Young graduates....

While waiting for others to arrive for a meeting last night, SLing and I had the opportunity to speak to one of the leaders who would be finishing her course in the local university and embarked on a new career path. Somehow, we started out with small talks and it soon ventured into what is her expectation of work and what to perceive while at work. As we begin to speak on the subject of work, salary expectations and the future, SLing and I could not help but sympathised with this young graduate. It is not easy for people like them to study the course they wanted, spent a bulk of their time buried in books in a land away from their known haven and laden with heavy responsibilities over their shoulders to succeed.

I could not help but felt rudely sorry for these young graduates who would graced the new working field soon. Knowing very well in the competitive field of work today, they could not have joined in the working fraternity at a much worse time. Generally,  food had become expensive, study loans to repay, housing rental skyrocketing,  spiralling prices of fuel for their mode of transport and standard of living had generally risen just to to state a few of their headaches. As we talked on, you could see the anguished look on the face of this young graduate. I could not help but felt the resigned tempered look and the pain reaction of expectations but facts are facts. As I laid down the current expected salary bracket by employers today, I know deep down in my heart that young graduates like this would struggled through their days just as SLing and I plus a whole host of people had experienced before in our lives. It is always never easy to start out in your career but with wise spending and thrifty ways plus much wisdom, one should be able to sail through. I've always believed that if you work with integrity, accountability and humbleness, you would be able to get through. I guess, these can be offensive words to many money -making motivating gurus but these are good Godly  principles which I've practised over the years. I mean, each and every one of us could device his /her own Godly principles to succeed in life. Just follow that principles and let it ride. Afterall, hardwork, dedication and determination are also good attachments to our own Godly principles in life.

Somehow, after relating some experiences in life with this young graduate, I was transported back to the days when SLing and I started out and the daring plunged I made to switch my career path. It was a very difficult time for us as a young family but thank God, we wade it through inch by inch. I related to this graduate the the experiences of good friends helping us to help ourselves like having savings, having forward thinking in life and making it through the tough times. There are so many "career traps" and " lifestyle traps" set before these young graduates to "snare" them into debts and exhaustion. I just prayed and hope that these young graduates would see the road ahead of them clearly and logically. I pray that they don't look at their career path and think that they would be helped all the time as even crutches has an expiry date. I also pray that they would remain humble, patient and do not expect much praises all the time as these would be shortcoming indeed. I take heart that God had been really good to my household and me. We had never lacked anything in life. It is true that we struggled a lot over our early years and we were frustrated at times as whatever we earned went into household bills with little to spare. But the important thing was that we made our life the best we could. This is exactly what I said to the young graduate. You can make it. Yes, you need to be thrifty, cut & trim some luxuries, tighten the belt a bit but at the end of the days , you'll be a better person. Yes, life is not about our finances but we do finances for our lives. We definitely cannot live on sunshine and air while being practical in life is important. 

This is what I believe - Trust a known God for an unknown future. Honor God first and He would honor you, definitely. This is the Godly principle every young graduate should know FIRST!