I completed my Advanced level with high grades as stated previously. I was very hopeful that I would get employment quickly and pursue distance education. To be honest I was not very satisfied with my results I was expecting to get 13 POINTS. I was expecting two DISTINCTIONS in Accounting and Management of Business and a C in Geography. This was not to be the case as in all three subjects all my results were one point off the expected results. This pained me a lot. I knew I could no longer go to National University of Science and Tenchnology(nust).
However there was still a chance for me to go to the University of Zimbabwe . Shortly after we got our result my Management of Business teacher discouraged me a lot when he said "now that you have failed to go to University ,please try other alternatives or rewrite ". This was big dicouragement to me. As people we should be careful when we give encouragement so that we do not discourage those we puport to give advice.
As days draged into weeks I began to apply to various companies some companies would bother to reply me, those that bothered to reply their replies were just regrets.The Ministry of Education announced that it was no longer taking untrainned teachers I had anticipated to go for temporal teaching before going to University
I was called for interview at First Mutual I remember answering correctly all they asked me but still they went on to regret me. The day I learnt that the situation was worse than I had expected was when I went for interview at Manyame Air Base. It during the days when the war was raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo.The probability of being sent to Congo after trainning was very high. The adverts had been placed in all leading papers and radio
A crowd I estimated to be 6000 assembled at air base and those who had 5 'O' Levels at more than one sitting without 'A' LEVELS were told to go home.About 1000 left and I went on with the interview stage two we were told we were still many so they asked us to remove our shoes and to stand in a queque. They looked at my feet and told me that I was flat footed and so I could not be recruited into the army once again I left Manyame with dicouragement and with a clear picture that there was unemployenent in Zimbabwe. Manyame also left me with a sense of desperation I began to see little hope and I became less selective on jobs I would apply.
One day kudakwashe told to to the Seke road with a cut so that we help those with luggages and charge them a fee we this and raised about $900 a day so we began to continue to do this whenever we had time. Kuda looked for those who wanted extra lessons we found about two and I was also called to help a study group at my church voluntarily. It was duing this period that I saw an advert for those who wanted to study for Bcomm accounting with education at Gweru teachers College I applied they sent an acknowlegment letter and promised to reply soon. It later announced that the callege will turned into a university.
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