Actor and model, Mawuli Gavor, has detailed why he walked away from his corporate career at KPMG to fully pursue life in the creative economy.
In a conversation with Blac Volta, he explained how the decision came about and the turning point that led him to submit his resignation at KPMG.
When asked what compelled him to leave, Mawuli bluntly stated, “I will put it like this, sometimes in life, they say money stops nonsense.”
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According to him, back then, working at KPMG, he was taking home GH¢770 a month.
He said it might have been a good job on paper, but in reality, he found himself constantly torn between the corporate grind and the opportunities opening up in the creative world.
He recalled how difficult it was to juggle both.
“I was in a meeting with Martini because we were struggling to do both. I would tell them that I have a job, I got to be at the job at eight o’clock. They would say, ‘okay, charlie, cool. Let’s do the photo shoot for but at 6 a.m. You go run am, but the people will not show up to like 11 a.m. Imagine say I get job. I wear my tie and everything.
“Then them dey wait for me then I dey somewhere dey do photoshoot and everything…Now I had to go to work and be like, I’m so sorry. So eventually, I knew that I couldn’t do both.”
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He explained that at one point, the pressure became so much that he actually considered leaving the creative side and focusing fully on his corporate job.
But just when he was about to walk away, Martini, the brand he was working with at the time, changed everything for him.
“So I told the Martini people say, Charlie, guys, this thing is not working out. I wanted to tell them I’m going back to my job. They said, how much are you making? And I told them 7 euros. They said, how much do you make a year? So I just wrote down the whole thing for them. And then they said, how much am I making there? I wrote it down and I gave it to them.
“They looked at it and they were like, ‘if this is the case, we’ll give that to you today.’ So they said they would give me my year’s salary. What I would have made from working one year over there. They said, they’ll give it to me today.”
That moment sealed his decision. After receiving the money, he knew there was no going back.
“I just had to send a message to my HR at KPMG to resign,” he disclosed.
From what Mawuli tried to put across, the change was not about money, but freedom. He admitted that the creative economy gave him the one thing a corporate job couldn’t, control over his time.
“…So, it’s one of the reasons why I struggle to ever go back to living the regular nine to five. Because I figured that if you can figure out a way to work within the creative economy, it’s not necessarily that you make so much more money, but you save so much more time.
“So I can be making the same amount of money, but I will work 30 minutes to make the same money that I would have had to work from 9 a.m. all the way till Sunday.”
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