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December 11.
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i’m an electrician, and the part nobody warns you about isn’t the wiring. it’s waiting to get paid.
you finish a job, test every circuit, label the breakers, then send your account number and wait.
sometimes the money comes that evening. sometimes it takes weeks, and by then you’ve heard three different stories about why it hasn’t arrived. meanwhile, the bills don’t wait with you.
last year, a small estate developer started giving me regular work. nothing huge, but enough to keep me busy: replacing sockets, tracing faults, fixing things someone else had installed with more confidence than skill.
one afternoon, the man asked me if i’d consider joining his team full-time. steady salary, pension, the works.
i wanted to say yes straight away. then he mentioned a background check. part of it, he said, was to see how i handled money.
i nodded, but on the way home i kept thinking about my records. i had paid my electricity bill, my dstv subscription, and a small loan i took for tools. i had transfer alerts, but they were scattered through months of messages, mixed in with job payments and family group chats. one screenshot was literally called “alert_screenshot_23.” i couldn’t even tell you where the other ones were.
my friend grace, who works at a microfinance company, told me about creditveto sometimes back. she used it to pay some of her bills and keep track of her payment history. she said it could show a creditveto score based on payment activity and provide a credit visibility report.
i downloaded it that night. i started using it for a few bills and checking my transactions in one place. it wasn’t some dramatic before-and-after moment. it just made the record easier to follow.
i could see what i had paid and when, instead of digging through old alerts and trying to remember which month a screenshot belonged to.
when the developer’s hr team asked for my details, i sent the documents they requested and explained that my income had been uneven because i worked for myself. some months were good. some were slow.
i could show the payments i had kept up with, even when the timing wasn’t perfect.
a few days later, they called. i got the job.
i can’t say the app was the reason they chose me. they looked at my work too, and they spoke to people i had d worked for. but having my payment history together made it easier to explain myself without scrolling through a phone full of old alerts.
i still take electrical jobs on weekends. the work can be messy, and clients still pay late sometimes. but i’ve stopped treating every bill like a separate little emergency. i keep track, check my history, and know what’s actually been paid.
creditveto didn’t get me the job or promise me credit. it helped me keep a clearer record of the ordinary payments behind my work.
turns out, that’s useful when someone asks you to show them how you handle things.
#MyCreditVetoStory
no be small charity FC 😭
in as much as I'm loving the downfall of Manchester United, those boys play with much more life than this chelsea team and it's irritating.
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