Find What Matters

Dec 30, 2025

Someone I admire recently said this to me:

“Nomso, you’ve graduated from university at a young age (19). At this stage of your life, you should focus on growth, experience, and financial reward.”

This simply means that whatever I’m doing should align with at least two of the three.

I believe growth and experience go hand in hand. Even bad experiences lead to growth. For example, if you work in a toxic environment and eventually leave, you gain experience in identifying the signs of a toxic workplace. At the same time, you grow in your ability to tolerate and manage difficult people. I hope that makes sense.

As for financial reward, you should be compensated for your work. If you’re a software engineer, work hard to upskill yourself so you can be paid handsomely for your craft.

The key takeaway is that is whatever you’re doing should either be paying you, or you should be learning and growing from it.

Originally published on Substack.