School Taught Me Many Things — But Not How to Make Money

It's so funny I had this conversation just yesterday with a colleague of mine at work and I just saw the topic as today's prompt, "I must participate in this prompt", I said to myself and thank God here I am.

Do you know what birthed the idea of people saying, "school na scam?" It's because lots of persons who went to school, I mean graduated from the university and even furthered to the masters and doctorate level can't even afford comfortable three-squared meals, I can't even talk of car because that would be a luxury in their paycheck.

This makes you question yourself as to why you sacrificed almost eight good years of your life to go to school only to come out and can't even afford a good life, whereas the aim ab initio has always been for school to help you get MONEY to live a comfortable life with.

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I learnt many things in school but school never for once taught me how to make money which was the most important thing when it comes to the ground scale of life. We spent so much time learning about calculations, business studies, accounting, biology, literature and others, but we somehow never learnt about the act of making money nor sustaining it or it was brushed over like it's not the singular thing that governs adulthood.

School made this life an easy task to deal with... Made life seems like a stereotyped stuff that you just basically need to follow the already laid down path and you'll bump into success... Painted life as just encompassing work hard, study hard, get good grades and certificates, get a job and money flows in, not until you start earning salary and you find yourself not having a savings, you find yourself struggling at the end of the month to feed and you find yourself angry at the slightest delay of salary payment, is that really what it is all about?

And that's where school failed to teach us the rubrics of money making, school never told us that certificates ain't financial freedom not getting good grades financial plans, you get to realise all these when you step out of the four walls of school and guess what? You start learning from the scratch what the foundation should have been laid from time immemorial. You begin to see high cerebral people who are still struggling to make ends meet, highly intelligent people, people that graduated with first class honours struggling financially whereas another man who barely wrote first school leaving and couldn't continue formal education was handling millions of naira with apprentices everywhere working for him.

That's when I knew that School teaches knowledge, but life teaches you money. Do you know you could be a topper in your class but still can't sell yourself or negotiate a better salary for yourself? That's because money takes more than education to come by, life rather teaches you that incomes could be very unstable, that trusts could be broken, that you basically need to take risks even when it's a 20% success rate in view and that the ability to earn money and keep them revolving is more than the hardwork of scoring high grades.

I'm in no way joining the notion of school na scam but rather pointing it out to us all that making money is a life lesson often omitted from our curriculum which poses great task on us as students and graduates to seek actively these techniques and skills because in the real world out there, no one ever pays you for how much knowledge you have but people will gladly pay you for how much knowledge you're able to transmit into visible problem-solving skills.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day ahead 👍