Students are now becoming more professional, realizing their goals and the fact that getting a job without experience is almost futile. There are the few who don’t really need the money and when employed, would not be as enthusiastic about the job like their poorer counterparts would be. I experienced this while running an IT Contact and Support Center at a University.

Some rich students who would work only to please their parents and get perks at home like being allowed the Beamer on weekends instead of the boring old Polo. These would usually pitch up late for work or sometimes not pitch at all. However, there were the majority who were not as fortunate and were diligent, hard working individuals. Because of these, our operations became so successful that other departments within the University started requesting our services for hiring and training Students to run their Computer Laboratories and other IT related functions. We were three permanent staff members managing about sixty odd students.

Many large corporations have internship programs for students at second and third year levels. This largely being for the purpose of employing them permanently once their qualification is completed. Generally, students are employed in various sectors of the economy. Businesses have grown and continue to grow by employing students on a part time/casual basis. When a business flourishes, usually there is a need for more man/woman power to be pumped into it. Apart from the permanent staff, it is always a good idea to have students to “help out” on weekends, evenings, etc. Small Businesses who mostly have budget restrictions employ Students part time and the results are usually good. I had a friend who, while we were at school got a job in a local Pharmacy part time. The job was to ensure that the floors, counters and medicine dispensary cabinets were kept clean at all times. For this he was paid for the hours worked. He eventually struck up a friendship the owner who encouraged him to study towards a Pharmacy degree at University. While studying, he continued to work (much to the delight of the Pharmacist who was now getting an almost professional assistant at a fraction of the cost of employing somebody full time) Read the rest of this entry »

What actually separates the wealthy and the not so wealthy people is how they work. While the wealthy work smart the rest work hard. It is the nature of the work you do that will determine whether you will attain financial freedom or not. How we work and why we work shape our destiny.

We spend many hours each day working but only a few of us have something to show for it. Take a good example of our work places, the people who work the most are the once who are paid the least, but as you go up the management ladder, work reduces but income increases. Then one is left to wonder why this is the case, life can sometimes be very unfair.

This is the reason I decide to quit employment and go into self employment. The idea of working many hours for someone else didn’t go down well with me. I got to a place where I asked myself, why can’t I also use other people’s resources to make money? Read the rest of this entry »