JOURNEY OF THE BROKE

People have come up with various theories that either control them or govern the way they live their lives. Someone once told me that “job” means “journey of the broke”, truth is at first I laughed but when he began to explain it started to make sense. He explained it with examples of what goes on in our daily lives and honestly if you were there with me, you would find it hard not to believe.

We are all brought up to go to school, read hard and pass exams so that we can go to university and later graduate. Our parents always tell us that school is the only way, you have to get good grades to make it in life. But unfortunately, even those that faithfully follow those rules and pass their exams have no good jobs to date and are broke most of the time. That makes me think, were people like Einstein, Ben Carson and our very own Wavamuno (the owner of Wavamuno Broadcasting Services in Uganda) right to drop out of school?

The journey of the broke has a continuous viscous cycle that keeps those same job seekers broke all the time. At the end of the month, we all get the salary that we are so much looking forward to which is then cut down by taxes, a percentage of any given loans is also deducted, any work affiliated contributions is also deducted, leaving you with almost not enough to cater for the rest of your needs and by the middle of the month, you are already broke again. And the next month comes and the cycle continues.

Some of you who now earn a steady income that is more than enough for you may think this is a lie but ask a friend who is always living on loans or better yet remember the days you had just started working. We all have to begin from scratch to make it to the top unless of course you are just merely lucky or born in wealth.

People like Einstein, Ben Carson and all those other people you consider to be rich did not love school, but they went anyway because you need a certain amount of knowledge to add to yours. People may consider these people as geniuses or just merely lucky but I think they used their knowledge the right way to achieve their dreams. They took the right steps at the right time, risk is part of life, if you do not take risks, then you are not ready for greatness. 

Use the knowledge that you are given at school and add to yours plus of course our God given talents. God gives us talents for a purpose not for us to sit on, but unfortunately most of mankind sits on their talents. There is no easy way to make money but inspired thought gives us an idea, the idea involves taking risks and it is through talent that something will manifest. If your brain is the kind that is in constant thought, you are blessed, do not leave those thoughts to waste.

There are a million ways to make money, do not walk the “journey of the broke”.