The Founder of Street-to- School Initiative, Oluwatosin Taiwo-Owoyeye, and Ojugbana Foundation, recently exposed the students of Estate Grammar School, Ipaja, Lagos, to the privilege of exploring and understanding different career paths as well as meeting and hearing with professionals in various fields. The programme, themed, ‘Future Ready Career Day’, featured professionals in fashion law, medical science, the arts, aviation engineering, ICT, flight dispatch and more. Describing purpose as whatever aligns with their values, interests and talent, Kujenya Ajoke, the keynote speaker, urged the students to strive to passionately discover their purpose in life as that is what will keep them going when all else fails.
To do this, they were advised to introspect, explore, identify their strengths and interests, discover their core values, set goals, as well as be open to change and corrections. While addressing journalists, Taiwo-Owoyeye, disclosed that unfolding events revealed that the younger ones are now being carried away by the flamboyant lifestyles of fraudulent social media influencers, hence the need to guide them rightly. “We just want them to look beyond ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’ and start looking for how they can make money legitimately.
You can use your system and be at home and make good money without soiling your hands. “That is why we had to come up with this so that they start thinking about the future of work and the opportunities that come with i.
