my story part 2

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swaleh1
After the demise of my grandfather i had a friend whose age was almost to my grandfathers whom i used to visit and i still visit to date and truly speaking this man equipt me with many stories which
made me think as if my granpa was still alife since he too gave me very many memorable quotes of which i will be unravelling as we move along.

when i was a student i used to say that the minute i do my exams then i will be a free man there will be no waking up early in the morning and going to school,little did i know that after the
formal education,going to the world you will need lots of amunition to defend yourself e.g good eduaction and experience.while still in the job hunt i used to read newspapers for any openings
funny enough in most of the adverts they will be asking for a certain level of education and an experience of maybe two to three years then i would ask myself ,where in the world would you have gained
this experience when you just left school the other day?these people must be crazy.

After swallowing the bitter pill of the army recruitment lady luck came along and i had a part time job with the then kenya posts and telecommunication co-operation as a casual labourer,as a casual
i encountered some of the difficult manual jobs in which some of my colleagues left due to the hard labour they encountered but on myside grandpa had given me a treasure which kept ringing in my head
so i had to encounter the hard ship thinking may be this could be the offer the world is offering me(the hard labour)after one year of hard labour there came a memo which said all those casual labourers who have stayed
for one year need to forward their names for permanent employment,i was among those who forwarded their names and luckily by 2nd june 1988 i was absorbed as a permanent employee to the rank of technical assistant or in
other words i was a semi skilled worker of the co-operation.

In getting the permanent employment i was overjoyed keeping in mind that now everything will be a bed of roses since i have acquired a permanent employment.After a month of being a permanent employee usually you get a pay check
evrybody got his/her paycheck but mine was not there when asking the relevant offices about this,the reply was that some documents had not reached salaries therefore a voucher had to be prepared for payment
hopping for things to be rectified the following month but that was not to be because the same story kept appearing for one year till the day i said enough is enough i had to incurr costs of travelling to the headquaters which are in
Nairobikenya while seated in the bus on my way to Nairobi the memorable quote kept ringing in my head (grow up and see what the world has to offer)

I said to my self surely the world has a lot to offer but then is this what grandpa was refering to?is the pain the only thing the world has to offer? .It is after this trip to nairobi when the paychecks started trickling in, month after month
but only after surffering for one year all in the name of what the world has to offer.