Work is a strugle

Being young is such a blessing. Everything is simple and one tends to look at things with innocence. Believing that things will be great and working is the best thing ever. Until having worked for at least two years.

Now having worked for over twelve years, I am more realistic?

I personally now feel working is the worst thing that can ever happen to a person. People loose so much value in life as a result of work. Whether you happen to be working as a so called professional or not, work is unnatural. Spending all those hours a day, day in and day out in the office is definately not my idea of living. Life passes you by while one is immensed in the idea of a career, like you can ever live a career.

What Do I Do

I started working for the South Afrikan Weather Bureau as a Senior Programmer specialing in C and web development. Then I worked for Safika Technologies as an IT Consultant focusing on web solutions, then worked for First National Bank as an Intranet Developer developing in Visual Basic and active server pages. Then I joined the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies as a Database Programmer developing in Delphi 6. Then Telkom Directory Services as an E-Systems Administrator developing in Java, later to become a Web Analyst. Then worked for Absa as a Java Developer. Then for South Afrikan Express Airways as an Ecommerce Manager. I then started a company, 2dots Media, which specialised in ecommerce solutions; and it went bust. I have so much opinion about small business in South Afrika and BEE following my experiences in that enivornment. I can write a book about the attitude of specifically black managers when dealing with small black businesses.

So I now go around calling myself an independent cosultant, sounds familiar?

People have commented on the trend of black professionals not staying long in jobs. Unfortunately even our respected Ntate Tito Mboweni made an unfortunate statement in this regard, that he will happily employ his Afrikaners because they stay long in jobs. What people like these are oblivious to is the fact that black people continue to suffer in corporate South Afrika. So called equality is a myth and black people still do not receive the same treatment as people of other races, regardless of your skills and capabilities. No one in their right minds will stay in a job when you are treated differently simply because you happen to be black. Black and proud, if I may add. I cannot be loyal to a company that abuses me as an employee. Of course his Afrikaners will stay long at the South Afrikan Reserve Bank because they are treated like humans while their Afrikan counterparts remain non entities, even under the leadership of his excellency Ntate Tito Mboweni.

People who continue to stay in a bad job do so because they choose so. They end up bitter people and do not make any noticeable progress in life. Many of us will not be subjected to bad treatment and continue to accept it as if our lives depended on bad treatment.

Read more about my work life(history) in my biography.

I personally seem to attract extremes. From extremely promising careers to an extremely promising company. Then to extreme poverty! Well my definition of poverty is that if you can't afford the things you need(read desire), then you definately are poor and should probably quit whatever it is you do for a living and try something new. Why would you want to keep doing that which makes you poor? I don't care what the LSMs say about you, my definition is more realistic. How else will you satisfy your needs if you can't afford them? Mohlomong ke madimabe or just lucky for these things to happen to me.

So what do I do? Personally I absolutely have no idea, you decide what exactly that is!