Omo no be small call i make yesterday, me and joshua do midnight call for hours, Abigail whispered to Kate, nudging her slightly.

Ehn eh! No be small, kate responded. She was a bit envious of her friend, who had the freedom to not only have a boyfriend but can secretly talk with him on the phone at night without getting into trouble.

None of this was possible for kate, at least not when she has plans of keeping her head still attached to her neck. A slight shiver ran down her spine as she recollected the day her mother caught her having a steamy romance session with a boy in the dark behind their house.

Kate had been sent to fetch water from the next compound when she ran into her then bf. The guy was 6 years older than her but that didn’t matter to kate as she was head over heels for him since the very first day he asked her out. She had always had a thing for tall boys and Uche wasn’t just a tall boy, he was cute and lightskin.

It didn’t take her a long time to accept his proposal and being her first boyfriend, uche made sure kate felt his “love” every opportunity he gets. Every errand was promptly utilized and her budding breasts was lovingly handled each time. That was the only chance they got, as Kate is never allowed to leave the house alone for any reason apart from school and errands.

They were on their usual routine when mama K walked in on the two lovers having such a good time. If you have been following this story from the start, I believe you should be able to guess how that went.

All hell was let loose and mama k grabbed uche by the shirt, dishing out a couple of slaps on his cheeks before he was able to wrangle free and ran for his life. The woman then turned on her daughter and almost snuffed the life out of her.

The amount of beating kate received that day could have led to her death, if life was bent on preserving her for reasons kate just couldn’t figure out.

Her body was covered with bruises and whip marks and as if that wasn’t punishment enough. Mama k followed kate down to her school to inform her principal that she was caught romancing a boy and asked that she be publicly shamed during the morning assembly.

You nor go get up?! Mama shouted as she roughly shook kate awake. She promptly got up completely disappointed that her plan had failed.

The poison didn’t kill her, if anything she felt even better than she did the previous day. Which kin life be dis? Kate puzzled as she drag her feet to the kitchen. The otapiapia she consumed had been very effective in killing different people, why did it not work for her.

She rushed through her morning chores, which included preparing breakfast for her parents, doing the dishes, fetching enough bath water for her and the two adults who slept comfortably in the living room from the next compound. When her parents got up to take their bath, she quickly swept the two-room apartment they lived in.

All this Kate did before preparing herself for school, its no surprise she is a perpetual latecomer at school. After running through house chores that are way too much for a single person, talk less of a 13-year old girl, kate has to brace herself for some strokes of cane, given as a punishment to latecomers.

God what did i do wrong? Did i offend you in my former life? Or is there no God?! Kate quizzed as she stared blankly at the chalkboard. To her math teacher, kate was maintaining concentration but the young child was way deep in her thoughts.

She finds joy in absolutely nothing and had known nothing but worries in her short lifespan. The double period allocated for mathematics ran by quickly, and a bell signaling the end of the 35 minutes long lecture period shook kate out of her thoughts.

Kate never took notes, she never reads them anyways, she instead tries to pay attention as the teacher explains the lesson, this was the learning method that got her through primary school and after graduating from primary school as the best graduating student of the year, she could say this method was foolproof.

minks:


Interesting post indeed.
But I see a lot of people reacting emotionally and in the process, miss the important facts carefully presented here.

The way the facts are presented in this post may leave a lot to be desired but they are hard facts all the same.
If I understand the post clearly, a newbie has to learn the ropes by starting small or picking up gigs with small pay and in the process, gain enough experience that will get him gigs with higher pay. That makes sense to me.

The truth is that not everyone who claims to be a writer is good at the art. To get better, you need to hone your skills daily through the small gigs that come your way rather than get distracted by those who give you misleading information about writing.

For newbies, if anyone tells you it's impossible to write high quality content of 5000 words a day, it's a lie.
On a good day, I write more than that but it depends on certain factors such as:

- Do you have all day to write or do you have limited time each day to write? For me, the nature of my job offers me a lot of time to write.

- Are you passionate about what you write or you just write for the sake of it?
For me, I write only Christian content and it's something I'm passionate about so it follows naturally that I never run out of ideas.
Instead of stretching yourself thin by writing on several niches, why not focus your energy on one in which you never lack ideas to write about?

-Do you write and edit at the same time or do you finish your writing before editing?
I find that correcting my work as I write causes me to lose concentration. I write as fast as I can so I don't interrupt the flow of ideas and only make correction when I'm done writing.

- Do you get distracted by other activities or not. When I sit down to write, nothing takes my attention from it until I'm done.

One very important point most writers miss is that until you play in the big leagues, you can't make a living by writing.
As an aspiring or newbie writer, don't expect to make it big within a short time. Get a job that pays the bills but gives you time to write.
Write for passion and not for money untill the passion brings in the big bucks. That way, you won't be discourage if the big bucks don't come when you expect.

This is my humble submission. I hope it helps someone determine what's best for them.

Very well said! A word they say is enough for the wise.

Dvea:


You are right, but I think at this stage in your life as a Nigerian, you should know that people generally just misbehave. I don't get moved anymore when someone claim to be making millions. It's their luck not mine. If I tell you how many roads I have taken to make legit money, you will shock. But leave that one aside. Life isn't equal and yes, many people below you will earn more than you. It happens, I still work as a third party writer with clients who will not for the life of them open the work to check. Their own is just to submit the work and they are thriving. Like I am sure of three of my clients who can not write even if their life depends on it but they are working for big companies.

My own is just to make my money, I don't care about them and their earning, hence my point of never settle for underneath your worth. You think you are pissed, what would you say about me who introduced someone to writing and she made her first 600k in bulk, me I never see 600k bulk before. I am happy for her and moving my own ground. But all this is simply me saying, there is no point feeling bad about not thriving as fast as others, I'm okay with my own clock as long as I can pay for Netflix and watch Korean series and maybe by small chops tray. Everything else is just jara.

Buzz me if you like. Maybe I can be of some help to you.

Sure I would totally accept some help but that's the thing, we cannot keep withholding in fear of what could happen if you tried! This is a new era and we have to be our brother's keeper if this country is ever going to move an inch forward.

I can't tell you how long I've been writing for but no one gives you a helpful lead, they just keep talking about the promise land where your income matches or even supersedes your input, but no one in my 7years on Nairaland have shared a single tip to help those without the platter of opportunity like themselves.

They keep pointing towards the air, at least if you find a way, try show another person! You won't know the impact you are making up til 50years time and you look back and see no one “suffering and smiling” cos they have no other option

Dvea:


I will reply you in succession to your reply. True it's a one in a million chance of making it big immediately, but as I said, everyone's destiny is different. You instantly calling anyone who doesn't want to earn 1 naira per word at the start, greedy, is wrong. Everyone's ambition and motivation varies.

Next you are right, Not every pocket is the same and of course there are small rate payers, no doubt. However not all writers are the same, and even the newbies are not the same. I have met first time writers who are 10 times better than so called writers with years of experience. You must understand that skill matters and if you believe you have the skill, you can sell it for as high as you deem fit. And not be tagged greedy. *That is why there are tailors who have been sewing for decades who cannot stand the skill of a newbie who just learnt to pick up a scissors*. My point is skill, skill makes you worth anything you demand. Skill is what people want. Years does not guarantee skill, it only guarantees experience.

I am not making it hard for anyone to make their mark. And my write up will not change the fact that there are writers who will take .50 naira per word. I only replied you because you decided to tag every writer who doesn't want to start small greedy. I want to correct that notion. Knowing your skill and time and refusing to be underpaid is not greed, it's knowing your worth. How far that worth takes you, is not the business of anyone. Make your honest niche with writers who are okay with starting small, but don't make those who don't want to, feel bad about their choices. Everyone is different and every destiny is different. Know this and know peace.

No I beg to disagree, experience plays a heavy role in skill level. Why do you see some jobs asking for ridiculous amount of job experience? You can never compare the knowledge gathered from working directly in a field with that of learning about the field

I reasoned like you too until I compared my work skill 1year apart without taking any intentional improvement measures, I was only repeating a singular act that sharpened my skillset without me trying

In fact it was so outstanding a client who had stopped working with me because they felt I wasn't up to skill, rehired me and increased my rate. Why do you think internships exists?

Dvea:


The start of this issue is that you called people greedy, I only told you its not greed its knowing your worth. No one is saying we can all make millions. I am not and Ive been writing 5 years. Its not about making millions but about settling for anything. Again I agree that not everyone can start big, but like I said before don't tell people to settle for anything. I have said this to you in my reply twice, everyone has a different destiny. Exactly what you claim now. Your time and mine are not the same, doesn't mean that you call everyone greedy for refusing to start small. Your initial post was titled the greed of Nairaland writers. Which again I say is wrong. It is completely wrong to say because another person isn't willing to start with a low pay the person is automatically greedy.

Your point is that we can't all start the same and people have been brain washed to wait for the gold. That is unfortunate because gold doesn't just come to you. Besides there are many groups, links, books, and sites to help you upscale, what you should say is you don't have the source. Let's be honest half the people who brag about making it big aren't, they just want to sell their book or course. But that is their own business.

Your anger, I get. You have tried to upscale and it isn't working as fast as you would like. But again, calling those who don't want to start small greedy is wrong cause everyone has their own destiny. I think I have overemphasized my point and if you don't get it then really nothing can change that. But anyway you are right those who have gotten a glimpse of the way should share it. I will do just that, actually I will do even better. I will create a WhatsApp group strictly to give free tips on getting better jobs. I am not sure how many people I can help but it just might favour someone.

And I would just like to end on a friendly note. Don't get angry at people who don't share their secrets, it wasn't easy to come by. Many people are not also very genuine if you help them scale up, we also have the issue of scams and more. You have got to protect your money ground. Also because someone has succeeded in one end and is flaunting it, doesn't mean they have everything. I can bet there is something you have that I want badly but can't get. In one way or the other we all have things that make us feel worthless. But if we all act on that and call everyone greedy or selfish, or some other term then we will have more mental health issues than we already do in Nigeria. Be grateful for what you have, work your way to what you want, and never undervalue yourself.

For one you know that title is simply click bait, and after receiving a work that I wouldn't sell for 1naira from a guy who feels it should worth nothing less than 5naira, I was greatly angered!

I feel shortchanged that some people who aren't halfway up to my skill level are seeking higher while those that knows how to aim higher are hiding the knowledge then come around to do what I regard as “mocking”.

There's no need telling a man who's down that he is down, he knows that already! Maybe try telling him how to get up

succyblinks:
Just like the man that sat in the pool of Bethesda, waiting for one Golden opportunity until he successfully spent a better part of his life waiting, it is time for us to walk..

Is it fair? No!! I believe my work deserves 1kper word, but my current client cannot afford that and I understand!

Since there's no available offer, I'm going to enjoy putting my best for what you call “peanuts” till I slowly but surely command a greater pay and find better offers probably higher than yours ( I have a running blog from the “peanuts”)

I would like y’all ‘high-earners’ to stop talking and start teaching, if you can't, we don't wanna hear about it!


Signed
Peanut earners

Yes! That's what I thought! Silence! No one wants to leak their fishing method but shame those resulting to scraps

Typical human behavior! Some of y’all condemning 1.5k words would not mind taking a 50k bank job. I spend zero production cost except my time and maybe fuel, my clients provide every working tools I needed and I made 80k monthly writing 1naira per word.

Was is stressful?? Freaking yeah! But it wasn't more stressful than the regular teaching job and guess what? I worked from home even before covid came and introduced working from home.

I don't know about you, but I would pick getting peanuts that covers my bills while improving myself in an area I enjoy plus I get to work from anywhere I want to be, I can't put in words, the amount of progress I've achieved fr myself with that peanut.

Plus there's room for improvement, my rates are constantly changing, in fact my clients increase my pay without me asking, add bonuses and a lot of other incentives, it's almost like an online workforce and I like it here, cheap pay or not

its hurting to see y’all walk over opportunities that could change the life fr someone because its not standard. Well guess what! Nigeria is a 3rd world country and I can count a million things we are missing out on but should we keep dwelling on that and continue waiting for that Almighty drop or should we pick our tools and start tilling the hard ground before us?

At 2naira per word currently, I make 100k monthly, run a physical business and a blog. No, I'm able to take out needed time fr myself and have a better social life than most of my mates. Plus I've reasonable financial freedom for my age, but it took me a while and that's okay

This isn't to brag, but I think we youths are aiming too high and the ones who seem to get it on first try, is making everyone feel its supposed to be easy.

This guy I encountered with recently, really gave me a close insight to the general mindset of an Average Nigerian youth. We are in a rush and think that we deserve than we actually do!

Its a pity tho, a bird at hand they say; is worth a million in the bush. Please do not by any means settle for less than you deserve! but I would rather you wear out your fingertips over loading cheap articles, than to stand alongside the road waiting for your next meal!

A word is enough for the wise, I retire at this point

Just like the man that sat in the pool of Bethesda, waiting for one Golden opportunity until he successfully spent a better part of his life waiting, it is time for us to walk..

Is it fair? No!! I believe my work deserves 1kper word, but my current client cannot afford that and I understand!

Since there's no available offer, I'm going to enjoy putting my best for what you call “peanuts” till I slowly but surely command a greater pay and find better offers probably higher than yours ( I have a running blog from the “peanuts”)

I would like y’all ‘high-earners’ to stop talking and start teaching, if you can't, we don't wanna hear about it!


Signed
Peanut earners

Dvea:


Who works one job and keep quiet for a month. That is a poverty mentality. Anyone who isn't constantly working to top off what they have either already has a lot or doesn't get the concept of making money and being financially free. And just to correct a notion. I have met people who have worked every day of their life and still had nothing to show for it, even with a minimalistic lifestyle. Holding firm to a poverty mentality so you can be on guard is still a poverty mentality. I'm no financial expert but successful people do not fear poverty they delight in the prospect of success. If you don't get that then ...

No one is fearing poverty, I for one believes money is simply fr upkeep not fr stashing! By own issue is with people who have had better opportunities, y’all keep blabbing about receiving millions fr pay yet you hide your methods

You create this desperation in the heart of others for an occurrence so sparse it can never reach everybody?

How about you share your knowledge and allow people make the most with it? After making a false imprintation, you wonder why the upcoming ones are so eager to get things done forgetting that fr everything in life, there's time and season.

Your season of collecting 5naira could be another’s season of collecting 1naira, instead of saying “see how to make up to how much I make” you just come and flash the money and disappear, creating a unrest between the hungry spirits who fatally attack the next person that doesn't offer them similar pay

Dvea:


I will reply you in succession to your reply. True it's a one in a million chance of making it big immediately, but as I said, everyone's destiny is different. You instantly calling anyone who doesn't want to earn 1 naira per word at the start, greedy, is wrong. Everyone's ambition and motivation varies.

Next you are right, Not every pocket is the same and of course there are small rate payers, no doubt. However not all writers are the same, and even the newbies are not the same. I have met first time writers who are 10 times better than so called writers with years of experience. You must understand that skill matters and if you believe you have the skill, you can sell it for as high as you deem fit. And not be tagged greedy. That is why there are tailors who have been sewing for decades who cannot stand the skill of a newbie who just learnt to pick up a scissors. My point is skill, skill makes you worth anything you demand. Skill is what people want. Years does not guarantee skill, it only guarantees experience.

I am not making it hard for anyone to make their mark. And my write up will not change the fact that there are writers who will take .50 naira per word. I only replied you because you decided to tag every writer who doesn't want to start small greedy. I want to correct that notion. Knowing your skill and time and refusing to be underpaid is not greed, it's knowing your worth. How far that worth takes you, is not the business of anyone. Make your honest niche with writers who are okay with starting small, but don't make those who don't want to, feel bad about their choices. Everyone is different and every destiny is different. Know this and know peace.

If you feel hurt with the term greedy, how do you think calling someone’s earnings “peanuts”? All fingers are not equal and some people will inadvertently be placed by nature to work twice as hard as others, it’s not a curse!

But your discouraging words are what keep many people like me from taking the only available offer because we keep dreaming of that “oil job”.

Imagine a shelf worker shaming a fuel attendant for his pay, Just because they are the same age. Do you think if the fuel attendant had the same opportunity as the other guy, he wouldn't achieve even better?

I for one, don't have an immediate grass to grace story and I'm just trying to encourage someone with slow progress like me, that it's okay too

Y’all create this fast lane and set in stone rule that makes people who can't keep up feel worthless. How about instead of bragging how much you are paid, you share tips on how you secured such pay?

Y’all always have one niece or nephew with mind blowing rate, how about you shut it? If we can't get it, why should we stress ourselves aiming??

Y’all claim to ignore the fact that many big gigs go to relatives and already known acquaintances. No big company is coming to Nairaland to source for their content creator.

So until we dig up our 1talent and trade with it till we match up to those the master gave 3 and 5, we'll forever be in the dark.

Thank you!

Dvea:


Just one thing to say to you, anyone who expects a good writer to complete 5k words daily, knows nothing about good content. That's why people are seeking foreign jobs, cause no foreigner in their right minds will expect you to writer 5k words a day. 5K words daily equals bad writing, take it or leave it. In my five years of writing and in all the collaborations and projects I have done, the worst I have ever expected anyone or anyone has ever expected me to write a day is 3k words and not for a whole month. Do you get that people need to eat, sleep, and do other personal tasks. This is not even speaking of research, writers block, flow, writing, editing, the horrible power supply, and any other contingency that may arise.

I take you side that you cannot expect to start making millions from the get go especially with little experience. But I also say, its about knowing the right channel. I have done jobs where clients say experience doesn't matter just diligence and a sound command of English. So no it is not ludacris for people to start earning 5 naira on their first job. My sister's first job paid 3 naira, I gave her the connection but I began with 300 naira per 1k words. By the way all these are Nigerian contacts. The point is, your opinion is yours, and I respect that, but do not call it greed. Call it ambition and hope. It's all about what your destiny sets for you. Oh and one more thing 1.3 is really small with the economy, come on. It's bad enough that people still get paid that, let's not justify it by calling them greedy. That is a poverty mentality.

Plus it is this desire to work 1job and lola fr 1month before looking fr another 1gig to keep up the lifestyle is why many people will work till they drop dead!

Couldn’t be me! Leave us with the poverty mentality so we can be forever on guard against it!

blaquebelle:
Hello @ succyblinks
Cc: @ Dvea, Curtysaxel
I'm a budding writer. I recently got a gig writing social media and website content. The client asked how much I charge and I mentioned 20/words based on online research I carried out.

Your post is making me have a rethink, however.

I also got a memoir writing job to be turned over in a month. Do you have any idea what is appropriate to charge or the best arrangement to make?

Your advice will be highly appreciated.

That’s the point, this post was never to set a price stamp, but to draw y’all attention to the fact that the price cannot be set at a specific high just because a set of people can afford it.

There’s a reason we have bukas and restaurants, go where ur money reach but that doesn’t mean they’ll serve you p-o-o-p in a buka because you have little money

What i like to do with new clients is give them an open slip, ask what they are offering and double whatever figure they drop, they negotiate your way down till you think you have a deserved pay

Dvea:


Just one thing to say to you, anyone who expects a good writer to complete 5k words daily, knows nothing about good content. That's why people are seeking foreign jobs, cause no foreigner in their right minds will expect you to writer 5k words a day. 5K words daily equals bad writing, take it or leave it. In my five years of writing and in all the collaborations and projects I have done, the worst I have ever expected anyone or anyone has ever expected me to write a day is 3k words and not for a whole month. Do you get that people need to eat, sleep, and do other personal tasks. This is not even speaking of research, writers block, flow, writing, editing, the horrible power supply, and any other contingency that may arise.

I take you side that you cannot expect to start making millions from the get go especially with little experience. But I also say, its about knowing the right channel. I have done jobs where clients say experience doesn't matter just diligence and a sound command of English. So no it is not ludacris for people to start earning 5 naira on their first job. My sister's first job paid 3 naira, I gave her the connection but I began with 300 naira per 1k words. By the way all these are Nigerian contacts. The point is, your opinion is yours, and I respect that, but do not call it greed. Call it ambition and hope. It's all about what your destiny sets for you. Oh and one more thing 1.3 is really small with the economy, come on. It's bad enough that people still get paid that, let's not justify it by calling them greedy. That is a poverty mentality.

First of all, no one is saying you can’t earn 300naira/per word in Nigeria. What I’m saying is those opportunities are 1 in a million!

If by any means the cooperation hiring can afford to pay their writers 1000naira/per word, they definitely should! But you have to remember we also have budding bloggers, with blogs that turn in little to no revenue yet, so why do you think they can afford that??

There’s a reason why the tomatoes sold for 500 in your local market can go for 1,500 in shoprite, it’s not a different product but a different audience!

And by any means I’m not seeking an A1 academic writing, in fact i want a work that’s already on the net, i just need a little creative touch here and there!

If the pay is beneath you, cool! But don’t come here making it extra difficult for others to carve an honest niche for themselves with your high set standards.

succyblinks:


Nex
Ijebabe

Y’all about to let this guy keep ripping people off?!

Oh wow! I see why this scheme still goes on, y’all pay a blind eye to it. No problem, this is all I need to desist from Nairaland and all that has to do with it

Divepen1:
I said I'll like to hear your side; instead, you decided to ignore that and type all this with the same time and energy you could have used for rebuttal.

That's because he doesn't have a side, he's just outrightly wicked and heartless

This is what he sent, bragging that he'll ruin my life, I never knew people like this still existed in our day and time

ContentKing1:
Is it possible to complete 5000 words everyday and still produce a quality job? If yes then you should be writing for yourself

Well, no one is forcing the job down ur throat. But collecting and a job and disappearing with the money is criminal

PatrickOkunima:


It's not about the pay. I paid him N3 per word and got rubbish in return. Even if you pay him N10 per word, you'll get the same result.

Please dm me or I'll dm you, check ur mail

succyblinks:


Divepen
Obinnau
Patrickokunima

Nex
Ijebabe

Y’all about to let this guy keep ripping people off?!

Writerholic:
Lol you lead I follow, I’ve told you, you get to call the shots. You’ve chosen not to act civilised?? No worry I Dey for you.

Divepen
Obinnau
Patrickokunima

Writerholic:
I have also had similar experience with her!!!!

https://www.nairaland.com/succyblinks

Please avoid her!

Haha! Aren't just a stupid one hayat! I think I need to draw the attention of the mods to the fake accounts you use to leave reviews on your threads to trick unsuspecting people

Have a fun-filled day! this fight is far from over.

hayatulimisticor:
https://www.nairaland.com/succyblinks

Please be aware of the Nairaland user above. She is a coldblooded scammer. DONOT work with her! She hires writers pay ask them to writer about 40k words at 1N per word, after submission, she will raise a compliant on the articles even if they are not plagiarised, return the articles and start threatening the writer to pay back her money, she will start threatening to ruin the writer’s reputation on all platforms. Basically all she does is try to get people to do her work, borrow cash to give them then threaten them afterwards. Please avoid this low-life scammer at all cost please!!!


https://www.nairaland.com/succyblinks

Aren't you just a low lifer! Anyways I don't need to battle with you, Its your dad who was begging me profusely yesterday, I pity!

I have all the needed evidence to make sure you never secure a writing job ever again! So enjoy your remaining days on Nairaland and everywhere else you scam people

hayatulimisticor:
You want veteran writers and you carried N1 per word. You better get yourself together and start writing your work.

Well, seeing that you accepted my pay even when you had no intentions of working tells me a lot about you. But I can assure you, you aren't getting away with it

hayatulimisticor:

You’re very stupid person for this write up. You lazy writer looking to hire writers at N1 and expect all tools to be used. I’m just seeing this now, trust me this is the last time you’ll hear from me. Very st**pid being.

Alrighty!

hayatulimisticor:
That OP is a lunatic. I’ve been on Nairaland for years and I’ve not seen someone as uncultured and uncivilised as her. I’ve said enough and I really don’t have anything to say. If you believe to hold on to one end of the story that’s fine. I really don’t care no more.

Oga drop your own side of the story now, instead of having a concussion

Divepen1:


Hello, you have been accused and the screenshots say a lot. I will like to hear from you with 72 hours, after which other measures will be carried out.

Please oga Divepen, I really don't know how I can drop the full screen recording of our chats.

PatrickOkunima:


You don't mean it.

I don’t go easy on scammers cos I work too hard fr my money

SUVs:
I'm interested and also an aspiring writer, if you will, give me an opportunity to an experience

Not hiring currently but you can send a dm

PatrickOkunima:


You don't mean it.

That's just the beginning, if he allows me to spend a kobo on this issue, then I won't stop till I see him on cuffs. Mumu when I fit track under 10minutes

PatrickOkunima:


That's really bad. I'm sorry you had to go through that. It was to avoid a recurrence of what transpired between myself and him I made that comment. Wish you saw that earlier. He insisted I paid him first, and I asked, "What if you deliver a bad job?" He said he had a refund policy in case a client is not happy with the job. Only for the scammer to call my bluff when I requested a refund for the terrible job he did that was of no use to me.

It's a similar scenario for me, but he won't get away with it, I sure of that. Whatever it would cost, I'll make sure he pays me back every kobo or I get my articles.

I already contacted his father

PatrickOkunima:


It appears your case is different from mine. Care to share how he scammed you?

He asked for advance and gave me a credible background, his upwork link which I'll bring down if I don't get my money

So I paid cos he sounded genuine, only for him to ask for money, begging that he needed to renew the subscription of his working tools.

Right there, I knew the guy was fluff but I still sent him the money cos I was already hooked and he was almost crying on the phone.

I can't stand someone pleading with me continuously only for him to send articles he copied word for word off google, in fact one of the copied work was from my own blog; can you imagine!

Told this guy and he said he can't do a better job for the rate we discussed, this is someone I sent a sample of how I wanted my work to be done.

He doesn't even know who he's messing with, I'll run him to the ground even if that's the last thing I do

blackboy:
Hook me up.

I would but are you a writer?

I think this post is long overdue and I’m fully prepared to counter y’all emotional reactions with pure facts.

I see lots of threads advising writers to not accept “peanuts” for their work. Some of this people go ahead to brag how they are paid 100s of thousands for their work, and unfortunately they mislead a lot of budding writers, ending their career even before they start.

Firstly, do y’all bother to ask how long those collecting that huge pay has been working for? All of this people have years and years of writing experience under their belt, so of course their work attracts better pay. And if you check well this people started off with 1naira or even less. I for one did!

I see some amateur writers who think writing articles is all about changing a few words in the post they outrightly copied from google just to beat the plagiarism checker

Lol! I really pity the impatient and greedy folks who wants to be paid 10naira per word from the start. My brother/sister, you go old!!

Everyone are being advised to seek international gigs, but are they easy to come by? Especially for people with zero experience. In fact, many of those claiming they are paid higher, do so to reduce the labor force so they can have all the rejected 1.5 gigs to themselves, lol.

I currently have one greedy folk on my hands who believes 1.3per word is too small to do a good job, lol! So how will I be encouraged to pay you 5naira per word?

Y’all don’t want to start from the grassroots and because of that, you can never succeed as a writer; at least not in Nigeria.

God forbid I pay a writer I’m unsure of their skill higher than 1.5naira, take it or leave it. Y’all want to make 1million naira per month, I would advise you to try yahuu or richtuals!

A 1.5naira gig can pay you 150k monthly if you can complete 5000words every day fr 20days. Please I ask, which job in Nigeria currently pays up to that amount for the entire month?

Y’all have been shortsighted by greed and its disgusting to say the least. Keep searching for that million-dollar job, while your mates make a sustainable income while gathering experience and making connections that inherently gets them a better pay.

I'll drop my pen here and as for you https://www.nairaland.com/hayatulimisticor
I'll be the last person you scam, I swear on that!