Dear Agricultural students,
"Go to the University and get yourself a degree.Be grateful that you got a chance to be part of the team" . This is just one of the many statements you will encounter in your path to learning that agricultural course .
Its these statements that will make you feel awful as to why you didn't get that Medicine position that you so hoped to and what you never thought of choosing during the JAB selection process turns out to be what you get. Now this is what happens. Agricultural sciences have been degraded in the past often being given the last option.During the JAB courses allocation, when all other disciplines have their fill the remaining un-allocated students are lumped in to the Agricultural sciences as very few students pick them as their first choice.
Well you have no choice. You go with what is written in black and white. Three weeks after commencing your studies, your classmates will do inter-faculty transfers with a majority of them blindly escaping to Faculty of Arts, BA to be specific. They cite reasons like Economics students have the say in campus when it comes to dressing and partying. Don't despair. You never came to school for dressing or partying reasons. You came to gain knowledge. You neighbors and some family members will also be on your neck disapproving your choice of career, telling you how scanty jobs are in the agricultural arena.Listen to their concerns and be wise enough to settle on the best decision. And while at it, be bold enough to tell them that as farmers .............
For without food there's basically nothing the economist or the technology person can do. They all depend on farmers for daily sustenance. So imagine what happens when a new generation of farmers isn't raised to replace the old one? I bet you must have read that the average age of a farmer in Kenya is above 55 years of age constituting mostly of the old and retired. So what will happen when there's no one to continue the farming profession?We shall all starve and die, right? Or maybe manufacture our food in the laboratories.
In addition to showing that you aren't in the scam of professions, consider Prince Williams ,the Duke of Cambridge, who chose to enroll himself for an Agricultural Management course at Cambridge University so as to gain a deeper understanding of issues affecting Agricultural businesses and rural communities in the UK. And it doesn't end there. We have celebrities the likes of Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Russell Crowe all preferring to get down in their farms.
So, Why am i saying this?
Its basically to show you that you are what you believe you are. And any career is as important as you deem it right in your mind. Passion is what it takes to be what you want to be and to be gracefully good while at it and job opportunities will follow you. And that is regardless of what people will tell you about the farming career. Let it come from within you.
Enough said so,........
Yours' farming
E.K
"Go to the University and get yourself a degree.Be grateful that you got a chance to be part of the team" . This is just one of the many statements you will encounter in your path to learning that agricultural course .
Its these statements that will make you feel awful as to why you didn't get that Medicine position that you so hoped to and what you never thought of choosing during the JAB selection process turns out to be what you get. Now this is what happens. Agricultural sciences have been degraded in the past often being given the last option.During the JAB courses allocation, when all other disciplines have their fill the remaining un-allocated students are lumped in to the Agricultural sciences as very few students pick them as their first choice.
Well you have no choice. You go with what is written in black and white. Three weeks after commencing your studies, your classmates will do inter-faculty transfers with a majority of them blindly escaping to Faculty of Arts, BA to be specific. They cite reasons like Economics students have the say in campus when it comes to dressing and partying. Don't despair. You never came to school for dressing or partying reasons. You came to gain knowledge. You neighbors and some family members will also be on your neck disapproving your choice of career, telling you how scanty jobs are in the agricultural arena.Listen to their concerns and be wise enough to settle on the best decision. And while at it, be bold enough to tell them that as farmers .............
In addition to showing that you aren't in the scam of professions, consider Prince Williams ,the Duke of Cambridge, who chose to enroll himself for an Agricultural Management course at Cambridge University so as to gain a deeper understanding of issues affecting Agricultural businesses and rural communities in the UK. And it doesn't end there. We have celebrities the likes of Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Russell Crowe all preferring to get down in their farms.
“I don't think any place of dirt anywhere in the world means more to me than this."
Russell Crowe
So, Why am i saying this?
Its basically to show you that you are what you believe you are. And any career is as important as you deem it right in your mind. Passion is what it takes to be what you want to be and to be gracefully good while at it and job opportunities will follow you. And that is regardless of what people will tell you about the farming career. Let it come from within you.
Enough said so,........
Yours' farming
E.K
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