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Any job your hands find doing is worth doing well.
Stephen hails from Golokwati, one of the village towns in the Oti Region. At about age 16 Stephen tells his father who was a carpenter that he would want to taste life in the city of Accra. After much deliberations, father allows Stephen to embark on the journey. Stephen gets to Accra and finds himself a job as a house boy to one Mr. Opoku – A chartered accountant.bolsa de pierna decathlon
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As a house boy, Stephen now has to put into use the home skills he learnt. So he cooks, washes, goes to the market and does all the things one will expect a house boy to do. Though Mr. Opoku has a wife and children, he begins to love Stephen for his hard work and sense of duty. Mr. Opoku decides to enroll Stephen as a messenger in the office. Stephen embraced the news and took up the challenge to learn new things.
When Stephen started work in Mr Opoku’s office, he realized the firm worked on Accounts and other documents for clients. He told himself he will learn that job. Computers were new in the early 90s. The firm worked on the accounts of a number of reputable firms and institutions. As a messenger, Stephen begun to meet officers and top managers of such institutions any time he was sent to deliver documents. Stephen decided to start sleeping in the office – he would wait for everyone to leave the office and then would switch on a computer and started learning how to type. He will join office tables and sleep on them after his studies. At down he will quickly arrange the office for the next day’s work. Stephen learnt other things in the office like photocopying and comb binding to aid work in the office. Everyone found him to be a very useful messenger. Then the unfortunate happened.
Mr. Opoku became ill and was hospitalized. Everyone was hopeful that he will return home in a few days but this didn’t happen. Mr. Opoku’s conjugal family begun to give up on him. Stephen will be the one to prepare hot water and food to his boss in the hospital. There were office bills to be paid, so Mr. Opoku on his sick bird showed Stephen how to write cheques and Stephen will send them for signature. That was how Stephen picked ideas to manage a business. Stephen was by the bed side of Mr. Opoku when he breathed his last.
Now the fighting over Mr. Opoku’s estate started right after his demise and lingered on for years with court injunctions on assets and so on. The Land lords of Mr. Opoku’s office took possession of their property when the rent expired. And because of litigation all the office equipment were packed outside at the back of the office. Once Mr. Opoku’s family were not United, no single person could come forward to own the assets. So they were left to rot at the back of the office.
Wise Stephen called some of the workers to take advantage of the goodwill Mr. Opoku had. His colleagues did not take him seriously. Stephen managed to secure a rent arrangement with the Land Lords to continue to stay at the Boys quarters in the office yard. Day in day out, Mr. Opoku’s clients will come needing Office Support services – typing, printing, photocopying etc. And from his widows might, haven acquired an old Desktop computer and Sharp Photocopier Machine, Stephen made new clients and served the other clients he was a messenger to.
Today Stephen owns an Ultra Modern Printing Solution emporium, printing Large Formats for huge bill boards, T-Shirts, Educational books for schools, funeral brochures, just to name a few.
Lessons:
1. The skills we learn at work are not for Salary but they become ours for the future.
2. Every good leader looks for that worker he can trust and make him a confidant.
3. Like David in the Bible, you may not be noticed because you tend the sheep in the bush. But when the apointed time comes, you will apply and find relevant all the skills you learnt whilst people looked down on you.
4. Any job your hands find doing is worth doing well.