Ebuka Opens Up About Being Jobless At 30, While Celebrating 10 Years On Rubbin’ Minds Channels TV, Shares Powerful Advice To The Youth

Nigerian television host and media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu this week celebrated 10 years on Rubbin’ Minds. During the show, Ebuka was in the interviewee seat and opened up about a lot of things.

One of the most key parts of the segment was when Ebuka was asked to give advice to young people. Here is what Ebuka Obi-Uchendu said.

EBUKA OBI-UCHENDU: I did my first TV show completely in 2006. It was a game show on NTA and back then, you had 3,4,5 television channels that you could work with. There was nothing like podcasting or vlogging or content creation. Now, there’s a lot more variety and options to explore. Then, the fight was more about trying to get a platform. These days, the fight is about creating your brand if you can’t get on a platform and see where things take you.

So, I think I am also learning from young people to be honest because it was a completely different time and it’s just how you guy go for it. Back then, I don’t know that a lot of us could have just woken up and said yeah, I want to start something. Maybe because the platforms were not there. I am also learning from that.

Most importantly, what I would say to a lot of people who are starting off in whatever career it is right now is to understand that some of these things might not always work as quickly as you think. I have a lot of conversations with people in their early to mid 20s and sometimes I am honestly disheartened by some of the things I hear. The aspiration to own certain things before I am 25 or be at a certain point in my career at this certain age. You know, there’s this belief that by the time you’re 30, this world is over. Oh my God, I haven’t done anything. At 30 I wasn’t working. I had no job at 30. I can look at now and laugh but I had worked from 23-28. I was having a good run.

I had three TV shows at the time. At 28 I moved to the United States to get a masters degree. I came back and I was unemployed for a year and a half. Literally, I had no job so I wasn’t make any money.

So, the idea that you have to be this person at a certain age, I think the pressure is a lot. I don’t know that it’s ever going to go away because we live in a world that everything is in your face so it’s harder to look away or fight it. But it’s just to understand that things sometimes take time.

Source: Jide Okonjo

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