WHEN DREAMS DON'T COME TRUE

“WHEN SOME DREAMS DON’T COME TRUE"

Josephat S. Hema

A Dilemma to whether Study or Work!

 Education is the key of life! Education is the key of life! The words would keep echoing in my ears for nearly seven years, everyday .By the time i was in primary school. I studied hard after being forced to believe that life without Education is the miserable future. That’s why whenever we debated on the motion “Education is better than money”, I wouldn’t betray what I believed. I would say, “Yes education is better than money because without education you will never ever get money”. That’s why I studied hard and passed all exams. And that’s why I am a University student today. But, maybe that’s why I once got overwhelmed in a circle of the Great dilemma as well.

As I was growing up, I started to see and live in the greater picture of life. It’s a different story now. It’s like I was in a deep nightmare adventure, woke up and found all the dreams uncertain. I saw people fighting for money out of class, some got, and some didn’t. But also I saw people using their Certificate, Diploma and Degree credentials to get money through employments, some got and some didn’t. There comes the root of Dilemma, should keep on believing in Books for the future or rather drop them and find the other way around? To the best of my astonishment, I found the majority of the college students being in the very same dilemma, trying to answer the questions like, why should I keep on studying? Why shouldn’t I work instead? The answers to it are some mixed feelings of considerations and dilemmas too. Let’s check them out here.

Why studying

               Studying is the surer way to economic success. Seriously? This is a mass belief holding a large degree of truth which is subjected to many distortions. After graduating many people are employed in different institutions such as schools, magistrates, companies, industries, tourism, hospitals and laboratories with respect to their professions. But nowadays employments have become unreliable due to the increased population of graduates and hence this is no longer the precise answer to the question. Many people remain jobless even after graduating with honors. But here the simple fact remains clear, a graduate has a greater possible chance in formal sectors than a non-graduate.

            Pride of profession: This is also a possible population to be found in colleges. Some people take certain disciplines in schools so that they can just be someone’s in their future besides other factors. Isn’t it good to be a lawyer? A pharmacist? An engineer? A teacher? Or whatever. Attraction by titles is what leads this people to suffer the dilemma in their near future.

           Long lasting passions: when you talk of passion you talk of such a deep feeling that comes out to be expressed as the driving force in achieving something. This is a true feeling of what you want to be or rather to do. Some people are driven by this tremendously large internal and personal influences. They do put much effort in studying to fulfil their heartfelt needs. These people are less affected by the force of dilemma, they are people of visions and persistence. Out of them are great professionals who make great difference in their careers.

           External influences and inspirations: Friends, Families, societies and global icons in general do play the greater role in influencing some people to study. For example today in Medical schools, many students are being inspired by Doctor Benjamin Carson, a black American pediatric neurosurgeon. Through some influences and inspirations some people are boosted up to keep on studying no matter what so that they reach the heights. They want to do the best and be like some people who made it.

Why not studying.

            Financial sacrifice: much money should be invested in acquiring the best education. Money is needed for electronic facilities, stationery materials, transport fare, accommodations and school fees. All this is besides investing your much energy in studying for excellence. It looks like a waste of economic resources.in another way around you can work and invest the same money to find the more economic profit. Then why studying?

             Time sacrifice: the forest of books needs the investment of enough tedious moments. In Tanzania, a student destined to be an Architect should invest five years in the college. Isn’t this time enough to invest in other profitable businesses? Five years is enough time for a person with a capital to establish his trade and get profit out of it.

            Global employment crisis: Due to the increasing population of Universities and eventually increasing number of graduates, unemployment becomes the fast emerging reason for many people to opt dropping school. You may supposed to deal with other works, out of school horizon for assured income.

            Fear of failure and discontinuation: Everyone who sets his foot in the college ground wishes to study up to completion. But each year the colleges drops out some people who did not fulfil the academic needs, such as due to poor academic performance. This then comes to be the great fear for most students since it’s a great waste to study not to completion. There comes the option of working and not studying.

Why working

             Economic shortcut: though it may be thought as the easy task, working can be the shortcut for economic successive for wise, lucky and hard work people. Some resources such as money and time can be invested in other way around and give faster success than staying for a long time in the classroom.

             External inspirations and illusions: Some famous people like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs have been portrayed as examples of people who succeeded even after dropping from school. Their life stories have been used as inspirations in one and illusions in the other way. After dropping from their school, Gates found Microsoft industry, Jobs found Apple and Zuckerberg found Facebook. It’s an inspiration to people who have already recognized their natural talents and have facilities to boost them up, unless otherwise it becomes a mere illusion.

Why not working

              Fear for exploitation: people with low education level are always subjected to exploitation by providing the so called cheap labor which are always tedious while educated people and professionals are being given some smart intellectual jobs.

             Fear for risky taking: dropping school for working is more risky than vice versa. Some people fear to invest money for example in business fearing for future regrets because there is no a guarantee for best results. Here studying for employment is considered as more reliable than working.

So?

                          As child, people dreams before being exposed to the real situations which affect the course of their passions. Some dreams come true while most of them remain untouched. Internal passions and influences are sometimes interrupted by external agencies of which economic back up and facilitated environments play the major role. Having dreams as purposed goals in life is crucial because people with dreams rarely fall when stumble, they simply follow better deviations when miss the best focus they wished. Work or Study? Don’t lose your focus.