Doctor Freaks Journal - Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth

Hey Freak, I left you a red pen!

Some years back, I ran into a cousin who had been out of job for a while. We gisted, and in the course of our discourse he indicated interest in lecturing.


Coincidentally, my then landlord with whom I enjoyed a robust relationship happened to be a lecturer in one of the biggest new generation universities in the South West. I offered to introduce cousin to landlord.

Behold, I brought both of them together and my landlord offered to assist the young man since he possessed the basic qualifications. To my greatest surprise, the duo became really close and I was glad. 

At that point I naturally excused myself and moved on to other important things. Months down the line, my landlord put in a call to me and I observed that he was sounding a bit hysterical on the phone. He had just left the Faculty Board meeting where my cousin's issue had generated a great furore.

 After receiving assurances from my landlord about bagging the job, dear cousin went around asking for similar favours from four other lecturers. So when it was time for my landlord to recommend dear cousin, his colleagues had to ask themselves "abi my eye dey pain me?" He was also their candidates! 

They were all disappointed. 'What manner of desperation is this?' they all chorused.

Long and short, he lost that plum job out of sheer desperation. Today, he's doing well. He has a good job though, but let me also state here that that is just the way he's wired. Nothing has changed as he has continually displayed that attitude wherever he goes and I think it's working for him now.


It is good to be a go-getter, but do you have to be desperate? Well, what works for A may not work for B.

I dont think he was desperate at all and if he was it was in a good way oh... In Nigeria you have to go round and get assurance 10 times otherwise the Job will pass you by.... The lecturers dem own too much abeg!