{"id":4040,"date":"2019-07-25T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"stop-telling-youth-to-start-businesses-yet-you-are-employed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/25\/stop-telling-youth-to-start-businesses-yet-you-are-employed\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Telling Youth To Start Businesses Yet You Are Employed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Standard Media<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Unemployed graduates are lazy. They should focus on becoming employers, not employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\nmust have heard this numerous times whenever people are discussing unemployment\nin the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each\nyear, universities produce thousands of graduates but the reality is, Kenya\ndoes not have ready jobs for these qualified young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who are employed often refer to the unemployed as lazy and\nlacking basic skills but this is not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, business needs capital. Where do you expect a\ngraduate to get this money from? Considering most still have a HELB loan to\nthink about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeking an alternative plan when jobs are not coming your way is\nessential but we ought to appreciate the fact that not everyone was cut out for\nbusiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, for most of us, our parents drilled into our minds that\nthe only way we can succeed is to score straight A\u2019s in school, go to\nuniversity and pursue \u2018big\u2019 courses and later get employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some, this plan works out perfectly but that is just for some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whenever top KCPE\/KCSE candidates speak about the courses they\nwant to pursue, they often revolve around Medicine, Engineering and\nAeronautical Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is nothing wrong about this but perhaps students should be\nguided a little bit more when it comes to career choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ASM\/\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/ureport-uploads\/FILE-1563884413.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once\na graduate with this kind of mentality leaves college, they will expect to be\nemployed, almost immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately,\nthis is never the case. You might toil with your First Class degree and trust\nme no one will feel sympathetic because even those you come across might be\ngoing through the same predicament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then\n\u2018experts\u2019 (who are permanently employed) will argue that the youth need to be\ninnovative yet some of them have literally refused to leave office despite\nbeing well advanced in terms of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If\nyou serve in a particular position for close to two decades, where do you\nexpect fresh graduates to plug in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/ureport\/article\/2001335055\/stop-telling-youth-to-start-businesses-yet-you-are-employed\">full\narticle<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/ureport\/\">Standard Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Standard Media \u201cUnemployed graduates are lazy. They should focus on becoming employers, not employees.\u201d You must have heard this numerous times whenever people are discussing unemployment in the country.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}