I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.
@_ebelechukwu I'm not even happy commenting cuz my disdain for low quality girls irks me to the high heavens. Just look at the base of your argument. Smh
Your papa dey sell rat poison and umu akpakara just to survive. 😭😭😭😭😭
Your mama dey sell oka na ube for front of filling station. 😭😭😭😭😭
Your elder brother dey hustle for mgbuka, na squat him dey squat with some niggas for shanty. 😭😭😭😭😭
Una second son for una family na oji ice eme Ogo, eze mkpuru mmiri worldwide. Him no dey use am play 😂😂😂😂😂
Una third son, na for bet9ja office him room dey. 😭😭😭😭
Your elder sister na Francisco toto. Na everyday she dey deliver toto to men just to survive. She don even born two for house sef. 😭😭😭😭😭
Una last born, that one don kuku leave una for je biri with cultist wey dey use her face do training every morning for him fight with him opps 😂😂😂😂😂
House for village, una no get. Ordinary gallon of fuel nkiti, e no even dey Una house cos once your papa see am, him don collect 100 naira.😂😂😂😂😂😂
No single metal material even dey una compound cos your papa and Tony stark na tinubu and corruption, them dey in love.
But me I be broke boy, cos I no get car!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ije uwa mu oo!!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭
I think its Yahoo boys that's making some of you clowns
You are a security man
You see me 10 times, you beg and hail me 10 times
You sell shoes 85k I can get on Temu for 50k with free delivery
You open a restaurant and use plastic takeaway to sell one plate of Egusi soup for 18k.
Just because Yahoo boys are tipping you everytime you hail them or because Yahoo boys are buying 5$ Chinese sneakers for 85k or because Yahoo boys mostly do not have taste and will accept 18k soup in a black SUP plastic takeaway
That does not mean we are all Yahoo boys
I am not giving you shishi unless you earn it. If you like hail me 1 million times
I will buy my cheap Chinese shoes on Temu and I will not accept an SUP for an 18k soup
Running a business in Nigeria is not for the weak. Sometimes i just sit and wonder… even though i am able to invest more money into my businesses when needed, how do people who barely managed to raise enough capital to open theirs survive all these challenges?