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WHY YOU SHOULDN’T COMPROMISE YOUR STUDIES WITH A SIDE HUSTLE.

I have been observing this rather unpleasant hype among the university students in our
country, and this hype spins in the heads of many students who are comfortably hiding their
laziness behind the entrepreneurship veil. In this paper I will break it down to you all the
justifications and rational reasons as to why you shouldn’t ever compromise your studies with a
side hustle. There are two famous arguments that anyone who embraces the idea of
compromising studies for a side hustle will come up with first will be “Unemployment in
Tanzania” and second “One Can’t become rich in employment” in this paper I will do my best
to demystify these perceptions.

Starting with unemployment argument, its undeniable that there is a high rate of
unemployment here in Tanzania like most of developing countries of course, but we have to
agree that there is also a high rate of “unemployable graduates” the trend shows that these
two rates have a slightly high degree of correlation between them. So what do I mean by
phrase Unemployable graduates? Most of the students in universities are oriented towards
been certified rather than been educated, they want to cover topics rather than discover the
knowledge in those topics. Now this is the core problem, reality has it that the students who
find studies difficult tend to fantasize that they could be successful in business or
entrepreneurship as they like to coin it. The truth is entrepreneurship is not a bed of roses.
Entrepreneurship requires focus, commitment, tunnel vision, self discipline, excellence,
integrity, character, perseverance and many other traits. Now let’s put ourselves in the
employer’s shoes and ponder this for a moment, would you employ someone without
extraordinary competence in practice and theory? Now most of you might argue the
universities don’t provide enough practical education but again I argue what is the use of your
smart phone, your PC? You have all the practical world class materials for free at your disposal
that would give you an edge in the job market, but you would rather spend your time in trivial
things online. Bad news is that most of you will graduate “unemployable” and will add into
already huge human pile of “unemployment army”. Good news is that anyone can be
employable if you set yourself to become employable, by not only studying hard but also
exploring and advancing yourself in your specialization, be updated on the trends and changes
in your prospective career and work hard to match those trends and changes, lastly is make
sure you are focused on been the best in a broader perspective creating a competitive
advantage in the job market, the truth is when you’re the best and competent in both theory
and practice you become an asset no employer would like to miss. This country needs
specialists who are the best in their fields, it’s not okay that a large percent of the executives in
large capitalized companies here in our country are imported from abroad, just because our
graduates are not competent enough. Focus on your studies broadly and open mindedly,
develop a skin in the game, don’t fragment yourself with hypes. If most people are complaining
there is no employment differentiate yourself don’t dwell in the crowd stupidity, it’s ironic that
one would even imagine been successful in entrepreneurship when they think like a crowd, if
the crowd thinks there is unemployment, you should think there is “unemployable graduates”
and work hard not to become unemployable instead of compromising your studies fantasizing a
side hustle.

Am sure you have ever heard this somewhere, the perception that one can’t be rich in
employment; to demystify this we should consider what “richness” mean to most people,
what parameter or numbers define richness? Well been a guy specialized in finance in a
developing country in terms of numbers we would consider someone with over $100,000 of
investable money to be rich well the number is astonishingly different in developed countries
like USA, but since we are focused on developing counties, let’s just stick with that figure. Now
on average any CEO of large capitalized company or organization in a developing country does
receive a remuneration of averagely TSHS 30,000,000 per month and guess what these people
are employed. Of course they didn’t get to that number magically they spent a lot of years
working hard on developing themselves to become the best in their fields and mind you at
large percent their success is rooted back to their school days the discipline, focus, commitment
and others as I mentioned earlier. Take for instance James Oigara the CEO of KCB bank who
walks home with over 3,000,000 KSHS almost (60,000,000 TSHS) per month. Again someone
might argue he is just lucky, oh these are rare cases, guess what I agree with you 100% but you
should also know that achieving a meaningful success in entrepreneurship is a rare case too,
the common ground is career success and entrepreneurship success are both not easy to
achieve they require full focus and commitment. So the thought that a person can never
become rich employed should be discarded from your mind and be pragmatic and rational that
you can become rich and wealthy by climbing career radar ambitiously and strategically.

A note of disclosure, by no means do I think or suggest that side hustle is wastage of time, what
I emphasize on is that not everyone should be an entrepreneur, so not everyone should
comprise their studies with a side hustle, period.

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