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What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

losing my first job at 28 years was very devastating. i never saw it coming. I was happy and contented, and i never even realized that, what i was earning could not sustain me for three months if i stopped work. Before then, i was just working without caring about anything in the world. I just enjoyed what i was doing, having good time over the weekend and partying with friends whenever i was not working.

Losing a job helped to learn a few things:

That your office colleagues are not your friends. They will do anything to get your position and opportunities.
That salary is not something that can make you relax in life. It is madness to expect that you will live quality life with salaries.
That social capital is very important
That your partying friends are just partying friends. They may not come through when you are down
Financial literacy is very important
Be diligent in your work but have extra things that can generate income
Invest money to have financial freedom
Be careful when choosing a career because it will determine everything else about your life.
Listen to your heart and examine your abilities and interests carefully before chasing a career in college
It is stupidity to go to college to learn something that will only make you fit for employment in a certain field
That there are women that are only attracted to you because of your job and they will go if the job goes

After i collected myself, i explored my environment and started an IT accessories from scratch. I learn the ways of businessmen. I learnt how to look for clients, i learnt how to handle clients and where to get supplies. I learnt how to survive and live outside employment. I also discovered how limiting and restricting employment life can be. I enjoyed abundance that comes from making your own money without waiting for a pay check.

I also started appreciating my former boss because i realized that being an employer requires diligence and can be headache. You have to keep thinking how to generate enough revenue to run business and pay all your current expenditures like salary

It is after loosing my job that i learnt useful technical skills like making computer hardware, software development and system administration. I shunned white color jobs and appreciated hand on skills. I realized that the real wealth is on production and not on using your salary to be a consumer.

I discovered power of saving and investing money on capital market. That is how i came out of the narrow life of staying in closed offices and went out and started growing socially, economically and politically and spiritually and discovered how little i had learnt from school. The real learning happens outside classrooms. I appreciated much the famous slogan from my grandpa;

“growth is born from adversity”

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Losing a job

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