BUNMILOFE'S MUSINGS

"They said B.Sc's were no longer good enough,so I got an M.Sc. Then they said the market value of an MBA is higher, so I got on that horse too. Now they're saying I can't truly advance in my career/business without international certifications? But why?" Lots of professionals ask this question, wondering why their hard-earned work/business experience is not good enough to get ahead. The issue is not that your experience is not good enough, it's not that your previous degrees(or degree for some people) are no longer relevant; the issue is dear professional is that your singular experience in that particular field of expertise does not a global view make! That the world is a global village is a concept learnt since primary school, that globalisation is affecting economies is an over-flogged rhetoric. However, what most professionals DO NOT pay attention to is how to get ahead of the effects of globalisation on their own economic environment. Y

I am perpetually amused by commercial buses in Lagos. The kind of drama that happens in those buses will shame award winning writers. Just the other day, I found myself in a bus destined for drama. You see, the commercial bus was a family business featuring the husband  as driver and the wife as conductor. A female conductor is enough to cause side remarks and rancor, not to talk of a dress wearing, ponytail packing, English speaking one. Passengers, especially male, just could not get over her peeping thighs exposed by her dress which ascended by default as she turned this way and that asking " please, where are you going?" "Give me my money please". At first, it was merely hilarious, till one half drunk middle aged man accused her of disrespecting him despite the fact that he was probably older and richer than her driver husband. Only a few women can stomach such debasing comments, so she served it to him hot, reminding him he should be grateful he was even a