crypto brains.

I have a friend called Alex, his native home district is Sheema, but he was born and raised in Entebbe. All his education has been within the Central region. He is about three years older than me and is well educated. He holds a diploma in Business Administration, a bachelor’s degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and a master’s degree in the same field. Even though I have been in the working field far longer than him, the truth is that since he completed high school, Alex has never been employed, not even a part-time job in a company or as a helper on a construction site. He has applied to over thirty different job opportunities and attended about ten interviews, but he never managed to secure any of them. He would often tell me, “Boni, pray for me. I think there is some sort of curse or barrier that is stopping me from getting a job.” We prayed multiple times. We recited the Rosary, prayed Novenas, and offered many other prayers for him. Last month, he finally got called for an interview in Nwoya District. He went, passed the interview, and was offered the job on a one month probation, with a gross salary of 1,000,000 Ugandan shillings, plus accommodation and transport. After NSSF and PAYE, he remains with roughly 800,000 shillings per month. Last week he called me and said he felt sick, that his soul was out of his body. He said he was not comfortable at his workplace and that he felt like he had been dumped or cut off from the world because the place is far from urban Kampala. He also told me that people with lesser qualifications than him were being paid 1,500,000 shillings a month, so he was not contented. Imagine someone who has never been employed before, already complaining barely a month into his first job. He told me he wanted to quit. Honestly, I felt like crying on the phone, it felt so ungrateful. There are people desperately looking for any job that can give them 200,000 shillings or even less, yet here he was already complaining. He asked me to pray so that God would give him a better job within Kampala. My reply was short and direct: “You prayed for a job. God gave you one, it does not matter where He takes you, He knows what is best for you. You cannot decide or manipulate Him. It is high time you became grateful even as you pray for a better opportunity. The more you complain, the more you frustrate Him. He may come to see you as unappreciative and leave you unemployed again because you refuse to recognise what is good for you.” I honestly wonder what some people desire in life. You pray for a job, you receive one, and within less than a month you already want to quit. Is that even right?

Dear graduates, it doesn’t make sense to spend 6 million on a graduation party and borrow a loan the following day from a Money leader to start up a small business. Manage your resources wisely