Tariah's blog

A lot of people studied courses that their parents wanted them to study. Some other people didn't get the course they applied for and ended up studying something else. Some people are not practicing what they studied. Are you doing what you planned to do when you were a child? Is your present career better than what you planned to do? Every week we'll be sharing stories of people and their Career Truth. This week I had a chat with a 26-year-old who made her decision at 15 without any family interference. What did you want to study? I don’t know... I wanted to be many things. Growing up, I said I wanted to be a Scientist. That’s the first thing I remember. Later on I thought maybe I could be a Farmer. Haha. Interesting. I know right! I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I got into secondary school and didn’t think so much about it until after we wrote Junior WAEC in JSS3. What happened after Junior WAEC? I was put in commercial class after the ...

A lot of people studied courses that their parents wanted them to study. Some other people didn't get the course they applied for and ended up studying something else. Some people are not practicing what they studied. Are you doing what you planned to do when you were a child? Is your present career better than what you planned to do? Every week we'll be sharing stories of people and their Career Truth. This week we have Victoria, a Broadcast Journalist. Who had to choose between her Mother and her Father's choice but eventually chose herself. She says she’s happy and fulfilled. What did you want to study? The truth is, I didn’t know what exactly I wanted to study. Let me just give you a brief story before we get there. I’ve always known that I wanted to be on TV reading the news. Growing up as a child, I used to be very obsessed with Tokunbo Ajayi. I felt she was so smart. Then I didn’t know there was anything like TelePrompTer. I felt everything she...