Jojo and Her Career Path.
By: Jasmine Lupatu
Tags: Insights, Inspiration, Motivation

Stretching herself as a sign that time is up girl, you need to wake up and like no more sleeping girl on her pretty mind , she still wonders if it was really necessary to wake up at that time, she suddenly remembered that she had a target to achieve.

Her name is Jojo, and she is a sales person , just like other sales people normally do, selling with a purpose and goal, and that sum up the what so called a target. A target is acting as a guideline to sales people, it helps them not to wonder around doing nothing but instead to segment their exactly customer and face them everyday. Target is a measurement on performance, also is motivation to work harder, and finally, it is a force that pushes a person everyday to do better that yesterday.

After remembering that , she figures out what she was supposed to do on that day. As usual she first had to report to her supervisor and collect her necessary stuffs that are ,mostly likely helping her on her job.

Jojo was born in a small village called Ilula located in Iringa region, But she is Gogo by tribe. Her parents moved to Ilula before Jojo and her brother was born, for that reason Jojo does not speak Gogo instead she speak Hehe language. Being born as a first born Jojo has lived struggling life of helping her mother and brother just as all first born do regardless of their gender. Her mom was selling food in small local restaurant. Jojo was raised selling in facts she was a good seller and was equipped with good management skills from her childhood. And her mother have been selling food through out their life until today where Jojo is also employed as sales person in one of the biggest company in the country.

Jojo is enjoying selling because she has been doing all her life, looking back she was born in the family which did food business. And she has been doing sales ever since she was still a little girl, she used to sell home made breads in the market and she has even once carried vegetables dish on her head and selling in the street, hence you tell her nothing on selling, but Jojo has an inner voice that tell her to try another thing, her spirit is longing for something that even Jojo herself has not figured out how it will come to end, she is following her heart and enjoying her journey because she is aware of lessons in the way and she is ready to take the class.

Currently she is somewhere that she is well paid , with what she is being paid she is able to help her family, and herself nd in fact even her friends sees Jojo has won the bingo. Society sees her as a boss to have got that chance to join one of biggest company in the city, even sometime people ask her to borrow them some money because they believe she has money. You can imagine that state of life and Jojo is call to do what her heart wants.

Her main focus while she was not listening to her heart was to get all the experience she ever wanted and to have a clear one voice in her heart about her career path, because at times she was confused on what to follow until she decided to do the just to see her capabilities, to build her potentials and pile up her Curriculum Vitae.

Having worked in such big beautiful places was more like joining the university of experience, she never forgot her quest, that is what made her self-motivated. Apart from having her company’s target she had her own targets of exploring new areas and learning more about life and some left skills that together would help her on pursuing her passion and dream of diverging her career path.

This day when she woke up it actually the earliest date of the new month that ending the year. She had promised her self that before the year end, she has to find her path. Since it was all planned in her head ,she was already started searching for new opportunities that would lead her to the place she dreamt of and until that time she was on good point , because two jobs were already applied and one among them she was already passed through two stages of an interview successful and she was like waiting for the final result soon at anytime, the other one needed recently graduates and she was not, that got her disqualified. Jojo usually careless of age and experiences criteria she believes in what she has to offer more, that is why she did apply on the post anyway in the first place.

Collecting her stuffs and leaving to kiss out the day as her normally routine when she is doing her job, it was time between noon and morning she was heading to the near village from the place she was working Jojo while seating in the bus she received an email. Most people do not check on their emails often, This should not be the case for job seekers and workers who most of their communication means fall into emails way. Jojo changed her email checking routine because of nature of her job, she could check them at any time of the day something which was not ethical, emails should checked early in the morning ,noon and in the evening but those hours depends on the nature of your job.

After checking her emails she came across an email that congratulated her that she had a job offer she applied for. At that time Jojo could think of anything else grateful to her God that she made it. She saw the time she was supposed to report and she knew the procedure to say goodbye to where she was. She finished her roles well on that day, since she was full aware of this day would come ,she worked smart to make sure she left no burden to any one. Jojo is responsible young women, an inspiration and self-motivated, you will barely supervise her she knows what she is supposed to do, she gives her spirit in whatever she does regardless of it size, from home cleanliness, cooking and office work she smart you don't tell her what do unless is a new assignment for her but not on things that are wrong in front of her eyes she definitely going to fix them. For that character Jojo have been living with people well , she has empathy and she is a good listener that made her her a good seller too.

It was very easy for her handing over and saying goodbye, the team wanted her but also they saw what kind of person she was and without saying her dream and plan people would tell her that you are good on this and that things that she was looking forward to build a career around. They were happy that she knew where she was going nd what she wanted , they all said a word of blessing and wished her well, and she left immediately because her time to start on a new area was just two days after the day she handed over. Because she needed sometime to get familiar with the area of which was many Kilometers from where she was, she wanted to leave early so that she could get a time to rest for at least a day to refresh.

Jojo is reporting to her new role, as usual she is energetic and excited she start working. Jojo is a good leader and since she has been in different places with different people she quiet know how to get along with people. Jojo noticing somethings that are quiet mot normal to her she tried talked to them to the responsible person but it looks like the person don't want to change or may not to be told what to do my a just new person she figures where ego is and she using one of her good principle that her mom told her that change is coming from you, you have power to inspire other when you do it yourself first, and so she started doing that thing the way she wanted without telling a person a word, though that was not her job she happily do that just to let that person know that she was capable and that was not a bad thing instead was to make herself even more better. Jojo forget about the person way of doing things and she focusing on doing what she want to see and few days passed then one day while Jojo was sitting on her desk doing her assignments she suddenly saw that person doing things they way she did that means the person was inspired, Jojo as woman she knew other women too, she never lift her head up to anyone in the office from her previous roles, she respected everybody from the janitors, securities to the senior managers. Her being new and giving some few instruction made that person felt like she was trying to boss her around and feeling like she was a person of standards, what she didn't know was Jojo had no pride when it comes to work, she had no limits on her jobs except for those that need special go ahead apart from that Jojo could clean the office, wash dishes to Jojo those jobs do not disqualify instead make her more of a woman, Woman are smart, hard working and clean. Jojo was happy to have that person learn that team work is also about listening to other people view point and measure their impacts and follow them or suggest another way, it is more of helping each other because people depends in one another.

Slowly Jojo is going with rhythm of her heart, is leading that Jojo wants or writing? Cant Jojo do both ? the answer to all these is in the soul of the earth and time never lies, Jojo has find her path and she is doing well .

Leaders suppose to be actors, sometimes in order for a team to act, a leader must act first in what he influence others to do. People tends to think that leaders are good instructors of the things that they cant do themselves. If you have skills and ability to do that particular change or thing then starting by doing it yourself it inspires and makes it look normal and good to others.