In all organisations, we can control some things ourselves and can diversify our skill sets. We can complete three sets of careers in a lifetime.
No one was born a lecturer or journalist or politician. Those without survival skills leave political offices to become hustlers.
You mentioned tuition fees. I often wonder why we put ourselves under pressure.
Increasing tuition fees should not affect anyone if we live within the limit of our resources.
Why should someone with no stable income take his/her children to private school/s that charge fees higher than you can save in a year because his/her friends’ children attend such school/s?
Why not take them to public schools and use the little left over to put them up for lessons?
We went through such ourselves, and I can proudly say we are no push-over in the society today.
You should not be ashamed of living within your means. You will be ashamed when you beg people or borrow consistently to pay school fees.
As we age, we will begin to see changes and battle in denial that we are getting old.
Meanwhile, what we ought to be doing is to adjust our lifestyle to the demands of our age.
How can you be saviour when you cannot stand upright yourself? Don’t overload yourself at the expense of your own life.
There is strain within the society. National economy is not good and its effects bite harder on some of us than others, and more excruciating on journalists who work with parasitic organisations who in turn see working for their organisations as meal tickets, dumping ethics in the dustbin.
We must dare to leave such places. We fear too much what will happen. But what has happened when you failed to leave?
We really need to plan and have PLAN B.
Sometimes, organisations make people, but most of the time, people make organisations.
You leave an organisation with your skills and your skills will be paid for elsewhere. Let us update.
There are many organisations in the corporate world that need our services, but the situated-socialisation of journalism won’t allow many to rediscover and realise who they are until they review their life and think what will become of them.
Pressure then sets in…health depreciates and managing health challenges in our clime is itself an arraignment for death sentence.
Do we read?
We can research whatever we notice in our body online, get informed, and take advice that will correct the health challenge.
We all carry one burden or the other in our minds, but I love to laugh and associate with people who bring me joy than those who bring problems all the time for me to solve, thereby putting me under pressure and health wahala.
When was the last time you thought about yourself?
You can’t be thinking about others all the time. With or without you, those you think will not survive will survive.
Finally, it is not us alone, enikanlomo.
Younger people now have HBP. It’s pathetic.
Our lifestyles and our environment and lifebattles complicate our health.
Condolences to the pen-pushing profession.
Ki odun jina si ra oooo.
•Dr Oludayo Tade teaches Sociology at the University of Ibadan.
