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Re: Coping After A Major Setback by SanctifiedSista(f): 9:03pm On Nov 30, 2023
Coping with a major setback..if you are going thru this, come for shiloh..theme: RDEEMED TO FLOURISH IN HARD TIMES..there are viewing centres near u ..go there..starts 5th Dec-10th Dec ( morning from 5:30am and evening 6Pm).stop following fools to say who church help?..if you like, don't put ofering ..just be there ..make one good decision in your life
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Gentlesoul2021(m): 9:41pm On Nov 30, 2023
27yo:
smiley

It’s really tough honestly
Same applies to an entrepreneur.

I’m currently into transportation business and honestly I wake up and I just wish I’ll vanish.

I’ve totally lost interest in everything

Can u pls voice it out. This is the biz I'm trying to venture into now. Can u pls advice accordingly. Thanks in advance...
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Chummynoni(m): 10:49pm On Nov 30, 2023
Kingsize4eva:
This is exactly what am going
through. A family man with 2 boys, thank God I married a good wife who keeps reassuring me that everything will be well.
By this time last year, I had 3 cars to myself, I was doing very well until a business partner whom I trusted so much made away with my money and the rest was history.
Most times I cry and weep like a baby, being the breadwinner of my family and watching my parents suffer is what breaks me down the most.

Just today my mum sent me 3k from the village, just to show you guys how bad my condition is.
A guy of 32 who once owns cars now jumping bike to drop his children at school.
Let me save this here, I hope and pray nature smiles at me soon.
I read a comment were one guy was talking about saving for the rainy days, bro pray problem doesn't come.
Ps note-Am a graduate of History and international studies with 2:1, I base in Warri, incase you have any job or hustling please notify me. Thanks
I Pray God help us soon . The comments here are pathetic , also motivating not to give up in this race called LIFE.

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Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Edenogie: 10:50pm On Nov 30, 2023
Resetinc:
So many self-pity comments above …

So many weak souls … lamenting because they thing they have not lived up to societal norms/ standards….. shame!!!

The greatest gift on earth is Breath
You people won’t realize until you take your last..

there is no competition in destiny.. and there is nobody to impress. Be happy and appreciate life .
thanks

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Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Melagros(m): 11:36pm On Nov 30, 2023
27yo:
smiley

It’s really tough honestly
Same applies to an entrepreneur.

I’m currently into transportation business and honestly I wake up and I just wish I’ll vanish.

I’ve totally lost interest in everything
Pele my brother it's not easy at all
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by bouncin04(m): 12:04am On Dec 01, 2023
idtiwo:
Hmmm, let me give you my story to encourage you. I finished school in 2003, got a good job in one of the telecom firms, worked hard, did my masters, got married and saved lots of money sufficient to start a business. Then in 2008, I felt i wasnt fulfiled with paid employment again.Dangote was always my role model, so I resigned and decided to go into business. I went into a good business, did well for few months and along the way, a staff connived with my supplier in a state in nigeria ,my capital vanished overnight and the rest is history.

By 2009, i was back to ground zero and every attempt I made to revive myself in business failed and full time HARDSHIP set into my life (probably like what you are facing now). To make matter worse, my wife who was a youth corper when i married her just had my first baby around this time . So the baby arrival, wife not working and myself not working againg made matter worse. We were practically living from hands to mouth. It was a hell but that was the beginning of my hell. By mid 2010, my wife had to go take a teaching job in a nusery school near our house in lagos then with a baby of less than one year at hand. The salary was 10K and that was the only money coming into the family.

When depression was knocking at my door, one day, i left the house and worked kilometers away from home with no destination in mind. I was just going, weeping inward and praying in ward for God to show me mercy for the sake of my new baby. Then, all of a sudden, having worked kilometers, i saw a shop where they were selling phone accessories and i walked in. I told the young guy there (younger than me by years), i told him i would want help him to be marketing his accessories daily around the neighbouhood and he would be paying me commission on every sales I make per day.

The young man looked at me and asked if he could trust me and i assured him that i wont dissapear him. I was speaking good english and I think the guy just feel in love with me. So, he asked me to start that day.He didnt know me, no guarantor, no application, nothing whatsoever. He just trusted me .He gave me 3 pieces of charger, phone batteries, MP3 charger, power bank etc and i left his shop. I started moving from streets to streets and anybody i saw on the road, i would be marketing to them to buy charger, power bank etc. I would add a little mark to the price the guy gave me.
By 6pm, I would return to his shop and hand over my sales to him and return the unsold goods and he would pay me commission on what i sold and i would go home with about N700 or N800 commission and that would be our diner money for that day. It was a tough season that i never prayed for my enemy to go though. This was what i did from 2010 to 2013.

While i was doing this mobile sales job, I was applying for jobs daily with my 2.1 first degree certificate and my masters degree (I thank God i was smart enoughto do my masters when I was working in the telecom firm). I applied for uncountable number of vacancies but never got a job.

Fast forward to 2014,I was owing 2 years house rent and my landlord gave a quit notice to pack out. At that stage, God Almighty had mercy on me and one of the aptitude test i did came back with an invitation for interview. The challenge was that the interview was going to be in Abuja. I borrowed 5k from a friend to enter night bus to get to Abuja to attend the interview and behold God gave me the job. The starting salary was 560k (an international NGO) . From there, my story changed. That was how i relocated to Abuja and God saved me from landlord eviction embarrasment. Today, i work with a global organisation with multipe 6 digits fat salary, got houses of my own and other great achievements of life BUT with all that, I can never forget the years 2009 - 2014. Those were the darkest years of my life. I SUFFERED.

Op, i have been there before and i can relate with you that its a terrible place to be for a man. If you are not married, its still better for you. All you need to do is to start anything that you hands find to do,even it its labourer, please do it. Dont ever stay at home thinking because your problems will just be compounded. While doing anything you can lay your hands to do, please keep applying for jobs daily in hundreds and one day, I mean one day, the Good Lord will open that door for you and your life will never be the same again.Its a season and it will soon pass over. Wishing all the best.

Please, when you eventually get that God's favour and your story changes, kindly share the testimony here to motivate other. Aurevoir


How about that manchie that trusted you ?
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by jimcaddy(m): 3:57am On Dec 01, 2023
In Nigeria especially, one has to have it at the back of your minds that at any time, you can be releived of your employment. Just be prepared in case it happens.

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Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Fidinno(m): 4:43am On Dec 01, 2023
Why, I thought transport business is the new deal
27yo:
smiley

It’s really tough honestly
Same applies to an entrepreneur.

I’m currently into transportation business and honestly I wake up and I just wish I’ll vanish.

I’ve totally lost interest in everything
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Edenogie: 6:01am On Dec 01, 2023
LostMyZeal:



I have a solution for you! But you might think it's ridiculous when I say it. And mind you, I've been in a similar situation with you but my setback was more devastating.


Go to God; he has the blueprint of his plan for your life in his hands. Give your life to Jesus today and you'll get not just access, but also directions on how the plans can be actualized in your life.

Beloved of God, be determined to follow God today and he'll turn everything about your life around.

You must understand first and foremost that this life is more spiritual than physical (Ephesians 6: 10 - 12)

No matter the matter, stay strong in God. What you are facing is God's way of getting your attention by calling you to himself. He wants to start something new in your life but you must be willing to pay the price at the altar of prayers and fasting. When God calls a man, those exercises become natural to such individual.

So to get anything tangible out of this life you need to be empowered by God. I hope this little encouragement meets you well.
if only he will understand that is is the solution and not a motivational statement.
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Kedikedi77: 6:18am On Dec 01, 2023
LUAN:
Op, it has never been easy for me, I cried all night and blame in everything that' happen to me, not only did I lost my job last, I fail two good Job interview just 10 months interval, one was November last year, another one This year September, with good salary expectation of More than 300k, I cried all night, I can't console myself, I don't really know where got it wrong. My IQ is zero, I doubt my intelligent, I wish I never attended school. I wish I could just died because I can't face the shame, because I have disappointed my family, and my friend, I'm now a failure after graduating with 2'1. No job, no achievement, I don't even know what to do to myself anymore
Bro just calm your mind down everything will still fall In place
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Ballotelle(m): 6:32am On Dec 01, 2023
Kedikedi77:

Bro just calm your mind down everything will still fall In place
Nice advic, but most times that's what family and friends offer with no clear direction on how to achieve it
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Ballotelle(m): 6:34am On Dec 01, 2023
money121:

OluwaNishola
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by Ballotelle(m): 6:35am On Dec 01, 2023
1TrippleCee:


Connect. January
Don't understand
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by FunnyDude(m): 3:10pm On Dec 01, 2023
Kingsize4eva:
This is exactly what am going
through. A family man with 2 boys, thank God I married a good wife who keeps reassuring me that everything will be well.
By this time last year, I had 3 cars to myself, I was doing very well until a business partner whom I trusted so much made away with my money and the rest was history.
Most times I cry and weep like a baby, being the breadwinner of my family and watching my parents suffer is what breaks me down the most.

Just today my mum sent me 3k from the village, just to show you guys how bad my condition is.
A guy of 32 who once owns cars now jumping bike to drop his children at school.
Let me save this here, I hope and pray nature smiles at me soon.
I read a comment were one guy was talking about saving for the rainy days, bro pray problem doesn't come.
Ps note-Am a graduate of History and international studies with 2:1, I base in Warri, incase you have any job or hustling please notify me. Thanks

Really learning alot here. Sorry
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by LUAN(m): 3:55pm On Dec 01, 2023
idtiwo:
Hmmm, let me give you my story to encourage you. I finished school in 2003, got a good job in one of the telecom firms, worked hard, did my masters, got married and saved lots of money sufficient to start a business. Then in 2008, I felt i wasnt fulfiled with paid employment again.Dangote was always my role model, so I resigned and decided to go into business. I went into a good business, did well for few months and along the way, a staff connived with my supplier in a state in nigeria ,my capital vanished overnight and the rest is history.

By 2009, i was back to ground zero and every attempt I made to revive myself in business failed and full time HARDSHIP set into my life (probably like what you are facing now). To make matter worse, my wife who was a youth corper when i married her just had my first baby around this time . So the baby arrival, wife not working and myself not working againg made matter worse. We were practically living from hands to mouth. It was a hell but that was the beginning of my hell. By mid 2010, my wife had to go take a teaching job in a nusery school near our house in lagos then with a baby of less than one year at hand. The salary was 10K and that was the only money coming into the family.

When depression was knocking at my door, one day, i left the house and worked kilometers away from home with no destination in mind. I was just going, weeping inward and praying in ward for God to show me mercy for the sake of my new baby. Then, all of a sudden, having worked kilometers, i saw a shop where they were selling phone accessories and i walked in. I told the young guy there (younger than me by years), i told him i would want help him to be marketing his accessories daily around the neighbouhood and he would be paying me commission on every sales I make per day.

The young man looked at me and asked if he could trust me and i assured him that i wont dissapear him. I was speaking good english and I think the guy just feel in love with me. So, he asked me to start that day.He didnt know me, no guarantor, no application, nothing whatsoever. He just trusted me .He gave me 3 pieces of charger, phone batteries, MP3 charger, power bank etc and i left his shop. I started moving from streets to streets and anybody i saw on the road, i would be marketing to them to buy charger, power bank etc. I would add a little mark to the price the guy gave me.
By 6pm, I would return to his shop and hand over my sales to him and return the unsold goods and he would pay me commission on what i sold and i would go home with about N700 or N800 commission and that would be our diner money for that day. It was a tough season that i never prayed for my enemy to go though. This was what i did from 2010 to 2013.

While i was doing this mobile sales job, I was applying for jobs daily with my 2.1 first degree certificate and my masters degree (I thank God i was smart enoughto do my masters when I was working in the telecom firm). I applied for uncountable number of vacancies but never got a job.

Fast forward to 2014,I was owing 2 years house rent and my landlord gave a quit notice to pack out. At that stage, God Almighty had mercy on me and one of the aptitude test i did came back with an invitation for interview. The challenge was that the interview was going to be in Abuja. I borrowed 5k from a friend to enter night bus to get to Abuja to attend the interview and behold God gave me the job. The starting salary was 560k (an international NGO) . From there, my story changed. That was how i relocated to Abuja and God saved me from landlord eviction embarrasment. Today, i work with a global organisation with multipe 6 digits fat salary, got houses of my own and other great achievements of life BUT with all that, I can never forget the years 2009 - 2014. Those were the darkest years of my life. I SUFFERED.

Op, i have been there before and i can relate with you that its a terrible place to be for a man. If you are not married, its still better for you. All you need to do is to start anything that you hands find to do,even it its labourer, please do it. Dont ever stay at home thinking because your problems will just be compounded. While doing anything you can lay your hands to do, please keep applying for jobs daily in hundreds and one day, I mean one day, the Good Lord will open that door for you and your life will never be the same again.Its a season and it will soon pass over. Wishing all the best.

Please, when you eventually get that God's favour and your story changes, kindly share the testimony here to motivate other. Aurevoir
very inspiring. Thank you sir.
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by femi4: 8:37am On Dec 02, 2023
Ballotelle:
Good day house, has any experienced job loss unexpectedly as a graduate and how did you cope during that period expecially when you have a family (labourer jobs are not even easy to come by), how did you cope with rejection, the emotional effect
family n friends....run to them, they are your hope of survival now
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by idtiwo: 12:12pm On Dec 02, 2023
femi4:
family n friends....run to them, they are your hope of survival now

Even the family and friends you want to run to are going through same hard time.

Honestly, the country is tough and people are not smiling at all. It is well.
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by femi4: 12:41pm On Dec 02, 2023
idtiwo:


Even the family and friends you want to run to are going through same hard time.

Honestly, the country is tough and people are not smiling at all. It is well.
Your own be your own, no matter how bad, they will rally round to make you feel better
Re: Coping After A Major Setback by 1TrippleCee: 6:30pm On Dec 02, 2023
Ballotelle:

Don't understand


If i get you 25k per month, two meals a day job January, in Oyo state, will you take it up.

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