Money for the sake of money is a poor guide when seeking jobs in Kenya
Progressive depression is a common syndrome in Kenya
. Many workers progress from elation to depression in a consistent cycle every week that manifests in four significant stages.
The first stage manifests as growing elation from Wednesday afternoon and hits its climax on Friday afternoon as the prospect of the weekend draws nearer. This stage matures into full blown pseudo bliss from Friday evening through to Sunday afternoon. This stage is at its most potent on the last weekend of the month.
They then progress into the next stage from pseudo bliss towards depression from Sunday afternoon all through to Monday morning. Then they enter the fourth stage of despondency and depression which runs from Monday and lasts to Wednesday. They then start the cycle again starting from Wednesday afternoon with a growing sense of elation as the prospect of the weekend draws nearer.
Stage 1; growing elation from Wednesday afternoon, climax is on Friday afternoon.
Stage 2; pseudo bliss from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon.
Stage 3; dread and growing despondency from Sunday evening to its height on Monday morning.
Stage 4; despondency and depression from Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon.
We all yearn to live true to ourselves
The reason for this insane culture is that we Kenyans have developed a weird culture where we see work as a form of necessary slavery and torture that we only take up because we need the money. Subsequently, we have hordes of people who are consistently on stress energy; they are irritable and easily burst out in irrational anger and rage.
Where or when did this culture start to form? When as a nation we decided that money was more important than personal happiness. Thousands everyday are taking on jobs in Kenya that they neither like nor appreciate.
Though largely unrecognised, this trend has contributed to lower work standards. This leaves the individual who took up 'any' job feeling dissatisfied with their performance; for all human beings will naturally prefer to do what they do in the best possible way.
So going to work makes them feel sickish because they know they under-deliver which makes them unhappy with their individual contribution to their work. Underneath is a distaste directed towards self for living a lie. For such individuals the only thing they can then look forward to is a work free weekend where at least they can be true to themselves.
Do not use poverty as an excuse to destroy your destiny
Other than the joy of discussing this insane lifestyle over a beer, it adds absolutely no other value to you or to your future.
To begin with, this way of living puts you in the unnatural position of living your life looking forward to tomorrow rather than living to the full today.
If you take time to interact with anyone who is past their fortieth birthday they will tell you that if you set the stage for living tomorrow when you are in your twenties, you wake up one morning and you are forty, fifty, or sixty and realise that that 'tomorrow' never came. You have lived for decades 'today' while putting off your happiness to a 'tomorrow' that was non-existent.
Living in the 'happiness tomorrow' lane is guaranteed to cause each single new dawn as an unhappy 'today'. You will live unhappy every single day, and you will without fail, come awake to the depressing realisation that you have wasted decades chasing after an illusion called 'happiness tomorrow'.
Taking on a job only for the expected salary is in truth a trigger of a vicious cycle of poverty that few ever come out of. You start with a job that you neither like nor appreciate, then you under-deliver which then means you can never earn beyond basic wage, which actually means that you can never have the money that you wanted to have in the first place.
The true place of money when you are searching for jobs in Kenya
Whereas earning money is a singularly important consideration in our times, to place money on the front row of your priorities is to put it in the wrong place.
Whether you get jobs in Kenya that you do not like or jobs in Kenya that you like, you will still be paid in Kenya shillings at the end of the month. However, if you do take on only the jobs where you can make tangible contribution, which you can only do in jobs you appreciate, you will earn money that will add to your happiness.
I meet people all the time that are running into industries on the idea that that the jobs in it have money. That is a falsehood. You can make money in any industry just as long as you understand that money is a function of service. The less service you give, the less you earn. The more service you give, wherever you are, the more money you can earn.
Why not then choose to first be happy by choosing to work in an industry where you can contribute willingly and allow your income to come from there?
Money for the sake of money is a poor guide when seeking jobs in Kenya
By: Paula Thayrow
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