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Legal wealth, in order to save you from future heart attack, send me an email let me show a better way to withdraw you paypal fund all by yourself. No need for exchange w.itch or American hyper lunatic friend. I have know this secret since last year but have not used it because I don't have a paypal account. I don't know if you have read about it though, just send me an email. My email is in my signature below.

Apart from this, I think it's time for banks to accept complains and help to fight fraud ,but,no, they wont

When I tell people to stay away from paypal dem no 1 hia.

Legalwealth, if I had $875 now, I am made 4live. There are many things that you can achieve without paypal... But no, una no go hia word.

Sorry sha... Take heart. You will rise again. But you know quite well that your friend is a fool and you are much better of than he. You can make back that money in no time... Just repeat what you did to make the $875 and you will be fine.

MADent: indeed there are ways, please what are your follower counts

Buying followers is tricky. What if they are fake. I have seen people flip that idea behind a website at flippa.com.

Again, the fact that you came here to sell such stuff shows that you are yet to get a full grasp of how the internet works. How many people here know about what you talking about?

Knowing where your customer hang out is a plus as an internet marketer.

BlueDIVA, talking about people who get broke after leaving the oil industry, I would say it's the lack of knowledge of how money works that is cause. Imagine people getting a job with an oil firm and have no concrete plan for investment.

I remember I once talked about investment to my friend who is with Total, but he laughed it off. This is the case with virtually alot of people working out there.

I am glad that I hadnt been employed yet when my mates got job with Total. Why? It has given me the sense of how money works, why it is essential to invest and build a business etc. and that only happened after reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. I have gone further to read more investment and business books since then.

Some folks would quickly go on buying car but do not have a piece of realestate. Some do not know the difference between liability and asset.

I have only read of one man who retired from Shell at age 45 to take up fulltime realestate biz. And that's my goad--to become a realestate investor.

And this problem is the reason why most people do not retire early because they never thought of investing till tirement age start knocking.

Whoever wants to work in the oil industry just to make money should know that he/she displaced someone. So ,also, will he/she be displaced at the appropriate time. Hence, there's need to strike now while the iron is hot.

You don't know how the internet work yet. You have a long way to go...

Yamakuza, I have a bone to pick with you. How may I reach you? I want a one on one talk via email... Please , make yourself available.

Thank you.

Sorry to say this, but you want to start a business and you don't know what sells? If you can't even do a market research... You lack the basic traits of an entrepreneur and I wonder you will make it in business or what will happen to your money...Smh

Jarus: I think the way BD worded her comment made it easy for anyone to read motive to it. She could have made same point without being so vituperative.

After all, some of us have mentioned earlier in the thread that it is not only in oil companies that you can have a decent career and living. I even gave an example of someone I knew that has had all his career in an investment banking insitution and today better off than most of his friends that started in the Shells of this world. Oil coy guys usually have this tendency of frittering away their income on ostentation in their early career due to this big boy syndrome, while their colleagues with lower income in other sector are living modestly and saving.

Oga Jarus(Suraj) thank you for your comments. And who on earth is not in a Job because of the pay? Who is fooling who? Oh she isn't in for the money, right? Well, she can tender her resignation letter to whatever oil coy she belong and start farming.

She insisted that this discussion should have been tailored towards building a career path and I made her understand that I once requested for advice concerning career building and I didn't get any.

I have gained a lot from this thread than anywhere else.

Why couldn't she start a thread to correct whatever she feels is wrong with this one--career building.

Why would she castigate anyone who had spent valuable time in educating his fellow Nigerians. As it is, this thread is not entirely about Total because alot has been discussed , ranging from schooling abroad, obtaining certificates,scholarship, etc.

This thread has been an eye-opener to me and I have become more informed. Thanks to likes of Jarus, 2good and T22 who have effortlessly contributed their time.

To be honest with you, I feel BlueDiva is approaching this issue wrongly and for someone that is reported to be an employee of an oil company, I would expect her to share experience, how she started and climbed up the ladder, her mistakes etc. But I don't see that ever happening. This is why Nigeria is what it is today. A lot of people would rather keep valuable information to themselves.

As for me, I am not so worried about Total, ExxonMobil, Shell , Chevron etc. All I care about is how I can get into the oil industry, garner skills and experience and hopefully join Saudi Aracom ( Or any other oil coy)

Blue Diva, what advice do you have for a fresh graduate and how can one build a career in the oil industry, what are the needed skills etc?

santakris: Whats their own na. How it take concern them.

Do you know that it take years to build a reputation and a minute to ruin it? Ah... You are not a business man so you don't know what it is like to soil one's name. Okay. Go build a business hand me a bulldozer to destroy it in a few minutes...

Would you want to spend the night in an hotel where someone was murdered in cold blood? I bet it's better imagined that experienced....

In addition to that, you should learn to market yourself. And please do not go to any of those content mills such elance, guru, odesk, freelancer, fiverr and the likes to look for writing jobs. There are people who earn as much as $50/ article and this people are doing it without content mills. At content mills, you are paid slavery wage. I wished I had a modem, I would have written at length to share what I know with you. But I can't because using a phone to type isn't easy.

Stagger, quite a good idea. But who knows if he would want to do it. You naija people and forming na.

But the oyibos we copy would do anything just to make that money, as long as it is legit.

Another thing is location.... Goto a location where it is difficult to get the kerosine and you should be fine. I know a woman who building her from kero biz...

OP, Abeg let her go... When she come back with expired OBO tell her to join my ex on queue in line of used and dumb materials...

chipmunkey: Contributions are welcome...

Don't you know that you can incorporate the two? And who told you that a blog is not a website?

kaorama: This is general talking. No sentiment attached. Quite unfortunate, but the father has said it all

That's a father who does not support silly misbehaviour.... Who knows if he hadn't been seeing signs of this before. A man can't just make such statement except he never trusted his daughter and I believe the mother may have kept a lot of things from the father until now.

And someone once asked why facebook and twitter was banned in China.

kaorama: This is general talking. No sentiment attached. Quite unfortunate, but the father has said it all

That's a father who does not support silly misbehaviour.... Who knows if he hadn't been seeing signs of this before. A man can't just make such statement except he never trusted his daughter and I believe the mother may have kept a lot of things from the father until now.

karlxavier: pals, please i need you pple to help me out on dis now. My uncle promised to give me from 500k to 1.5m to start a biz of my choice only if i can present him with the biz feasibility study so as for him to know the viability of the business.. Anyone with good business proposal should reply. I'm ready to partner with the person on the biz. Any one, agro,supplies,service-rendering biz,rental etc. Thanks...

Karlxavier, you again? I dey laff... Why can't you do your own research yourself? You want someone to do it for you, right? Good luck.
A fool and his money soon part way...

If ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.

GOOD LUCK ON SEARCH...!

~Bluetooth:
He's not adding any value to the society but doing his own personal business.How many of winners' congregation can afford a house of over #45 000 000 ? isnt ota some kind of forest if i may ask ?

bros... You remind me of the mistake my own mother made over 2 decades ago. The found a land for her around mile 2 and her complain was that it's bushy... How is mile 2 today. This is the mistake many people make in life.

Trust me and mark my word... Ogun State is developing fast. How many people can buy a land in Lagos today but with 500k, you can get a plot of land in Ogun State.

My mother bought a land at 250k back in 2004 or 5 in Ogun State but now, you can't even get a land for 600 or 700k in that area, near The Bells(OBJ school).

In 2008 during the shiloh at Canaan Land, a company distributed leaflets and when they handed me a copy what did I see? Mowe Offada plots of land at 300k... With every doc. C of o etc but today, if you get a land for 700k there, you are lucky!

Be wise my people... No Land lord will give you an award for staying in his house and you will never be his friend as long as there's som1 with a better pay. I told a friend that I am going to own a few plots of land in Ogun State. I no come form mugu for this live I come o.

Kobojunkie: People need to stop being selfish when giving. . . it should not all be about you. Look up the meaning of the word GIVE please.

guy take am easy abeg... It's not like giving is a big deal. Let's face reality as a world we truly live in. What would you feel if you help someone and the person abuse that priviledge? Either way, humans like to be appreciated and acknowledged. Even you who is saying all this wouldn't want to help if you find yourself in messy situation whereby those friends you helped in the past looked down on you. Let's face reality. It's good to give but the way you sound, it as if you want someone to pack all his belongings and give to people. Who is that fool?

I have said it before, if no one wants to help you, don't blame them because you don't know what that person has gone through.

No be person whey my mama shelter and feed for some years call my mama witch? Abegi... But she still help more people thereafter. It's only good to help but never to your own detriment nor that of your children. I am talking from what I learnt from my own mother.

agent22: my mum invested almost 3million in this forex scam after some one convince her how profitable the biz bla bla. She told me I caution her not to invest. Didn't know she was serious. SinceJan 2011 up till now she didn't see her profit not even d 3million.they have close down there office promising her heaven n earth. Worst part all there phone no is not connecting again. Thank God she has a good doctor HBP would have killed her. FOREX IS SCAM

forex is not scam but lack of knowledge and the dominance of ignorance is what has burnt many people. Illitracy is a disease, isn't it?

ayobase: Forex is more than u think.
Money is better given to the pros who trade on larger scale!

Why would anyone want to put their money in something they have no control on?

Brand_new: I wonder how much Nigerians have lost to theses forex scams, i`m sure it has run into millions of $ @Op pele o!

I tire o. What many people do not know is that forex takes time to master. I don't know if it's me but I foresaw it and decide I can't deal with it(something that won't make me sleep at night) and I have never invest in it apart N1,000 which I paid for a seminar at my school back in 2007 and that's where it all ended.

I keep tell people that it's either you learn how business work on the internet or forget it. I wished I could have a free talk with Nairaland member on a physical discussion forum where we can talk about everything on internet money.

Kai! I really feel for you bro. If you knew what I know now, you can easily bail yourself out just offering to design website for people... That can only happen if you know how to sell... So sorry bro. I wish I could help you.

That's good but if you can afford to pay your hosting every month, which is $10, I will build you a website FREE. Just follow the step above and kindly let anybody know.

macob: i have been meaning to ask that. why did they ban twitter in Chinco?

They have their reasons and I believe that they know better. They banned facebook as well and I believe they are doing so a better China. Chinese are often viewed as 'mumu' but see how far they have come and even killed market in the US. I heard they also regulate the kind of programs on TV. Now contrast Nigeria where all social network and media hype are allowed, what do you see? MASS FAILURE in exams!