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🌹Episode One🌹
My name is Sabastian a young secondary school leaver. After I sited for my West African Examination (waec). I decided to involve myself in a small menial job, since my parents were not financially buoyant to further me into the tertiary level.
Not also, I wanted to live an independent life i.e self reliance. I didn't want to cast all my burdens on my parents, that's one of the major reasons which triggers me to seek for a job.
I wrote application to various sole proprietorship enterprise, business premises and supermarket in my locality. But to no avail I wasn't granted the privilege to work with them.
Since my debute trial didn't work out for me, I decided to relent my efforts on the job seeking. Few months later, the economy of the federation melted down and inflation of the economy arises ( persistent increase in the price of goods and services ).
Life for my parents and I wasn't a bed of roses, but a thorn of horns. My father who was a security personnel in the local Government council had not receive his monthly allowance. Likewise my mother a petty trader in the community market.
Since there was more money chasing the fewer goods, the price of the available commodities were very expensive, that it was only the rich citizens in the federation could make purchases. Unlike my mother who wasn't financially buoyant to buy the available foodstuffs. So she can sell it back to the available consumers and make gain.
These hampered my mother from growing in her trading business. All the needs of the family rested on my father's shoulder and he was trying his possible best to ensure the family survival.
My father's wages wasn't enough for the family upkeep, because the local government council deducted it based on the reasons best known to them.
My father after considering that his monthly wages isn't enough for the family survival. He rented a motorcycle and chipped into okada business. And the family was experiencing a healthy living despite the economic melt down.
A month later, my father had a ghastly accident which almost take his life, if not for God who intervened. He had alot of injuries all over his body and he loses alot of blood.
He was rushed to the hospital and the money demanded for treatment was too expensive for my mother and I to provide. We even sell out our little plot of land. But the money wasn't enough to fund the medical bill.
We seek assistance from many source, but to no avail non of them come true for us. I tried requesting for a position of a pump attendant in a filling station, but my application wasn't accepted.
The next day, I went out in search of an employment again. I saw an advent title :
\"JOB VACANCY IN POSITION OF A MORTUARY ATTENDANT. APPLY IN PERSON IF INTERESTED .\"
This was the only job opportunity I had and that very day was the late payment day fixed for my father's treatment by the doctor.
I was definitely at the state of dilemma. \"Accept the Job or Lose your father.\"

To be continue

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