The Hustler and the Worker

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across a Wednesday night show called Men (NTV). 

It is hosted by a group of well known personalities who sit down to talk about all things fellas. This time around they were talking about the work and the challenges not very unique to Uganda. 

The idea that a healthy chunk of our youthful population have found themselves juggling jobs and position in the ever complex working nation.

The broader debate was about work and it's effect in the population as well as the battle to get a successful application through.

Fast forward about four weeks and another brief though relevant show appears on the screen this time around on STR8UP (Urban TV). The host is talking about the hustle and interviewing a guest @mastergabs @mamakla. The fast paced show is dealing with the same material and giving it another twist. 

If you watch some of the earlier material that was done in the Apprentice series, you will notice that there was once a show that dealt with street smarts on one hand and book smarts on another. 

We see this too in a show in search of America's best chef in which at elimination point, one contestant looses because of a lack of book knowledge while those with some measure of schooling sail through.

Reality shows have faced a lot of controversy and debates about the usefulness of these shows are way beyond the weight size of this blog. What matters though is that these shows represent s dynamic that is unique to our age in which CEOs and other executives have to be skilled with abilities to handle the ever present media and press engine. 

In addition to this though, the topic of streets smarts comes to the fore so that people will often find themselves rather disabled with book knowledge that is completely foreign to street knowledge. 

This sentiment is expressed in the interview in the show where @mastergabs describes his preference for young people who have struggled though the system to educate and feed their peers even if their education is limited as opposed to the fresh graduate learned but completely inexperienced in the hustle.