I guess small companies also vary…I believe that at some, all employees are given an opportunity to really do their work (because labour is limited) and use all their knowledge and skills. But it is not the case everywhere, I agree.

A small firm is no better. I have previously worked in a small firm and I’m in a different one and the difference is the same.

I was on the brink of quiting a year ago – in fact, I don’t know what I’m still doing behind this desk yet I have immeasurable talent. Tsk! tsk! tsk! I guess my intellectual blood is so contaminated I need it to be sterilised so I can start afresh. I am well on the road to recovery though.

I’d advise everyone to seek employment (if they must) at a small firm – where their say matters.

Meetings are fora where everyone invited airs out their views.

Unfortunately, our education system ws designed as you say, to churn out robots who are meant to ONLY follow instructions.

There are many young people out there who are very innovative, but the system turns a cold shoulder on them because they have broken the norm and gone ahead and performed far much better than the system that designed the backwardness that is silence.

Africa is suffering because of such mediocrity.

I have experienced a working situation where my opinion doesn’t hold water – until 10 years down the line when a certain train of thought fails to bring the results, then the idea I once hatched is retrieved from the archives, dusted and presented as someone else’s idea. I know so many people go through this everyday. Now I understand why we have a gazillion young entrepreneurs who will rather do their biz without an office, than sit behind a desk and follow a routine of coming to work at 8, going for lunch between 1-2 in the afternoon, then waiting to go home at 5. What nonsense.

I believe math is the only reason I am not a doctor today but I wonder how a doctor uses math in their career!! You tell me…!!