone wants to work in a centralised firm and earn huge. Truth is, a tiny population of people are actually earning huge but then if a tiny population of a country is earning the big bucks in the small number of firms paying well and the large percentage are unemployed or earning almost nothing the country will still be classified as a poor country.
I believe each and every centralised job in the country (Nigeria as a case study) needs to be able to indirectly provide an opportunity for another person to have a job. Government can enact bills that will provide a funding for businesses that has the prospect of providing steady job opportunities for citizens of the country and also stop the dichotomy that only hugely educated people or people with first class can only get some particular jobs. Although this will work in the political sectors because we need experience in the governing of a nation. But currently our leaders are hardly educated. So like I said, decentralising job creation will make people more innovative and hardworking rather than becoming redundant and influencing no one at all.
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The application you submit will be an idea
If implemented will benefit not just Africa
But the world.
Since the idea parallels decentralization
It is better suited to the exigence made
By the youth.
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Well yeah it's will benefit the world in diverse ways nonetheless. I Just felt Africa in general has been terrible at job creation at its uttermostly needed more here. Thanks for the comment
You're right Jose, most graduate usually hates the "start small" idea. They have this big dream of becoming a millionaire in few weeks , making them strive our to reach that goal in a short period. Almost every student thinks this way including myself but from your article, I have come to realise the damage it can make to oneself and the country as large. If we could embrace decentralization and starting small, the world will become a better place
Brilliant comment buddy, yeah almost every youth thinks this way, but then we have to sometimes understand that when we're entrepreneurs we're decentralising job creation as well to better our economy
Great topic there bro.
I agree totally with the above, and I've often said it that one thing government can do in Nigeria for instance is to reduce the number of service years for government workers, and significantly increase their monthly salaries. This will make people establish viable businesses during the period that they are employed, and these businesses will employ citizens, thereby reducing unemployment to a large extent.
For instance, if a government worker has only 15 or maximum of 20 years to work in civil service, it will largely reduce redundancy in government offices, and increase productivity.
Yeah because redundancies in government offices intermittently causes or brings about corruption and when there's too much staticity it makes for monopoly of those controlling power altogether. Thanks for the brilliant comment
All I know is that there are advantages to centralization, but I'd always love where there are decentralized options as the advantages are uncountable
I think it has something to do with our education, we are educated to be employees and not to be entrepreneurs. There is the mistake, society has become accustomed to that and it will be very difficult to erase that idea from their minds, several generations will have to pass and of course the educational system will change.
Yeah, generally education everywhere creates this employees mindset. I was lucky to be in a high school where they teach practical entrepreneurship. Sure, it was not something grand but we were taught to find innovation and tried to sell it. We even had to write the sales pitch and marketing plan. I think my generation education was much different than my previous generation. I saw that even most of my cousins who are in highschool have this entrepreneurial mindset. So I am happy that teen and early 20's these days try to create a job instead finding a job.
Excellent, you're very lucky!
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