23yr-old lady Legon graduate rejects GH¢2,500 job in Accra over distance  

A 23-year-old University of Ghana graduate reportedly turned down a GH2,500 job offer due to ‘distance’.

According to BigGodwin Martey on Facebook, he was assisting the woman acquire this position after she finished her obligatory National Service at COCOBOD, but she declined.

It’s too far from her home in Kokomlemle to Spintex, he remarked on Facebook.

“I’m helping a friend with recruitment, he is offering this lady Ghc2,500. 23-years- old University of Ghana Graduate who read BSc in Information Technology, has no experience. Did National Service at COCOBOD.

“Lady says she stays in Kokomlemle, so it’s too far, she won’t take the job,” he wrote.

He explained further that in trying to help many young people, he has noticed a trend that has proven that many of them are only interested in online fame and not really upbeat about corporate work.

“I will continue to say this. The problem today with the youth is not unemployment, it is LAZINESS. And in helping friends during hiring, I have seen all kinds of scenarios that show that the young and upcoming generations are just tiktok crazy but not ready for the real world of corporate work,” he added.

The author of the post, BigGodwin Martey, also used the opportunity to share some of his experience with work.

He explained that he had to trek between Accra and Koforidua daily due to a job, among other volunteering jobs.

“Guys, in the past, when Websoft was in a small shop at Bombay Fadama and I had no accommodation in Accra, for about a year I was staying in Koforidua in my uncle’s house at Kenkey Factory and came to work at Websoft everyday continuously.

“It means I lived in Koforidua and worked in Accra for almost a year ooo. Infact, in 2007, I was working as a volunteer in Koforidua Polytechnic (now University) and I was trekking from Kenkey Factory to Koforidua Polytechnic every day for about 8months! I wasn’t paid a pesewa, I trekked till I got money to buy Bicycle.

“It’s ok if your Father is Dr Kwaku Oteng or Dr Despite, everywhere can be far for you. But if you come from my kind of poverty, and you think Kokomlemle to Spintex is too far, for a fresh graduate with absolutely no experience, then we have a case in our hands as a nation,” he wrote.

Ghana’s unemployment rate continues to widen, with opportunities for jobs become slimmer by the day, even as more and more graduates flood the world of work yearly.

23yr-old lady Legon graduate rejects GH¢2,500 job

2 COMMENTS

  1. Eii people have gotten opportunity and they’re fooling with it. Please I am 22years and I’m in my final year in HND Marketing. Please some of us are serious because our parents are not rich and we don’t have link anywhere. It by grace and our parents life that they placed on the line to get us to where we are now. So please don’t use this case as an issue. Some people like me real needs help.

    • I’m not really sure of his/her problem in relation to the distance. If her problem about the distance is in relation to transportation fee , he should know that for a company or institution to pay a salary of GH2,500 is more likely to pay transportation allowance and other incentives. Even if there’s no incentive, 2,500gh is not bad in this wicked nation where Nss personnel’s are even paid GH559 and parliamentarians spend more than GH 5000 on their dogs and sidechicks in a less than a month (man must think), she should rent a small room for yourself of benefit. If the issues about the distance is not transportation fee then its laziness to woke up early morning for work. Which is his/her own stupid problem which is causing effect and disgrace on innocent and hardworking graduates / yet to graduate youth. Unless ofcos she a sidechick of the president or a parliamentarian should she will definitely get a dollars pay company.. lol.. I’m just praying she will not regret and she will meet a greater opportunity. If not it’s a big “hmmmm” on her side.

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