Why the White Collar Job?!




By Patricia Bassey Effiong

You might be wondering… What is a white-collar job? Is it an occupation that requires one to always be on white dress or is it that kind of job meant for the whites and not the blacks? What category of professions does it falls under and what do I stand to gain from it?

In the real sense, it is a job that requires you to work in an Organization, say an office instead of a factory, and dress in a corporate manner e.g. Suits, Shirts and Trousers and so on. A white-collar job constitutes the class of salaried employees whose duties do not call for the wearing of work clothes or protective clothings.


Most Nigerian youths want to work in companies where they feel they will earn substantial amount of money as well as earn respect for themselves in the society. Youths want to dress in suits and other foreign dresses because of the requirements of white-collar jobs but forget the fact that these companies, these offices have limitations to the number of people they can employ and in the end; it is the same old story… NO EMPLOYMENT!


Not everyone is destined to work in offices, not everyone is destined to wake up very early in the morning daily to go to their offices, work under a constituted authority so as to receive monthly salary, not everyone will make a living through what he or she studied in school, it is just an unfortunate mentality that is so much promoted in our society today.
  Out there, there are jobless first class graduates, graduates that have no choice but to go into selling of recharge cards, snacks like buns, doughnuts, puff puff, vocational training and many more humble jobs in order to keep body and soul together because jobs are not available and the worst part of the situation is that even the available ones are given to those who don’t deserve it. To this, I ask: Why the white-collar job?
The white-collar job came into being in Nigeria as a result of foreign influence and the developing stage the country was and is still currently going through. Back then, there was no white-collar job and you will agree with me when I say we were doing just fine even with agriculture which was used as a means of living back in the days, but it is like the saying goes, “change is the only constant thing.”


Yes, It is important for change to take place but if the change isn’t to the good of the people, then it should be corrected. 

The existence of white-collar job in Nigeria today is not a bad thing at all, don’t get me wrong, but the important thing is that we think deep, look into ourselves, realize that greatness, that gift, that uniqueness in us and bring it to fruition.

Who says you have to work in a company to be respected? Who says that you are not where you are supposed to be if you don’t have a white-collar job? Tell me; Is it everyone with white-collar jobs that are great and popular today? If it is not your calling, then why venture into it in the first place?


This is a call for youths to develop the habit of creativity. There are other means to becoming someone great in life without sitting for submitting CV’s, waiting for an interview and getting the news of employment. There is more to life than working everyday within the four corners in an office and getting salary payment.

A white-collar job is just another type of route and not the only route in the journey to self-accomplishment.

Let’s brace up!




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