BucketMan:
I don't know if some of you might remember this thread i made https://www.nairaland.com/8006821/should-go-masters-degree-remai where i contemplated going for a masters degree instead of remaining jobless at home. Well after assimilating all the advice i got from that thread, i decided to kill two birds with one stone and apply for the masters degree while also getting a laptop to start an online business in writing and copywriting which is where my passion lies.

Shortly after i got the laptop i found a creative writing opportunity via reddit and applied. One of the requirements for the job was to have a really fast typing speed (minimum of 60 words per minute). I just got my laptop so my typing speed was really slow but i resolved to increase it by practicing daily for a month and i grew from 35wpm to 62wpm which the job required.

That was just the beginning, the recruitment process for the job was done through a platform called Discord and they had a specific writing style that they wanted to inculcate in the applicants via daily trainings after which you will have to pass some exams. I started actively training for about a month and felt i was confident enough to take the intro exam, which i did and performed excellently so i moved on to the last stage.

Now this is where things got kind of complicated because this last stage required me to share my laptop screen in real time, kinda like a video call and prepare creative writing scripts for different scenarios that will be provided also in real time. The session was supervised by the recruiters and would last for 4 hours. I was fully locked in and confident in all that i had already learnt from training, However, the time for the test came and i was given a resource to download that i would use in writing these scripts. After downloading, setting it up on my laptop and then hopping on the live video call with the supervisors, i could not for the life of me get it to run efficiently, it was extremely slow and kept giving me a connection error feedback, I use MTN 4G and can't believe that the network chose that moment to start acting up. I still don't know if the real culprit is my laptop (2017 hp elitebook) or MTN network but after i switched to 3g and tried to hop back on the call to apologize to the supervisors for having a network glitch, i realized they had already blocked me, so i wasn't even given a chance to showcase my skills and this is what pains me most.

This is the reason that was given: "poor internet on a remote job, i'm sorry but it cannot work".

I'm so devastated, all the effort, time and resources invested into becoming a perfect fit for the job has been washed away in a blink. Now, i'm back home in my mom's house, in shame and defeat, with less than #1k to my name having used all my savings to get the laptop and for data subscriptions. I'm just lost on what to do right now, i have been admitted but i can't even go for the masters i applied for anymore and i was thinking to myself that even though i had gotten the job, how would i have kept up with the 8 hours per shift work schedule when there is very epileptic power supply where i live.

Is success still possible in Nigeria for those that are still struggling? or are we all doomed to fail again and again, especially for those of us looking to succeed online. I'm 26 atm and i don't know how long this will continue, it's just like all the forces of nature are working against me being rich and successful. Where can i find the motivation to search for something else to do in order to be productive when everything always ends in failure? is there even anything else to do?

Sorry for the long post, just thought i should share my experience and this is like the only platform that i can vent due to not really having anyone to talk to irl.

Flash your BIOS or cleanse your OS, something tells me you might've installed a trojan on your laptop.

It's getting popular to hack phones, laptops etc through recruitment platforms where it'll be used to mine Bitcoin.

Even if the story isn't true, women like that exist, on this nairaland in sexuality section I remember a guy posting about during his nysc it was a married woman helping him to cure konji while he and the husband used to discuss on sports and stuff, crazy things are happening.

You think by posting about naira gains and naira losses you're creating fear of missing out that'll make speculators buy naira but no, reverse is the case, if naira gains that just means I can buy more dollars from it.

Necrophagia:
Leet code get cheats like how people don day automate their GitHub

Yeah 2k GitHub followers thanks to ALX bots and students.

tensazangetsu20:

Just imagine. No wonder they are grabbing all the best jobs left right and center

Don't be so taken away, some of them are liars that only crammed DSA, when given the job they fumble, saw a YouTube video of a recruiter saying some Indians are not really studying the jobs they'll do but leetcode.

cococandy:


Why should I have a conscience when you guys pride yourselves in being ruthless monsters?

What do you mean by that? If you mean men by default hurt women then that's probably false, men keep the peace 24/7 in society. The problem is a lot of men are being raised feminine, myself included, most men today if not for interacting with other stable men would lash out at the smallest provocation, it's why you as a woman shouldn't try to test or tease men like a deer teasing a lion.

cococandy:


I’m a mature old lady now.

It’s only young girls that get offended by sexual slurs because they don’t understand yet that these dudes literally have nothing else they can say to them except some form of slut shaming or sexual slur. Nothing else!

You've killed your conscience and have no virtue then because a normal woman should not be used to slurs.

Juwessgratitud3:
Life of a man. Very uninteresting.

A man who's a landlord and houses his parents while enjoying himself is uninteresting? Most men can't boast of doing half of that.

To be objective, you have a point. There's a language that can't communicate time in, as in there's no 'now', 'yesterday', or 'tomorrow' in and no matter the amount of explanation you give them they don't know what time is, everything done is with respect to verbs, I sit, I eat, I'm satisfied etc. Only some after thorough tutoring understand.
But no matter the language you can still understand if given enough references, that's why Africans know things like eclipses, stars, Numbers or even abstract thought because every human being shares the same brain structures, it's why you can speak multiple languages, you can learn anything given enough time. A low IQ person will be low IQ regardless of the language.

SoNature:
Yahaya Bello was the youngest governor in his time. And young people have always clamoured that oldies should let them lead.

With Bello's performance in Kogi State, I can say he's a disgrace to young people who nurse the ambition of joining politics.

What type of reasoning is this? Asides the fact you want to equate a 48 year old man as a youth what does this post of yours drives to? Young people can't be criminals or what?
I know you want your old godfather sponsors in power you paid cretin.

Paid Internet warriors who have sold your futures. Fools. These people have robbed Nigeria of it's number 1 spot in the world and you're here supporting them?

If not for all these lootings and corruption, Nigeria would be the best place to be with all the natural resources and hard-working people.

GreenCovering:
As much as I support that every corrupt individual should answer to the law, the efcc should not go overboard as to invite the military to intrude into the democratic space by having them force their way into the government house of a sitting governor in order to extradite GYB, if indeed that is where he is hiding. Once they cross that line, the consequences will not be suffered by GYB alone. It may even happen to a sitting governor next time under a different circumstance. In fact, the see-finish may touch the presidency at some point in the future.

Thread carefully efcc. Don't set a bad precedence.

You paid hooligan, you will all answer propaganda charges soon. I promise you that.

84 billion naira, how evil can one be? How many mouths went hungry and died? If you support these evil men may you suffer a violent end! Monsters!! I know people who died penniless from not being paid their pension for over 3 years.

It's nice seeing all these speculation, really takes me back to when i was more or less doing the same.

santos123:
Was going through gaming coins and I swear, them plenty die! Thousands of it. So far I have picked just one I will buy; "$mavia". It is Backed by binance labs and alameda research. I noticed any coin backed by these two investors do very well. Dyor.

You know Alameda Research lost their investor money they got from ftx their parent company right? They've all been arrested.

Past matters a lot, that's the hardcore truth. Women won't tell you the whole of their past, but you should try to gauge if they had a decent past or not.
If you're married and an altercation happens then she says you aren't even like Mike, David etc that's when you know past matters.
Sometimes some women want you to kiss them on their forehead or suck their pvsy, their exes have set a standard for her.

Her ex and past experiences will always be compared to you. And how she submits to you is a combination of her past relationships, so many homes the wife is and will never stop nagging the husband, that's because no man in her past cautioned her and stopped that behavior.

He doesn't have to recognize them, they killed him out of spite. They've gotten the money so he has no use anymore, that's how blood thirsty these criminals now are.

I know a lady like this and I know for a fact she fvrks 6 dudes a day or at least a week, unknowingly dated her and discovered her secret, she acts like a church girl but when you corner her and start the do she behaves like a dog, I had to run for my life. After doing you those nymphos can sometimes act like you're enough and hit them well but they can go to your neighbor or even your brother for more knacks.

spiceadole:


This disturbs those who pay attention to their classmates.
As for me,the moment secondary school ended,classmates ended.
After university,I towed same path.

I don't belong to any social media group comprising of my classmates at any level neither do I attend any of their events/functions.

I dey my dey..
Doing my things at my own pace and the pace my destiny allows me.

This, its not bad to stay in touch but different calibre of people exists, my classmates in uni were not my friends and that's 100% of them, if i could list the amount of competition that went on you'd think it was a war, they'd even conspire with a lecturer to expel me but I escaped their trap. Last year i made the mistake of connecting with one only to be reminded of why I don't relate with them as this guy wanted to chance me on top skill i was teaching him, I was skilled but wanted to be more competitive by gaining more skills while bro was secretly applying for jobs and didn't tell me so i wouldnt start the same, had to cut him off. Some people want to turn everything into a competition.

Zooo:



Did they call any of your contacts or take legal action against you?

They called but no legal action was taken.

Treat your civilians like pigs and leaders treat you like pigs too.

Gratefulheart2:
OK but didn't they access your account or other accounts via your bvn?

They did, open a new account or don't put money in the one they know, after all these they reduced the amount i was to pay to over 100k, they knew they were playing dirty initially, I will pay them next month.

Gratefulheart2:
please how did you resolve this?

I just stopped picking up their calls, they've reduced it down to over a #100k, i'll pay when I'm able to.

Babaalajo:
For people that are saying they don't need to check their partners phone, don't you like to know the real person you are dealing with ? Even some friends are evil but you love them and always wish them well,the truth is no one is perfect in this life but I'll like to know who I'm dealing with if I had the opportunity..

They're cheaters who're trying to say it's lame. It's 100% justified. So you can check their private part but not their phone?

If this is real, you will soon quit from frustration. My advice is that you do just the node and backend parts and then maybe solidity. Just be aware the more you carry technologies, the more is expected of you, and if you feel exploited you brought it on yourself for thinking you can learn everything.