Brick and Pyro I know what you mean.
I know a black Engineer from Pretoria who had 6 years experience and was starting for a Masters. He got a job with thie boere firm. Typical boere Engineering firm but different in that they have adapted to the new SA and befriended blacks and are known in gvt circles as a good outfit. So this guy joins them and after a while the boss came to him and said “Lebo, what have you been doing for the past 6 years. You are a clever oke but you know nothing.” Then Lebo explained that in his previous company he got a good salary, nice title (as Pyro suggests) but did not do much actual hard core work. The boere said “they f….d you up” He says “I needed the money” and proceeded to explain his family situation. Ahh man, heart wrenching stuff. Dude came from the bottom and ended up being the only breadwinner. So he took and stayed at the job even though he knew it was window dressing.
They tried to convince him to drop varsity and just work. Put in the hard hours starting with basic stuff and doing reports, drawings, site work, etc. But he said naahhh “when I get this qualification…I can even earn more in another company”
That’s the challenge.
