My Ten Year Journey in the Nigerian Labour market 8.

As I round up my series on my career journey let me talk a little about a career break i took.

So I left where I trained and worked as a sonograher for four years.

Basically I had this feeling that I had outgrown the place and needed n

new challenges. Plus some little management "ish" also happened.

It was a very hard and scary decision for me but I had to take it.

I left not knowing exactly what I would do but I chose to trust my inner leading( that's how I live by the way and it's never failed me).

I sat down though and took in the implications. No more money. And after four years I shouldn't be thinking of going back to being dependent on my parents.

So I resigned. Spent a lot of time at home reflecting on what next steps I should take.

I knew i loved my job at wasn't sure yet if I wanted to pursue it for life. I needed to settle that clearly.

But then I used to nurse this ambition about working with NGOS mostly WHO, UNICEF and the likes. This was now conflicting with my young career.

As I examined my motives for seeking for those jobs, I discovered it was more for the money and probably the name too.

But still that ambition was strong. I even went ahead to do some applications but none worked out.

Instead even while I was at home, I kept having openings to work in one clinic or the other.😀

Talk about destiny. Eventually I gave up that idea of the NGOs and made up mind to go in for the long haul in this journey. 

Then towards the end of the year my current appointment came in though I resisted at first because it wasn't in the city, was in a rural area.
But I later did.

 Resumed the following year and the challenge I was looking for I met it in great measures.

I got stretched. Village people will stretch you men....😀. They will. But I've grown.

I've gained muscles. Limited resources to work with drove me online and there I discovered online schooling.

I began to learn more from different global platforms in my field. I was opened up to current skills and techniques in the field that helped me improve so much and gave credibility to my work.

It's been an interesting journey though.

To wrap this up let me just say the following;

- Sometimes even while you're on a job you love, sit down and ask very difficult questions, like do you want to do this for a while or for life?

- Also when you KNOW you need to grow and have better challenges than where you are, don't be afraid to leave BUT don't leave blindly. Make sure you have back up plans.

Don't leave foolishly. Make calculated decisions.

-Even while I took that break I knew somehow I would be fine. Reason? Even while working I already had some other smaller clinics and diagnostic centres I was working with. And so one way or the other those ones would at least foot my basic bills.

- Also while I was going through that period i tried as much as possible to live within budget. I cut off all frivolities so that I won't be a burden to anyone. I lived on a very strict budget.

- Then I took time to really read, watched loads of programs that helped my life improve so much. Some of the lessons are still working for me till date.

So when you're taking a career break make sure you use the available time you have to invest in meaningful things that will help your tomorrow.

With this I come to the end of my series on my decade old career journey.

Thanks to all who followed, read through and gave feedbacks. Thank you for encouraging me to do this to the end. 😁. I was sceptical when I started.

And I'm hoping you picked one or two things from the 'super stories' as one of my friends jokingly said. 😀. There's a whole lot more I've to say but it will make it too long so I'll stop here.

Maybe I should write a book on it sef... Let me see sha...

Thanks for reading once again.