sometimes they use charm on themselves.

tensazangetsu20:
This is very true. I really laugh very hard when I see people all shouting skills skills. Masa you can have all the skills in Nigeria and still be unemployed and even if you get employed your salary won't be up to 50k. We don't respect artisans. I remember when I was learning to fix cars. The workshop I was learning from had a lot of big cars from a lot of big men. Sometimes repair invoices on some cars could run into millions due to the markup on parts but yet the pay there was 25000. Imagine earning 25000 per month as a Mercedes Benz mechanic. You resume work at 8 and work till 6. Anyone who is familiar with mercedes knows how insanely difficult they are to fix. Removing one component can take hours upon hours whereas the same thing might take a few minutes in a Toyota. Imagine doing this everyday. Standing under hot weather for a paltry 25000 with no food or any water.

The latest skill is coding or programming. The only advantage programmers have over any other skill is the ability to work for companies abroad and freelance. Earning foreign currency while living in Nigeria is sexy. If it was impossible for programmers to work abroad it would have been the same shit too. I have been offered 25000 salary in an interview. I started laughing at the interviewer. Yesterday someone in a programming Facebook group got offered 15000 salary. There's also the the fact that programmers could do a lot of other things to make money which are always hidden from programmers. Weird right.

Anyway skill acquisition won't save Nigeria. The government has to take tangible steps to really grow the economy and drive foreign investment. Let businesses breath, open the fucking borders. Build up the roads to the ports and make sure all ports are open and operating to maximum efficiency. Trade is what begets wealth but unfortunately the dullards ruling Nigeria seem to be oblivious of this fact.

Gerrard see this.

Vecto:
People who look down at handwork are always people who haven't tested their skills on the labour market, hence they are still having a form of unrealistic fantasies about life.
Every salary earner, no matter the pay or level envies people who make money daily and varyingly, not having to wait till the end of the month to execute financial decisions.

— Lezz

Gerrard59:


These issues are multifaceted: anaemic economic growth, fast rising population, dysfunctional political system, poor education etc. But key aspects are anaemic economic growth and partly high population. The Nigerian economy has not grown past 4% (pre-Covid-19) within the past five years but has seen population growth edge past 4% within the same period. We have gazillions of people indulging in "skills" (barbing, hair styling, mechanic, plumber, carpentry, baking, bead making and a whole lot of OKOTO MEOW skills people moan about these days). Countries which largely ignorant Nigerians like mentioning: Germany, Japan, Switzerland, China etc., what they forget is that those countries prize economic growth over indoctrinating their youths into acquiring skills and whatnot. Countries like Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand etc., don't prize acquisition of skills over economic growth because at the end of the day, if the economy is not growing, very few people will require the services of these "skilled" people at reasonable wages because hey, they economy is not growing.

I recalled when the Singaporean government prized reskilling (trying to help her citizens to possess better and high paying skills relevant to the global economy not barbing and sewing), she never took her eye off ensuring the economy grows so as to have these reskilled people earn better when people patronise their services. But no! Ignorant Nigerians believe by taking their children to technical schools to learn mechanic, the mechanic will service cars of citizens of the poorest country yet earn well to live a relatively comfortable life. Tomorrow, their minions in the political space (Kingsley Moghalu and Co) will mention Germany where mechanics are highly paid hourly for their services but will not mention the economic diversification, growth, policies, initiatives, infrastructure put in place by the German government to ensure its possibility of mechanics being highly paid. Nigerians have simply abdicated the responsibility of ensuring good economic policies are implemented to themselves instead of the leaders/politicians. Then again, Nigerians deserve the politicians they get, no pity whatsoever.

There is an urgent need to diversify the economy beyond crude oil (not pick your hoes and cutlass diversification - goodluck competing with the likes of Brazil, Netherlands and Australia for customers). So-called generator repairers, plumbers, hair stylists, motor repairers etc., are remunerated poorly because of the prevailing economic situation in the country but ignorant Nigerians think otherwise. Like this one:




The other aspect is high birth rates but then, birth rates are linked to economic growth. Should the economy grow consistently at 10%, birth rates will fall because people will be employed and start using their discretionary income for other things while having less time to breed like rabbits. Also, the power of religion will subside a little because of this new found wealth. However, the economy is not growing even at 5% yet people keep breeding like rabbits which results into having so much people chasing few jobs/contracts.

At the end of the day, economic growth is very important; Nigerians will learn it the hard way and I am happy for that, that is if they learn.

Vexedkid:
Everything is on standstill in this country. it's so fvking depressing what a man is made to go through every fvckin' day men. I pray for a better day.

tensazangetsu20:

It won't get better.

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