Congratulations.. But please do not sell your fone, try harder to get soft loan probably from family member so you could payup for thr bike, but selling your phone is a huge lost already

Wainey:
When u see people that are goal driven, you will know, no be all these ones blaming Obi and Tinubu for their own failure.
Like someone said, u are a focused person, some people no fit save better 30k after NYSC but here u are saving 300k in this kind of economy.

My advice to u OP is to find one correct babe weh go build with you, her presence sef will help and chase leeches that will want to come and chop ur money.
Na these kind people need govt grants.

Always have to be so Weird!, why?
Weird, weird, crazy, twisted completely unnecessary comments
From very crazy Starting sentence to the end... So so ***#"*** to dey talk!

Confirmedzombie:
Your mates are buying cars and you came here posting you bought motorcycle.

Obedients are dying of poverty indeed while your principal Peter Obi is enjoying life.

Nonsense

Are you........at all

Kasdat5:
Carry go brother .
I must tell. It will never going to be easy for you , but you'd get stronger .
When I started mine , people called me mad , some laughed , my peers were buying state ofnthe art Benz .
Tori long , you'll be alright anyways .

Okay, you drive Okada too?

Wainey:
When u see people that are goal driven, you will know, no be all these ones blaming Obi and Tinubu for their own failure.
Like someone said, u are a focused person, some people no fit save better 30k after NYSC but here u are saving 300k in this kind of economy.

My advice to u OP is to find one correct babe weh go build with you, her presence sef will help and chase leeches that will want to come and chop ur money.
Na these kind people need govt grants.

That is if he is a better guy, he will definitely find a better babe.

JayDuke:
It's just a little progress in life but I am happy about it, I actually update it on politics section cos I want input.

you for think of something else, just be careful while riding the bike, I'm always scared of bike. well my prayers are with you, God will Crown your efforts with success

May God continue to bless you! Wish you the very best in your endeavors

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Confirmedzombie:
Your mates are buying cars and you came here posting you bought motorcycle.

Obedients are dying of poverty indeed while your principal Peter Obi is enjoying life.

Nonsense

The journey of a thousand miles always starts with a step. Every global entrepreneur of today had an unbelievable very humble beginning. I doesn't pay to be a killjoy.

tuzle:
the guy has other source of income. The money can never be enough. If u save ur entire allawee, that is 396k, now tell me how u want to feed from 33k monthly and still save if u don't have other source of income.

(I was expecting some nairalanders to made this statement)

Bro!. You just said the way it is. Or someone was probably assisting him when he was serving. It might even be possible before all this food inflation brouhaha but not now that everything is x4 of what it was before.

Nice2023:



Keep it up.

Don't underestimate ur humble beginning.

During my studentship together with my NYSC...I saved the total of 360k,that money is what eventually changed my life after 15yrs that I left camp.

I have grown the money to more than 100million in today's cash.

Good luck.

sir pls can u help me with a job?, am good with ms word and other relate computer services cos i work in a cybecafe.

Okeytus:
Must u sell your phone to buy bike?? I wonder what type of corper that can stay without a mobile communication gadget. How do u intend to keep this thread alive if you sell your phone? I will say you are not genuine.

you are a genius.


When I saw that statement, I knew he was indirectly seeking for sympathy to scam off nairalanders

Congratulations.
Humility and common sense are necessary ingredients for success.
But I think you should continue to build on your common sense.

How on earth did you agree to make part payment on the bike to anyone in Nigeria? You don't even make payment on anything to your closest relative, unless you have resigned yourself to being happy to lose your money in such eventuality.

I hope the seller to whom you sent money will honour your agreement when the time comes. I also hope that it will be exactly the bike you want and agreed to, that he will hand over to you.

I also hope you learn the lesson that in a lawless country where power and violence are might, under no circumstance do you make part or upfront payment for anything, unless you are prepared to not just lose your money, or be killed because of it. I don't know if you have thought of the number of men and women who have been sent to an early grave because of transactions like this.

I wish you well.

JayDuke:
I actually created this account so I could come back years later and look at where I started and be grateful, my reason for creating this account was cos of what I read on travel section from a moniker named mackynaija or so, he created a thread to monitor his jakpa progress.

So on my previous thread I was asking NLders if it was good to invest my savings or I should wait? Well they all advised me though and I had to take their advice and mine and come to a conclusion.

I decided to buy a motorcycle and drive after NYSC, the bike I bought actually cost more than I budgeted for and somehow it took my entire savings and also I had to sell few things to cover the cost, but I wasn't disturbed cos I could recover the money.
I later found out that I'll fix plate number and also pay for union on the route I plan to drive, this put the entire cost to around 350k. Na wa o.
I have decided to sell my phone and also use 70% of my next allawee to cover the cost, I told the seller I'll complete it by month end and take the bike.
I'll update when I finally get the bike, that is if I haven't sold the phone yet, cos the person that plans to buy the phone is a corp member too and is waiting for the monthly allowance before she could pay, but if I have sold the phone, I'll update when I get a new phone. I just pray she doesn't change her mind.
I also created a Twitter account to update my progress but since I wish to remain anonymous for now, I don't want to let people know about the account.
I'll be passing out by June

My previous thread
https://www.nairaland.com/8059680/should-invest-should-wait-little

The goal is humility, absence of greed and being realistic.

Have you thought of the number of young men and women who attend Harvard in the USA and Cambridge in the UK, two of the world's pre-eminent universities. We don't get to hear of or know a majority of their names every year, even though they are in their tens of thousands who graduate every year.

The purpose of University education is not to make you rich. It is to make you a decent human being in both character and learning. Some go to work in remote villages and countries for the rest of their lives. Some become teachers, opinion and thought leaders.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your heart and your mind. You will be successful : a decent roof over your head, two meals a day and decent clothing on your back. Then you leave those determined to be rich out of your circle. You will watch them stab themselves all over with many wounds.

rinaballa:
U never even finish u don already dey think of becoming an okada man abi wetin b dd goal here

"Do not despise the days of little beginnings".

I like that !

franchasofficia:
Keep it up and don't be discouraged by any negative comment. Do not despise the days of little beginning. Every big thing today started small

You go school finish, na wetin illiterate dey do you want do. What's is now the essence of going to school in the first place?

Registering as a jumia pickup outlet will pay you more.

You only grow when you mingle with people bigger, brighter, richer, wiser etc than you.


You want go dey stay garage wey na to dey complain about Tinubu and his government or how to play baba ijebu.


You fall my hand as a graduate.

In all, I wish you all the best.

Offpoint1:
After 4 years in school just to come out riding okoda? Would had been better to use those years and resources to acquired a skill or chase the transportation biz you're chasing now.

School is not running away, you can attend school at any age. (I give it to the igbo folks on this one, those guys don't waste their time in life)

( Please no one should quote me...)

I will quote you because you've made much sense


Like I always tell potential undergraduates. Don't seek for admission without having skills and those in school should make sure they get skills before graduating


I suffered for that for good 2yrs, na the skills I learnt later help me till this time

Treadway:
good job OP.

First of, DO NOT do the bolded! Trust me you need to keep your focus, and I assure you that doing this will be nothing but a distraction and also a drain to your resources. Keep building yourself, women will come later!

I'm encouraged when I see focused people such as yourself. Truly, it is no mean feat to have had the discipline to save the sum esp in these crazy bulaba times. I can totally relate, I served in Jigawa 2010-2011, back when allawee was 9775. In an entire local govt only me and a pal of mine also made the good decision to properly manage our resources, everyone else were buying BlackBerry phones then and sharing pin. We bought guinea fabrics from Kano with all our savings and sold it when we returned home. My friend started a kerosene business with the proceeds of the sale and it really boomed at the time before kerosene went out of style. Like me he also built his house from the business even before he got married. As for the money I made, I kept reinvesting in just about anything that I could easily buy and sell to turn a profit. I didn't get my first job until 2013, after finishing service in June 2021, but by the time I collected my first employment letter I still had over 200k in the bank just from not squandering the meagre money I made during that youth service.

Well done JayDuke

Oga check your dates and make correction

slimmax:


Oga check your dates and make correction

lol. I see what you mean, and I have done that. However, it can be inferred that it must be June 2011 and not 2021, since I had earlier said I served btw 2010-2011.

OkoRemi2023:



I will quote you because you've made much sense


Like I always tell potential undergraduates. Don't seek for admission without having skills and those in school should make sure they get skills before graduating


I suffered for that for good 2yrs, na the skills I learnt later help me till this time

People just waste their time in schools without a clear career path.

I remember when all my friends were seeking admission, I simply told them I go for my career pursuit first. School wasn't on my mind because I know one can school at any age.

While they were schooling, I spent those years learning IT skills.

Today, my knowledge has taken me far, no organization I can't work with now with my skill even without cert because my skills speaks.
Today I have 4 of them begging me to teach them or asking which is the best skill IT skill to learn.

The endgame of school is still money

Treadway:
good job OP.

First of, DO NOT do the bolded! Trust me you need to keep your focus, and I assure you that doing this will be nothing but a distraction and also a drain to your resources. Keep building yourself, women will come later!

I'm encouraged when I see focused people such as yourself. Truly, it is no mean feat to have had the discipline to save the sum esp in these crazy bulaba times. I can totally relate, I served in Jigawa 2010-2011, back when allawee was 9775. In an entire local govt only me and a pal of mine also made the good decision to properly manage our resources, everyone else were buying BlackBerry phones then and sharing pin. We bought guinea fabrics from Kano with all our savings and sold it when we returned home. My friend started a kerosene business with the proceeds of the sale and it really boomed at the time before kerosene went out of style. Like me he also built his house from the business even before he got married. As for the money I made, I kept reinvesting in just about anything that I could easily buy and sell to turn a profit. I didn't get my first job until 2013, after finishing service in June 2011, but by the time I collected my first employment letter I still had over 200k in the bank just from not squandering the meagre money I made during that youth service.

Well done JayDuke

I thank God for your life. The only savings I had was the two months that paid during passing out. I spent all my allowance traveling from Maiduguri to the East, I couldn't stay there. I passed out in June and got a bank job in August in head office in Lagos. The rest is history now. Maybe I was lucky

CelestineNelson:
I will modified this in the next 7 years

i love your spirit

Confirmedzombie:
Your mates are buying cars and you came here posting you bought motorcycle.

Obedients are dying of poverty indeed while your principal Peter Obi is enjoying life.

Nonsense

ur moniker said all about u.

Nice2023:



Keep it up.

Don't underestimate ur humble beginning.

During my studentship together with my NYSC...I saved the total of 360k,that money is what eventually changed my life after 15yrs that I left camp.

I have grown the money to more than 100million in today's cash.

Good luck.

good job sir. Pls i'm just starting out. Need and inspiration and a road map, your journey from 360k to almost 100mil will be a great inspiration and eye opener. Pls if possible share it with us.

Offpoint1:

People just waste their time in schools without a clear career path.

I remember when all my friends were seeking admission, I simply told them I go for my career pursuit first. School wasn't on my mind because I know one can school at any age.

While they were schooling, I spent those years learning IT skills.

Today, my knowledge has taken me far, no organization I can't work with now with my skill even without cert because my skills speaks.
Today I have 4 of them begging me to teach them or asking which is the best skill IT skill to learn.

The endgame of school is still money

You did the right thing for yourself and you can never regret having skills because skills can never be a waste if one is not lazy



Which good contemporary IT skills you can recommend for me, let me add to my bag

OkoRemi2023:



You did the right thing for yourself and you can never regret having skills because skills can never be a waste if one is not lazy



Which good IT skills that's invoked you can recommend for me, let me add to my bag

AI Technology
Data Analysis
Cyber security
UX Design
Cloud computing

These got future potential and it's in high demands in the international market

Offpoint1:

AI Technology
Data Analysis
Cyber security
UX Design
Cloud computing

These got future potential and it's in high demands in the international market

Currently on the cyber security
AI

Thanks for the heads-up


Wishing you the best as you move forward

OkoRemi2023:



Currently on the cyber security
AI

Thanks for the heads-up


Wishing you the best as you move forward

Amin and you too

250k? That works out to about 21k each month out of 32k alawee. How you take come dey survive on 11k per month? You no been dey chop?

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