Ogungo Republican

Dear fresh college students, please stop taking managerial courses like Human Resource Management. The main job of HR is managing and supervising other staff. Which means they're already up there in the corporate ladder. It's not an entry level course. Who will you supervise when you're just a green entrant? You need to be supervised yourself!

Only take a course like this if you have a solid plan that makes it necessary, like starting your own business and it's the knowledge you willl need to manage your own staff.

The same case applies to Business Management and Project Management. It's management I mean, just like the name suggests. Nobody graduates fresh from college as a manager. These courses were originally designed to provide additional competency for people already in the market. A person who has a rank or a well to do business can study a diploma in business administration by the side, or the popular MBA.

Better to choose a course that is both in your strength zone and which can give you an opportunity to enter at the bottom of the corporate ladder, or entry level jobs. Things like ICT, Film and production, most of the hands-on courses in TVET institutions like masonry, building and construction.

Do not take TV journalism unless you intend to start your own TV on Tiktok. And you don't need such expensive training to do Tiktok, do you. Most TV personalities did not study it as a major. They practised it by the side while growing another career. That's what you do with hit-and-miss careers. You build them by the side without putting your whole weight on them until you find a breakthrough.

Lastly, those who want to do nursing should remember that nursing means basically taking care of sick people. Washing them, dressing their wounds, taking away their human waste, feeding them. I say this because many of you can't stand blood but you still talk about nursing.

Luckily though, nursing has over 10 different areas you can choose from:

Branded things are not for rich people. Rich people have nothing to prove and in any case they always try to avoid unnecessary attention. Branded things are for poor folks whi are trying to look rich. The label is for them a status symbol.

Rich people don't dress for status. They dress for elegance and comfort. So they'll buy whatever meets these goals whether it has labels or not. They purchase based on quality, not popularity.

And since they're not attached to the labels they won't put effort to show it even if it's a coveted brand. You may spot it but they won't flaunt it.

They operate in mental freedom and they're liberated from the desire to impress or fit in.

One millionaire was asked why he was still using an Android phone when his colleagues had migrated to IPhones and he said it was just more comfortable for him to use.

The best way to impress the rich, therefore, is in being comfortable in your own skin and doing things because they serve you as opposed to being carried away by trends.

Mathematical paradox or numbers conundrum

Senior counsel James aggrey orengo

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