LIFE TAUGHT ME

In my few years of being alive, I have learned different lessons that have made me the man I am today. Some from my mistakes, some from the mistakes of others, and some from home training. Apart from the academic lectures I have been given in the class room, I wasn’t a student who easily picked up lessons in school. I stopped being uninterested in school lessons after my mum stopped me from participating in jet club activities in school, and it followed me into the higher institution. One of the lessons I picked after finishing from the higher institution was that no matter how outdated the school system is, every information can be useful if you open your mind to learning. I was not the most intelligent, but my results were always top notch. And this was because I was very good at cramming. I boasted a lot about how good I was as I would cram a full text book a day before exam and still come out on top of my department when results are out. I was hailed for my genius and took pride in it until I left the higher institution.

I depended purely on my skills and experiences for work only to be met with some difficulties at the beginning of my career path after school. Although I am currently doing a job I love and have experience in, but that is just the science part of my original profession. I can not boast about knowing the engineering part of my course profession because I merely passed those courses by cramming. Courses like Calculus, Advanced calculus, Advance Algebra Engineering Science etc are core courses that form the bases of most engineering we have today. These courses gave almost any engineer a headache in school, and truthfully I passed them with flying colours without cheating or bribing my way out. But I am not as good and confident in them as I am in my current job because I did not pay attention to understanding them back in school. Instead I focused on just passing by cramming.

Now I find myself wanting to know everything and anything, but I do not have the time because no matter how busy I was then, the four walls of the institution made learning a priority. Now I wish I could learn some things I missed then. Now I understand when my mum says no knowledge is lost, the knowledge you ignore today, might be your breaking point tomorrow, so if you ever got the chance to learn, make sure you use it well and understand what you have learned. Now I know better, I wish I knew this then though, but anyway, I can only learn from my mistake and move forward. My HR was speaking with me concerning trying out in the Engineering department of my company, so the company would offer me a supervisory role as a senior engineer. It would have come with a better pay, but I had to decline because my engineering foundation isn’t really strong. But imagine I had really understood some of those physics. When I see my MD using those formulas and theories for projects, I just smile because I didn’t master them, but he did and that’s why he can still remember them at his age. That was a hard lesson life taught me, and I have promised myself to always take advantage of the opportunity time gifts me.

PICTURE CREDIT IS MINE

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 176 EPISODE 2 1