Nation Media Group I was on a call with a younger friend called Joy, last Thursday. She completed high school last year and is in that exciting in-between space of discovering more about herself, her passions and interests in life as she awaits to start 'uni' in a month or so. Joy is sunny, energetic and completely switched on – and what’s even better? She has a strong Christian foundation, with God as an anchor.
She is the kind of girl who, when you meet, you naturally tell things like, “The world is your oyster!” and actually mean it. At 18, she has a drive that will make her succeed at anything she puts her mind on. I met Joy through her dad who works in the same company as me.
When we had our first sit down, we hit it off like a house on fire. Since then, our relationship has blossomed without much help from her dad, even morphing to become a mentor-mentee kind of thing. We were on phone for about 15 minutes.
Her questions ranged from how she can spend her spare time wisely when she joins university, to what I did during my own time in 'uni' to give myself a head start in the job market. Just months after high school, Joy already works at a fashion store in the city as a sales girl. Her biggest worry when she called was that when she joins 'uni', she will have to quit her job.
.. and she didn’t seem to believe that her classes were enough to fully occupy her time.
And she was right. “I know I may have to quit my job when I start going to school. Do you know oth.