Ever felt like there should be a place where our African Community's hustle and heart could meet? We did too. That's why we built GigSta – https://xitter.gq/t.co/Lhr5CrJxJY
Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined March 2009
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Relocating to another country & adapting to different cultures brings about an understanding of how an environment can influence and shape beliefs.
The younger you are, the easier it will be . However, if you are older, you need to teach your mind to unlearn stuff...
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True. No one would risk leaving a functional system to go to a non functional system without a solid fall back plan. Unonzwa votaurs kuti haa kwakadhakwa kunze uku yet they have set their lives through that same place “yakadhakwa”
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The reasoning behind this practice stems from the fact that we have been taught to believe that technical skills dont play a role in the management/leadership space.
Hence why most organisations have their I.T personnel under the Finance department.
Iets drill down ...
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Bear in mind , its hard to stay focused in an environment like Zim, but what choice do you have?
Until next time.
[Martin Chamambo is a Cloud DevOps Engineer - Focused on IaC solution deployments to Azure and AWS]
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Your chances of immigrating are considerable higher if you are Software or Cloud DevOps Engineer than an I.T manager or CTO.
/Vertical growth - Choose e MBA route &, hope u get lucky & Stay for e perks.
/Horizontal growth - increase your salary by switching jobs every 2 years.
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That was some history, and below is where my main points are.
If you want to bet your chances with staying in Zim & choose vertical growth.
If you are planning to immigrate, choose horizontal.
Focus your time on gaining hands-on experience & attaining certifications
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To close it out - we grew up.
We did the best we could.
And we continue to do the best we can.
You adapt.
Some things you change.
Others, you learn to live with.
Until next time
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If you’re a business owner, survival comes first.
Be ready to do whatever it takes.
Fight for what you believe in - but understand the hierarchy.
Adapt, endure, and make it work.
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You learn that your role isn’t to redesign the system,
but to understand it.
/To work within it.
/To navigate it wisely.
/ If it’s not your business, you follow the rules, pursue growth, and focus on becoming your best self.
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First day in industry.
Lesson one: Red tape exists.
Lesson two: Office politics matter.
Lesson three: Ideology ≠ reality.
Lesson four: 10 signatures for stationery.
Welcome to the system.
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Final question we kept asking:
Why do simple systems fail… when the solutions to the problems look so obvious?
- Youthful confidence.
- Big ideas.
- Reality pending 😅
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And queues.
Why am I still queuing for basic service delivery? why cant they be continuous service improvement?
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How hard is it to build a high performance, decentralized, distributed system for
1/ National Identity records - online or offline, all departments connected.
2/ Health records too - Why does a patient have to repeat their life story to every new doctor?
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Like…
- How hard is it to decongest a road? 🚦Really.
Is there a text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis tool that specialize in or include support for African languages, offering high-quality, natural-sounding AI voices similar to ElevenLabs.
With atleast 50% coverage for Southern African Languages
/Shona
/Ndebele
/Zulu
/Pedi
/Tswana
Might be a good project to focus on for undergrad Computer Science students.
Focus should be
/Quality
/Cost
/Natural
If you are working on something like this - please hit me up.
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2006–2010 while at the University of Zimbabwe after lectures chilling outside the computer lab.
Me & my friends were convinced 😄Once we hit industry, we’d fix everything.
We honestly thought: “How hard can this be?”
2006–2010 while at the University of Zimbabwe after lectures chilling outside the computer lab.
Me & my friends were convinced 😄Once we hit industry, we’d fix everything.
We honestly thought: “How hard can this be?”
If you’re a business owner, survival comes first.
Be ready to do whatever it takes.
Fight for what you believe in - but understand the hierarchy.
Adapt, endure, and make it work.