I don't know whether I unwittingly give off a certain vibe here, but on my dad's grave I assure you that I am not swimming in money. I have no idea where this sea of DMs is coming from.

I'm not looking for what to eat thank goodness, but I also have bills and responsibilities.

I assure you I have no access to any inheritance or trust fund or any such thing. The only thing I inherited was some of the liabilities and responsibilities that my dad used to handle when he was alive.

I'm struggling too. Please. Pity an orphan like me. Don't add to my stress.

Always find it very curious how people who know absolutely nothing about you or the kind of life you have, will sit down and do napkin arithmetic to calculate what is in your pocket for you.

May whatever god you worship forgive you people for adding to my many burdens.

There's something fundamentally broken about the business of journalism around the world.

The figures on offer are just not commensurate to the utility journalists offer. We have an occupation that is this objectively important offering uniformly poor compensation across board.

We are expected to be 1 part social conscience, 1 part historiographer, 1 part PhD researcher, and 1 part Wall Street analyst on the wages of a Wal-Mart greeter.

More importantly, journalism is one of the few "respected" professions where there is no career pipeline whatsoever.

You can write the most important story ever written and win a Pullitzer and a Nobel Peace Prize for your efforts, but there is no guarantee whatsoever that this will help your journalism career.

The industry is governed not by metrics, but by who knows who and who was born where

Even if you know the right people and you have the right passport, a full time job offer at the New Yorker for example, starts at $40,000 per annum - $6,400 less than the estimated living wage for New York.

I won't even bother talking about what's obtainable in Nigeria.

This absence of financial reward alongside the lack of any kind of career pathway or structure is what makes journalists become Tolu Ogunlesi.

Not everybody can deal with extended uncertainty and a global industry that internally resembles a university frat house.

Me I will not become Tolu Ogunlesi. At the same time, I have no intention of suffering. My reward is not in heaven because I'm atheist.

When I inevitably announce that I've accepted a private sector job offer later in the year, you know why.

What I've achieved in this career is equivalent to a commercial pilot achieving his type rating and becoming a pilot on an A380, or a medical doctor becoming a specialist.

After getting that far, they don't have to do unsteady gig work to pay their bills and neither should I.

JEWELofHELL666:
As him fake news and wack journalism no pay, he wants to quit.

babyfaceafrica:
Lies. Maybe not wealthy, that guy is okay abeg!!

JEWELofHELL666:
As him fake news and wack journalism no pay, he wants to quit.

JEWELofHELL666:
As him fake news and wack journalism no pay, he wants to quit.

Investigative:
Is lucrative only if he use it for personal gain and political attack
Just like Buhari media crew

LocalStandard1:
Don't stop doing what you love even if it doesn't seem to pay, you will be remembered someday. Some of us love your work.