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 happend 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
realising 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 materialise 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.

SOURCE : www.wenogetjob.com/2015/07/how-i-got-fake-job-appointment-letter.html?m=1

PART 2

Immediately I finished service. I had to leave Lagos and came
down to Abeokuta, where I schooled. It had always been in my plan
to settle down in Abeokuta. From the 1st day I landed here, I knew
I was gonna spend a very long time here. The City is many things
apart from what is obtainable in Lagos. So much devoid of the
hustling and bustling, less traffic, less people.


Sometime I would be in Oshodi after spending like a year in Abk, I
would be like ' damn, am I still on planet earth? The people are just
too much, the crowd is sickening, seriously. The Nigerian
government has a lot to do. Every other state should be developed
equally and people shouldn't see any more reason why they should
want to travel down to LAGOS only.


I tried supporting my Online business then with some offline stuffs.
I was able to later on get a grant of about N150,000 from my dads
boss, and from my personal savings during service year as well,
which was about N100,000, I decided to go into recharge card
distribution, in bulk. My Modus Operandi was to get directly from
the marketers, who bought from Lagos and so sold to me at
cheaper bulk price.
So when I buy, I just got home and sort and distributed within the
locality. I had this sports bag I bought during service year. It surely
came in handy at that moment. I really did well in that business.
Though a lot of people will consider it so devoid of tangible profits,
especially the MTN Airtime.


Then we would buy MTN Pack for like
N950 and sold for N960. Just N10 profit, you would say.
But due to my distributing strategy, I was able to sell between
70-100 packs of MTN on a daily basis. And for the other networks,
I sold less packs, but they had more profit margin per pack. I was
so lucky then to get a direct company that printed GLO, I would get
Glo for N890 and sold for N950 and at least, I sold 30 packs on a
daily basis. My profit then was on the average N2500 daily. I was
doing well, later i tried getting a shop and got video games for
kids, even as I never liked playing the stuffs.


I would wanna believe the mistake I made later on was one of my
greatest regrets in life. But since there is still life, life goes on. I
later left the business and came down to LAGOS thinking I would
be able to get a good job, as I had tried running some job tests
online and passed easily, but never followed up because of my
business.


You would all wonder why I would leave such a 'lucrative ' business
like that. It wasn't so easy distributing. The stress was later tolling
on me and I couldn't take it anymore. I got tired easily and not only
that. I then became a target to most miscreants in the
neighbourhood. They considered me so rich because I was into
Airtime business and I was also considered so proud, just because
I chose to keep to my self and not mingle.


So some guys were actually plotting to rob me and cause me injury.
And as a lazy guy that doesn't fight and most times couldn't even
defend myself in a brawl, not to talk of a girlfriend. The moment I
got the tip-off from one of my customers that some guys were
planning to attack me, I just reconciled the whole of my account
and sold the stuffs I could sell and dashed off to Lagos. It was a
not so good decision I made. As I would have restrategized and
probably diverted the funds into other ventures or even stopped
distributing and get an office to work from.



I saved the cash and invested into some stuffs like that. And
travelled down to Lagos to begin the hustle. It was hell, I began to
submit applications online. Write online tests, pay agents and so
on. It wasn't an easy adventure at all. Sometimes, you would just
get notifications of a job you did not apply for, making you wonder
how these people got to know your status as being jobless. And
funny enough, The interview or test would be slated for the
following day. Then you begin to borrow money here and there,
even borrow tie, sometimes shirt.
But it happened that most of these agents are fake. I remember
going for one general interview like that in Ikeja, I thought it was a
company, only to get there and discover it was just a 3-bedroom
flat, rented by the so-called jobberman, we had to pay N500 each
to take the test.


Initially, it was going on smoothly, people were registering with one
albino boy like that who am very sure had not passed his SSCE
Exams, now registering graduates for jobs that were probably non-
existent. Then suddenly, the boy had an altercation with one guy
that claimed he flew from Port-Harcourt to take the test, thinking it
was a company. The frustration was what got to the guy, he later
said he just felt he should write the test as you never could tell, then
this Albino said something to him about him being jobless.



I was already taking my own test with a seriousness that was more
than me writing an MTS101 Exams in the University. If the job was
real, then I must get it. When I heard something that sounded like
thunder, I thought it was a sound from the kitchen, because it was
so obvious that apartment was residential. But no, it was a terrible
slap on the Albinos face, he just said to my Warri Guy that the
reason he was still jobless was because he couldn't follow
instructions. Well the guy then decided not to follow the instructions
that everyone should be orderly and gave him the slap of his life.


He must have fallen from his desk, as a sound of clinging woods
followed the slap action. Before you knew it, everyone had gotten
excited and within a space of 5 minutes the whole place had been
vandalised. Their computer system was broken, tables scattered.
Some people even went into the other rooms and started looting
the items therein. Then I knew Graduates were not smiling.


We never knew who called the Police. They came and whisked this
man away in their Van. We were so sure the case would be swept
under the carpet. It was when we were leaving that I realized we
were still lucky as Lagos residents, people came from different
parts of the country to take this fake test. What a pity.


That was just the beginning of my bitter experience of my advent
into getting a job in Lagos. I would be writing the final part of the
tale, which was the FAKE APPOINTMENT LETTER I GOT TO A
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY. It wasn't funny at all


READ CONCLUDING PART HERE

... Bros sorry eh. Na 9ja we dey

You are too funny, my nysc program will soon finish, I hope things don't get worse like this

Where's is tha NaijaSinglegirl sef? Been a while oooo. That girl can package story chaiii!!!

Interesting. All these job wahala stories, as if there's no hope for job seekers.

I guess I now realise what INTROVERT's ordeals are before she finally stopped looking for job.


OP, Kpele shogbo?

Following with keen interest

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na wa oh...That's why I earnestly pray PMB does not fail to deliver on his campaign promises. ..he cannot afford to fail.

K

All in the bid to be employed... Chaii

Take heart bro

U write pretty good I must admit. On d contrary, u closed a profitable business because u were scared of being attacked (i'm sorry to say, u won't make it far if u keep living this way). Sometimes things don't go the way we plan that's y we need to improvise, i'm not saying u should av waited for them to attack u but improvise by been friendly to them to an extent. U be street boy u suppose know as e dey go. Pple u consider to be useless are useful in certain ways.
Ur estimation shows u make about 4000 a day, 4000 X 25 days 100k per month. Some graduates don't earn up to this.

Goodluck in your next interview

Pele

Oboy eh!

Guy go Ghana go hustle abeg... Nigeria wahala too much

Naijasingle Girl this Wenogetjob Guys don Push you From Bizness!

From all you have stated so far , what I have observed is a man that failed to accept responsibility of his actions and inaction . A non master to his chosen line of business nay life endeavor . Anyway , for the wise failure is not an act of ignorant instead it's an act of perfection . Empty your cup man . The difference between that successful person in any sphere of life and his failed counterpart is that the successful one was able to create his life path and encrypt it .

Following....

It has happened to me. I got a fake appointment letter with fat salary while waiting to resume on the job, i got another real offer with not so good pay. I went on my knees to ask the Almighty God which one to pick and i was lead to pick the real offer. Thank God for the Holy spirit. ...its always important to ask from directions from God

An FP material here

Ah ah kilode you wan kill us?
How on earth do you expect us to read all dis .
Na wa o. Am sure your first Eng language result go be E8,
no ideal of Summary at all.












Booking sha

no worry, oluwa dey