After Matric » Self-employment

Matriculants Who Can’t Find Work can Consider Working at Home

There are many matriculants struggling to find work, even some matriculants who have done further studies and have a degree, but how long should a matriculant spend time looking for work before trying a different approach to earning an income? Well, if a year has passed since a matriculant started looking for work, or since a university graduate started looking for work, and that person is still having no luck getting a job, things will not be looking very good at all. Depression may set in, causing these unemployed youngsters to put less effort into continuing to try finding a job. Of course I am not suggesting that matriculants look for work for only one week before considering a different approach to earning an income, but that they and their family and friends … Read entire article »

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Matriculants! Start Your Own Business from Just R420 Per Year!

If struggling to find work for a long time after matric, matriculants can start their own business instead! If you’re a matriculant struggling to find work, what would you like to do? Pick anything you are good at, or know quite a bit about, or like doing, and then start doing it, working from home, and make money from it! Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Sound unbelievable, doesn’t it? Well, starting your own business, working from home, earning money for yourself can actually be exciting, and can be possible – if you only make the effort to put in the work required. Are you able to work? Can you work? Do you want to work? Question: What kind of work is this about? What would my business be? You would be self-employed: Offering a service, … Read entire article »

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Can Self-employment Help Reduce the Unemployment Rate in South Africa?

It stands to reason that if you cannot find a job in South Africa, start working for yourself instead, by becoming self-employed, but what about those young people in South Africa who do not want to work for themselves? How could becoming self-employed help reduce the general unemployment rate in South Africa? If there were more young people in South Africa becoming self-employed, how could this make more jobs available to those young people who simply just want a job, and don’t mind working for a boss? (Disclaimer): Based on a bit of logic (whether the ideas could actually work or not), on opinion, and with hopefully not too much blonde thown in, this is my thinking: When the young people of South Africa matriculate or get their degree or diploma after further … Read entire article »

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