“I was in a job that was slowly draining me. I couldn’t believe I was there for so long as I had given myself just about two years but yet eight years later, I was still there and it was not doing good for me.
“So, when the pandemic came, I said you know this is a good time for me to go. I did not exit immediately but because of how COVID made things believe you me it was easier for me to eventually leave.”
The words of a taxi driver I travelled with recently. I had cause to visit a neighbouring country and was pleasantly surprised that the taxis I took to and from the airport were both driven by women. They both had stories to tell but what I got from them was the grit and determination to make it in a male-dominated profession that has proven to be dangerous at times.