LaurelP:
As A graduate, if u are offered a job as a cleaner for a pay of say 50 to 80k, would you accept it? Maybe in an oil company or multinational?

gbenga4my:

I understand d guy, its all about career growth. But d logic is u wrk as a cleaner for a while, save some cash nd u can move on with that.

FriedPlantain:
You laugh that I'd rather earn 30k as a graduate in a small company than 100k in an oil company working as a cleaner?

This is where young graduates get it wrong, everything isn't just about money, money, money. Do you agree with me that a young graduate with over 5 solid years experience in a small audit firm earning 30k has a better chance of earning 300k soon enough with his wealth of experience compared to his graduate counterpart that works as a cleaner in an oil company and has vast years of experience mopping floors and mixing detergents? He also has a higher career prospect as well.


Friedplantain

ajasa4link:

But the wise man earning big as a cleaner will just save enough to start his own cleaning company and become an employer of labour ,while the one working in an audit firm looking for his 300k job will remain an employee developing other people's business for them.

omonnakoda:


The problem is being a graduate especially from a Nigerian university has zero value most of the time .

Look at your grammar e.g "As a graduate........

What kind of sentence starts like that. You are a typical example , poor English and a strong sense that having a bogus certificate entitles you to a life of Riley

Mr I too know, correct him let's see what you have.

manie:



He will be a transport magnate.

oyb:


you have completely missed it.

a lot of people started out with low paying first jobs; my first job paid 25k; an i was there for a year and a half; next one paid 45 k, i was there for 2 years; then on to the oil company job.

so where do you go from the cleaning job?

rheether:
What is it with Nigerians and what you do for a living? If it pays your bill and bring food to your table who cares?

AgapeCharis:
You can even play your game well as a cleaner, build a good network and get a good placement in the company.

omonnakoda:


The problem is being a graduate especially from a Nigerian university has zero value most of the time .

Look at your grammar e.g "As a graduate........

What kind of sentence starts like that. You are a typical example , poor English and a strong sense that having a bogus certificate entitles you to a life of Riley

juicee1:
You have a great point which can only move the less enlightened.

Let's put it this way: he earns 80k mopping floors while you earn 30k seated in an airconditioned office typing on a desktop computer.

Assuming the amount the both of you spend on transportation and feeding for every month is 20k each, he will have 60k left for savings while yours will be 10k.

60k x 12months= N720,000

10k x 12months= N120,000

What can you investments 120k in? I don't know for now. Probably something that produces little, not even up to the 30k you earn from being an auditor. I stand to be corrected.

As for his 720K, if he's not a spendthrift, he can invest in transport biz. Placing a danfo bus on the road in lagos can fetch him 80K per month asides the 60K he earns from mopping floors.

80K + 60K= N140,000

140K x 12months= N1,680,000


While he's saving N1,680,000 after 2yrs, you will only have N240K after 2yrs of your comfortable audit job.


In the 3rd year, if he's extra smart, he can add another bus to increase his margin of profit. He can continue the trend in the 4th and 5th year.


By the 5th year, he would have become an employer of labour with 4 danfo buses, each fetching an income of 80K per month asides his cleaner job of 80K per month. Don't forget about the amount he would have saved during those periods.

As for you, your sure believe of nabbing a job worth 300K might get dashed when reality hits you in the face. Even if you finally land the job, you are still going to remain a "yes sir" kind of person cos you've programmed yourself to work for others instead of employing people. Your mentality of comfort at work is one of the reasons why many youths are unemployed or not doing well in employment.


Sometimes, we are suppose to get muddy and dirty before we look shinny. Remember that diamonds are found in the rough.

juicee1:
your only asset is the salary from the oil company while his are 4 buses plus their returns.

oyb:


go and look at the business magnates in this country and tell me how many of them took on menial jobs as career choices.

hardejoke:
Have seen a graduate dat work as sales girl wit less than #8,000 per month. May God help us

juicee1:
your only asset is the salary from the oil company while his are 4 buses plus their returns.

jashar:
Big hell NO. What will mopping floor and washing toilet add to me?

I have those skills already. Thanks.

oloyedayo:
bring the job, it is better than staying without a job.

LaurelP:
just for fun. As A graduate, if u are offered a job as a cleaner for a pay of say 50 to 80k, would you accept it? Maybe in an oil company or multinational?