easier said than done!must people working seems not 2 understand what some jobless people are passing through!at d end of d day..everything still boils down 2 money.

Nice one...

U just tink dat is wot u gonna do buh it's possible to tink without bringing it to reality wen jobless coz everything still centre on money......Nice write-up.

So cool.

Me, I for just go learn how to........... 1. Play ball like Messi or Ronaldo, shey you know why na. 2. Run like Bolt from this country, 3. Punch like Mayweather, make I see who go fit dare. 4. Sing like Tu face, see love in the air plus other things 5. Learn Agbero from the masters or kingpins. I can see many people are complaining about the OP's write up, so I hope this helps

Be bless OP these is very interesting. I encourage most of our unemployed youth to follow these path it actually pay alot. God bless Nigeria

I might b wrong but is it everyone that knows how to be self employed..... whether its blogging, programming or agriculture, have we reasoned that some people r actually better in the area of working for others, so even if such ones try to b on their own they ALWAYS FAIL, cos it just aint in them.

I might n wrong though

Nice points you have there Mr. OP but then I don't think engaging in these activities and having a job is mutually exclusive

For all I care, you can still have your job and still get to do some of these other activities you mentioned

In fact, I think that's the way it should be

Your skills set should always complement your job

They say no knowledge is a waste

I say the more the skill, the more the money making opportunities

yahoo + on my mind

any niqqa to connect with pls

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

Fail.
'Was' is singular while 'were' is the plural form. The OP is correct.

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

Contact me for your programming video training.

“If I lost everything and had to start again, I would find myself a great network marketing company and get to work!” - Donald Trump, Globally renowned property mogul, multi billionaire, America President Republican candidate.

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

My thoughts too. The tone of the topic is condescending and provocative, at least to discerning people who happen to be unemployed. It is particularly annoying when you consider that most of these types who are smug about being employed got their jobs through the back door - nepotism, connections and such 'man know man' nonsense that is the norm in Nigeria... Not that they are better qualified or more competent than those who they gleefully categorise as "jobless".

If you're such a brilliant individual who is confident in his own acumen, then you should never take up paid employment. Go and use your 'brain' and skills to make money yourself.

I also need to mention that this "jobless" tag is derogatory if you ask me. The more appropriate word to use is 'unemployed'.

I tried to do some of this but came to the reality that you must have financial stability first. Therefore, jobless isn't the only clause. You must have an alternative source of income, Parents or guardians sponsorship.

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

do u want to learn online or register in an IT institute?

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babyfaceafrica:
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.....

Na person weh wear shoe know where en d pain am

drbashfx:

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.

Wow!!!!!

I will give it a trial shaa

lonelydora:
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"

what is your problem did he force you is your choice to make if u prefer being idle then your are free**Nigerian and character to help na bad thing...

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

Is not if I were my friend

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 what op is trying to say is that, rather than waiting for a paid job that is not forthcoming and staying idle, you can still do any of the aforementioned. I know people in paid jobs that do those things. Besides, dont be fooled, paid jobs are not necessarily paying high. I for one don't advise people to stay in a paid job that pays miserable salaries.

drbashfx:

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.

You are blessed continue more connections for you in Jesus name..Amen

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

Excellent, thank you my brother. And believe U me, he is not. Absolute absurdity. Physician not healing himself.

Who is talking about settling for less here? The writer talked about blogging siting linda Ikeji as an example, are you saying that the Op is earning more than Linda Ikeji? You call agriculture settling for less? Go and ask Obasanjo, you call programming settling for less!? Go and ask the guy that programmed Diamond Bank App how much he earns per everyone that makes use of that app. Dude wake up.

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

.

Who is talking about settling for less here? The writer talked about blogging siting linda Ikeji as an example, are you saying that the Op is earning more than Linda Ikeji? You call agriculture settling for less? Go and ask Obasanjo,he eill educate you better. you call programming settling for less!? Go and ask the guy that programmed Diamond Bank App how much he earns per everyone that makes use of that app. Dude wake up.

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

drbashfx:

You nailed it all. The funny thing is that unemployed youth find it difficult to see this golden opportunities. They will rather stay idle at home waiting for govt jobs that aren't in existence. Or spend time praying for miracle when God has already given them the opportunities to be better than the so called white collar jobs. Even though, they want to be employed, starting small is also a problem.

Good writeup. But on the flip side, most of the things u listed would be more likely if you had a job. It's easy working with your salary, while squeezing out time, than being broke and barely being able to subscibe your data upon expiration.

I remember when I was earning over 150k per month. I wanted to start a tutor business, but I would come up with all the silly reasons why I couldn't start. I would draw up an estimate of over 1million that would ensure a seamless and successful launch...

Unfortunately company downsized, typical of of most workers, I had no savings. The business I was goin to start for 1m was re_estimated at 50k, and I still didn't hv 50k to start the business.

At the end, I had to beg for 10k to start in the most modest of ways. So my advice to working folks with good passive knowledge as the op is: -start your business part-time while still working. If your trade is good, you need just 3 clints then you can quite. But for the jobless, it's better looking for something, even if it's a security work that put change in your pocket. Without this, when you get stucked along the way, trust me nobody will be willing to even recharge ur subscription.

You know what? Just resign then you can do all that.

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

true talks, true talks. True talks.