Not a big deal
Disclaimer: The blog you are going to read has some disturbing content you may not feel well reading this. If are an emotional or a week hearted person you should skip it.
An 18-year-old boy can never be unemployed if he is from a lower-class family. Or maybe I don't know what class I belong to. Hello, I am Somu. You are going to read my story ahead. Things are not that bad in the starting. I did not born with the golden spoon but I still have access to the basic necessity. I go to the same government school like everyone else in my neighborhood goes. My family spends reasonably enough money on every festival. I have good clothes, food, education is not that good but still I atleast have access to education. Life is well. And I was happy.
I got my first shock in the year 2012. The employer of my father got bankrupt and my father become unemployed. He was making reasonably enough money to meet his family's needs. But now he is not earning even a single rupee. He was from the unorganized sector of the economy, and not very competitive in the job market. After that, he starts doing whatever job he can find. He soon realizes that one job is not enough so he starts doing two jobs simultaneously. After one year he decides to take some risks and start his own business. According to his calculation if the business succeeds not just he can give his family a good living he will be also making good bucks. The odds are in his favor in business there are high chances that the business will survive. Like every other person he also has some life savings, a big chunk of money that he saved over a long period. He invested all his savings in his business which is 2 lakhs. But that was not enough so he had to borrow another 50 thousand with a very high interest rate. It was time for another shock to me. He was in the manufacturing business, he brought all the machinery thinking that he will easily get the permit from the government to setup his manufacturing unit. Because there are already people who run the same kind of business with the same kind of machinery. And then something happens that we never thought will happen even in our dreams. The government does not gave him the permit. He uses his all connection to somehow get the permit. He worked for the local ruling party and tried to bribe the officials but nothing seems to work. He requested each and every politically powerful person in the town, forgot about requesting he begged them but no one helped him. Eventually, his life-saving got stuck in the form of machinery.
Years went by and now I am in my 9th standers. Yes, I somehow keep studying and made it to 9th. Now my father in his late 50s, he can't work as hard labor because his body will never allow him. My family was short on money so I started working in a workshop while keep studying on the side. While working on a part-time job I passed out 12th with average marks and took admitted to a nearby college. And guess what, it's time for the third shock of my life. Just before my first semester exams, my father went seriously sick. I need a lot of money for treatment. I started working full-time and never been able to go back to my college since then. After taking good care for 6 months and spending a lot of money he recovered. Life is again back to normal but now I am not a student anymore I have to work full-time to keep things normal. But I am not done yet, there was always a spark inside me that keep telling me not to give up. Never give up. Never stop working hard for a better life. Every day after coming back from my job I always keep thinking what next, what can I do that will make some money? After researching a lot I found out about the technology sector. I decided to get into tech. I used my years of saving to buy a desktop. I reduced my working hours so I can focus more on learning. I found that tech companies in my local area do not hire people who don't have a college degrees and they don't pay good salaries also. So I decided to leave my town. I am the only earning person in my family, I have to keep sending them money each month otherwise they will not be able to survive. Just before I am about to leave my village my father's health again become serious and this time it was worse than before. And now I have seen so much in my life that I did not get shocked by anything. I have to cancel my plan. And start taking care of my sick father. I was so frustrated that this happened again in my life. This is for the second time. But at the same time I can't leave my sick father and just go away.
I questioned myself why me?
Why there is so much pain in my life?
Why do I have to sleep empty stomach?
Why do I have to see my parents with poor medical conditions?
Why can't I just flood money on my parent's treatment?
Why do I have to leave my study in between?
I started talking about my problems with my friends and relatives. And after hearing all this they soon disappear. Although I never asked for money from them. And I have no plan to ask for money from them. They just assume that I will ask for money from them and they disappear for that reason. I realize with time that I am not someone special. There are people in this world who sleep on empty stomachs, can not afford medical treatment at all, and never went to school. What is the big deal in it? I am just another poor guy. My employer does not care about all this, it's none of his business he wants a guy who can make money for him from day one. He is not going to consider my excuse for not having a degree. Yes, you heard this right for me it's my seriously sick father for them it's just another excuse not to have a degree. And they are not wrong either why they will give a job to someone who is not qualified for it. Why would they waste their time training an underqualified employee when the job market is already flooded with qualified people? This is how the world works, this is the truth. You get paid for what you provide and the cost is determined by the demand and supply of the product/service. If I want to have a better life I have made a way out of all this! But It's really easy to say this and very hard to implement. Working for 10 hours a day and studying after that for a tech job is not that easy, atleast for me. So getting a tech job might not be a big deal for you but for a person like me, it is a big deal!
At the beginning of this blog, I said that an 18-year boy can never be unemployed if he belongs to a poor family. This is for you if you were that boy either your family will ask you to do some kind of job for a negligence amount of money or you will ended up going to a job because you can't leave your family members in pain. You need to work a lot harder from your teenage. You need to make good decisions. You need to earn money before your parents get old before they start having health issues. Good luck I hope you were that person who pulls out his family from generations of poverty.
The character and the story in this blog are completely fictional if anyone finds any similarities that's nothing but a coincidence. If you reading this till the end please share it on Twitter and tag me. Thanks for reading.