Great Men Also Went Through Apprenticeship.

By ODILIM ENWEGBARA

Even Jesus refused to be known until after his apprenticeship.

Alexander the Great did everything to hide the immense brainpower and the art of mind reading in him.

Napoleon was laughed at for not being sociable.

Newton too was disliked by his peers for being cold minded.

Plato grew up in abandonment. His family even regretted having him.

Bill Gates for 10 years worked on his Microsoft software.

His father wasn’t happy that he could have abandoned his Harvard education for something unknown.

Little wonder when he went to make a presentation to IBM, laughingly, he was told by the junior scientists at IBM that the best they could do for him was to offer him a job. But in response laughingly too, Bill asked them: Can I work in a company of the past when Microsoft is a company of the future?

Thomas Edison’s brother was his father’s most favorite mostly for being obedient and normal. Tom was hated and laughed at for his aggressiveness and for his nonconformist character.

He always challenged life’s conventions and no school could tolerate him. This also made Tom being avoided by his age mates who frequently called him Tom the deaf and insane. But did Tom care? Of course not.

Tom’s inventive mind was constantly exploited by those who knew what he had and who always laughed at him for stupidly and foolishly giving away his inventions as if they worth nothing.

But like Jesus, Tom knew that his time had not come and that there was nothing he could do to stop giving away the appetizers. He always wondered why should he bother himself with mere appetizers when the main meal itself would soon come and would all be his.

But when his apprenticeship was over, his time too came. His time came when Western Union Company had to pay dearly for Tom to fix its electrical problem in New York or else the whole economy of New York would be grounded.

Once Tom was handed that ton of cash, Tom went on to invent the electric bulb and later set of his Edison electrical company which later became the General Electric. With that, Tom became so rich and so respected in the whole world.

So Tom the deaf and the insane became the man whose invention of electric bulb turned the world from millions of years of darkness to permanent light.

What I am trying to tell us here is that you should never despair if you are not enjoying the fruits of your labor because you may be undergoing apprenticeship in life.

So my advice is not to fight those who refuse to pay you for your kindness and your work for two reasons. One, your time has not come so they are not supposed to pay you for your apprenticeship. Two, why fighting over the appetizers when the whole main meal will soon be all yours?

This is how it is supposed to be. This is how it is written in the history books of all great men.