This is how we check World Cup fixtures when there was no access to internet, gone are those days at Ojota, like itโs was so interesting, they will sell to us then unfolded in other to make it easy to access, we will fold it and begin to write score after each match.
Childhood ๐๐ผ
Eight years as a senior data analyst in Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ
Landed in Canada ๐จ๐ฆ and spent months getting rejected for customer service jobs. Apple Store. Call centres. Everything.
Then I walked into a cold calling interview. Loud music. Phones everywhere. They handed me a script.
Made my first cold call. The lady heard my accent and ended the call immediately.๐ญ (God abeg x 3)
I kept going. Got through the day and got the job offer on the spot.
35k a year. Five days in office. 8am starts.
I asked if that was the best they could do.
He said yes.
I took the offer letter home. Showed my wife.
She looked me in the eye and said that was below me.
That week I stopped applying sideways and went back to data.
Three months later I was hired as lead analyst in a Fortune 500 company.
Nigerian professionals living abroad, what was the moment that made you realize you needed to stop chasing survival jobs?
It took me 5 months and about 25 interviews to land my first job in Canada ๐จ๐ฆ
But there is one I will never forget.
I applied for a Canadian government role.
French was listed as a requirement. I applied anyway. Got through the first stage. No French was tested.
Second and final stage. I joined the call. Bonjour bonjour. (As how?)
I thought that was just the greeting.
The interviewer then calmly informed me that the entire interview would be conducted in French.
I could feel my intestines shift.
I said okay. A certified Duolingo dropout sitting in silence.
The first question came. 45 seconds of full Quรฉbรฉcois French.
I waited for them to finish. Then I slowly asked if they could repeat the question in English.
They did. Politely.
I answered.
Then they asked if I had any questions for them.
That was it. Interview over.
I never got a rejection email. Not one. They were too pissed to even send it ๐ญ
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