BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL CAREER OUT OF A CASUAL INFORMAL JOB

People usually think in error that one can only build a career from official, formal white-collar jobs or what we know as salary jobs. Some others think that one can only build a career from gigantic business ventures that have been formalized into real organised sectors or sub-sector.s. The truth is that you can create job that pays out of anything. You can make or build a successful career out of anything that solves a problem. Every empire, business, job, career is a product of the need to solve human problems, which when thought out, becomes a paying job.

Can you mention any job in this world which does not solve an aspect of human problem? Absolutely not any one.

This means that every job ever created in this world seeks one thing - to solve human problem directly or indirectly. This is to say that you can create your own job, build your career by just thinking out how to solve any particular human problem.

HOW TO START BUILDING YOUR EMPIRE - SUCCESSFUL CAREER FROM THE SCRATCH

The style of your perceived job or career does not need to be official or formal. All businesses in the world began from the informal or casual level. The biggest organisation or structure in the world is the government. Every public servant is being paid every month for doing the business of the government. Some are the civil servants while others are public servants.

The Dangote Group or Bill Gates Microsoft all began from the smallest of casual run-around to solve small human needs. Today, they have become the most official or formal or corporate private entities in the Africa and the world respectively.

Dangote Refinery

SIT DOWN AND THINK IT OUT

The biggest problem with you is that you have stopped thinking. When you spend just a day and think about all societal problems you can imagine and try to define a possible solution, you will surely arrive at a job possibility that provides solution to those problems. This is the birth of a new born career - through creative thinking. Although every idea needs to be polished, made dynamic to suit the demands of a sophisticated society, it goes a long way to making you realize that you can be another Dangote by just sitting down to think.

WHEN YOU HIT UPON AN IDEA, BEGIN TO WEIGH THE PROS AND CONS

Every imagined opportunity is worth thinking about and fine-tuning, but not all imagined opportunities may end up being workable. When you end up cancelling every job or career opportunity that jumped into your head, do not be disturbed. It is very wise to venture into a job or career with if possible the least risk and the highest possibility to succeed.

A phrase goes that..."when a risk becomes too risky, then it is not worth trying. There is an element of risk in every job, business or career but when the odds outweigh the gains, you might begin to think otherwise. However it is most advisable to remain positive in your thoughts. Some people have succeeded because they continued to swim against the tides - against all odds and eventually success smiled on them. Nevertheless, you must not fail to plan well.

DO NOT MIND YOUR BEGINNING LEVEL

A HUMBLE BEGINING IN REFUSE DISPOSAL CAREER PATH

Like I said before, every great investment in the world today has a poor beginning. Even if your conceived career path is to pick rubbish within the neighborhood and discharge at a central point of recycling, do not mind as long as it paying you. The difference between you and that regular rubbish picker in the streets is that you will have to learn to package yourself to make people believe in using your refuse disposal service.

Yes you may be dealing with refuse but you have to be neat in appearance. Wear protective gears which are not common with regular refuse pickers. A hand glove, overalls, helmets, nose masks, appropriate disposal packs and a high sound system that notifies the neighborhood that you are within. Believe it or not, you are set to be the next world renown refuse disposing brand.. A career has just begun.

FROM YOUR LITTLE TURN-OVER, ENSURE YOU PLOUGH BACK SOME CASH TO DEVELOP YOUR CAREER / BRAND

When people begin to patronize your little firm, do not consume all that you make. In building a successful career, there must times of savings and hardships. These are your trying times. Times you consider as investing days.

Return some of your profits as well as your principal capital towards adding more value, more services, more equipment, to your job. This is called career or job or business expansion.

Just as in refuse disposal, which you have chosen as a career path. When you save up to the amount that could buy a vehicle, you may opt for a refuse disposal truck instead of buying yourself a luxury SUV Jeep. This is the mistake most business people do in the career progression. They want to enjoy premature pleasure and end up crashing their business or stagnating it.

By getting a refuse disposal van, your organisation's capacity to deliver increases. You can now pack more refuse, cover a larger area, and dispose faster with much comfort. The whole step-up amounts to bigger cash in your pockets and just in case...you have not arrived yet.

AT SOME STAGE, BEGIN TO EMPLOY SOME LABOR

The idea is not to create areas of expenditure but to create more avenues for smoother operations and faster delivery which ensures more success. The more the hands you can engage, the more you penetrate larger areas with speed and accuracy. You can offer more services, solve larger human problems and you are on your way to creating a system that can function optimally even when you are not present.

BEGIN TO FORMALIZE YOUR EMPLOYED STAFF, CREATE OFFICES OR BRANCHES

A FORMALIZED REFUSE DISPOSAL ORGANIZATION

At this stage, it is good you begin to make official your employment procedures for your staff. Get them kitted up. Secure staff identity cards for them. Maybe I forgot to tell you that as your company begins to receive patronage from the public, there is need to register your company with the authorities and also fulfill all obligations required of you. This may include paying of taxes to the government and obtaining appropriate licences. When you recall how you started and when you are now, you can be sure that you would never be poor again in life.

Refuse disposal is a very lucrative business especially in the developing world today because your target (refuse / rubbish) abound. How much more when you decide to invest in refuse recycling business. It is one promising career still at its embryonic stage in Nigeria. It will provide jobs, create big time career paths, make for a healthier and cleaner society and above all, make you a successful career personality.

ABOVE ALL, PATIENCE IF KEY

All the stages of career development vis-a-vis refuse disposal job take time to metamorphose. It could take months, years etc. However whenever you begin, do not be challenged by how fast or slow you are growing. All you need to do is to apply the principles of building a successful career as listed in this post ands your career greatness is assured.