If you want a global career, you’ve got to start working towards it deliberately and intentionally. First step is to graduate with a good grade, a 1st class or 2:1 at the minimum.
Overextending yourself for people and making their emergencies your own emergency doesn’t make you more loved; it makes you more used. Trust me, they’d be fine without you. Being kind is powerful. Being kind without boundaries is exhausting.
After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal.What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don't correct them harshly. Don't rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment.
I respect anyone who has a PhD, because the level of discipline, consistency, and mental stamina it takes to stay committed to solving one research problem for years is definitely not for the faint-hearted.
I have a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering. I am 28. I currently work as a security guard in Qatar. Every morning I put on my uniform and think about the version of me that graduated thinking the world was waiting. Nobody tells you that sometimes the world is not waiting. You just have to keep showing up anyway.
A lot of academics still think AI apps generate fake references to papers that don't exist.
They are living in 2023.
You can easily integrate a database of 280M research papers with Claude and ChatGPT to get answers with references to published papers.
Here's how to do it:
South Africa has about 454,749 teachers in total and only 3,240 are foreign. That’s roughly 0.7% 😭.
So #inanutshell less than 1 in every 100 teachers is foreign, but somehow the narrative is "foreigners have taken over our schools". The only thing dominating our education system is myths and lies not foreign educators📚🇿🇦