Job and Career

Is what you are doing just a job or your career? Most people don't know this but as a reader of TOB, you must know that there is a clear, vivid and obvious difference between a job and a career. If you have a job, you are not yet fulfilled but when you are in your career, you are already living a fulfilled life. Wiktionary defines job to be an economic role for which a person is paid while it defines career to be one's calling in life or an individual's work and life roles over their lifespan.

From those definitions, you can see that all careers are jobs but not all jobs are careers. The type of job that I will be explaining in this context is the one that does not align with one's career. Let me give you an instance of how great minds take their job and career. Assuming, I wanna be a movie producer (my career) but I don't have the capital to start. I might go for jobs like teaching, civil service or even acting so that I can gather capital for my career (movie production). This is how it should be. No matter what happens, always remember your goal, your career, your fulfillment and work towards it.

The difference between you and your counterpart in the same career is not finances but the talent. If he/she has the money and started earlier, that doesn't mean you won't succeed in the same career if you gather your capital for 15 years. The richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote wasn't the first to start a business but he has the talent of business management and he applied that with the N500,000 capital he borrowed from his grandfather. Was he the first person to start business? Some people even started with their own money which is worth N1m but what Dangote has achieved with N500,000 loan is more than what they can ever boast of.

The story of Dangote should tell you a lot. The Nigerian motivational blogger, Taslim OKUNOLA once said: "Don't look at the present resources. Instead, always see into the future for that is where the real you lies."

My name is Taslim OKUNOLA and I am a progressive Nigerian youth.

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