Your degree is a receipt, not a skill. Most graduates paid for paper and called it education. I studied 5 years, forgot over half by graduation, then started on an N$1,000 internship. Hook 1/12 from The Graduate (paperback + Kindle below). Receipt or skill: what did you get?

After 5 years of study, no big firm would hire me. I learned my job on an N$1,000 internship, by doing it. Our first project: kids aged 9-15 in Windhoek take a real go-kart apart and rebuild it. The donation page is now live and verified. Link below. Mechanic 🔧 or driver 🏁?

Two years after graduating, my life was work and going out. I had a degree but no purpose. The last two chapters of The Graduate are the point of it all: education isn't just for a job or money. It's to find your calling and lift your family and community. Job or purpose?

It took me 9 years and 3 lost drafts to write The Graduate. After 5 years of study, nobody told me what comes after the degree. 12 chapters on study, friends, careers, your first salary and life. @NUST_Namibia @UNESCOWindhoek What helps you most: study, career or money?

Two years into my first job, it was work, party, repeat. Books turned me around. Ch 12 of The Graduate: read a small book an hour a day for 66 days and it sticks. Only 32% of SA adults read books more than once a week. @nalibaliSA @bookdash Read a book this month? Yes or no?

After 5 years of study, the big audit firms wouldn't take me. With a newborn at home, I started on an N$1,000 internship. Now kids aged 9-15 in Windhoek will strip and rebuild a real go-kart. Please back them 👇 Mechanic or driver? 🔧🏁 @UnicefNamibia @StellenboschUni

"I asked my business mathematics professor to write me a testimonial for an internship application." (Ch 10) Only 21% of SA university students often talk to a lecturer about their career plans. Be the 1 in 5. @UFSweb @Makerere Office hours: yes or no? #TheGraduate

"Not having a smartphone has helped." (Ch 9) South Africans online average 3h36m a day on social media, 1.5x the global average. That's 25+ hours a week. Feed your goal, not your feed. @StellenboschUni @UNICEFAfrica Your screen time yesterday? Just the number. #TheGraduate

"When I finished my degree, I had no idea what I was going to do." (Ch 7) Nearly 1 in 3 South African workers is employed in a field they didn't study. Find your element first: what you love + what you're good at. @UnicefNamibia @UPTuks Passion or paycheque? #TheGraduate

"When you're dating, either your schoolwork or your relationship gets neglected." (Ch 6, The Graduate) In 2024, 1,662 Namibian learners left school because of pregnancy. @UNFPA_Namibia @Wits_News Dating in high school: life lesson or distraction? #TheGraduate