15/04/2025
YOU DIDN’T SPEND 4+ YEARS IN SCHOOL JUST TO END UP BEGGING FOR ENTRY-LEVEL JOBS.
Dear Graduate,
You fought through 8am lectures, survived wicked supervisors, endured overcrowded classrooms and relentless assignments…
And now, your whole plan is to wait in line for a job that may never come?
Let’s be real.
You didn’t suffer through all that stress, write a 100-page project that nobody will read, just to end up earning peanuts and calling yourself someone who finished school?
"Sir."
"Ma"
Your problem isn’t your course. It’s your mindset—and your lack of digital skills.
You think you’re stuck because you studied English, History, Chemistry Education or Sociology?
No, my dear.
You’re stuck because you're still using an analog mindset in a digital world.
Look around:
That guy who studied Library Science? He’s now a data entry specialist managing online catalogues from the comfort of his home.
The girl who read English? She’s writing content and ghostwriting for people and building her online digital academy.
That quiet one in your department? He learned video editing and now runs a digital studio at home.
Even someone with a Political Science degree is running targeted Facebook ads for politicians—and getting paid for it.
You see?
They didn’t wait for opportunities. They created them—with digital skills.
You’re not useless.
Your degree is not wasted.
But if you don’t upskill, you’ll keep chasing jobs that were never designed to pay you well.
I was there, so I know what am saying.
12 years after graduation, I was chasing jobs that were inadequate to go round.
Those people had children who were going to school to graduate and take up those jobs.
Or their wives siblings and distance inlaws were already waiting in line.
Listen,
Learn something useful.
Online tutoring, video editing, letter writing, proposal writing, business plan writing, social media management, virtual assistance...
There’s room for everyone in the digital economy.
Don’t reduce 4+ years of education to “please sir, I can work under pressure.”
You were trained to think. Now it’s time to look inward.
That phone in your hand, use it.
The world has changed. You must change with it.
Ask me how to start in the comment section.
© Erdoo Martha Anongo
