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*REASONS WHY DEGREE HOLDERS ARE POOR?*
Writen by
*MALAM MAMUDA KABIR DUTSINMA*

BASICALLY, there seven reasons why degree holders are poor.

*1. THEY DON’T THINK BEYOND THEIR CERTIFICATES*

Albert Einstein said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Have you ever heard creativity term “Think outside the box”? One of the major reasons why most graduates are poor is simply because they can’t see and think beyond their certificates.
I have seen engineering students work as bankers. I have seen medical doctors with great skills in web and graphic designs. I have seen lawyers that are very dexterous with finances. The list is endless!

The basic truth of life is that the skills that are needed to be much sought after and become more successful in life are not really found within the walls of the classrooms. Your certificate is just a proof that you are teachable, it does not suggest what you are totally capable of doing. You are full of possibilities when you think beyond your degrees and certificates.

*2. THEY PRIORITIZE THEIR CERTIFICATES MORE THAN THEIR GIFTS AND TALENTS*

I have often advised some of my colleagues, never to leave their gifts dormant while pursuing and hunting for jobs with their certificates. There must be a complementary balance in the pursuit of your passion and in the search for jobs.

Everybody is gifted for something, but the winning edge comes from our ability to work on our gifts and bless the world with it. The very best way to develop yourself is in the direction of your natural talents and interest. In order to live a fulfilled and impactful life, we need to work harder on our gift than our job. We need to discover our gift, develop it, and sell it. Don’t bury your TALENT with your certificates.

*3. THEIR CERTIFICATES PREPARE THEM FOR A WORLD THAT NO LONGER EXIST*

It has been found that most of the skills taught in schools are becoming obsolete in the present world. The world has changed a lot, and so are people’s need! It is imperative to know that the present form of university education does not prepare students for the future.

Graduates are becoming endangered species in the face of a changing world. Our archaic methods and approaches of learning are preparing graduates for a world that no longer exist, as we are churning out degree holders every year with certificates that have face value but no intrinsic worth. Most learning institutions are filled up with lecturers and pseudo-educators with lecture notes, methods and approaches that have lost relevance in a changing world.

*4. THEY KNOW LESS ABOUT THEMSELVES BUT MORE ABOUT THINGS*

Certificates and degrees don’t reveal people to themselves; they at most measure our IQ (Intelligent Quotient). I have often tell people that there is no Recovery without Discovery. A poor man is simply someone that has not discovered himself.

The more you discover yourself, the more you realize the treasures that are hidden deep within you. We carry inside ourselves latent treasures that can only be unveiled through self-discovery.

*5. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES CAN KILL INITIATIVES*

Degrees and certificates can close up your minds to ideas while initiatives open it up. If you are not careful, your degrees and certificates can close up your mind. The purpose of education is to keep your mind perpetually opened towards limitless possibilities!

Fred Smith saw an opportunity for overnight delivery of anything anywhere in the USA, and ultra- fast delivery anywhere in the world, FedEx was born. It will be interesting to know that Fred Smith got a grade “C” in a Yale economics class for an idea that the professor belittled as unworkable.
Fred Smith’s company became the first American business to make over ten billion dollars in annual profit. Beginning with just 186 packages delivered the first night, FedEx now delivers in over two hundred countries using over 6,030 aircraft, 46,000 vehicles and 141,000 employees.

*6. DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES POSITION YOU TO LOOK FOR JOBS AND NOT FOR OPPORTUNITIES*

Our certificates and degrees prepare graduates to look for jobs and not open our eyes to life-changing opportunities. You are not poor because you don’t have a job; you are poor because you are not seeing and seizing opportunities.

Being POOR is simply Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly! What keeps people ahead in life is not their education or degrees, it is simply the opportunity that they seized. Jobs may be scarce but not opportunities.

As long as there is a problem to be solved, there will always be opportunities. It is a waste of our education, exposure, and experiences if after we graduate from school, all we think about is searching for a job. An enlightened and educated mind should be able to see and seize opportunities.

*7. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES PREPARE PEOPLE TO LOOK FOR SECURITY AND NOT TO TAKE RISKS*

We must be willing to make mistakes and take breakthrough risks. Taking risks and learning from mistakes help us in knowing what works and what does not! When Thomas Edison was being questioned by a mischievous journalist on how he felt for having failed for 999 times before getting the idea of the light bulb, his response stunned the whole world when he confidently said, “I have not failed 999 times, I have only learned 999 ways of how not to make a light bulb”.

Many graduates and degree holders are becoming progressively poor because the skills required in the modern world to get rich are not taught in schools and institutions.

By 2025, we’ll lose over five million jobs to automation. This means that future jobs will look vastly different by the time many people graduate from the university.

*Future jobs will involve KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION/CREATION* and innovation, and people that are only equipped with skills found in the classroom will definitely be a misfit in an ever-changing world. Skills like critical thinking, creativity, people’s skill, STEM skills (e.g Coding), complex problem-solving skills etc. are central to living a more comprehensive and productive life.

*8 THEREFORE,* in conclusion, My humble and candid advice to graduates and students in institutions is to think wide, deep and outside the box. Take volunteer jobs, and don’t be afraid to navigate fields that are different from your field of learning. Your future career will require you to pull information from many different fields to come up with creative solutions to future problems.
Start by reading as much as you can about anything and everything that interests you. Once you get to college, consider double majoring or minoring in completely different fields. Trust me, it’ll pay off in the long run.

Don’t limit yourself to the classroom. Do something practical. Take a leadership position. Start a business and fail; that’s a better entrepreneurship. Contest an election and lose. It will teach you something political science will not teach you. Attend a seminar. Read books outside the scope of your course.

Think less of becoming an excellent student, but think more of becoming an excellent person. Don’t make the classroom your world, but make the world your classroom. Step forward and try something extra.

Invest in something you believe! Real financial security and freedom is not in your job, but in your passion, gifts, talents, and your ability to see and seize opportunities.
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*MALAM MAMUDA KABIR DUTSINMA*

*How to start, grow and sustain a profitable School Business*

Growth in any business is a gradual processes but can be strategically fastened not by just mere wishes with the words of mouth but by swimming into actions leveraging on team work, consistency, and automated system in other to position the business in alignment with the trend so as to meet the expectations of the owner and the stakeholders.

Starting a business is very easy but growing and sustaining a profitable business in this 21st century is not an easy task especially if the you lack unique growth and marketing strategies.

There are thousands of reasons why many businesses fail especially if such business is not in alignment with the 21st century trend of business for maximum growth and productivity.

Starting a school business is a very good decision to take but failing at the starting point of the business is when you start the business with the wrong mindsets without sufficient knowledge of how the 21st century business trend works for maximum growth and productivity and how you can leverage on the trend to actualize your vision and mission statements in other to deliver better results after the implementation.

Starting, growing and sustaining a profitable school business and building a career in the teaching profession is not a MAGIC.

A lot of things need to be put into consideration
these days because things has changed and will keep changing because the world itself is not static but evolving on a daily basis.

Why do you want to start a school business or build a career in the teaching profession?

Most businesses fail and will keep failing because of the word "WHY"
You can deceive other people but never dare to decieve yourself, because if you do, you will never go far in anything you want to do.

The greatest mistake that is common to most startups or established business owners is not taking more time to ask questions to query their ideas or thoughts in other to have clearer pictures on the task ahead.

Are you thinking of start a school business?
Are you thinking of building a career in the teaching profession?

Are you already a school owner or a teacher but want to learn how to explore your business and position it aright on the trend to meet up with your expectations?

If yes, reading this today is a blessing to you because you are in the right place and the right time and the right hands.

Never will you make a mistake of venturing into any project or business without asking yourself questions to query your ideas. If you do, your ideas will later query you after ex*****on or implementation when you are faced with challenges.

You don't do the same thing the same way and expect to get better results. To start up a profitable school business or career in teaching, you have to be ready to do something different in other to earn something different.

And the best way to go about it, is to query your ideas with realistic questions at the startup stage so as to avoid your ideas coming back to query you in form of challenges after implementation.

As an experienced consultant, I have noticed lots of reasons why many schools owner and teachers failed in the course of my consultation and trainings and why many will continue to still fail unless the needful is done in terms of having the right mindsets and sufficient knowledge about starting a school business and building a career in the teaching profession.

They are many reasons but listed below are three (3) out of the top ten (10) reasons why most people fail in starting, growing and sustaining a profitable school business as well as building a career in the teaching profession.

1. Starting a school business or building a teaching career because you studied education in the college, faculty or university.

There are lots of problems already in the educational sector at the moment, and the above is one the reasons that has contributed earnertly to it, all in the name of studying education in school.

NB: Studying education in school alone is not enough to make you feel you can go ahead and start a school or build a career in teaching.

You need to be driven by passion, patience and consistency in other to scale through in this line of business.

You need to sit down to engage in research in other to identify problems faced in education and pick an area of niche or interest from all the forms of education available, Formal, Informal and Non- formal and see how to solve the problem.

It is in this process that you can then conclude whether you are qualify to start a school business or build a career in the teaching profession.

NB: There is no shortcuts to it.

Do you want to start or explore in your school business or teaching profession? If yes, follow the process to get the Glory.

2. Dont start a school business or go into the teaching profession if you want to make quick money.

The above is another reason that is common to some intending schools owner and teachers.
If making quick money is the motive behind starting a school or building a teaching career, then you are taking the wrong steps.

I may be wrong though! Making money comes from been passionate about solving problems in terms of rendering services to people.

It is in this process that you make money.
The school business and teaching profession is a very lucrative business in every parts of the world except in some less developed nations.

Some schools were established today on a faulty foundation because of what the owners saw in other schools ranging from population of schools, big buildings, buses etc.

Are you also thinking of starting a school business or teaching profession because of some of the above mentioned?

If yes, you are on the right track to fraudstrate yourself.

3. Lack of unique strategies and tomated systems.

No matter how knowledgeable you may be, if you venture into the school business or teaching profession without unique marketing strategies, demonstration of leadership skills, emotional intelligence, automated systems, etc., you won't go far in the school business or teaching profession. The aim of any business is sales and profits, so starting a business without unique strategies to attract the right target audience will lead you into debts and fade you out of the system over time.

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