Sitting in an upright position, he happily
gives us an insight into his life and his journey to become a junior formant.
His name is Blessing Masangu and he was born and raised in Mpumalanga. This
essay shows the story of how blessing was inspired by his father to go into the
construction business. The essay also shows us his high points in his career
and the challenges he faces in the work place. The essay concludes with his
advice for the future people who intend to pursue a career in construction.
Blessing was a young boy, attending Murwe
primary who had a dream of becoming a doctor but due financial setbacks he
could not achieve his dream. Blessing father worked on a construction site and
as he was the eldest son, it was his duty to help his father build the family
home. It was at this point that blessing started to enjoy the building side of
the construction. In the year 2002 he began working as a taxi driver in
Mpumalanga and he was very unhappy with the type of work and he felt that there
was no future opportunities for him. It was at this point that a recently deceased
friend by the name of Sello Makena had approached Blessing with a promising job
opportunity in a construction company. He arrived at the construction site with
his identification book and his safety boots the next day and was offered a
full time job. He began to work hard and his hard work was recognized and he
began to be trained for a higher role by John van Hiekerk.
Blessing faces many challenges in the work
place and in his daily life. One of the challenges he faces is that he has to
works from 7am to 5 pm and then he has to travel home which is a further two
and a half hours away by bus and as a result he often gets home at 8:30 pm and
has to wake up at 4:00 am. The other big challenge he faces on a daily is a
lack of respect from the new recruits that may know him. It is Blessings jobs
to train the new recruits and he feels that when the new recruit is a family
member or happens to be a friend they sometimes tend to take advantage of him
and he often has to fix the mess that they made.
Blessing has many challenges that he faces
on a daily but he still enjoys his job and has had a lot of success in his
career. One of the things he enjoys is learning about the different cultures
and meeting new people. The other thing he enjoys is giving people advice and
helping the new recruits learn their way.
To conclude I have learnt a lot from this
humble and hardworking man. Blessing had
advised us that the only way to be successful is to work hard and to find
something that we enjoy. He also advised us that we need to work hard to
support our family as he does.
No comments:
Post a Comment