winkmart: A Nigerian woman who is a graduate of Business Administration from Ahmadu Bello University was spotted selling Kunu and Tiger nut Milk.
The 2:1 graduate of the institution while speaking in an interview revealed that she graduated in the year 2014 and she couldn't find a lucrative job for herself, had to resort to selling the products.
She however stood out from the crowd as her products are well packaged in a branded wheeling cooler.
While we commend the woman for choosing hard work over crime and indecency ... Its a shame to our government that a graduate of a university prided as one of the best in the country would resort to selling kunu or tigernot for a living !?
Wrong mentality. So Government should provide all the jobs. So what happens to those who have an idea that can create job for the next person? This is a myopic thinking and it lacks substance. It's never a shame and will never be a shame to go to school and do this. If she has not packaged it the way she has done in this video that's when we can shout her down that the education she received in school is yet to reflect in what she is doing. She is doing well and I can tell you that she has more chances of making it better in the future than someone working in a government sector collecting salary. The more Entrepreneurs a country has, the better it is. And this is even what reduces unemployment in a country. Nigerians just need to change this school mentality of looking for jobs.
While we commend the woman for choosing hard work over crime and indecency ... Its a shame to our government that a graduate of a university prided as one of the best in the country would resort to selling kunu or tigernot for a living !?
Selling kunu and tiger nut for a living is not a bad thing. Her monthly income might be more than 50k. Trust me that woman might not leave that wheel for most of the white collar job you see graduate chasing.
Please tell him again and again! Like someone posted on Nairaland sometime ago about what one Malam Dutsinma, certificate is the bane of many graduates today...it prevents them from thinking outside the box. I will look for it and post it here soon.
Well done to the lady... industrious women are my kind of women...I married one too, so I admire them...so many of them on Instagram. Check out @Cyrus45 on Instagram..a young lady who recycles old tyres into furniture.
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Here's the quote..
SEVEN (7) REASONS WHY SOME DEGREE HOLDERS ARE POOR
BY malam Mamuda Kabir dutsinma
1. THEY DON’T THINK BEYOND THEIR CERTIFICATES:
Albert Einstein said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” Have you ever heard creativity term “Think outside the box”? One of the major reasons why most graduates are poor is simply because they can’t see and think beyond their certificates.
I have seen engineering students work as bankers. I have seen medical doctors with great skills in web and graphic designs. I have seen lawyers that are very dexterous with finances. The list is endless!
The basic truth of life is that the skills that are needed to be much sought after and become more successful in life are not really found within the walls of the classrooms. Your certificate is just a proof that you are teachable, it does not suggest what you are totally capable of doing. You are full of possibilities when you think beyond your degrees and certificates.
2. THEY PRIORITIZE THEIR CERTIFICATES MORE THAN THEIR GIFTS AND TALENTS:
I have often advised some of my colleagues, never to leave their gifts dormant while pursuing and hunting for jobs with their certificates. There must be a complementary balance in the pursuit of your passion and in the search for jobs.
Everybody is gifted for something, but the winning edge comes from our ability to work on our gifts and bless the world with it. The very best way to develop yourself is in the direction of your natural talents and interest. In order to live a fulfilled and impactful life, we need to work harder on our gift than our job. We need to discover our gift, develop it, and sell it. Don’t bury your TALENT with your certificates.
3. THEIR CERTIFICATES PREPARE THEM FOR A WORLD THAT NO LONGER EXIST:
It has been found that most of the skills taught in schools are becoming obsolete in the present world. The world has changed a lot, and so are people’s need! It is imperative to know that the present form of university education does not prepare students for the future.
Graduates are becoming endangered species in the face of a changing world. Our archaic methods and approaches of learning are preparing graduates for a world that no longer exist, as we are churning out degree holders every year with certificates that have face value but no intrinsic worth. Most learning institutions are filled up with lecturers and pseudo-educators with lecture notes, methods and approaches that have lost relevance in a changing world.
4. THEY KNOW LESS ABOUT THEMSELVES BUT MORE ABOUT THINGS:
Certificates and degrees don’t reveal people to themselves; they at most measure our IQ (Intelligent Quotient). I have often tell people that there is no Recovery without Discovery. A poor man is simply someone that has not discovered himself.
The more you discover yourself, the more you realize the treasures that are hidden deep within you. We carry inside ourselves latent treasures that can only be unveiled through self-discovery.
5. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES CAN KILL INITIATIVES:
Degrees and certificates can close up your minds to ideas while initiatives open it up. If you are not careful, your degrees and certificates can close up your mind. The purpose of education is to keep your mind perpetually opened towards limitless possibilities! Fred Smith saw an opportunity for overnight delivery of anything anywhere in the USA, and ultra- fast delivery anywhere in the world, FedEx was born. It will be interesting to know that Fred Smith got a grade “C” in a Yale economics class for an idea that the professor belittled as unworkable.
Fred Smith’s company became the first American business to make over ten billion dollars in annual profit. Beginning with just 186 packages delivered the first night, FedEx now delivers in over two hundred countries using over 6,030 aircraft, 46,000 vehicles and 141,000 employees.
6. DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES POSITION YOU TO LOOK FOR JOBS AND NOT FOR OPPORTUNITIES:
Our certificates and degrees prepare graduates to look for jobs and not open our eyes to life-changing opportunities. You are not poor because you don’t have a job; you are poor because you are not seeing and seizing opportunities.
Being POOR is simply Passing Over Opportunities Repeatedly! What keeps people ahead in life is not their education or degrees, it is simply the opportunity that they seized. Jobs may be scarce but not opportunities.
As long as there is a problem to be solved, there will always be opportunities. It is a waste of our education, exposure, and experiences if after we graduate from school, all we think about is searching for a job. An enlightened and educated mind should be able to see and seize opportunities.
7. CERTIFICATES AND DEGREES PREPARE PEOPLE TO LOOK FOR SECURITY AND NOT TO TAKE RISKS:
We must be willing to make mistakes and take breakthrough risks. Taking risks and learning from mistakes help us in knowing what works and what does not! When Thomas Edison was being questioned by a mischievous journalist on how he felt for having failed for 999 times before getting the idea of the light bulb, his response stunned the whole world when he confidently said, “I have not failed 999 times, I have only learned 999 ways of how not to make a light bulb”.
Many graduates and degree holders are becoming progressively poor because the skills required in the modern world to get rich are not taught in schools and institutions.
By 2025, we’ll lose over five million jobs to automation. This means that future jobs will look vastly different by the time many people graduate from the university.
Future jobs will involve KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION/CREATION and innovation, and people that are only equipped with skills found in the classroom will definitely be a misfit in an ever-changing world. Skills like critical thinking, creativity, people’s skill, STEM skills (e.g. Coding), complex problem-solving skills etc. are central to living a more comprehensive and productive life.
In conclusion, My humble and candid advice to graduates and students in institutions is to think wide, deep and outside the box. Take volunteer jobs, and don’t be afraid to navigate fields that are different from your field of learning. Your future career will require you to pull information from many different fields to come up with creative solutions to future problems.
Start by reading as much as you can about anything and everything that interests you. Once you get to college, consider double majoring or minoring in completely different fields. Trust me, it’ll pay off in the long run.
Don’t limit yourself to the classroom. Do something practical. Take a leadership position. Start a business and fail; that’s a better entrepreneurship. Contest an election and lose. It will teach you something political science will not teach you. Attend a seminar. Read books outside the scope of your course.
Think less of becoming an excellent student, but think more of becoming an excellent person. Don’t make the classroom your world, but make the world your classroom. Step forward and try something extra.
Invest in something you believe! Real financial security and freedom is not in your job, but in your passion, gifts, talents, and your ability to see and seize opportunities.
I read that this was posted on the Federal Ministry of Education's Twitter page.
This is really motivational,coming from someone who earns a fat salary with his degree.
Very encouraging, God bless your handiwork, even with a paid job you are still free to have several streams of income. That she is a graduate, brings a better approach to the business compared to a Stark illiterate. She got it in her, probably with an office job, she may not have discovered this side of herself.
Wait she went to uni and studied for 4yrs and came out with a second class upper now sellin kunu.. an archivemen? The government should provide job opportunities to an extent 70% of graduates shud be employed into there various field of study. We are way far behind.. this is really sad
Brandonx: She's wise and innovative. It looks neat and well packaged.
A virtuous woman unlike the slay mamas of today who feel with their kpekus they have a guaranteed future.
Being a misogynist doesn't add anything to your well being ....there are also somany male folks all over the place sitting idly only to extort from people struggling to eke out means of livelihood.
Nonsense. . What Nigeria needs now are not graduates hoping to gain employment, but innovative graduates/ graduates willing to start up something. As someoen previously suggested Vita milk started from somewhere. If she has the intention of puttign it into a mroe refined form. Perfect.
While we commend the woman for choosing hard work over crime and indecency ... Its a shame to our government that a graduate of a university prided as one of the best in the country would resort to selling kunu or tigernot for a living !?
A guy that works as a cashier in a bank will think he is better than her o. The day i respected manual work like mechanic and all was the day I went with one of my uncle to his workshop. The money the man makes in a month, some bank manager don't earn that in 3 months
Graduating from any university does not mean you are above the clould and small business doesn't fit you! No lucrative job, no small business! You must find sth to do if not, the most illiterate person is better than you, if he know how to earn his leaving!
While we commend the woman for choosing hard work over crime and indecency ... Its a shame to our government that a graduate of a university prided as one of the best in the country would resort to selling kunu or tigernot for a living !?
And ppl like you might be among those condemning Npower beneficiaries for protesting against that corrupt minister. Better join the band and protest for responsible governance.
While we commend the woman for choosing hard work over crime and indecency ... Its a shame to our government that a graduate of a university prided as one of the best in the country would resort to selling kunu or tigernot for a living !?
You don't know what you are talking about......sit down in your house, cross your legs and wait for government to come and chase out the workers and employ you.....
No where in the world is any graduate(s) promised job before they go to school. Education is acquisition of knowledge. What you do with the knowledge is up to you. Most supposedly graduates go to school, bribe or Bleep their ways through and come out with paper certificate without any concrete value; sadly those will call themselves "graduates" too.
That is why education is necessary even if you do not intend to look for a job. Education and intelligence has made her sell and package her product in a very different way that the regular uneducated person will do it. The cooler she is using alone self na heavy packaging. Education no be scam las las. Na how you use am matter. If she can get funds and support, she'll do bigger things.
IMASTEX: Schooling only teaches one how to identify problems, opportunities, etc and identifing the right approaches to proffer the best solution. And same applied even in the employment market. Survival ability & doing things differently is what make you graduate. Sadly, the graduates we have now can only boast of the paper "certificate" and one can't also really blame them fully because of the current educational structure that is faulty, and the culture of depending on the paper to seek a job that weren't created by us.
I fell in love with tiger nut milk in keffi but it's very difficult to make up my mind to buy one because of the hygiene of the local vendors, if you see were they make this stuff locally ehhh
While we commend the woman for choosing hard work over crime and indecency ... Its a shame to our government that a graduate of a university prided as one of the best in the country would resort to selling kunu or tigernot for a living !?
Oga, it isn't a shame that a graduate will resort to making what people aren't ashame to buy. There are no dirty businesses, only dirty people.
Me no be firstclass I graduate with. Mass communication ESUT(set 2019). After breaking a 22year old record in my department of no firstclass, I now sell sd cards, powerbanks,flashdrives and other phone accessories... God will gat us dear.
Jeux: I fell in love with tiger nut milk in keffi but it's very difficult to make up my mind to buy one because of the hygiene of the local vendors, if you see were they make this stuff locally ehhh
The essence of going to school is to solve problems. She's seen and solved the same problem others saw but failed to solve.
. What Nigeria needs now are not graduates hoping to gain employment, but innovative graduates/ graduates willing to start up something. As someoen previously suggested Vita milk started from somewhere. If she has the intention of puttign it into a mroe refined form. Perfect.