I’ve been in Nigeria for a few months now preparing for my wedding and I want to say that whoever a lot of y’all are hiring as customer reps need better training
@tosinolaseinde I was doing wizkid FC on this bird app😭😭
Resumed to school after the lockdown and most of my friends were already doing things with their lives.
Chase the skills that do not expire.
Persuasion, clear writing, selling, reading people, staying calm under pressure. The tools change every few years and the platforms die. These have quietly paid off for centuries and will outlast whatever is trending now.
If you are a fresh graduate, I highly recommend getting a 9-5 job.
The obvious reasons are that you need the money and network and technical know-how.
But another less-talked-about reason is that it’s good for you to actually experience how an organization works.
You learn hierarchy of command, decorum, standard operating procedures, how to investigate failures, how to react to a dynamic environment, how to communicate, how to reward/punish, and so on.
For better or worse, 95% of the way I approach business is copied from Shell.
I simply don’t know how else to run a company. So I do what I’ve seen work for 12 years.
Of course, my business is different from Shell’s so I adjust as needed but the principle and the philosophy carry through.
Some people got born into a family with a long rich history of business/entrepreneurship and maybe even went straight to get an MBA. These folks may start a business fresh out of school and reasonably be expected to succeed.
But if you are like most of us, then I recommend working for someone else for a while.
@Chime_Fave It can always get better guys.
Have a mad savings plan for the remaining time you wish to spend there, once you achieve an amount that can hold you down for atleast 3 months, quit that fvckin job!!
Start applying like your life depends on it. You can’t be sad all your life.
@Chime_Fave I wallowed in sadness from April cos of the fear of being idle then my best friend and my girlfriend told me to go ahead if that would restore my happiness.
Made my decision and resigned at 1:00am midnight on a random friday in October 2025.
I’m in a MUCH BETTER place now🙏🥹