armadeo:



This guy is a proffesor of peadiatric neurosurgery.

Why won't I know who Ben Carson is??

Chooi, you have poured dust on my hair....

i laff i am a drop out...due to circumstances but i belive i will make it more than any university graduate...i swear

Lagusta:


Why won't I know who Ben Carson is??

Chooi, you have poured dust on my hair....

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Didn't check who posted before I mentioned it.

Following your diary reminds me of back in the day.
PS youth service is a shocker. You'll see.

hatux:
What bout Papa Adedibu? That papa receive pension till he enter six feet even without a primary school certificate...

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The few exceptions we see don't make it routine that people succeed as drop-outs.

100Cents:


And become what ?

Well the possibilities are endless.

hahn:
Lol. Tell that to the ibo boys in Idumota, Alaba etc, the hausa abokis who have their own businesses, land and cattle and compare their numbers with the amount of unemployed graduates including graduates that can't fill their NYSC forms and the ones that can't compose a simple essay. Don't forget the graduates that have been employed by these drop outs and then you can come back and delete this thread

From your response, its pretty obvious that You miss the point of this article. Please re-read the article objectively, i believe you might eventually get it. The so called examples you cited - Alaba traders, Hausa cattle rearers - all require some form of training/apprenticeship. I guess you will agree with me that more educated/efficient/packaged competitors in such sectors will do better. For example, Alaba might be hot today but its evident that Konga and Jumia would eat them up in the nearest future. Hausa cattle rearers might be doing fine but mechanized cattle rearing would destroy their current business model. Whether you believe it or not, "schooling" helps.

Am not a drop out but i can relate to the OP's post. After NYSC, i left several job offers to "focus" on my business and it failed woefully. In retrospect, i failed for several reasons which the Op had highlighted - insufficient funds, non-existent soft landing, no partner and a few more. These are lessons i wished i had learned earlier but learnt the hard way. My advise to any would be entrepreneur is simple: work for a while to build up cash flow - you will need it and experiment with your business idea on a small scale to confirm its viability. If the idea proves financially viable, by all means drop out/quit that job and focus on your business. If it fails, remain in school/your day job and life goes. Repeat this process till you make your millions.That way, your not left broke or educationally bankrupt. Running a business is EXTREMELY hard when you don't have adequate financial backing. Please note my use of "adequate" cos there's this pervasive mentality that assumes you need lots of capital to start. You don't. You just need enough to get you going through the initial testing phase. It might be much, it might be little. What really matters is that you "have it".

I have shared my experience, those who have ears, let them hear.

P.s: I miss the good old days when Nairaland was a place to learn and engage in enlightening discussions such as this one. Now, its an eyesore. Every piece of shit with no atom of intellectual utility makes it to the front page. I weep for nairaland. The end might be near.

adedayourt:


Even u too??

what do i do wrong?

armadeo:



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Didn't check who posted before I mentioned it.

Following your diary reminds me of back in the day.
PS youth service is a shocker. You'll see.

Haaa, never knew I was talking to a senior colleague...

Twale baba!!!

DanjaNinja:


From your response, its pretty obvious that You miss the point of this article. Please re-read the article objectively, i believe you might eventually get it. The so called examples you cited - Alaba traders, Hausa cattle rearers - all require some form of training/apprenticeship. I guess you will agree with me that more educated/efficient/packaged competitors in such sectors will do better. For example, Alaba might be hot today but its evident that Konga and Jumia would eat them up in the nearest future. Hausa cattle rearers might be doing fine but mechanized cattle rearing would destroy their current business model. Whether you believe it or not, "schooling" helps.

Am not a drop out but i can relate to the OP's post. After NYSC, i left several job offers to "focus" on my business and it failed woefully. In retrospect, i failed for several reasons which the Op had highlighted - insufficient funds, non-existent soft landing, no partner and a few more. These are lessons i wished i had learned earlier but learnt the hard way. My advise to any would be entrepreneur is simple: work for a while to build up cash flow - you will need it and experiment with your business idea on a small scale to confirm its viability. If the idea proves financially viable, by all means drop out/quit that job and focus on your business. If it fails, remain in school/your day job and life goes. Repeat this process till you make your millions.That way, your not left broke or educationally bankrupt. Running a business is EXTREMELY hard when you don't have adequate financial backing. Please note my use of "adequate" cos there's this pervasive mentality that assumes you need lots of capital to start. You don't. You just need enough to get you going through the initial testing phase. It might be much, it might be little. What really matters is that you "have it".

I have shared my experience, those who have ears, let them hear.

P.s: I miss the good old days when Nairaland was a place to learn and engage in enlightening discussions such as this one. Now, its an eyesore. Every piece of shit with no atom of intellectual utility makes it to the front page. I weep for nairaland. The end might be near.

You didn't read my second comment either