Balogun Muyideen was among the cohorts of
batch 5.3 who attended WAVE’s training program when WAVE collaborated with
Apapa Local Government in 2018. During his undergraduate days at the Lagos
State Polytechnic, he worked for three different organizations – received #40,000
altogether as stipend – to earn a living as well as cater for his educational
expenses such as buying books and other research materials.
In the mid of his academic session at
Lagos State Polytechnic, Muyideen heard about WAVE from a staff of Apapa Local
Government and decided to join the program. His aim to join the program was to
be enlightened and set a career map for himself. As he uttered verbatim, “My
aim to join the program was to be enlightened, be focused and set a career path
for myself after graduating from Lagos State Polytechnic.”
Muyideen was trained at the Apapa local
government where he was exposed to soft-skill training such as team-work, problem-solving
and time-management. For him, the training was highly educative, inspiring and
worth the sacrifice. He struggled to round off the training,
despite the fact that his schooling activities were highly demanding.
When coming in for the program, Muyideen’s
expectation was to receive soft skill training but, this expectation changed at
the end of the program – “I expected to be enlightened on soft skill training
but after the WAVE program, I discovered my innate ability and developed a concrete
roadmap to pursue my career. The training was an eye-opener,” he said.
Moving from his comfort zone, Muyideen
diversifies his career from marketing to the engineering field. He currently works
as a field engineer at Veiny (a telecommunication company), where he applied
time management skills learned at WAVE. As he stated, “As a field engineer, you
are supposed to arrive at the field in-time unless you are ready to lose your
job. I apply time management on my job daily and all thanks to WAVE.” His
delight at his current work is that “there is an avenue to learn new
things as well as enjoy the welfare accompanied with the job.”
As WAVE changes his narrative, Muyideen
advises job-seekers to focus on gathering the required skills and knowledge
such as attending the WAVE training program. Balogun Muyideen dreams to be a
marketing manager and he is currently gathering the required skills in his
current place of work.
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