Misallocation of talents

Talent is very small word with six letters but with an impact on one's life. Talent is always realized when a person is 3 to 9 years. At this age nobody cares of developing a talent of a person. You find a person demonstrates talent in business but is taken to study law because his father was a lawyer. We are deceived by the adage, "like father, like son". What do you expect a talented person in military when goes to study medicine? Patients will face the music. Likewise, person interested in business when goes to study mass communication don't expect "mshiko "can never be put to an end.

 

The problem of accountability that we face in today society as I see is the result of misallocation of talents. People go to school without determination of who they want to be. A young student boards two to three daladala to school unaware of his future.  Most standard one-students will tell you that they want to become pilots, teachers, doctors, engineers, designers but ending in doing things out of their dreams. The process of killing such dreams begin when such students join secondary school, I say this because our secondary schools prepare us  to become jack of all trades and masters of nothing. How come one student  studies 12 subjects? Don’t we know that focusing on single item can [lead to]quality result? 

 

The situation becomes even worse when a student goes to university to study the course decided for by TCU. We have so many cases where a student is forced to study the course out of his interest. Probably TCU considers how the students make selection, because there is 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th selection that a student is obliged to indicate when making application. This again is a problem because a student shows lack of a sense of who he wants to be. Playing patapotea in lifelong carrier is equally committing professional suicide[here the government has something to answer through the so called HELB where one is forced to study education simply because s/he going to have 80% of his/her school costs funded by the government, this affect much children from poor families].

 

The role of talents in developing long-life carrier

Those followers of the bible would have been met with such a phrase, “where there is no vision, people perish”. The idea is that in developing long life carrier, vision is inevitable. The journey should begin at very early ages of life with guidance of your talent. Roughly talent refers to innate ability on a particular activity.  Talent goes with some sort of flavour and happiness in doing. Professor Robert White used to tell his students that in developing one lifelong carrier one should enjoy what he does. A teacher should enjoy teaching, preacher preaching, writer writing, student reading, driver driving, medical doctor curing etc.

 

So talent without education is again a problem. There are some people who believe that journalism is not made but a talent. Studying out of your talent will always lead you to a lifelong regret and poor performance. For example I one day read one newspaper the first lady of US saying that if today she goes back to school she could study music and not law. The idea is that law was not her talent and she might be feeling very unhappy when she meets  people with the talent she admired the most.

 

If you have no talent in reading books how can you become a writer? It is a food for thought.