When people advise you to learn a skill and lock in for a period of time, please take it seriously.
I was struggling to get a business analyst job when I arrived in the UK.
Despite having business analysis experience before leaving Nigeria and graduating with a distinction in an MSc in Management of Business Information Technology from a UK university, I hit a roadblock with my job applications.
I wasn’t getting interview invitations.
That was when I discovered that UK organisations place a strong emphasis on relevant UK experience.
So, I enrolled in a training programme that provided both work experience and a professional reference.
We worked on a live project where I served as the business analyst. We also had a project manager, product owner, and a development team.
I put my heart and soul into that training, which lasted six months. Sometimes, we had brainstorming sessions in the wee hours of the night.
I was even awarded Best Business Analyst in the entire academy.
My hard work eventually paid off because I received four different interview invitations once I started applying for jobs.
In fact, I was the first person in my cohort to secure a job.
This happened just two weeks after completing the training.
So, what worked for me?
I locked in for those six months.
I attended every single training session, actively researched and deepened my business analysis knowledge, practised the core BA skills and applied myself as though my life depended on it.
I was also very prayerful during that period.
I promised myself that I wasn’t going back to the school job I was doing at the time, and I was determined not to break that resolve.
I paid the price, and by the grace of God, I got the result.
So yeah, when you hear people talking about locking in, please take it seriously.
Because it will change your life.
Are Mushoku Tensei fans actually incapable of reflecting on why the author makes the narrative decisions they do or have they just perfected the art of lying better than other fandoms?
There's this thing that happens at Nigerian parties that amuses me.
They treat high table guests like mini-gods and regulars as if they came to beg.
As someone who used to work in events, I’ve seen guests target vendors as if it’s their fault, but they don’t know what goes down in vendors’ meetings.
The client will tell you:
Small chops is only for the high table,
Suya is only for the high table,
Milkshake is only for the high table, Barbecue is only for the high table.
Then why don’t you just invite only high table guests to the party?
I'm sorry oh (well not really) but like it or not Lagos state has a serious waste management and flood control system and it's only the government that can improve it.
I have a theory but I can’t prove it.
And the theory is that what Nigerian telecoms are doing is Monetary-value billing instead of Volume-based billing.
Let me try and explain a bit.
In my video essay, I actually draw parallels between Politicians kids in Africa and Nepo babies in Nepal and how watching them live their lives of excess can become radicalising
It drops on Monday!
Link to channel:
https://t.co/HB8Ixq2j2X
Actually this is a “class action” I can get behind on my own dime. I’ll have a team do some preliminary research and if we decide to pursue, I’ll give an update. We need more public interest litigation.