No Guidance.

I think when I was in college I took for granted the benefit of having a career center to go to or having parents who were there to talk to me about possible career or jobs I could pursue. On Monday, I was sitting with two Rwandan girls about 25 years old. We started to talk about what they do for a living. The one is a designer. She designs logos for shirts and colors them. The other works for World Relief. I think I asked them how they got into their professions. The designer told me she had found her gift at a very young age. Her gift according to her was her abilities and talents. She went on to explain how many people her age are still looking for their gifts and may never find them. I asked her to explain. She said this happens because most of them do not have parents because they were all killed by the genocide, they do not have people to guide them. There is no older adults to give them advice on what professions to go into. She also said when students come out of university they have no clue how to even get experience or to pursue jobs. There is no one to guide them. The society is seen as a young society because there is a large gap between young adults and the elderly. Most of the adults between the ages of 30-60 were killed. I had never thought about this. I knew many people had died in the genocide, but I never even thought about what it would be like to try to pursue a profession or a degree without parents or any adults to affirm you, guide you, or invest in you. Now I know.