Afri-Inleo Initiative 45 : NA WHO DEY ALIVE DEY FOLLOW PASSION

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Well, in life we are always advised to follow our passion, that it's what will guide us to make it big in life. Following your passion is good, I am not disputing that fact.

But can you remember those days in nursery school that we used to sing, "When I finish my education, do you know what I want to be, I want to be a ...." and you would fix in what you wanted to be? Looking back to those days, most of us used to sing that song until it became part of us to the extent that we developed interest in the profession that we fixed in the song. That, to a greater extent, became our passion and most of us worked towards it. But to some of us, Nigeria happened — starting from when we registered for JAMB and the JAMB jammed us. At a point, we decided that whatever course the university gives us is what we will do. Now, this is just stage one, and most of us had forgotten about our passion for becoming a lawyer, engineer, etc. We are no longer chasing the passion again but just want to have admission.

For those of us that were lucky enough to still continue with the course we had passion for, fast forward to when we graduate and maybe after the NYSC, you stay for a year or two with no job in the area that you had passion for. The question now becomes, will I wait for the job of my dream and hunger kills me? Ahahahah your response is as good as mine.

Let's face the real-life issue, especially in countries like Nigeria where the economy is not stable and it's survival of the fittest. I believe 80% of us would want to survive before considering our passion.

Personally, I would consider making a living first before using the funds generated from there to fuel my passion.

I keep telling people that every passion needs a driving force, that is to say, there must be something that motivates the passion. There must be a motivational factor either extrinsic or intrinsic. If there is no fuel to drive that passion, you will be shocked to see that the passion might gradually die off. Because "na who dey alive dey follow passion."

Now let's look at it from this other angle. As someone who is into the education sector and has been opportune to interview some applicants that applied for teaching jobs, I have noticed that whenever you ask them, "Why do you want to teach?" 70 percent of them will answer, "I have passion for teaching." Then you go ahead to ask them, "What if the management owes you for 3 months, would you still have the passion to teach?" and you see them smiling — meaning it's a no for an answer. Which implies that they all consider making a living first before the passion, which is not actually bad if we want to call a spade a spade.

Finally, your passion was to be an engineer and you got a job in an engineering firm paying you 100k. Then you later had another opportunity to teach in a school and the pay will be 200k with some weekend off and long vacation. Which would you go for? Would you still follow your passion or?

Let's have your response in the comment section.

I am @nsigo1, thanks for reading.

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