Picking Anything Available - A Freewrite

And so I would volunteer my time to read books with children. I would volunteer my time to basically just help as much as I could.

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I figured that I was going to get a job working. In the tech space or possibly an oil company like everyone of us wanted to work back then when we had this oil boom and all of that. My goal was to probably walk in in, in IT in an oil company. But you know the Nigerian situation, you are out of school, there are no jobs, and you just pick anything available. Pay your bills.

So that's what I used to do. I would just spend my time volunteering, but I was much more actively looking for a job then and finally I found myself. Umm walking in the in in in the corporate environment where I was

But I knew that this wasn't where I wanted to be. So I kept searching, and after one year, by chance, I saw an advert in the papers for a program officer. Of course, I didn't have all the qualifications, but I knew that. Umm, because it was a non-profit organisation, I knew it would be easy for me to just fall into that particular space.

I went for the interview. I said all I had to say, and I was told to start the job immediately. And you know, at the back of my mind I said to myself, six months stops, I'm out of here. Yeah. And six months, six months, as I was petrified, I spanned over 15 years. So that's it. That's awesome. And you know you touched on something that I hold dear to and that's the power of.