We can add if from a humble background

The major craze in this clime and time is social media ,e-retailers and othr great things on the world wide web. So first thing:

1 LEARN HOW TO BE A DIGITAL MARKETER:

Who is that: someone that understands e-mail marketing,social media advertising, search engine optimization,google analytics and a fairly good idea abt web designs. In short the guy that can help u get buzz on ur product or service offered online.


Information to be this person is all online and as it is.. we all live online anyway;so any youth can turn that wasted time into a gold mine.

This is a skill corporates re willing 2 pay correct money 4. Brick and mortar company trying to figure out ways to have a big presence online and have a return on investment on money spent online.


2 LEARN TO BE AN AFFILIATE MARKETER:

With the inroad jumia,konga,deal dey etc have made,this is a viable way of trying to earn some dough.

This could take some time-6 months to 1 year to get the hang of it and start profiting.
The input for these is time and propably money for a domain name: 30$.

3. LEARN TO BE A PROGRAMMER :

A damn good programmer won't starve. Like with all skill set,it takes good time to be a bad ass one. All u need is just the 'can do spirit',a mind that is ready to learn- open minded- and make sure it is what u want. If working the back-end seems too much u can learn designing a user interface xml(uix).

We now have schools whereby they re ready to pay you while learning to be a better programmer: Andela . Though the barrier of entry is quite high.

A good programmer can go on to be anything he wants to be; think about the googles,oracles,microsoft,apple,facebook,nairaland e.t.c .

The whole world is your oyster: u can venture into any fields and try to disrupt it by creating unique solutions to myriads of problem in Nigeria.

U might want to look up this start-ups : paystack, hotels.ng, kangpe doctors, andela, prepclass, traclist, flutterwave, drinks.ng, paga and many more. They are all trying to solve problems with technology and monetizing it .

really hope I get to programme 2 some extent one day .

4 Agriculture

This is the big Elephant in the room. We need cheaper tomatoes,bags of rice are expensive,yam is expensive,even sweet potato is now costly ,garri is not that accesible to the poor man anymore; Without mentioning addendums : small eggs,xpensive fish and meat; though u can have a meal without these anyway.


All these points to one thing : scarcity. We import almost everything,youths re in urban centres looking for white collar jobs with funny certificates.

About time to choose a field in agriculture and be a specialist in it :from the quick wins(low hanging fruits) of fish farming to snail rearing,poultry farming ,pig farming ,best ways of growing subsistence crops - defer cash crops technique till later

Find something to do across the value chain of agric: learn how to harvest rice-operating the thresher, processing-handling the mill, storage-learn abt how to go about storing cereals in silos.

Be a specialist and try to find ways of marketing these skills,even if it involves going to co-operative farmers in your village.

One thing is sure, a 21st century farmer will not go hungry.


5 Blogging

Everybody is a blogger nowadays,but trust me there is still room for curation of quality contents on your blog.

Find a great niche that is interesting to you and write or find great stories around it. Curating good contents is not easy neither is creating it,reason why a lot of blogs takes the easy way out and lifts off stories off one another.

The downside to these is that it is a thankless job,and for a hungry man,the incubation period-using linda as an example:4-5 years - b4 it can be monetized might just be too long. You can add to that : finding keywords that would drive traffic to your blog, might involve a jobless man finding dollars for facebook,twitter,instagram,google ads .

But in all these u become a better person and an authority in that field and u never know who or when the expertise would be needed.

A rich kid would easily crack blogging than a jobless dude. These bring me to jobs that would work well for a jobless dude with buffer: photography-those cameras re quite expensive, same thing with being a dj-ask dj cuppy(otedola),xclusive (alakija) ,obi (ajuonuma) ,case ( dehinde fernandez grandson). U can try cracking being a chef. All these skills re in high demand.

A jobless dude won't be able to afford money 4 studio sessions,or the xpenses for transportation and looking good for an audition: hazards of trying to be an entertainer.

This list is not exhaustive,about time we stop mopping about lack of jobs and find something for our hands to do. God bless.

Nice piece

So what's d fuss of FTC?

Where is the cash that follows?

love this.

It should be five things I would learn to do if I was were jobless. Nice write up tho'.

Good bless.....wonderful write up

Am a photographer but still want to be a programmer. I need necessary information about programming please. Thank you OP

Fp material nice one op

Op, nice write up, lovely ideas but your topic disqualified everything.

Your topic means that You're in a paid job and you're enjoying it but advise the unemployed to settle down for these (less) . You're indirectly telling us that your white collar job pays off than all these you've mentioned above and that's y you can't venture into it now.

On the foregoing, my question is that when you know your white collar job pays off, Y then do you advise people to settle for less.

You've painted the above mentioned things to do as something that brings in millions of dollars by week yet you're still in a paid job of like 200k - 300k per month

My oga, there are somethings you're not still telling us. Please speak up

The wise ones who don't mind getting their hands dirty would go for agriculture as it's the way to go. It's the future of Nigeria whether or not we admit it.

wow
I love this

True talk

hmmm

you are not jobless,so please spare us.....its only those that are jobless that know where how it feels,,,just like a bachelor giving a married couple advice.....

Set up an apiary. Bee keeping is a lucrative venture.

hmm....for me
1. Make money
2. Make more money
3. Make much more money
4. Make a lot of much more money
5. make a lot of much more money o o o o o o o o o o o o!!!!!!!!!!!!!

benedima:
Op, nice write up, lovely ideas but your topic disqualified everything.

Your topic means that You're in a paid job and you're enjoying it but advise the jobless to settle down for these (less) . You're indirectly telling us that your white collar job pays off than all these you've mentioned above and that's y you can't venture into it now.

On the foregoing, my question is that when you know your white collar job pays off, Y then do you advise people to settle for less.

You've painted the above mentioned things to do as something that brings in millions of dollars by week yet you're still in a paid job of like 200k - 300k per month

My oga, there are somethings you're not still telling us. Please speak up

Thank u needless 4 me 2 add anytin because u v said it all.

Nice one.

Good...

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Op since you are not jobless, I won't take this writeup serious. How can you advice jobless people what to do when you are not one of them? Just like someone who can't drive telling a cross-country driver what to do.

"Na Person wey wear shoe know where e dey pinch am"

cool

But you are not Jobless neither am I. #TeamSelfEmployed

benedima:
Op, nice write up, lovely ideas but your topic disqualified everything.
Your topic means that You're in a paid job and you're enjoying it but advise the jobless to settle down for these (less) . You're indirectly telling us that your white collar job pays off than all these you've mentioned above and that's y you can't venture into it now.
On the foregoing, my question is that when you know your white collar job pays off, Y then do you advise people to settle for less.

The OP is telling you to acquire a skill that will pay off in the end. There's not less in doing any of the aforementioned.

You've painted the above mentioned things to do as something that brings in millions of dollars by week yet you're still in a paid job of like 200k - 300k per month
My oga, there are somethings you're not still telling us. Please speak up

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Would you rather sit your a$$ down hoping for a dream job that is not forthcoming?
Ps - he never mentioned that you'd earn millions at the end of the week read well bruh

IMO, the OP's post may not be properly structured but he sure has a good point. So rather than attacking his "white collar job" do something for yourself

Well said o.p. but dont fall for the trick of thinking that any of those stuff up there are as mouth watering as that op is trying to make it seem, its so hard for sme businesses to find their feet,some are closing shop already. My advice is to pick something you like and can keep doing even when the cash aint coming in.

That aside, not everybody can manage a business or own something individually, some people are wired to work in an office like scenario.

But then...a driver cannot tell a pilot 10 ways he would fly a plane if he/she were a pilot.

70% of new startups dont even make it past 2 years in Naija. We should fix our economy and have the basics and see how people would go into business without been told to.

I have a large farm whr I planted soya beans in a comercial quantity, another whr I planted maize and another 2plots whr I'm cultivating white beans dat my family will eat. #TeamAgriculture

well you have spoken truth and if only ears will hear and eyes will see then something will start getting better.well done.

freethinker01:
It should be five things I would learn to do if I was were jobless. Nice write up tho'.

So much for being a "free thinker."

Correct grammatical usage in the 21st century at your own peril.

That grammatical expression you so despise its usage might be what your grandkids would spend millions of Naira going abroad to learn to speak and write.

Laxity of grammatical exactness is spreading faster than optic fibre. You can imagine almighty Twitter writing "who to follow" when it is grammatically correct to write "whom to follow."

Besides friend, "If I was..." isn't exactly wrong grammatically, it has it's usage, maybe (I can't tell), not in OP's sentence."

When the food on the table is less we can think on these things. Most Nigerian youth agree still been spoon feed and they won't wake up to reality.

benedima:
Op, nice write up, lovely ideas but your topic disqualified everything.

Your topic means that You're in a paid job and you're enjoying it but advise the jobless to settle down for these (less) . You're indirectly telling us that your white collar job pays off than all these you've mentioned above and that's y you can't venture into it now.

On the foregoing, my question is that when you know your white collar job pays off, Y then do you advise people to settle for less.

You've painted the above mentioned things to do as something that brings in millions of dollars by week yet you're still in a paid job of like 200k - 300k per month

My oga, there are somethings you're not still telling us. Please speak up

I think the OP is just trying to encourage people looking for the conventional 8-5 jobs with their conventional uni and poly certificates. The post ie geared towards getting set skills that makes them self employed or even improve their chances of getting jobs that require skills that are often not taught in schools.