Should you start from Entry-Level Jobs if you don't get a career that fits your university Degree?

[Kiki]

The Nigerian Workforce is saturated and it may be difficult to find a job that suits your university degree; this isn't even news any longer. There are a lot of people out there working jobs that have nothing to do with their degrees and would not prefer to have it the other way round. If we have to ask a couple of Nigerian graduates why they studied a particular course, majority will answer "The university gave it to me." This explains that half of the time, people are studying a course because they just want to bag a degree and not to pursue a career in it. This is not to say that there aren't people who are keen on getting a job related to what they studied in university but there are few of them. Some of them include medical, law, and engineering students.

Entry-level jobs or a Career that fits your degree?​

The answer will never be the same for everyone because a lot of people are out of their degree lanes, chasing the bag and maybe their dreams too. Recently, a Nigerian Twitter user made a post, asking other Twitter users what they studied at the university and what job they currently do.

About 90% of Twitter users who responded to the tweet confirmed that they did a course that absolutely doesn't relate to the job they have now.

However, the remaining 10% who are working in jobs related to their degree such as medicine/surgery must have pursued fields with more rigid career paths.

Why do people leave their university degrees to explore unrelated fields?​

While this is rampant, the answer is not far-fetched. The decision of people to explore paths that do not relate to their university degree can be influenced by several factors and they include the following:

Modernization​

Technology is modernization and almost everyday, it provides a job for people. As technology advances, there is a new job being created because someone learns about it and can pull it off. This cycle of innovation and learning encourages people to move towards emerging fields, where they can contribute their skills and meet the demands of the changing job market.

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