As many South Africans sit back and enjoy the annual Youth Day public holiday, I am reminded why this memorial is so important for us all.They were fighting for the right to be educated, to be represented and to have a voice. And many died for the cause.
This young man, Jonathan, was hip deep in an IT apprenticeship program, learning how to assemble and fix hardware. “Daniel,” he said, “I want to work in an area where I can build a life, make a difference and have a say in the structure of my day.” But the youth are still easily marginalised because of the woeful lack of access to the internet, the web and the boundless opportunities that exist in this new frontier.
If you view your working life as a series of projects, you provide yourself with the option to change. It also allows for failure. If a project fails, you can move to the next one and take the lessons with you. If your career fails … ouch. At the time of writing this piece there were more than 1 million vacancies for programmers and the third-highest paying job in the world was a software developer.To live in the project world you need to be tech savvy but you also need to be money smart. True independence comes when your financial freedom is not solely dictated by your job. After all, J O B stands for “just over broke”.You need to ensure that you can earn money when you are sleeping.