Online jobs are as hyped as the kwero (Quails) business that
recently saw many lose their much-earned cash on that investment. Although
online academic jobs have been there for a while in Kenya, are they worth
pursuing? No.
Here are some of the reasons why you should think hard
before pursuing these jobs.
1. It depends on who you know- Think of it as an accepted
form of corruption where those who have it use those who don’t have, to climb
higher. The account owner pays you peanuts for a paper going for a few tens of
dollars on the academic site. They are brokers arm-twisting newbies in the
industry and raking from it.
2. It kills your social life- spending all day seated, all
the way to late at night is no joke.
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You could even spend all day indoors in the name of looking
for money, doing one paper after another. For those of us who have been in
this, we have one word- It’s boring. You unknowingly push away friends so that
you can beat deadlines.
3. Mental Slavery- It is a form of psychological slavery
many African graduates are getting trapped in. The feeling of earning Sh100,000
seems so sweet to jump at. Seen how those dropouts end up in Saudi Arabia
slavery in the name of searching for the oil handouts, our university graduate
could not be far from that. Our poor counterparts from India are even willing
to take a third of what an average Kenyan will not accept. Think of it as
slavery for choice.
4. No money - forget the academic writing, being paid $0.001
for a single task is no joke. Try online surveys, and you will be astonished.
These do not even deserve to be called part-time jobs. They are sucking life
away from our youths. The same applies for genuine, pay-per-click sites.
5. Loose skills
By the time our graduate opts out of this slavery, they will
be in stagnation. Doing homework for white students for two or three years can
surely delete all Engineering Laboratory skills you learned. Don’t bother the
government if you seem to not secure a job after wasting your tarmacking years
on this jobs
Be careful. If you are contemplating on whether to join or
not.
