forty is the new twenty

So as it happens, another semester has just ended, and as always Im jubilant, have collected quite a few movies and series to get me through to the next exam season, and I've made those resolutions I always make at times like now - to be a better student, go to the lib, attend all the classes, even the 8 O'clock ones, et al. But this time it's with a twist - I've started applying to companies that are hiring. See this is my final year, and this being the second semester of that final year, it's also my last one as a student. There are times when I sit down and dread the days I won't be student any more. Being a non-student brings with it a lot of freedoms, but it does carry a truckload of resposibility, and methinks that truck is larger than the one carrying the freedom :) I cannot for the life of me imagine how Im gonna support myself for the first few months if things don't work out like they haven't been working out quite a bit in my life. I've embarked on a few personal projects and I've invested quite a bit of time there, but like all other upstarts there is always the what if's. What if there are no takers? what if we overprojected our cashflows? What if market acceptance is just a little bit harder to secure than we foresaw? And what if it takes longer than we anticipated? Anyway, the good thing is the chances of success are just as equal, being that the future follows a random walk. Although Murphy would have us believe otherwise, Im staying postive on that.

At some point over the last few weeks the government had reached an agreement on cabinet, even down to specifics (ya, my fixation with News is now completely over so now my knowledge is limited to petty neighborhood talk - although my neighbors thesedays are very intellectual people), and then that govt spokesperson went and told people that there was going to be no difference in the way cabinet was run, that it would be the same way financially as a twenty-person cabinet. It would seem that our government spokesperson, in his infinite wisdom, would have us believe that 40 is the new 20. Really?!!? Now granted most of us Kenyans haven't done those doctorate degrees he's done, we should be at least a little less bright than he is right? You'd think. Hmmm :/

Anyway, on one of the jobs I was applying, they needed no experience, which obviously rocks coz I don't have any (used to spend my long holidays at home during the junior years) but they had a maximum age limit. Now Im on the periphery - Im 24 and their max was 25, but I was thinking, following the lesson we've learned from our government recently, shouldn't we all be able to, you know, lie about - no Im gonna go with 'favourably restate' - our ages? So that really, it stops being a disqualifying factor. After all, age, just like the number of cabinet ministers, ain't nothing but a number, right? Riiiight??? :)

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