I have seen people say they have been blessed in a given year, but every so often I don't believe it's just because it had not happened to me. People have been speaking of greatness and abundance of blessings from God, but then I kept saying to myself, “Will I be able to attain this in my life? Will this be a story I would ever tell in a particular year?”
As a trader who sells petty goods, I thought of having something bigger than this, but then my husband was working in a place unsuitable for him. His income for the past 18 years has not been appreciating. I don't know what name to give to his kind of person. After deep thought, I decided to use "DEDICATION." He has been dedicated to his job like never before. Working in a place for over 18 years without something to show forth to is something I guess I can never do in my life, and not even in my next life. We have different people with different methods of dealing when it comes to dedication.
Working in a place where one is dedicated without the management being dedicated to the one who is dedicated is a mess. My husband only had the hope of acquiring something great from the management of where he was working. They had promised those who had stayed for 10 years and above a half plot of land. This kept my husband struggling to face that strength of life. 10 years came and went without fulfilling their promises. After more than 10 years, they started putting up an act that the landlord they were supposed to give out had been taken by some people, and the one they had left would be used for their permanent site.
That was understandable, but my husband still kept struggling with them just in case things happened. The more he stayed, the more he was left without words from them.
I called my husband and told him to find another job. He was shouting at me for being an enemy of progress. I kept mute without saying a word, but then I kept pestering him year in, year out. My husband had taken that place as his best job and had dedicated his life to serving the ones who were unable to fulfill their promises.
Just this year, my husband decided to take my word and wrote a resignation letter. I was so happy he carried out this act, even though he had not secured a place yet. He told his boss he was leaving. He said to him, “I have not secured another one, but I just want to resign." When he told me this, it was just like a dream come true.
However, he lost a particular job just because of this one that was not paying him much. It was a fight between us that very day he lost that job. He said he was not ready to leave and so lost it all to a job that was not paying him even weekly food money for one month.
Immediately after he resigned, he sent his CV to one of his friends. A month later, he was called to resume. Subsequently, another school called him, but then he considered the pay from the first one, and he had to go for it.
Working for two months, we were able to fulfill what his former place of work could not fulfill. We bought a half-plot of land. Again, he bought a tangible number of blocks.
This is what I can never forget this year. This will remain a memory in my lifetime as I have seen what he has accomplished over the past four months of working in another place.
image is mine