If you are a graduate and reside in Lagos, then you would understand me very much well. Getting a job is a big herculean task now, espec...
If you are a graduate and reside in Lagos, then you would understand me very much well. Getting a job is a big herculean task now, especially for graduates. Sometimes you wonder why you had even gone to school. As some jobs would present themselves, but your qualifications as a graduate will make you feel those jobs are simply a slap on your face if you dare take them up. I never thought I was going to join the race of people searching for jobs.
I happened to be one of these highly motivated students that after reading ROBERT KIYOSAKI'S books, we believe other students are just wasting their time. We believe they will all end up working for us. The motivation is so strong, that you already imagined yourself controlling businesses and employing people. Not even realizing its a different environment that we are in here in Africa. Things are not the way they are in Europe and America.
Over there, there are proper structural plans to make you develop as an entrepreneur. The basic facilities are there available and even if you fail, you are easily encouraged to pick up yourself and move on. I made that mistake of thinking things would be so rosy here in Nigeria too. I had planned on being an Information Marketer and also planned on diversifying my earned funds into other businesses such as Recharge cards printing,( which was hot cake then) , barbing salons, fruit shops and so on.
I planned all these on paper and hoped they would materialize so easily. I had already picked locations in my mind, built annexes in other locations, employed people. Monitored the businesses, fired unproductive employees and bought official cars. All in my IMAGINATIONS. those books taught us to imagine what we would want to be, how we would want to live our lives. They never told us not to TRY THIS IN AFRICA.
It was one of the greatest mistakes I made I must confess. While others were applying for jobs during service year, I was going up and forth on the internet, giving my Allowances to information marketers and buying products that I never even used, some I never opened as it would eventually be discovered the books or packages bore different things from what they claimed. Not that there were not genuine products, but majority of them happened to be fake. Some were not even applicable in our environment.
I remember buying a package then on reading emails and getting paid $10 per email. I thought to myself, I would read and process 1000 every day and work nonstop for 3 months, then go into other businesses. The business died the day I got the package, as it was discovered it was all bogus and non-realistic.
I was into HYIP at a time too. High Yield Investment Programs. With this one, I went from having little to sub-bankrupt. I lost almost all my saved NYSC allowance on this. As it happened the Indians, Malaysians, Europeans just decided to also avenge for their country men, my yahoo boys here have scammed. Those ones too scam us like we were their super-maga.
You can imagine someone asking you to invest $50 and make 10% everyday. Yea, you would see the money accumulating in your account on line. The issue comes when you are about to withdraw, the money will just pend. Until you log on to the website one day and the site is offline. Then you realise you have just rolled up N10,000 into a pipe, placed it in your mouth, taken up a lighter, lit the cash and smoked it off.
As you would be so high sitting in front of the computer and wishing you had typed the wrong website. But my brother, you have just paid your Annual Dues to the Association of HYIP Goons. I was getting pissed with time, and decided to go dust my certificate.
Not even realising it was worse trying to get a job here too. After months of applications, interviews, tests, I ended up getting a FAKE APPOINTMENT.
I will write about how I got a fake job of N150, 000/ month later on.
