Pochettino:
You are 30, earning less than 30k yet you want to 'celebrate your 30th birthday & proudly announce it'??



Father Lord, any attempts by the Enemy to foist foolish children on us be destroyed in Jesus name!!

nnapal:

[s]I do not see the world the same way as you. I have some accomplishments which I can be proud of.[/s]

Pochettino:


List them. Mr. Accomplished.

nnapal:

[s]Like paying for my own school fees and still managed to finish with a good grade. If you had benefactor during your school time, you hardly appreciate how lucky you are. I'm climbing one step at a time, and first I need to resolve these inconsistencies.[/s]

nnapal:
I have a big decision to make. l didn't finish secondary school in time. I was close to 21 years when I finished secondary school. When I was registering my waec, my elder brother asked me to reduce my age. I wasn't cool with that but my brother who had always found way to emotionally make me feel too old for my level insisted that I did it. He was telling me then that people my age were already in their penultimate year in university. He himself finished university early as he didn't have a pause in his schooling unlike me. I am intelligent and have been liked by my school teachers.

I asked my mother for advice, she was against it, but in the end I listened to my brother. He did court affidavit for me, and I had to visit national population commission for birth certificate. Since then I have been consistent in making my info bear this my reduced age.

No day has passed since after that changing I have not been haunted by it. I kept using this age, and the further I went the harder it was becoming for me to revert to my real age. I graduated 2019 and had finished youth service with the certificate bearing this false age. I'm 29 now, and 27 years with my reduced age. He wanted me to reduce to 5 years younger but I could only settle for 2 years less.

A strong craving to revert to the original age came back recently, I started making steps but was afraid it might hurt my chances. Not in terms of jobs, but being admitted for masters program abroad. I had taken some steps to going back to my real age but it has not been encouraging. My university register told me that I couldn't possibly pull that off, unless my waec and Jamb have that my real age and I could possibly prove it was a mistake. He told me I have to live with it. I wanted to do age correction in my NIN but I was told that I would pay #15k through remitta. I had already searched for the cost of correcting age in my waec but it's tedious and costly.

My monthly earning now is not up to 30k and I'm not even sure if I could get all the data to my correct age.

I'm contemplating whether to go through with this as that would make me so happy, or continue with this consistent false age(the same age with my immediate younger brother). My birth certificate now has that I was born in one eastern state, my state of origin; instead of Lagos. Deleting this part of my history worries me. Similarly, I want my 30th birthday to be special and for me to proudly announce that I reached 30 years. I need advice on this.

For my elder brother, he is a strong believer and much more mature now, he supports my effort to revert to my original age.
Thanks.

Brandonx:
Well changing it might make your certificates useless and trust me you don't want that.

The deed has been done already.

I once had a senior colleague years back he retired at 70 or so but he was way older than 70 then.

If your certificates, passport all have this current age then why are you making yourself go through unnecessary stress?

Let me even shock you. Some of us our passports have different name from our bank accounts and we've been living just fine.