Mendl Lategan is 43 het reeds die w\u00eareld plat gereis as vlugbeampte en op luukse bote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die siviele ingenieur het deesdae ook die amptelike titel van motiverings\u00adspreker op sy kerfstok en wil di\u00e9 kennis met plaaslike jongmans deel deur as mentor op te tree en hulle ook te leer skaak speel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Waarom is dit vir jou belangrik om jou kennis met die jeug te deel?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek dink ons is hier op aarde om ons doel te ontdek en ook om ander te help. Daar is baie mense wat my gehelp het op my lewensreis en ons weet nooit wanneer ons reis tot op \u2019n einde kom nie. Ek weet hoe frustrerend dit kan wees as niemand in jou drome glo nie en jou ook nie help nie. Ek deel graag my kennis met mense wat bereid is om te luister en uit te dra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Met al jou reise en avonture, wat is die grootste lewenslesse wat jy geleer het?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Behandel almal ongeag van posisie, ras, nasionaliteit en besittings met respek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. As jy deur \u2019n moeilike tyd gaan of \u2019n nuwe uitdaging wil aanpak, dan sien jy werklik wie jou familie en vriende is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Multimiljoen\u00ears wys nie dat hulle geld het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Wat is jou raad vir jongmense wat amper klaar is met skool of reeds gematrikuleer het, en nie weet watter beroep hulle wil volg nie?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moenie haastig wees met verdere studies direk n\u00e1 skool nie. Daar is niks verkeerd met \u2019n oorbruggingsjaar nie, maak net seker jy gebruik die tyd konstruktief. Daar is \u2019n gesegde wat lui: \u201cLedigheid is die duiwel se oorkussing\u201d. Reis na ander lande. Jy sal soveel nuwe vriende maak, interessante mense ontmoet, ander kulture ervaar en w\u00eareldwys raak. Daar is honderde posisies beskikbaar op vliegtuie, passasierskepe, hotelle, casino\u2019s en winkelsentrums in ander lande. Jy kan ten minste een posisie kry wat by jou belangstelling sal pas. Met verloop van tyd sal jy jou voete vind en dan kan jy verdere studies in daardie spesifieke rigting volg. Hou ook in gedagte baie selfgemaakte biljoen\u00ears het geen universiteitskwalifikasie nie, soos Bill Gates (Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) en wyle Steve Jobs (Apple Computers). Hoekom kan daar ook nie \u2019n toekomstige biljoen\u00ear uit Atlantis kom nie?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Jy het \u2019n kwalifikasie in siviele ingenieurswese, tog werk jy nie in die bedryf nie. Waarom was dit belangrik vir jou om die kwalifikasie te bekom?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As kind het ek daarvan gehou om met Lego-blokkies huise en geboue te bou. Op skool was ek nogal goed in wiskunde en wetenskap. Ek wou altyd \u2019n dokter word omdat ek mense wou help, maar dit was finansieel baie moeilik n\u00e1 skool. En nou is ek \u2019n career coach<\/i>. Ek hou ook baie van \u2019n uitdaging en het baie van my vakke met onder\u00adskei\u00addings geslaag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Wat was van die uitdagings wat jy ervaar het deur op 33-jarige ouderdom te gaan studeer?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die grootste uitdaging was om myself te oortuig dat ek dit kon doen. Baie mense gaan graf toe met al hul drome en onvervulde wense omdat jy toelaat dat die negatiewe stemmetjie in jou kop jou oortuig dat jy dit nie kan doen nie. Dit is beter om iets te probeer en later uit te vind dat dit nie werk nie, as wat jy nie iets probeer nie en vir die res van jou lewe wonder wat sou gebeur het. Die lewe is baie kort en jy moet voluit gelewe word. Jy is nooit te oud om te leer of om \u2019n beroepsverandering te maak nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Wie of wat is jou grootste inspirasie\/motivering?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek was in st. 7 (graad 9) toe ek vir Wofgang Riebe ontmoet. Hy is \u2019n kulkunstenaar wat op passasierskepe gewerk en na meer as 120 lande gereis het. Hy was \u2019n baie groot inspirasie en tot vandag toe is ons nog in kontak. My gunstelingtelevisie\u00adprogram was MacGyver in die 1980\u2019s. Hy het altyd planne gemaak om hom uit enige moeilike situasie te kry. As ek in \u2019n penarie is, vra ek altyd myself wat hy sou gedoen het. En dan my ma, Veronica, wat vir 24 jaar in \u2019n klerefabriek gewerk het om my en my suster, Lindi, as enkelouer groot te maak nadat ek my pa op sesjarige ouderdom in motorongeluk verloor het. My ma het in 2016 aan longkanker gesterf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Vertel my meer van die mentorskap wat jy wil begin met seuns in Atlantis?<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek werk die afgelope twee jaar in Atlantis en sien hoe die jongmanne sonder werk op die straathoeke sit. Ek weet daar is ook die uitdagings van bendes en dwelmgebruik. Ek was al ook \u2019n paar keer tussen werke en weet hoe frustrerend dit kan wees. Baie keer sien ek myself in hulle en ek dink God het my op al die reise en uitdagings gestuur om hulle eendag te help. Daardie eendag het aangebreek. Met die mentorskap moet ons bepaal wat hulle talente en passies is en dan probeer om hulle in die geskikte rigting te stuur. Baie mense is ook ongelukkig in hulle huidige beroep. Wat baat dit jy verdien \u201cgoeie\u201d geld maar is ongelukkig? Ghandi en Mandela het baie eenvoudige leefstyle gehandhaaf, maar groot nalatenskappe agtergelaat. Jy het nie \u2019n posisie of groot inkomste nodig om iemand te help nie. As almal net twee persone help en hulle help twee persone ensovoort, sal die w\u00eareld \u2019n beter plek vir almal wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Belangstellendes kan Lategan bel by 083 798 5211.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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