Bro, you're not alone in this hurdle of life, I think we have similar experience, I graduated in 2016 with a 2nd class upper division in Linguistics & Literary Studies, in fact I was the best graduating student in 2016 set in my department and I worked as a laundry guy in a hotel here in Enugu for six months but I went back to continue as an intern in a big private radio station and I wasn't just that kind of naive or low level intern because I've been in the radio platform before then. To cut the story short, I had to volunteer to work for different radio and other media platforms for free and as time went on, people actually noticed that I was good in what I was doing, and from time to time, I was called to come voice adverts and create contents and produce programs for different media outlets within the state and I get paid from it, though it's not that much and the job doesn't come every now and then but it's something, am a voice over artiste, radio host, producer, content creator, a writer and literary critic. so what am saying is that it takes more than education or rather the normal degree we know to earn a living in this present Nigeria, try reaching out to firms that provide services in your area of specialisation and see if you could serve as a volunteer and if you're good enough, they might take you though it's not going to be easy, God help us all bro, we're still kicking..

Na wa ooo !!
Why look for job when you already have a job.
You already have laundry experience as an hotel laundry man, why not set up your own laundry services. For you to wash 15-25 bedsheets/ duvet a day means you are very hard working.
You may think to set up a laundry business is capital intensive, sometimes it's not so. The man that do my laundry don't have a washing machine, you better look inward.
All this " Am a graduate" is not making our youth to be street smart, thereby making them not to be pro-active. It seems our graduate are just only paper conscious.

you said you graduated with 2.1 but you didn't state the course of study.

Trojan8:

Where did he boast about having a 2:1? If you don't have anything to say, why don't you keep mute?

Back to the topic

Op, I think it's better you quit that job. I am also a graduate with no job but there's no way I would've be doing something like that. Why don't you just work in a factory instead? I can't deal abeg, reading all you have typed just made me sad.

I don't engage kids, fvck off!

Contact me lemme see what I can do to help out.
08167461595

When Almighty said He regretted creating human beings because of our wickedness, I never knew that He was talking about Nigerians.

Guy, leave that job.

I encourage you to Go to your church and request for a testimony. When it is ur turn, seize the mic and narrate ur story. If any usher want to seize the mic off you, don't give it. Tell any of the ushers to allow you that there are people like you who are dying in silence here, and that you know that there are members here who are willing to help but could not identify honest needy.
IT IS BETTER TO MISBEHAVE TO SUCCEED than TO BEHAVE WELL AND FAIL.
If nobody else helped from that church, challenge them.

iamademola:
If you studied anything related to civil engineering, building tech, or chemical engineering quote me with your email.

Hello sir,

Please I studied Civil Engineering from UNIBEN.

Make person also helpe oooh. I am an undergraduate and my school keeps postponing our exams. I have stretched myself to my last limit. Even if it is to recieve logistics. I dont mind.

ThaThinka:
As bad as this country appears to be, I almost found this hard to believe. Things happen and can be saddening.

Keep moving on, soldier! This phase shall pass.

I see you write well. Why don't you give online content writing a try? It might not make you rich, but you may be able to get something better than you currently earn. A secret: that's contributed greatly to my not worrying so much about lack of a job all these years.

As someone suggested above, you may also try working as a teacher. You will at least have more time to do other things or earn extra doing tutorials.

I am good at content writing. Please, can you put me on the line? Thanks a lot m

People are selling akara and making more than your salary... just saying...

mrfreestuff:
the cadre of the university and the course you studied in the university also matter. Don't say because you don't want to stay at home because of JAMB score and WAEC result then now end up in unsuccessful low grade mediocre universities studying courses that are not in demand. You will regret it for the rest of your life. My advice is that If you miss it in 1st degree, don't miss it for a second degree when the opportunity comes. Attend good schools, I mean very good schools, don't end up having a good grade from a school full of low grade lecturers and students who lack the clout and orientation to earn legitimate incomes . You can never go wrong in life if you attend great universities, keep the right company and read good books, which you actually apply the nuggets there in your life .Please read the book " The Outliers ". Don't let anyone decieve you, some people are literally wasting away their time and lives attending some 'universities'. Not worth it attending such schools, most employers, especially in A list organisations , don't hire from those 'universities '. Sad as it sounds, it's just the truth.

People like you are just so daft. When we talk of the best universities in Nigeria, how many are there?

If everyone decides to apply for the best universities, how many students can each university take in?

While going to the best universities or studying the most in-demand courses surely gives one an edge, there should still be something job-wise that works for everyone. Just admit that we all found ourselves in a terrible country and don't blame it on people who simply want to acquire education.


That Unilag is one of the best schools doesn't necessarily mean they teach better than some state schools.

This story really made me sad. Apparently you were incapacitated by that piece of paper called cerrificate. I am very sure if you did not pass ur SSCE you would have learnt a trade and you would not be earning 15k per month now washing shit.

Guys, let us face the reality. There are no jobs anywhere again. Let us acquire relevant skills University education is not exclusively for job placement but for education .

Quit that job right away.

25 bedsheet in a day is criminal.

Get a secondary school to teach.

Don't say cos u are desperate then u accept anyhow job, guy you will hang there. Please look for another job asap,

SpringofLife:
I don't know if this is the right place to post this but permit me to go ahead regardless.

How I end up washing people's poo as a graduate with 2:1.

Growing up, I used to admire graduates a lot especially the way they do things, conduct themselves and the rest. You see them living in a good house and in the morning, they dress up properly, go to work and return in the evening. Non-graduates of course used to jealous graduates a lot as it were. Fast forward to today, the table has sharply turned 360°. Now, graduates have not only been ridicule but reduced almost to nothing. Non-graduates who learnt one skill or the other are the ones kicking money bags to the bank.

Well, I finished university 3 years ago and couldn't find a job despite aggressive job hunting due to obvious reasons. Being the first in the family, the pressure was/is already much on me. The aged parents have tried within their powers thinking the best they could do for me was training me to acquire a university degree but in today's Nigeria, it's glaringly not enough.

Let me not bother you all with long story but I don't see myself continuing with this kind of life any longer because it's not what I envisaged.

According to the heading, I graduated with second class upper division which of course is a good grade considered very employable according to society standard and labour market. Despite this, I searched for job in every nook and cranny I could but to no avail. Everyday I have to eat food, rent expiring, bills piling up, parents looking up to me and younger ones who are already in school every now and then would call and ask for assistance and which I didn't have. Out of no option, I accepted an offer to work as a laundry man in a hotel for 15k/month. That's how I thought I have at least got something doing. Frankly speaking, I didn't have an in depth knowledge of the job description.

Obviously, this would be a long story but let try and shorten it. Do you know that I have drained so much from my body in the course of this work physically and health wise? Practically, I wash between15-25 bedsheets/duvets everyday as the hotel does not have washing machine....parked since it got spoilt. Consequently, my pams have developed thick skin which is now very tough, rough and scratchy.

However, the above might not just be my only anger. More annoying is that, some guests are so inhumane. Is it because you paid money to lodge in the place that's why you believe you have to do wickedness? Why I'm writing this is because of the very one that happened few days ago. Actually that wasn't the first time. It's been happening over and over before. Could you believe a guest used the hotel bedsheets and defecated on it, folded it and kept it and checked out. As a laundry man, of course it landed on me and I was the one who washed the poo off. Oh God! Like I said, that wasn't the first time although other ones only used the bedsheets to clean their buttocks (for whatever reasons because I believe tissue paper is always there) after defecating but this particular guest 'pooed' fully inside the bedsheets, folded it and dropped it for whoever to come carry it and wash. I'm not writing fiction here please. This is 100% real of what I'm going through in the supposed 15k/month job. How wicked? When toilet was there?

Moving forward, equally, I can't count the number of times I have washed menstrual blood from bedsheets. These men bring even women who are on menses to sleep with them and end up pouring menstrual blood all over the bedsheets and I would be the one to wash it. God why?

Most annoying of all is, the management pays salary on the 26th of the following month. How inhumane some people can be? In other words, I have to work 2 months to get 1 month salary or simply put, 15/2=7500. In reality, that is the salary I'm receiving as a graduate. When I picked up the job, my plan was to raise up to 50k within the shortest possible time and move to something else, but unfortunately, I don't even know what I'm doing now. I have been in the job for 6 months now with nothing to show for it. This is why I said I can't continue with the present condition. The situation is beyond the one people say 'hold unto it. At all at all, na him bad pass". This one is worst than "at all at all".

Before I end it, just a few questions. Dear Nigerians with good job, abeg where una dey see diz good job after graduation? Abeg where una dey see money do business after school? Where una dey see money chop food and live life? Me still dey very hungry as I'm typing this. Abeg na beg I beg una, make una put me on abeg. Make una be my God father/mother. I don taya for this life. I be una brother o. Help me and help the society by extension. Thank you.

Wetin man dey suffer because of 15k too bad

Hmmmmmm!
Please don't mind my grammatical errors.
There are many ways to fix your problem.
One of them is to get closer to God. As in really, really and seriously close.
You can pray anywhere but there are faster and more effective ways available.
A graduate cleaning rooms... this is unbelievable and hence require a urgent and faster approach.
But you must be willing to give your life to Christ first for all obstacles to be destroyed. Let him take total control, you need to be spiritually strong for the jobs to start coming.
I can recommend 2 prayer mountains you can go to for prayers (urgent and fast approach)
One is in Ede, Osun state - Ori-Oke Baba Ibiye (C.A.C) and the other is in Joseph Ayodele Babalola Mountain (CAC) Ido-Ile, Ekiti state
Check them out on google, YouTube and their locations on google map.
You may plan to use 5 -7 days in either of the mountains and I tell you - Results will start coming even before you come down.
Let me know if you need any additional support on transportation, feeding and accommodation on any of the mountain.
While there you must not allow anybody to talk to you about any vision that is you must follow only the program of the mountain evangelist / pastors and ask for guidance from them only. I repeat from them only! you get the chance to pray to God yourself on the mountain bro.
Am not a CAC member but I was advised to go there last year after I lost my job.
All the 4 people (plus HR) that planned my exit have all left the business in a disgraceful way, and I now have a new job better than the previous one - free accommodation(24 hour power supply), vehicles for movement, free meals, better pay (Can't put all here). This can only be God bro.
Yours too can happen.
God is great!
You will never suffer when you get close to God.
I know somebody also else needs this please don't be discouraged by your current situation.
God is waiting to answer you - Just talk to him now.
You are blessed!

SpartanJ:
Hmmmmmm!
Please don't mind my grammatical errors.
There are many ways to fix your problem.
One of them is to get closer to God. As in really, really and seriously close.
You can pray anywhere but there are faster and more effective ways available.
A graduate cleaning rooms... this is unbelievable and hence require a urgent and faster approach.
But you must be willing to give your life to Christ first for all obstacles to be destroyed. Let him take total control.
I can recommend 2 prayer mountains you can go to for prayers (urgent and fast approach)
One is in Ede, Osun state - Ori-Oke Baba Ibiye (C.A.C) and the other is in Joseph Ayodele Babalola Mountain (CAC) Ido-Ile, Ekiti state
Check them out on google, YouTube and location on google map.
You may plan to use 5 -7 days in either of the mountains and I tell you - Results will start coming even before you come down.
While there you must not allow anybody to talk to you about any vision that is you must follow only the program of the mountain pastors and ask for guidance from them only. I repeat from them only!
Am not a CAC member but I was advised to go there last year after I lost my job.
All the 4 people (plus HR) that planned my exit have all left the business in a disgraceful way, and I now have a new job better than the previous one - free accommodation -(24 hour power supply), vehicles for movement, free meals, better pay (Can't put all here). This can only be God bro.
Yours too can happen.
God is great!
You will never suffer when you get close to God.
I know somebody else needs this please don't be discouraged by your current situation.
God is waiting to answer you - Just talk to him now.
You are blessed!

i tap from your blessings

NwaEzefuNaMba:


I don't engage kids, fvck off!

It's not about shouting this at every given opportunity.
Maturity is a thing of the mind and you are clearly lacking it. If after reading all that was written and the only thing that your brain could pick up was that the op was bragging about a 2:1 then it says a lot about your supposed maturity. I would leave you to ponder on this. Ciao!

OP, I don't know what to say to you but always say whenever you are down
''It is well with my soul''

Say it more often. It helps a lot.


I wish you prosper even as your soul prospers! Amen

My dear there is more diginity in selling pure water than these job you are doing. Forget your cert, fold your trouser and enter the street. You know what you want going into blue collar job or business is not the end of the road but a starting point for wise men. Some pure water sellers comfortably makes up to 2k per day, that is roughly about 50k in q Month. I learnt a lot from my mother in the village, do you know this woman makes nothing less than 150k in a month. What does she do she supply vegeatble to various customers and also sells fruit. Think about this.

matahor:
send me a message on this platform if you're interested. Thanks...

Good evening Sir. Please I am interested.

Quit that fucking job

iamademola:
If you studied anything related to civil engineering, building tech, or chemical engineering quote me with your email.

Hope it won’t be much of a problem to PM you too ? I’ll be on the look for IT placements in few months time (studying Chemical Engineering)

Go and get Private school teaching job

iamademola:
If you studied anything related to civil engineering, building tech, or chemical engineering quote me with your email.

Izzyybothe17@gmail.com

My dear!!! This is pathetic!!!! But there other things you can do with very little capital and grow into a successful person. U can DM for assistance.

There are actually things you can engaged yourself online and make more than what you are earning presently in as much you have a smartphone. Yes, you earn double of what you are collecting as salary without leaving your room... If you can get small amount of money with the experience you had in laundry already, you can set up your own laundry business and you will make cool money.

Op you mean people poo in duvet?...Blacks are really wicked

mehn....this is just so sad


I just wished I had the financial capability or connection to help people like the op.... sigh

Send your CV to me on this email abbey_oye2001@yahoo.com