Funniest thing I heard this week? Someone I know went back to ask the guy she likes if he's truly in a relationship or he just claimed relationship to avoid her, only for the guy to ask if she doesn't have other pressing issues at hand 😭😭
In 2010, I worked with an MNC in the North Central whose parent company in Holland was to facilitate and help build a grain storage facility as big as 9 football pitches in Jigawa state in conjunction with Jigawa Agriculture Supply Company (JASAC),……even when the Dutch company only charged a quarter of the actual cost just to at least not do it free of charge, the government treated it like it wasn’t a priority.
All Northern farmers would have had a guaranteed storage facility than can keep a tomato 🍅 for a minimum 48months without ripening.
It was supposed to be a grain storage facility but they added an E.G.G( Ethelyne gas guardian) to repel ethelyne & prevent overripening/decay.
Jigawa state in a twist as a matter of their priority allotted more than double the cost of building that facility to pilgrimage.
I don’t want to talk about irrigation contract that was shelved today.
This is a limiting mindset.
If you apply this mindset to your self development and financial literacy journey, growth is evitable.
That reality, I have replicated across two climes.
These pictures you see here, are pictures I took when I exited my Ikota, Ajah one room apartment.
When I got into that apartment, I had barely 50K to my name. I was working a 70K job situated in V.I.
In that apartment, I got a Google Scholarship.
In that apartment, I became a cloud engineer.
In that apartment, I became a DevOps engineer.
In that apartment, I landed my first 6 fig role,
In that apartment, I landed my first contract remote role with BOA as Azure DevOps,
In that apartment, I made my first 7 fig.
Did I leave? No.
I didn't leave, in 2 years of increased consistent earnings.
I stacked coins, called them children - started taking classes in stocks, investing and crypto. Slowly made those children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Then I used the greatgrandchildren, to move to a full furnished selfdetached duplex and funded my exit from Nigeria.
Since I moved abroad, I have repeatedly executed on that fundamental template of "living below your means" and delayed gratification.
Please don't tell me about responsibilities - I have 3 siblings and a mother I've catered to, since I was 15.
Financial literacy is a skill AND it is DEFINITELY different from being miserly.
I didn't know my mum would be coming to spend the weekend at my place. And I've already put plans in place, loaded the fridge and kitchen not for her but for my girlfriend coming directly from work to my place
Don't sleep on Nigeria as a tech hub:
- English is the lingua franca
- Hustle culture shames SF one. These people are really fighting for a better life. They give it their best on any task
- time zone is perfect