N2B2:


If you don't see a future in what you're currently doing, then why are you doing it?



Who mentioned 9 - 5s? Isn't freelancing what we're talking about?



I earned almost 500k last month, and I had taken 2 weeks off.



I never said you were.



If you know Nigeria is heading in the wrong direction, why not spend your valuable time focusing only on the area you want to specialize in? Nigerians are making money on Upwork and Fiverr, and you can too.

But you shouldn't expect people to come and pay you to do jobs in an area you're not even sure you want to specialize in. If you want to book an urgent ride, would you choose a new driver who doesn't know his way around and isn't sure he wants to drive?

Bro, please reply my mail.

ThaThinka:
As bad as this country appears to be, I almost found this hard to believe. Things happen and can be saddening.

Keep moving on, soldier! This phase shall pass.

I see you write well. Why don't you give online content writing a try? It might not make you rich, but you may be able to get something better than you currently earn. A secret: that's contributed greatly to my not worrying so much about lack of a job all these years.

As someone suggested above, you may also try working as a teacher. You will at least have more time to do other things or earn extra doing tutorials.

I have been considering writing. Kindly drop your email so I can reach out. Thank you.

SpringofLife:
I don't know if this is the right place to post this but permit me to go ahead regardless.

How I end up washing people's poo as a graduate with 2:1.

Growing up, I used to admire graduates a lot especially the way they do things, conduct themselves and the rest. You see them living in a good house and in the morning, they dress up properly, go to work and return in the evening. Non-graduates of course used to jealous graduates a lot as it were. Fast forward to today, the table has sharply turned 360°. Now, graduates have not only been ridicule but reduced almost to nothing. Non-graduates who learnt one skill or the other are the ones kicking money bags to the bank.

Well, I finished university 3 years ago and couldn't find a job despite aggressive job hunting due to obvious reasons. Being the first in the family, the pressure was/is already much on me. The aged parents have tried within their powers thinking the best they could do for me was training me to acquire a university degree but in today's Nigeria, it's glaringly not enough.

Let me not bother you all with long story but I don't see myself continuing with this kind of life any longer because it's not what I envisaged.

According to the heading, I graduated with second class upper division which of course is a good grade considered very employable according to society standard and labour market. Despite this, I searched for job in every nook and cranny I could but to no avail. Everyday I have to eat food, rent expiring, bills piling up, parents looking up to me and younger ones who are already in school every now and then would call and ask for assistance and which I didn't have. Out of no option, I accepted an offer to work as a laundry man in a hotel for 15k/month. That's how I thought I have at least got something doing. Frankly speaking, I didn't have an in depth knowledge of the job description.

Obviously, this would be a long story but let try and shorten it. Do you know that I have drained so much from my body in the course of this work physically and health wise? Practically, I wash between15-25 bedsheets/duvets everyday as the hotel does not have washing machine....parked since it got spoilt. Consequently, my pams have developed thick skin which is now very tough, rough and scratchy.

However, the above might not just be my only anger. More annoying is that, some guests are so inhumane. Is it because you paid money to lodge in the place that's why you believe you have to do wickedness? Why I'm writing this is because of the very one that happened few days ago. Actually that wasn't the first time. It's been happening over and over before. Could you believe a guest used the hotel bedsheets and defecated on it, folded it and kept it and checked out. As a laundry man, of course it landed on me and I was the one who washed the poo off. Oh God! Like I said, that wasn't the first time although other ones only used the bedsheets to clean their buttocks (for whatever reasons because I believe tissue paper is always there) after defecating but this particular guest 'pooed' fully inside the bedsheets, folded it and dropped it for whoever to come carry it and wash. I'm not writing fiction here please. This is 100% real of what I'm going through in the supposed 15k/month job. How wicked? When toilet was there?

Moving forward, equally, I can't count the number of times I have washed menstrual blood from bedsheets. These men bring even women who are on menses to sleep with them and end up pouring menstrual blood all over the bedsheets and I would be the one to wash it. God why?

Most annoying of all is, the management pays salary on the 26th of the following month. How inhumane some people can be? In other words, I have to work 2 months to get 1 month salary or simply put, 15/2=7500. In reality, that is the salary I'm receiving as a graduate. When I picked up the job, my plan was to raise up to 50k within the shortest possible time and move to something else, but unfortunately, I don't even know what I'm doing now. I have been in the job for 6 months now with nothing to show for it. This is why I said I can't continue with the present condition. The situation is beyond the one people say 'hold unto it. At all at all, na him bad pass". This one is worst than "at all at all".

Before I end it, just a few questions. Dear Nigerians with good job, abeg where una dey see diz good job after graduation? Abeg where una dey see money do business after school? Where una dey see money chop food and live life? Me still dey very hungry as I'm typing this. Abeg na beg I beg una, make una put me on abeg. Make una be my God father/mother. I don taya for this life. I be una brother o. Help me and help the society by extension. Thank you.

You write too well for this kind of messy job.

What did you study? How old are you? Where do you stay?

abnot:

Yes but there is very little time for that (just about two minutes at the end of the test). For the reading learn the tricks as the marking for reading is very strict. Thus aim to get every question right as 39/40 bring your score down to 8.5 and 38/40 brings score down to 8.0

All the best .

I want to write IELTS academic. Please what materials did you use for your preparation?

Abnot

ucystan:




Hello, are you using ieltsonlinetest to practice? i use same o, can we practice together?

How did your test go? The questions on ieltsonlinetests look too easy for me. From your experience in the real exam, is there any semblance or the mock tests are not reliable. I will appreciate a sincere feedback as I am about to register. Thank you.

divads:
Pls i'll like to ask, during the reading session, will one be allowed to read out to himself a little?. i realised i understand and read faster when i read out than when i read in my mind.

Would that be allowed? Especially in Computer based tests?

Please what is your typing speed? I saw that you wrote the CBT version and performed really well. I am contemplating between the Paper-based and the CBT. Any advice?

tayeloveme4rel:
about to round up my five year course@unimaid but actually and presently due to the current joblessness parading the labour market in nigeria,can even make one feed up with western education in the sense that you end up serving the nation without a job.what is your idea or advice here?

There's a whole lot you can do that with it.

First of all, you need to figure out what you want out of life and then align yourself in that part.

-Do you want to be a paid employee?
-Do you want to become a trader?
-Do you want to be a scholar?
-Do you want to be a freelancer?

Whichever one you pick, you will need to do a little research and acquire the right skills. And most importantly, get a mentor you can look up to when the road seems not so clear.

If you are very broke with no one to lean on while you embark on a mission to build yourself for the future you want, you can start searching for a menial job like Office Assistant, Security, Driver, etc to keep body and soul together.

PS: I also studied Political Science and currently work as a Human Resources Manager.