₦airaland Forum

fid4fid:
Bro, you just dey think like me. If say I know wetin I know now, I swear I for no waste my time with JAMB. I for don collect scholarship Jápá from here... then the Nordic schools were free.

I gained no useful skill in Uni despite with my course. I can not operate a lathe machine or drill press now; Not to talk of a CNC machine. I can't use a welding machine. The whole uni education did not give me skill..... Just rubbish theory theory theory!

YouTube teaches better than this rubbish schools here. My pikin no go repeat that mistake. He must get skill skill skill skill...Hands-on skill.

Now the kid, at his early age, is take advice to learn coding on notepad, designing games on scratch... Teaching him 3D design and printing with a 3D printer. I will get him a laser cutter rigged on a CNC machine.

No lies bro, No lies atall

Yes,
schooling in 9ja University issa mistake in itself.

I wish I had listened to my secondary school teachers and took those SATs and Cambridge classes and exam and focus lesser on passing Jamb.

Those I knew I were better than in sec scho were smashing SATs getting half scholarship to school abroad, I dey dey read for mumu Jamb.

Maybe I would be have been outta this shit hole by now

This is largely dependent on the landlord.

some landlords no dey wan wan repair anything atall, but them dey always forget say as house dey leak, the building go dey degrade faster.

So if na something wey u fit do yourself, o boy carry go.
some tenants don't even mention such to landlord coz they fear after repair na Rent Increment.

it's 50/50

This is largely dependent on the landlord.
some landlords no dey wan wan repair anythifn

Liposure:
my bro its called palliative

na straw Dem put for inside that man body, Dem no go stop until Dem suck all I'm blood finish.

larryking540:
then u better not marry an Igbo lady ,else OYo na your own ,,
if I have not see this happening in my eyes I would have said the story is fabricated but it is not ,it is happening ,

I know it happens, that's why I am saying may I never fall into such family.

it's things like these that make mehn not to go past age 55 in Nigeria coz they carry too much burden on them that thier body system fails quickly

wait so I am supposed to be sending money to my wife's parents monthly and support my brother in-law wedding bride price if I am married.

Haha, even God know say I never dey mad to try this one.

May I never fall inside such family in Jesus name, amen!

Inukwa!

Nairalanders that usually harp on learn IT skills Learn IT skills and start cashing out.

Come and help your brother now who has IT skills on 40k salary.

#Olenu

Guys will be leaving this thread with enough morale to go and study programming and cash out.

I give 90% of them 1 month max. they will dump it and go back to start selling wares online hehehe.

It will end in tears :-)

CrazyMan:
Days of orege...you no fit waka for okpuno 7:pm

Men the school has really upgraded.

Lol Na area for strong men.

If u Waka careless Waka, u get obtained except u sef Sabi strong men within the area.

I am talking over a decade ago tho

alternateReality:
This op didnt do justice to my uni. No pic of our massive library, new Faculty of Arts building near the of old Chinua Achebe faculty of arts building, no garuba square, no engineering buildings. Dude don fall our hands. The uni that has 10% cultism in the east. I went through the uni without knowing any cult group, heard no cult killings or clash and didnt bribe any lecturer. They dont even allow lecturers to sell handouts.

You went through zik without cult clash or knowing cult group, lool...Jesus Baby I see u

Naija246:
the biggest mistake in my opinion is to even consider marriage

Guys should know that you will enjoy your life far better when you are single than when married.
Being single affords you the luxury of:
-developing new skills
-saving a chunk of what you earn
-it affords you the opportunity to travel more.
-you will age slower(due to less stress)
Etc
The benefits of single life for a man far outweighs the pros of being married.
We men are doing Women a HUGE!! favor by marrying them.

guys, don't let any lady sell you the idea that marriage benefits you.. it's a scam!!
Marriage benefits Women not men!!
Hoard your ring!!

When I tell my fellow guys this, I come off as being wierd, lol

I want kids quite alright, but marriage I am not sure about that as I haven't seen any benefits from it

I wanted to read this
but then I know that reading this means I am learning of what to do im this situation and so I stopped.

Because I will NEVER be in this situation where I would be fed by my wife. I refuse to entertain that possibility

#My thinking remains positive

If you lived off camp in the uni, and your roomies were the crazy guys then you would know that this is nothing new

mustaphagreens:
Collect the 5m
Open a Fixed Deposit Account with GtBank and throw the money inside. It should earn you up to 250k every month while you think up a nice business idea.

NO BANK will pay you that much per month here in Nigeria on fixed deposit.

I would have said the whole world but I am just being cautious

Its only a fool that will take the job.

Las Las take the 5m, go find another job If you are not the enterpreneur person

sampete:
Guys I'm ready for a meet up as from today. Remember, it's first come, first served.

how does 95k sound to you? Good to go?

deenee:
First and foremost he is not year at 29. Tony Elumelu became bank MD at 33 years. Late Uncle T of GTB founded GTB alongside Fola Adeola and Segun Agbaje in their early 20s.

Secondly, it is very ok for him to know how to hustle and make money yet without any knowledge and direction about investments and wealth creation.

Finally, i agree with you, building now is not the best optimal investment but will not support purchase of land though at this point.

These people you mentioned took on risks so they can enjoy later, they could as well play safe by investing all in building houses but didn't.

But they took on risks and now they are living off their wealth. Eg Tony Elumelu with his foundation helping other young ones. that's the point I am making.

Now is the time to buy landed properties, some people are cash strapped and will do anything to raise money by laying off thier assets. I don't support building of house tho it's a tie down of limited cash . But like I said he should use a bit to buy land and watch it grow , while he invests the rest in his hustle.

Don't just disagree with me, drop your points why you think otherwise.

you have a hustle that you started while in school.

despite the school distraction you were still able to save 11million and yet you are asking what hustle to engage in.

Tell us the truth, are you a Gee boy?

Nobody will make 11million in 6yrs of hustle and still be asking for direction, why not expand the so called hustle abi you be Yahoo boy.

Just a word of advice building a house is a tie down of cash, Jeje buy land fence it and allow it to grow or rent it out to Farmers/block makers while you use the rest to expand your hustle.

You are still young, now is the time to take on risk coz you have the years to recover.

House of 100m here will return a miserly 5-8m on rent, it's fu--cked up really, just buy land and fence it for safety.

Lately I have come to discover that confidence in interview comes from how often you interface with very top C level executives or head of departments.

if you type of job is where you need to pitch a product by doing a slide presentation to Head of departments at several companies quite often. Confidence will be second nature in an interview

I will say Sales/Pre sales who do slide presentation at offices tend to be have better confidence regardless of thier years of experience or age.

it's simply because they are used to SELLING thierselves and the product to top members of an organization

GAZZUZZ:
Repackage your self this guy is a tailor too, Check his profile.

https://instagram.com/kolly_stitches?igshid=b6f5okc3s74w

Me I am a kazeem mechanic and i have wife

haha Oga Gazzuzz we know you oh, you no be kazeem oh..

atleast you no dey regularise car temperature, if you know what I mean lol

The number of people viewing this thread my Goodness
I have never seen such large views in NL before!!!

Autodomain:
How much would it cost to get a CCNA certification

Exam is atleast 120k can't say now that $$$ has risen to 385.

Training is up to you to figure out.

AnthonyAk:
Clearly u dont have the CCNA and certificates

Yes sir. I don't

Gkemz:
I had a similar experience.
The interview was for the role of regional manager in an international company conducted by two Chinese Americans and One Nigerian man. The company is into heavy equipments. These Chinese Americans bombarded me with questions from the answers I supplied to previous questions. After spending half an hour with them thinking that the interview is completed. Here comes the mess.
Interviewer: We can see you have an extensive, comprehensive and wide experience in FMCG, how are you going to leverage on that when it's not gonna be applicable for this role because this is not an FMGC industry.
Me: I am adaptive and fast in learning more about the position and I give you assurance that within 1month I must have mastered the dynamics.
Interviewer: It took me 5years to grow to the level of a Manager, so how could you just achieve that within 1 month...
At this juncture, i was dumbfounded.

Another horrible interview experience was with an international company. After convincing them that I have all it takes to excel in that role beyond their expectations, and I am highly proficient in the use of Ms word, Excel and Computer repair and maintenance. I was tested on Excel and Msword. I never knew they had a faulty system that could not boot. I was presented with the system to fix. As a sharp guy, I told them that the problem could be the BIOS or RAM.
Interviewer: In other words you are not sure of your competence by guessing. Don't you think you should have run a troubleshoot with your tools.
Me: Sir, I need to boot the system before i could troubleshoot.
Interviewer: You supposed to have your tools with you.
Me: In my mind (Oga I came for an interview, not to repair your system. Take this shit to a technician.)
Interestingly, hardware knowledge of computer is not necessary for the role.

Lool, come with tools to repair system?

See yarns o Maybe they wanted to leverage on awoof service

ultimate77:
wait o.. You couldn't lecture them? Or you hadn't any practical experience?

at the time I was looking to transition into tech, so I started by getting a certificate.

Yes I had no experience, and couldn't speak about it.
However when I went back home after the interview and researched on it, I was ashamed at how I flopped to something so easy.

It's a good experience tho.

howmarket2:
you could use a USB adapter with two or more USB ports.why not it ll connect.

I will fail you if you told me this answer in an interview.

Look this up on Google, it's very easy to do.

hustla:
Experience trumps Certs
All day!

Anyday Anytime

Tech Interview

Lebanese: So you I see you have networking certificates, CCNA and the rest, so what's Networking?

Me: (in my head wtf such a cheap question). Networking is the connection of two or more devices to share resources eg Internet, Printer , files

Lebanese/Indian guy : (Smiles), so I have a usb printer attached to a PC, how can another user pc make use of that same printer.

Me: (realises this one no be certificate theory jumbo). started talking rubbish....

Lebanese/Indian guy: ....But you just said networking is about sharing resources eg Printer

Me: Was cold as all the Networking Certificate now proved useless in the face of Pratical.

I have only one advice for you.

Focus on the return on Investment.

Anything that won't yield a viable return on Investment is not worth venturing into.

Don't go and do Masters in a place where you will be sent back or you don't stand a chance to work after schooling?

Don't go and do business you know nothing about or no shoulder for guidance, you can blow half of that in one business deal?

Dont go and do pilot training if there is little to no demand for pilots in the country, your chances of breaking even will be small and so money wasted.

ROI
ROI
ROI
return on investment is all that matters.

When purpose is not known, abuse will be inevitable.

This is something I can do, coz I can't cook soups.

However I will be rotating vendors coz I will be very worried if I keep getting soups delivered from the same girl weekend after weekend, one day it could laced with posion or love portion.

Yea I know, I got trust issues.

But is it something I can do, hell yea!

1) Yes I would
2) to be honest, it depends on what the content is. coz the way it looks on pic can make you budget stupidly for food.
3) common soups eg egusi
4) The soup is to last for a period of time in the fridge now, so if it gets delivered in 24hrs of order, it's fine
5) No No No swallow. it would be messed up by the time it gets delivered.