This is about the first time I'm seeing a genuine discussion on NL on contemporary issues, using current information, without involving charades devoid of substance!

I'm a real advocate of skill acquisition and one area of my specialization is helping Entrepreneurs develope STRONG Domaining Skills.

nice topic.

chamber2:

Interesting discussion.

I wish the super moderator can take this to the front page. The issue of fuel subsidy seems to have preoccupied our minds now.

The issue of mentoring is what most Nigerian peeps are lacking. Aj has done well in this regard through the career section.

Now that this thread has hit the front page, we'ld like to appeal to those who are willing to act as Mentors and Subject Matter Experts to visit the Career Section and signify on their thread(s) of choice.

A number of threads from Biology and Architecture to HSE and Investment Banking have been stickied to this end.

Even Secretaries, Marketers, Lawyers and Engineers aren't left out. There's something for everyone!

www.nairaland.com/nigeria/board-35.0.html

Thank you.

Knowledge is power, but does not in any way guarantee financial success. The practical engagement of tested and proven principles is what brings financial success. Skill set is the practical application of knowledge. Having said that, I advise that skill is what anyone needs. It could be IT skills, engineering skills or artisan. And its never too late to start.

As an SS1 student, I had to make a choice of either going to a science class or Commercial class. But then It was unheard of that someone with a result like mine (top 5% in my set) would go into a commercial class. Even if you had a flair for commercial courses, you would rather take them as an elective subject while facing core science subjects in the science arm of the school. While i was in science class, my Maths, physics, chemistry and Biology was top notch! My Economics was wonderful too! I would have studied economics as an Undergrad! But then, by default, once you come out tops from science class, its either you Study  engineering or medicine as an undergraduate. We had a school counsellor back then, but She did nothing to help correct this wrong impression. Most times i used to think she also needed counselling!

I ended up studying medicine and surgery in the university and i graduated in 2008! All thru my years in school, i knew something was missing, but i tot it was too late then. After my first night call in the Hospital during my Internship, I knew i couldn't practice clinical Medicine!

Right now, I'm almost thru with a  Msc in Health economics and I work as a Health Information system Technical Assistant to an NGO.  I love the Job. The plan is to become a Health system Specialist/Analyst. In the coming years, I plan to do a little of Human resources for health, healthcare financing, health management and stewardship.

Getting out of clinical practice was a difficult decision for me, but i had to take the risk, and it is gradually paying off!

I intend to take my clothing line to the next level.

www.leoandleviclothings.com.ng

really useful information here, thank you! hoping to see more,

@ijoseda, real nyc reading ur post. I'm also a doc, graduated in 2010 n will be done with internship in lyk 2 wks. I'm also not a big fan of clinical medicine n sat for d GRE last year n got 1420 with perfect Q scores looking to get in for MPH after my service year iA. I'm giving d steps tho and hoping to match in pathology. Although I got an award as the most hardworking intern in my department at d end of d year, I feel clinical medicine ain't for me as I am happier away from work. All d best to all of us. See you at the top iA.

ijoseda:

As an SS1 student, I had to make a choice of either going to a science class or Commercial class. But then It was unheard of that someone with a result like mine (top 5% in my set) would go into a commercial class. Even if you had a flair for commercial courses, you would rather take them as an elective subject while facing core science subjects in the science arm of the school. While i was in science class, my Maths, physics, chemistry and Biology was top notch! My Economics was wonderful too! I would have studied economics as an Undergrad! But then, by default, once you come out tops from science class, its either you Study  engineering or medicine as an undergraduate. We had a school counsellor back then, but She did nothing to help correct this wrong impression. Most times i used to think she also needed counselling!

I ended up studying medicine and surgery in the university and i graduated in 2008! All thru my years in school, i knew something was missing, but i tot it was too late then. After my first night call in the Hospital during my Internship, I knew i couldn't practice clinical Medicine!

Right now, I'm almost thru with a  Msc in Health economics and I work as a Health Information system Technical Assistant to an NGO.  I love the Job. The plan is to become a Health system Specialist/Analyst. In the coming years, I plan to do a little of Human resources for health, healthcare financing, health management and stewardship.

Getting out of clinical practice was a difficult decision for me, but i had to take the risk, and it is gradually paying off!  

What a thread!
What else would you wish for a dinner!
Chamber2 sets the pot on the stove and pours some water into it. Aj and Jay bee adds all the spice. Yamakuza serves it.
I'm on a ''learning spree''.

bukkytroni:

@Chamber2

Its a long story but will summarize as much as possible.

I applied for physics in one of the Federal Universities in Nigeria because I wanted a course that is very challenging and agrees with my make up. I know many physics graduates/undergraduates did not apply for physics, they were given physics, regrettably. No matter what circumstance, my opinion remains that it is a great and noble course to study. I did calculus, statistics, theoretical, quantum etc, Electrical and electronic engineering courses -Circuit theory, electromagnetic theory, Control theory, engineering mathematics, Digital Signal Processing etc, Philosophy, Law and Computer Programming, Physical, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Nuclear Physics just to mention a few. So you see, physics exposes you to a wide variety of information and most importantly the ability to THINK ON YOUR FEET, no straight answers to anything (remember questions like: a guy rides a bike in SouthEast direction, the wind is blowing against him in the Northwest direction, while negotiating a roundabout, he falls at a banking angle of 30 degrees, assuming 9.8m/s2 gravity, calculating his speed of falling if his uniform velocity was 15m/s, DO YOU FEEL ME) How do you solve questions like that, you start thinking of all the laws of mathematics, physics, motion, gravity, centrifugal force etc that you know in order to figure a way out.

So you see, physics trains you to think, dissect and analyze situations.

Thats how much I love physics.

Now, I was told that most times, physics grad ended up as teachers and lectures and sincerely I did not want to end up that way most importantly because I wanted to maximize my potentials and also make a lot of MONEY out of my career. We know that in this part of the world, most of what we are being taught is already obsolete before we can even think of what to do with it. I sincerely discovered in my first year in the university that IF I DONT DO SOMETHING, I am headed for a DEAD END. How did I deliver myself from this dilemma.

While in my first year, the school went on 6 months strike and as we were resuming, ASUU went on another 5 months strike.

My friends and I made up our minds that we were going to look for problems and find a solution. What prompted that was the rigor of registration process every session in my school as at then. We began to ask questions, Cant there be a solution where from any part of the world, you can conveniently register online with the advent of the internet, and we have to have casualties all the time while thousands of students were queueing to do their sessional registration?

What was the solution? Computer programming

We designed a top down flowchart of how we were going to do it. We from physics were to come up with a biometric identification system such that students will need to register their finger prints for payment authentication, then computer science friends were to come up with the web application.

That was what led me into compiler construction, Q basic, Visual Basic, C language, C++, C# and Java. You know computer interfacing was a purely hardware programming stuff. I learn fortran, cobol, assembly language, studied A LOT about Integrated Circuits and How to program chips. It was a very interesting though difficult experience because I didnt have anybody to ask who had done such before and had to figure everything out searching online and digging into books(aged) in our school library. If you see machine codes, you go fear. MFC in C++ was also very confusing when I was trying to develop a GUI using C or C++. I used Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 shortly before the .NET platform came out.

You can see why VISION is extremely important in whatever you want to do because without it, your passion will soon quench along the way.

Down the road, I HIT the ROCKS, I couldnt get an IC programmer that I can insert a IC Chip, run my program from the PC and reprogram the IC to do what I want it to do. You know the interfacing circuit must be able to read the finger prints, use Analog to Digital Converter to translate to machine codes, manage all the interrupts, addresses and the GUI must be able to reproduce the same image.

Thats how I hit the rocks o but seriously, our lives never remain the same.

Note that we READ like MAD MEN. Any computer programming/electronics book that can give us further clues, we spent lots of money to acquire them, even shipped in Microsoft.NET Visual Studio from the USA as soon as it came out. Any little holiday, We are back completely to what we loved doing. I remembered that for 4 years, I never went home for CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR celebrations. I could as well take myself out for a good lunch and get back to work.

We reasoned later that and asked, why dont we use an existing devise that can do what we planned to do. Remember whatever you think you want to do, most of the time, it already exists somewhere.

Thats was when I began to focus on C#/Java and server side programming/wired and wireless computer networking. Did I lose focus? Without defending myself, I will say NO, I only looked in a different direction. ONE QUESTION IS FUNDAMENTAL, HOW WILL I MAKE MY KNOWLEDGE RELEVANT AND MARKETABLE?

I was not fully involved in the finalized project coding because we had other friends on board who were very very smart and good and I dont want to list where they are working right now, doing what they love, CODING, but sincerely, at the end of our 3rd year in the school, the project was finalized and launched the same year. In addition, on several occasions where we met with the management of the school including the Vice Chancellor, we had to defend and explain how it worked to them and take their feedback for necessary adjustments.

To cut the story short, I was involved in the implementation and management of the application and alongside learnt wired, wireless plus fibre optic networking since I had to confront myself that, TRULY, programming was not my natural habitat.

Because of the exposure to hardware programming and interfacing, I became very good at diagnosis, repairs and maintenance of hardwares and eventually became a supplier of laptops, desktops, programming lecture to seniors, colleagues and juniors and later was into sales and installation of wireless routers when the school forayed into provision of wireless network connectivity to the public.

Eventually, I did my Industrial Attachment with the school, developed other programming applications with Visual Basic.Net etc and went into DATA MINING full time. Now that we had a huge database of information, what do we do with it? Hence my foray into Data Analytics/Business Intelligent/Information Systems. I also developed networking skills, contracting, sales, marketing, research etc skills. I had to fix PC for influential people in my school, I would have missed the opportunity to network with them if I didnt learn how to connect with people in higher positions of authority. I also made a few bucks from those relationships.

Summarily, by the time I finished school, I was too busy to think of what to do next with my life.

While doing my research, I discovered that technology implementation especially in Nigeria had moved into  packaged software and rather than bottom up development (banks, telecoms etc). That was when I went into SAP and Oracle e Business suites because they are already perfected softwares that you can use to manipulate and analyse information to the extent that you know how to use them. My sound programming background help with ABAP and I had hands on experience already with MS SQL SERVER, ORACLE SQL, My SQL, ASP.NET, ADO.NET had a tough time understanding Java and JavaBEANS etc so I dumped it and became MICROSOFT/BILL GATES fan for life. TRUST MICROSOFT - EVERYTHING HAD BEEN AUTOMATED, Just Click and connect your database if you are not interested in writing codes (seriously, am very lazy and coding is not fun for me)

I discovered that there are billions of pages of information but who will make sense out of it? That is the niche where I live. Give me sufficient information, using all the tools that technology have, I will tell you in simple sentences what is the best decision to take, What that is called, I dont know , information systems, decision science, executive decision making, strategic analysis, whatever I am still looking for the numenclature that captures that,

I also need to mention here that the one and only hobby that I enjoy doing anytime anyday is READING and RESEARCH, I cant count how many years of my life I have spent on the internet inundating myself with information.

Many years down the line, that is the field I still am today, ANALYSIS, tell my firm what the figures and trends are saying and what is the way to go/STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING.

I want to make a lot of money from my talents and want to stay relevant, any industry I find myself, and thats what led me into writing professional exams in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Project Management, Information System Management, Finance etc.

If I have opportunity to choose another course, I will go for Quantitative Finance/Physics/Information Systems/Actuarial Science because of the weight of calculations and reasoning that is involved and most importantly it is applicable e.g. Quantitative Finance is very integral to the worldwide financial industry, FX, Hedge funds etc

I love influencing the direction that things go and thats why I want to be a decision maker for individuals, presidents, UN, AU etc

I believe my long story will encourage somebody in their quest for greatness.

Identify your habitat, go all the way doing what you love, dont limit yourself by a limited imagination, Think beyond your environment, Look outside the box, Pursue your dream passionately,

I can assure you that if there is no vacancy for you today, life will create space for you if you stay glued to your dreams, dont stay on the bed, wake up and work out the dreams,

@Chamber2, I rest my case,

what an interesting story. Cant believe i read every damn letters of this Longman Comtemporary Textbook ! just kidding

Very interesting read and mind blowing stuffs!

ayox2003:

What a thread!
What else would you wish for a dinner!
Chamber2 sets the pot on the stove and pours some water into it. Aj and Jay bee adds all the spice. Yamakuza serves it.
I'm on a ''learning spree''.

Sounds like a dinner of water and spices

Anyway, this is is a good talk by Seth Godin on 2012. It kind of rhymes with the topic.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJj_WHCdLtQ?version=3&hl=en_US"[/flash]

^ lolz. We need more ingredients abi?

From the expert seasoned chefs in the house.

Lets cook this stone, peeps!

This tread has become an eye opener for me, thanks so much to everyone.

Nice to read from you. I trained in Ilorin. Where did you train. Are you planning to do an MPH as a portal of entry to the States or you plan to work as a Public health specialist. i didn't quite get what you said about pathology.

olsmade:

@ijoseda, real nyc reading your post. I'm also a doc, graduated in 2010 n will be done with internship in lyk 2 wks. I'm also not a big fan of clinical medicine n sat for d GRE last year n got 1420 with perfect Q scores looking to get in for MPH after my service year iA. I'm giving d steps tho and hoping to match in pathology. Although I got an award as the most hardworking intern in my department at d end of d year, I feel clinical medicine ain't for me as I am happier away from work. All d best to all of us. See you at the top iA.

AjanleKoko:

Sounds like a dinner of water and spices

Anyway, this is is a good talk by Seth Godin on 2012. It kind of rhymes with the topic.

[flash=640,390]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJj_WHCdLtQ?version=3&hl=en_US"[/flash]

Thanks for the video. But considering your advice on getting real skills vis-a-vis this video, are you saying we should be thinking in the line of entrepreneurship early in our careers? Or getting real entrepreneurial skills?

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In a way I do. I work with an NGO that helps youth corpers get their bearing.

Hello Ajanlekoko,
I'd really appreciate it if you can give more info on how to enrol to the mentoring thing thru your NGO as a corper. Thanks.

Whao,

Great forum,

I felt shy for having my story on the front page of nairaland,


All said, Identify 3 competencies you will build this year that will make you more valuable at whatever you do.

Remember everything depreciates with time, Do something to appreciate in value this year 2012, 8 days gone,

worldz:

Hello Ajanlekoko,
I'd really appreciate it if you can give more info on how to enrol to the mentoring thing thru your NGO as a corper. Thanks.

It's called Mind The Gap.
Youth corpers are usually matched to mentors who guide and help them get their bearing during the service year.
They have monthly sessions, usually on the first Saturday of the month, at the NYSC orientation camps. If you are in Lagos, get over to Ipaja camp on the first Saturday in February. Who knows, you might run into me.

And if I might say so, these days the Career Section is full of mentors. There are threads for a lot of disciplines, with a lot of active participation. From Physics to Secretarial Administration. People should get on there, ask questions, make contacts, etc.

@Aj
Thanks again for the info. Though am currently in my finals and hope to be a corper someday. I'd definitely want to partake in such programme only hoping it would be available and also in full swing in other orientation camps around the country if i dont get to be posted to Lagos for my service.
I really commend your effort in helping corpers find their footing in their respective fields before joining the labour market. Keep the fire burning!

Wt an educative thread!I'v alwys been a big admirer of Oga Ajanlekoko < wt a funny name>, tks sir 4 ur write ups,contributns & suggestns.
Plannin goin 4 my Masters soon, gt 2 knw abt King fahd university of petroleum & Minerals,Saudi Arabia & Marsda institute of science & technology,UAE nt quite long, pls is it advisable 2 do my postgraduate in any of ds skuls,wil skulin there gives me d X factor i want & instant job securement in d O & G?
Tks all 4 ur anticipatd suggestns!

^^^^^^
No school can guarantee you employment on completion of your course. You can always research on the destination of alumni from that university to determine if you had be able to realise your dream.
Another major pointer is to look at KSA's policy on foreign student in relation to working visa and all.

I hope you are not R---who just got a fully funded position at KFUP. Anyway, the only good thing I can say about these schools is that they all offer full scholarships to students. For jobs, just as jay bee pointed, I am not sure any school on earth can guarantee anyone a job after graduation. I myself have interviewed alongside graduates from the very top universities of this world and some of them eventually got turned down. There are no guarantees anywhere!

If the offer is fully funded, then take it sharp sharp. Otherwise spend your money at Texas A&M, IFP and other high sounding places. I am fully aware that those Saudi oil companies go all the way to schools in the US to recruit graduates. Saudi believes that anything that looks or sounds American is always better. Word on the streets has it that American workers in Saudi oil companies are better paid than others, including the Saudi people themselves. Another street rumour is that Saudi oil companies only recruit other nationals who possess many years of oil and gas experience. Of course, these are rumours. Nonetheless, I can bet that there is an element of truth in them.

Conclusively, if I were in your shoes, I would accept the offer, but only if it is fully funded. I would then try to intern with any of the oil and gas companies whilst studying. If the offer is not fully funded, I would forget it. If it is your aim and desire to work for an oil and gas company in Saudi or the UAE, then target the schools that those Saudi and UAE oil companies visit to recruit students. That, in my opinion, is a good strategy which you can easily employ. Another strategy would be for you to work for any oil and gas company for some years here in Naija and then apply to your choice oil company either in Saudi or the UAE. A senior friend's friend employed this strategy. Today, he works for an oyel company in Abhu Dahbi.

It may interest you to know that IFP boasts of 90% employment rate of its graduates three months after graduation. In addition, the major MNCs are not strangers to IFP; in fact, they are known to recruit graduates from IFP. You may want to check out http://www.ifp-school.com/accueil.asp.





*** No wonder why people literally worship oyel company workers. kai, na my year be this-God, my creator, knows.

Truly true,
T22.

@Chamber2

Its a long story but will summarize as much as possible.

I applied for physics in one of the Federal Universities in Nigeria because I wanted a course that is very challenging and agrees with my make up. I know many physics graduates/undergraduates did not apply for physics, they were given physics, regrettably. No matter what circumstance, my opinion remains that it is a great and noble course to study. I did calculus, statistics, theoretical, quantum etc, Electrical and electronic engineering courses -Circuit theory, electromagnetic theory, Control theory, engineering mathematics, Digital Signal Processing etc, Philosophy, Law and Computer Programming, Physical, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Nuclear Physics just to mention a few. So you see, physics exposes you to a wide variety of information and most importantly the ability to THINK ON YOUR FEET, no straight answers to anything (remember questions like: a guy rides a bike in SouthEast direction, the wind is blowing against him in the Northwest direction, while negotiating a roundabout, he falls at a banking angle of 30 degrees, assuming 9.8m/s2 gravity, calculating his speed of falling if his uniform velocity was 15m/s, DO YOU FEEL ME) How do you solve questions like that, you start thinking of all the laws of mathematics, physics, motion, gravity, centrifugal force etc that you know in order to figure a way out.

So you see, physics trains you to think, dissect and analyze situations.

Thats how much I love physics.

Now, I was told that most times, physics grad ended up as teachers and lectures and sincerely I did not want to end up that way most importantly because I wanted to maximize my potentials and also make a lot of MONEY out of my career. We know that in this part of the world, most of what we are being taught is already obsolete before we can even think of what to do with it. I sincerely discovered in my first year in the university that IF I DONT DO SOMETHING, I am headed for a DEAD END. How did I deliver myself from this dilemma.

While in my first year, the school went on 6 months strike and as we were resuming, ASUU went on another 5 months strike.

My friends and I made up our minds that we were going to look for problems and find a solution. What prompted that was the rigor of registration process every session in my school as at then. We began to ask questions, Cant there be a solution where from any part of the world, you can conveniently register online with the advent of the internet, and we have to have casualties all the time while thousands of students were queueing to do their sessional registration?

What was the solution? Computer programming

We designed a top down flowchart of how we were going to do it. We from physics were to come up with a biometric identification system such that students will need to register their finger prints for payment authentication, then computer science friends were to come up with the web application.

That was what led me into compiler construction, Q basic, Visual Basic, C language, C++, C# and Java. You know computer interfacing was a purely hardware programming stuff. I learn fortran, cobol, assembly language, studied A LOT about Integrated Circuits and How to program chips. It was a very interesting though difficult experience because I didnt have anybody to ask who had done such before and had to figure everything out searching online and digging into books(aged) in our school library. If you see machine codes, you go fear. MFC in C++ was also very confusing when I was trying to develop a GUI using C or C++. I used Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 shortly before the .NET platform came out.

You can see why VISION is extremely important in whatever you want to do because without it, your passion will soon quench along the way.

Down the road, I HIT the ROCKS, I couldnt get an IC programmer that I can insert a IC Chip, run my program from the PC and reprogram the IC to do what I want it to do. You know the interfacing circuit must be able to read the finger prints, use Analog to Digital Converter to translate to machine codes, manage all the interrupts, addresses and the GUI must be able to reproduce the same image.

Thats how I hit the rocks o but seriously, our lives never remain the same.

Note that we READ like MAD MEN. Any computer programming/electronics book that can give us further clues, we spent lots of money to acquire them, even shipped in Microsoft.NET Visual Studio from the USA as soon as it came out. Any little holiday, We are back completely to what we loved doing. I remembered that for 4 years, I never went home for CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR celebrations. I could as well take myself out for a good lunch and get back to work.

We reasoned later that and asked, why dont we use an existing devise that can do what we planned to do. Remember whatever you think you want to do, most of the time, it already exists somewhere.

Thats was when I began to focus on C#/Java and server side programming/wired and wireless computer networking. Did I lose focus? Without defending myself, I will say NO, I only looked in a different direction. ONE QUESTION IS FUNDAMENTAL, HOW WILL I MAKE MY KNOWLEDGE RELEVANT AND MARKETABLE?

I was not fully involved in the finalized project coding because we had other friends on board who were very very smart and good and I dont want to list where they are working right now, doing what they love, CODING, but sincerely, at the end of our 3rd year in the school, the project was finalized and launched the same year. In addition, on several occasions where we met with the management of the school including the Vice Chancellor, we had to defend and explain how it worked to them and take their feedback for necessary adjustments.

To cut the story short, I was involved in the implementation and management of the application and alongside learnt wired, wireless plus fibre optic networking since I had to confront myself that, TRULY, programming was not my natural habitat.

Because of the exposure to hardware programming and interfacing, I became very good at diagnosis, repairs and maintenance of hardwares and eventually became a supplier of laptops, desktops, programming lecture to seniors, colleagues and juniors and later was into sales and installation of wireless routers when the school forayed into provision of wireless network connectivity to the public.

Eventually, I did my Industrial Attachment with the school, developed other programming applications with Visual Basic.Net etc and went into DATA MINING full time. Now that we had a huge database of information, what do we do with it? Hence my foray into Data Analytics/Business Intelligent/Information Systems. I also developed networking skills, contracting, sales, marketing, research etc skills. I had to fix PC for influential people in my school, I would have missed the opportunity to network with them if I didnt learn how to connect with people in higher positions of authority. I also made a few bucks from those relationships.

Summarily, by the time I finished school, I was too busy to think of what to do next with my life.

While doing my research, I discovered that technology implementation especially in Nigeria had moved into packaged software and rather than bottom up development (banks, telecoms etc). That was when I went into SAP and Oracle e Business suites because they are already perfected softwares that you can use to manipulate and analyse information to the extent that you know how to use them. My sound programming background help with ABAP and I had hands on experience already with MS SQL SERVER, ORACLE SQL, My SQL, ASP.NET, ADO.NET had a tough time understanding Java and JavaBEANS etc so I dumped it and became MICROSOFT/BILL GATES fan for life. TRUST MICROSOFT - EVERYTHING HAD BEEN AUTOMATED, Just Click and connect your database if you are not interested in writing codes (seriously, am very lazy and coding is not fun for me)

I discovered that there are billions of pages of information but who will make sense out of it? That is the niche where I live. Give me sufficient information, using all the tools that technology have, I will tell you in simple sentences what is the best decision to take, What that is called, I dont know , information systems, decision science, executive decision making, strategic analysis, whatever I am still looking for the numenclature that captures that,

I also need to mention here that the one and only hobby that I enjoy doing anytime anyday is READING and RESEARCH, I cant count how many years of my life I have spent on the internet inundating myself with information.

Many years down the line, that is the field I still am today, ANALYSIS, tell my firm what the figures and trends are saying and what is the way to go/STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING.

I want to make a lot of money from my talents and want to stay relevant, any industry I find myself, and thats what led me into writing professional exams in Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Project Management, Information System Management, Finance etc.

If I have opportunity to choose another course, I will go for Quantitative Finance/Physics/Information Systems/Actuarial Science because of the weight of calculations and reasoning that is involved and most importantly it is applicable e.g. Quantitative Finance is very integral to the worldwide financial industry, FX, Hedge funds etc

I love influencing the direction that things go and thats why I want to be a decision maker for individuals, presidents, UN, AU etc

I believe my long story will encourage somebody in their quest for greatness.

Identify your habitat, go all the way doing what you love, dont limit yourself by a limited imagination, Think beyond your environment, Look outside the box, Pursue your dream passionately,

I can assure you that if there is no vacancy for you today, life will create space for you if you stay glued to your dreams, dont stay on the bed, wake up and work out the dreams,

@Chamber2, I rest my case,




Man, You JUST INSPIRED THE SHIT OUT OF ME, Going back to the drawing board. I must make an impact in the oil and gas industry,

But is it too late to start all over again at 26?

I used to be good reader in my secondary school days but I lost the passion due to economic problems. I still read thoug but not like in my secondary school days.

@Jay bee & tanimola. Tks bro 4 d info. It's highly apreciatd!

Tanimola22. Do you have an idea how to apply to IFP through total nigeria scholarship? Please reply

x-fire:

Tanimola22. Do you have an idea how to apply to IFP through total nigeria scholarship? Please reply

You should trust the parapoism that has eaten our country dry. Anyway, still try your luck sha. You could just be lucky.

First apply for funding here http://careers.total.com/front/web/guest/fiche-offre?p_p_id=Offres_WAR_careersoffresportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_Offres_WAR_careersoffresportlet_offreId=10021033&_Offres_WAR_careersoffresportlet_curTypeContrat=Sponsorship&_Offres_WAR_careersoffresportlet_struts.portlet.action=%2Fview%2Fview%2Fdetail&_Offres_WAR_careersoffresportlet_struts.portlet.mode=view

Then apply for admission here http://www.ifp-school.com/includes/include_programmes_portes_contenu.asp?id=40 or http://application.ifp-school.com/en/2/candidates/sign_in

The Total stipend is good; it is about 1500 EU. That is good money!

Good luck with your application.

Truly true,
T22.

Mr Tanimola,u seem 2 av 'tons' of O & G info,  There's rarely any O & G relatd questns that u dnt av answers 2! Thump up bro.

vickipad:

Mr Tanimola,u seem 2 av 'tons' of O & G info, There's rarely any O & G relatd questns that u dnt av answers 4! Thump up bro.

My brother, that is a consequence of being too money conscious. I am guilty of it.

As far as naija is concerned, oil and gas is the main industry to be. It is therefore not unhealthy to aspire to get there, but one must have something to offer while there. Many people on this forum can attest to the regard that oyel industry workers command on a daily basis. I have heard a man tell his neighbour that 'is it because you work for Mobil'. That is how serious the envy and respect can get.

God will help us all sha.

T22.

tanimola22:

My brother, that is a consequence of being too money conscious. I am guilty of it.

As far as naija is concerned, oil and gas is the main industry to be. It is therefore not unhealthy to aspire to get there, but one must have something to offer while there. Many people on this forum can attest to the regard that oyel industry workers command on a daily basis. I have heard a man tell his neighbour that 'is it because you work for Mobil'. That is how serious the envy and respect can get.

God will help us all sha.

T22.

The next Dizeani?
Sha take it easy with Nigerians when you get there.

Very nice topic.

My advice to everyone is not different from what guys have said in here. I am a graduate of physics to but after school curiosity made me venture into java programming (I invested soo much just to learn it), I never stoped there I took up SAP studies which I'm currently on and God has been so faithful I got a place in an ICT consulting firm which does SAP implementations. This year I hope to get done with my first SAP Basis certification.

Please Guys keep sharing your stories, you just migth be the angel that will turn somebody's future into paradise.!