10 years ago, i set out on a beautiful journey to embrace a total different career in Healthcare. Acting was my love,my life and all I ever wanted to do. But being married to a medical doctor and a specialist ( Gastroenterologist) was an enormous challenge. So just being a mom of two infants (back to back😂) was not enough. Each time you go out to a social event or dinners involving physicians, you are bound to get the question, what do you do? I was tired of being just that doctor’s wife. While I could have easily told them, I have a bachelors degree in history and International relations, as well as an Associate Degree in International Law and Diplomacy.. that didn’t hold water. I could have equally told them, you know I’ve done movies most of my adult life or I have a Diploma in French from the Nigerian French language Village, that in it self was totally irrelevant. America humbled me, I found me lost with no career or paths to pursue. I was tired of just being labeled as the “ Doctor’s wife or that “Nigerian Actress”. Then the fire started burning in my heart to go back to school.. I wanted to redefine myself, do me, find me and do something different. Just two months after Chimezie’s birth .. I went back to school.. with the usual problem most foreign students face in advanced countries, I couldn’t get my transcripts from Nigeria 🇳🇬. So I enrolled in a community college just to get a GED in other to advance my goal of getting into a college in America. It was not a child’s play to relearn American English 😂😂 .. Well for a girl that graduated using the British educational model, I have to learn to use thesaurus because the America way of spelling was different from the British way. It was brutal 😂😂. But at last. I made it. Went on to obtain another degree in healthcare administration, vigorously pursued a career as a quality assurance auditor and another degree and so on.
This is a reminder that, we should never limit ourselves to just one career. In your scale of preference, always have an alternative forgone, that is a plan A, B, C and D. Fame and beauty will always fade but academics will always take you a step further in life so embrace it. ❤️Räägi sõbrale... #AFRICA ... spill TEA ABOUT THE TOPIC ABOVE.... Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie
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