Nowadays, a lot of graduates are faced with the problem of not securing a job, and even when they do secure a job, the amount unpaid for salary is the exact amount they use in going to their work place per month.
In schools, curriculum has added to the advantage of students, entrepreneurial subjects to help students not rely on white collar jobs, rather they can develop themselves and their skills and put it to good use at the end of the day.

After school, and all the free things you get from parents and Uncles and Aunts, everyone now expects you to be self reliant and put yourself and the work of your hands into good use. At first, it looks a lot like you are being asked to so something almost impossible, but with time you find out that not doing anything g for yourself will in fact make you less attractive to people around you.

There are a lot of small scale business that people have engaged in, especially after school and it has helped them a lot in their lives. Some people do not even have to depend on monthly salaries, when they can receive daily profits that would go along way for them. Whether you agree or not, having your own side business help you save better and wiser, but depending on a monthly income that is even almost finished before you get it will not help you to save for the things you want to get on the future.

This is not a campaign to make white collar jobs look bad, of course, there are white collar jobs that out food on a table for a while family and still pay their bills adequately, the point is, being your own boss is the beat feeling ever, and you can choose your profits and losses in your own business. If you work in a company, it is not bad to have a side business that you earn from, but you cannot depend only on your company job, because you could get fired or not promotes which would not earn you the best for yourself and your family.

Young graduates out there have often been told about having small scale businesses after school and there are so many reasons for this.

Reasons for having a small-scale business
• It would help you to save more and have a control over your spending.
• It makes people around you see you in a different light.
• You have the opportunity to become a large-scale business owner in no time.
• It breeds consistency, because you have to see such business grow and so consistency matters a lot.
• It gives way for grants and loans from people who want to invest in a good work.
• It is a sign of maturity and self reliance, and helps you plan for the future, especially when kids are involved.
• Small scale businesses that are well taken care of, can be of help in the future when you want to take on a big project.
• Small scale business can be mixed with a white-collar job, usually, you just need to have a smart phone and that’s all.
• Small scale business develops people and community as a whole. In other words, it brings about development.
• Small scale business helps to build integrity in you, everything you engage in has to be based on the trust people have for you.
• Small scale business help to save your time and money in different ways that white collar job would not.
• Someday you can also employ people to work for you instead of having to be employed.
• A country that engages its youth in small scale business is a productive country most of the time.
• Small scale business will help you to earn largely in foreign exchange.
• Small scale business always has to do with barter system. You give what people do not have and collect what you do not have which is usually money.

Type is small scale business that graduates can engage in

• Sale of products online
You can be a distributor or a retailer for products online. There are a lot of products that can be sold online, ranging from creams, to perfumes, to beauty products like lipsticks, liners, facial powders, balms, and so on.
Usually, the capital for this is not that much, and you can earn very well when you have a good marketing style which is mostly done over the social media network. If you have about 10-15k at most, you can start a small-scale business in beauty products, and this will in no time, bring out a large profit for you. Everyone that started selling beauty products online started from somewhere small, and you can also start too, because it is never enough, and the market gets bigger everyday with people buying and selling quality products.

• You can engage in a cooking business
Most people tend to think that cooking is a very stressful a and messy job to do, but do you have to worry when you have an apron on your neck? How messy can it get when you get your fast money just the same way people eat fast food. Buying and selling of food or opening a fast food joint should not take too much capital from you.
In fact, if you have a lot of friends who know how to cook well, your workmanship load could be reduced to a minimum. Friends are easier to relate with than workers whom you do not know and want to earn a living off of what you pay them. Food business in Nigeria has sold a lot, and to start with you could he looking at about 20-35k to start a cooking business on a small scale.
Oh, do not have to open up a shop, that is why the use of smart phones is made easy. You can put up an add for your cooking business online, and urge people to patronize you online, and you deliver it to their doorsteps.

You do not have to collect cash, there are a lot of electronic devices that you can use to send and receive money. You have the use of POS system and mobile transfer on smart phones that can easily send and receive funds in a matter of seconds. Cooking and delivering food is a very good business, it just depends on presentation and uniqueness.

• Bead making
Bead making is a known skill all around the world, and there is no part of the world that women do not wear beads. Bears are even given between partners as a symbol of love, so graduates who engage in this skill can make a lot of money from it from time to time. This involves the use of display of past work that AHS been done and developing yourself by surfing the web to find out more designs for beads that have been made by other people. Bead making relatively has to do with creativity, and if your beads are attractive, they will attract the right customers no matter what.
Bead making must first be learnt, and that is the hardest part usually, because it entails you looking at how your boss fits beads into strings all day. After you have mastered this skill well enough, you proceed to starting your own bead business and for a small-scale bead business, you can make little wrist beads and sell at very cheap rates. The more your customers, the more chance you have at exploring your inner talents while making beads. For this business to kick off, you need a little amount from about 7-10k at most to buy beads and strings, and about 20-25k to buy the instruments needed to make a perfect bead.

• Farming
Farming is a known source of income for so many people in the world today, especially in most African countries, farming has in every way helped the economical balance of countries and homes generally. They say when you till the ground, you usually get your profit from your sweat. Farming is good for graduates to engage in, and you can as well start very small by acquiring a land where you can plant crops that would be of benefit later on.

Farming takes a lot of work, as you have to be ready to cater for the crops even when the soil is still covering them by pouring enough water for them to grow into beautiful trees that would produce fruits for you.

Farming business is not really a tired free business, as it needs a lot of dedication, strength and mind to be able to make profit from it. Engaging in farming business on a scale could range from about 350-400k for everything you would need to start up at first.

• Sports centers
People who engage in sports are usually sport lovers and putting this hobby into good use can be very profitable for a lot of people especially graduates. If you find out in your area where you live that there are a lot of people who are sport lovers like you and would give anything to see a match or watch a team play to win or lose, you can decide to save them the stress of always going a long distance or standing outside a popular restaurant to see their favorite teams play a match.

You can set up a sport watching center that plays all matches around you your area and receive payments for it on the spot. Before anyone can come inside to watch a match, they must pay a specified amount of money to see the match. If you see that you are having problems with people who have refused to pay your money, you employ the services of bouncers who would help you to dispose off those kinds of people. Starting up a sport watching center should not cost more that 100-120k for instruments and additional 20k to set up a unique gaming center.

• Photography
Photography also, is a skill that many have used to earn a lot of money over the years. Photographers are usually very content with the pay they receive per event and do not even bother to look for a white-collar job. This is how well a small-scale business can serve you and help you to make so much money. After the deed has been done, which involves learning how to sue a camera for the purpose you want it to, it now comes down to setting up your own label that people identify you as.
Many photographers adopt the use of their nicknames or first names on social media for people to search for and view their works, but you can make it easy on yourself when you are picking out a name for your photography brand. You have to remember that even when you become a large-scale business owner in photography it is this name you will be identified as, so carefully picking out a brand name would go a long way for you.

• Blogging/Writing
This is also a skill that have served so many, and it is usually done with a phone that is well connected to the social media network, or a laptop that has a wireless connection. It is easier to write on something that you like, especially something that you admire and it is also easier to blog about it too.

Blogging and writing are two very different things entirely, and it takes a blogger to know exactly what to blog about than it takes a writer to.

Bloggers talk about thing, events, people and even happenings in the world, while writing has to do with a conjured-up story or a fictional story formed up by an individual where series of events take place and soon it either ends in a tragic way, a romantic way, or in a comic way. Many people have made so much from blogging and writing and many more will make so much money. To start writing or blogging online takes very little from your pocket and in no time, you can own your own headline where people come to view real news, or where people come to pick books or stories to read online.

• Car wash
Car wash is a known small-scale business that most individuals, especially males engage in, and though it involves the use of your hands it is easy and very efficient in getting your funds for yourself. If there is running water, then a car wash is already in place for you. You can start a car wash anywhere, as long as you are able to fit in a car in a position and wash it thoroughly while pouting water on it consistently. To set up this kind of business would not require much from you and about 10-15k can do the trick for you which you will make back in a couple of weeks no doubt.

Small scale business is and would always be a way for so many people to be free from financial burdens and problems no matter what.



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