25/05/2019
This is a relatively long read, but itβs worth reading (borrowed from anonymous):
IF I KNEW THIS WHEN I GRADUATED
You will get another job and they will give you R16000 if you have more than 3 years of experience. Three months into the new job you will buy a car. You will wake up at 5/6am and get home after 6/7pm everyday. You will see nothing wrong with this because "you are educated" and that's how "educated people" do it. Your street smart friends who have flexible careers will visit you at work because if its not yet 5pm you are not allowed to leave, even when there's no work. You will be focused on your career and you will not want to hear anything about starting a side hustle because "you are educated". Your excuses will be "I don't know how to sell" or "I don't have time". At that time you are struggling financially. Debit orders are busy with your salary. You won't see a side hustle as a way out, you will see another job as a way out.
Companies will take advantage of you, overwork you and underpay you because you are not street smart to beat them at their own game. You will work for horrible bosses who dont understand the importance of family time and you will always be forced to choose work over your loved ones. You will win employee of the month left, right and centre and you will get stupid vouchers as a reward. You will go back to school and study ENDLESSLY, this course and that course all in the name of "I want a better life" and chase promotions at work . You will get your 5 years/ 10 years certificate of service with R2000/ R3000 incentive that will only get you a weekend in Durban.
You will buy a house in your 30's just after paying off your car and commit yourself to a 20-year debt. And you will not want a house in the township or a starter pack house that you can actually afford to pay faster. You will go straight to the "burbs" because "you are educated". You will feel the punch of rates and taxes and learn a new bad habit of buying grocery,