Reality dawns on the day of your final exam in school. The graduates here would attest to this. 

On your way home, “what nex?” Would pop up severally.  If you can’t answer immediately, depression starts. After your final exam, you’ll immediately find that Education in the classroom is just a part of many things you need for your dream.

I’m an Educator. I’m currently practicing, but Education was just one of the many things I needed to be an Educator. 

It didn’t get too late before I found out.

The society is built in a way that you have to make a blend of many things to thrive. You get into it with Education,  with *additional skills*, with an amazing interpersonal relationship skill, with persuasive communication tendencies.

Unfortunately, with every minute you spend in the classroom, you miss out on many other important developments. Time will tell that one isn’t greater than the other.

Each year, the school sets out thousands of graduates who have similar capabilities  differentiated in grades. The school teaches you to be good. The society needs you to be the best. 

No matter how good you are in school, you’re just good. What would make you better isn’t in school

It is in your ability to know how to complement what you have in school with what is already in the society.

I’m an Educator. My knowledge of teacher’s earnings before I left school always made me sad. I had extra skills as a teacher (I’m coming to that), I got out to find it could make me 10 times better in pay.

Let hit it!

Have you bothered to check the most paid jobs in 2019? I guess not.

Well, this isn’t about money, it is about knowing what the society values. From 2019 to now, the all 10 of the highest paying jobs are *”Tech-related”*

Fortunately, tech is related to *all professions*, but many people are yet to find out. If you learn one tech skill, whatever profession you practice, you are 5 times better than someone who hasn’t.  Now, that’s where we’re going. 

In the school, you were never taught to go out to check how you can make the most from your profession. You were never taught on practical ways to bring tech into your profession. You were never told that many of you would graduate, but only a few will meetup because it’s beyond certificates.

Now, let’s take my profession as an example.

In school, yeah, we were taught Edutech, which is bringing technology into the class. We were not really taught the technological needs of the school. 

Personally, I had always wanted to give value, not to run after money because I had learned people will buy value with time.

For that, in school, I was always checking the most paid jobs. Right from NCE days (sorry it wasn’t included in my citation), I was interested in giving value. At some point, many years back, freelance writing was enjoying the preference, since English Language, which I studied had a part with writing, I knew I  had to go all tech, learn how to write for people that value it -Native speakers. I did. And today, it has helped me. We’ll get there in a minute. Remind me if I forget.

Before I finished from OAU, tech kept stealing the rank. My profession was clearer, but it wasn’t on the list of the most paid, which to me is a list of the valued profession. I had to learn several things in tech, the little I could learn with the time I had.

Fast forward to January, I found myself in Abuja, in a school willing to grow. The Director asked me, “what can you do for this school?” after he hired me because of my grade and persuasive communication tendencies. 

I told him, “give me some time, but you’ll definitely beat most schools around because I’m here.”

When I made that statement, I never knew I was saying the truth.

On my first day, I was at the ICT lab and I saw all kids handling computers. Something kept igniting in me but I couldn’t clarify. At my “me” time, I had it clear.

On my 5th day, I submitted a proposal to the school I wanted to upgrade their testing system from paper to CBT. They didn’t have an idea. It took me some extra days of leaving school later than 7pm. On my second week in the school, I had a breakthrough. We tried it with a weekly test and guess what, it worked.

The mid term was CBT and the next exam would be. Let’s continue

On the second week, the school began to show interest in opening a contract with me. I’m supposed to be serving there but from  my second week they were convinced they had to retain me. But I’m not convinced. I had found out my school’s the only school doing CBT around and I’m willing to take it to

 some more places. 

Now, for the prospective Educationists here, if you were in a school with computers, would it have crossed your mind you could upgrade them to CBT? No! Because you didn’t bother to check what people value right now.

The school wants me to train more staff but I’m not going to rush anything.

That’s it! That’s what you missed when you were in the classroom. 

You missed what people value and how you can bring it into your profession.

Currently, I’m learning programming.  I wanna develop apps where pupils can take quiz at leisure. 

What are you learning asides the 101 and 201s in the classroom?

As I bring it to a close.

Go all out today. Tech is what the world values now. Figure a way to put it in your profession.  It would make a 3rd class graduate more desired over a 1st class graduate.

Money is not an excuse. To learn most basic teach skill is free and over the internet. 

For those interested in programming, go over to     http://freecodecamp.org/ you’d learn from free and get better with practice. 

I learnt to be a writer from the web too. All you need to be better in your profession is an internet. 

Let me tell you straight, *if you’re not learning a tech skill that is applicable in your profession, you are just another person who may soon rant about unemployment.* 

The world is moving, move with it!

I can’t say all here. Time is gone. My dm would be open for 24rs to talk more to people from this group provided  I comfirm from and you are recommended by @⁨Catalyst⁩ 

I can help you think within the next 24hrs on how tech would get in your profession and make you the desire of all.

At no point am I going to refer you to anybody to learn a skill you’ll pay for. No payment.

Tech related skills include:

Programming languages

Common operating systems

Software proficiency

Technical writing

Project management

Data analysis

If you take your time to study, there are different skills under each to learn.

You may not find graphics design but the essence of this session is telling you to bring tech into your profession. 

To me, anything you do over the computer that requires software is also tech. It’s left to your creativity to not leave all and say you’re a graphics designer, but find a way it makes your profession (which you’ve schooled for) better. You still remain a graphics designer after all.