Let's address an elephant in the room.
Our generation has to learn and master a lot of skills for the future of work. Off my head, we need to master empathy, resilience, adaptability, problem-solving, crisp communication, creative thinking, digital skills, and what have you.
With empathy, let's talk about the pressure on us to be politically correct. We're having different ideologies shoved down our throats and we're having to question everything we believe. We're having to deal with several dilemmas too. What's the empathetic way to deal with a friend/colleague you care about so much believing in the most absurd?
Cut them off? Embrace them? To what end? Do you support them in public or shy away from them?
Now to digital skills. We have to master various tools like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. We also have to master self-learning, and learn how to Google for information, and now we even have to master prompt engineering for LLMs. I didn't even add social media presence building and what have you.
Yet mind you, these are just the FOUNDATIONAL skills, on top of what we choose to specialise in. Ha. For us in this part of the world, wahala oh.
We have to learn all of these skills and balance them with economic shenanigans on GHS 559 sparsely paid monthly NSS allowances, all while doing side gigs to maintain seemingly multiple streams of income. And remember, we have to battle uncertainty too. AI's even gonna steal the jobs we don't have!
And so are we lazy? Naa. Maybe, we're just tired and overwhelmed. Be calming down for us sometimes.
