I met a man named "Victor", he is an electrician that works for a Gauteng based company who enjoys his trade and has an important job to ensure that all the needed equipment is ready to be used everyday for the days work. Victor is from Zimbabwe and came to South Africa in 2006 and started at the company in 2009.

Victor started working as an electrician when he came to South Africa to make ends meet, Victor received no formal training but learned how to be an electrician along the way working alongside qualified electricians and now he is as good at his job as any qualified electrician. The man Victor works for now has been the main reason that he is able to feed his wife and baby, Victor really looks up to this man who gave him a chance and taught him everything he knows and he is the reason Victor settled in South Africa and made his hard life feel less difficult.

Victor really enjoys his job and is passionate about it but his favourite part of the job besides seeing and working in big houses is doing the wiring and laying out of lights in a ceiling because he gets to be creative and when its done it satisfies him that its because of him theres light for people. Victor lives a very difficult life and faces challenges everyday but some of the most difficult is the police in town who often target foreigners like Victor who works hard and has very little, the police harass him on a daily basis and often force hi to bribe them so that they can leave him alone, Victor is also often affected by crime in the city and is often robbed and beaten by the petty thieves roaming around up to no good.

Victor was part of the renovation of the Avbob funeral services head office building and is very proud of this achievement inn his career and he also now has the job of maintaining his creation because his employer gave him the maintenance job of the building. Victor has struggled a lot. in this trade because its not an easy one one for aren't the main challenges he faces is the rewiring of a house or building and has often let his employer down and is currently trying to perfect this difficult task that not many can do, Victor admits that. working conditions aren't easy but are manageable and would not change anything in the future because he loves what he does.

When I asked Victor what it takes to be an electrician like him he told me that it requires very hard work and you need to expect to lean something new everyday and keep any open mind to new concepts and you need to be able to learn fast and not to never quit and be strong so that you can solve the problem at hand.

Victor is an inspiration and I feel honored to have had the privilege to interviewed him he has really been a real example that hard work takes you far in life, Victor's life story should prove to everyone that it is not only the people with the university degrees that make a difference in life but also people like Victor who make it tick in the industry.

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