About a year ago I made a career change from Accounting to Journalism. As I like to say, I moved from obsessing over numbers to obsessing over narratives. Why? Among many reasons, it was an opportunity to learn about an aspect of life I wasn’t too familiar with: storytelling. Coming tops in the Global Peter […]
Hello Friend, November was certainly calmer than October for Nigeria, yet still a fast-paced month for me. How was your November? A useful reminder @Visualizevalue Highlights of November: Joining TechCabal as a Writer/Editor. A career switch that took some thinking and deliberations but one month in and I’m liking it. Spending a week in a different […]
Today I had a discussion that made me sad, I met a young lady and while we got talking I got to know she studied Computer science, I got excited and wanted to know what she was doing with the degree, she said she works at a call center and she’s into customer service, a […]
I remember those days in school while growing up when we were asked what we wanted to be in future and no one or only a few people mentioned being a Teacher, the cliché response from the Teachers was “So who would now teach your children” and the usual response was usually some mumbled disjointed […]
How are we preparing the next generation to enter the Workforce? Last month I saw a vacancy by The economist for the role of Deputy Snap Chat editor (what many do for fun), I spoke to teenager in Year 3 of Junior secondary school, as we spoke I asked him the usual question so which class […]