Iโm not trying to discredit your academics or degree, but if youโre still in university and waiting until graduation to lock in, youโre in for the biggest shock of your life.
Reality begins after your project defense.
If your parents are the ones fending for you, that financial support will most likely drop drastically once you graduate. If you have relatives or older friends supporting you now, a lot of that grace exists because youโre still a student. A few months after graduation, that support will reduce significantly because, whether youโre ready or not, youโll officially enter the labor market.
And I promise you, it is not rosy out there.
If the only thing youโre doing in school is studying, and you havenโt learned a skill or started a business, no matter how small, you still have time to change that.
Find a balance and work as hard as you can without letting it affect your grades.
University students in some countries can afford to give school their 100% undivided attention. You canโt afford that luxury. You come from a continent and a country where you often have to fight and hustle for even the most basic things.
Nobody is coming to save you. I will tell you that whether you want to hear it or not. You are largely on your own. There is no Simon of Cyrene to help you carry your cross.
Post-graduation depression is a real thing.
Most of the people you call friends today will gradually drift away after school, not because anyone is wicked, but because life is about to get very serious for all of you.
If you start something for yourself now, youโll have a head start after graduation. Youโll have something to fall back on. The small customer base you build in school could eventually become a thriving community later on.
Let me reiterate: learn a skill, start a small business, do something, no matter how little.
In the real world, employers expect you to have years of experience even as a fresh graduate, just to land a decent job that often doesnโt pay nearly enough.
I believe I have spoken enough about this.
A word is enough for the wise.
There are millionaires in dollars and billionaires in Nigeria that we don't know of.
I have been privileged to be in some places,I have been privileged to be in some circle of people and I can tell you that there are people with money that you don't even know exist.
There are men in this Abuja that benefit from the decay in this country,that is how they make their money.
There are people in this Abuja that don't want Nigeria to be at peace, because their money will stop coming in.
There are men living lavishly in this town that are benefiting from the oil crises of this country that don't care what happens to the community where this oil is destr0ying.
There are men in this Abuja that do nothing,they receive alerts of hundreds of millions every day,week and month.
These men are not in our faces,you don't see them on camera but they control what happens in this country.
These are the kinds of men that will never appear on Forbes list of billionaires but some of them are richer than those you see on Forbes list ๐๐๐๐.
Not a conspiracy theorist but I feel like those girls that post cute photos and happy videos and stories in camp are hired by the government to push that "fun" agenda. ๐๐
Someone who owns 3 houses in abuja, 2 in kano, 2 in PH, 2 filling stations, 1 super market in the biggest commodity market in west Africa is this person a poor man to you?
Meanwhile he achieved all these while working as a 9-5 in a bank for 28yrs.
This person is still under employment and among management staff in a bank.
Who says you cannot get rich via 9-5?
Iโll keep saying it, a lot of you need to decenter that Instagram lavish way of life, so you can start thinking like normal humans.
You are a Nigerian , living in Nigeria, no special
talent or skill , fuel is 1300+, rent is skyrocketing everywhere, minimum wage is less than 100k. Trust me you are closer to being homeless than driving that 2025 gle.
Children of the VERY average Nigerian used to have birthday celebrations. The parents would rent canopies, cook and invite djs. There used to be parties and the entire neighborhood would gather to celebrate w the child. I donโt hear birthday music anymore. Thereโs nothing left
Sometimes, the reward system in Nigeria leaves me very confused.
For instance, someone stole something and was caught in the process. A video of the offender was released, where he/she confessed to the crime, while crying. Nigerians are moved.
Next thing, someone is asking for the account details of the offender and people are sending money. What exactly is that money for? Reward for what?
We can actually hold the thief and the person who humiliated them by recording and posting the video responsible, but no.
People are picked by no publicly known indices, put in a place for a reality TV show. Some could just be rude and overbearing while at it. After the event, fans are contributing money to buy them cars and all. Some suddenly become emergency actors and actresses and picked ahead of people who actually went to school and got trained to act. I'm not talking about the ones who have justified such elevation.
Someone could be selling her corn by the roadside and a video of her smiling makes it to the internet. Boom. Modelling gig and all.
I am not completely condemning sudden breakthroughs, but you cannot skip process and have an enduring success.
Many of these people often fly as far as the initial hype and attention can go. There is no process, skill, training, or structure that sustains the sudden breakthrough. Once the noise and attention die, they are hardly able to do anything.
Sadly, most are often seen worse off than where they were picked from. Stories of fake ambassadorial deals, unredeemded pledged, and mismanaged funds start coming out.
It might be more helpful to open a bakery for a beautiful bread seller than to convert her to a model.
If I could go back to my 20s, one mistake I would never repeat is getting married so early at 20. A man should only get married when he knows heโs truly capable of taking care of his home
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