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SoNature:
1. Being self-employed helps because you can never be richer than your employer.

2. Always look for innovative ways to cut your overheads as a self-employed hustler

3. Stay away from girls. Girls perceive money from afar. When they realize you are comfortable, they will want to be friends with you (this is a real-life experience)

4. Always learn a new skill. At the rate the world is moving, the most sought-afer skills will become useless before long

5. Please don't invest your little savings in a business you won't be directly involved in because you wish to make more money. Most Nigerians are mean. It's better your little savings are safely kept in your account than taking senseless risk to invest in a friend's business that may collapse tomorrow.

6. Don't try to impress people. Give, but don't accept that you have all the time.

7. Don't lend any money you cannot afford to forefeit. If a friend asks that you lend him 100k for business, dash him 5-10k. Tell him that's the best you can do. If he accepts the money, he holds no grudge against you.

8. Save! Save and save! People say that if you save money, money will save you.

9. Be humble and never give that person who always pay you a reason to believe you are incompetent. Make sure you satisfy him and ask for his honest review

10. If you must be self-employed, make sure you are doing something you like. If you start something newly, you may not start making money at the drop of a hat (this is not always the case). However, the only reason you won't get frustrated and give up is IF you like what you do. But then, before long, money will start rolling in because you do it so perfectly and effortlessly too.

I can go on and on.

Well, I learned the hard way, especially #1

Reference:
He absolutely has no right to regulate prices by fiat. Telecommunications is a business in Nigeria and business rates are always determined by negotiation through the NCC which is the primary stskeholder acting on behalf of the general citizenry by interfacing with government.

Negotiation means the NCC too has to come to the table wirh incentives to the telecos to expand, develop, profit and thus reduce prices. That is how business is safely conducted.

Introvertedmarc:
The way Data just vanishes these days is quite alarming..

Zimbabwe pays N27,000 for 1gb?...

realstars:
The 4 States are river line area,
Why Lagos is exempted? The pics there is from Lagos flood.

MountainView:
It's not like that Bro, nobody is badmouthing you, it's just that, Technology is changing and it's moving towards AI and automation.

The dotcom bubble is no more, if you were around during the dotcom bubble in a Western world, with your idea, you might be the Mark Zuckerberg we all admire today, who knows?

What I have to say to you, its quite simple.
Now, you've gained an experience, that's for sure, use that experience to your own advantage.

Build something people wants and needs

Turn that into a very marketable product.

Don't invest your own money, if you know you don't have enough.

Read my lips, Don't invest your own money

Investors would eventually come,once they notice you're solving a problem.

The key is solve a problem, people would pay you for it.

All the Tech Billionaires you know, are all solving a problem

And just in case you don't know, they are all moving toward Automation, try and learn and improve, God willing an idea will come to you, that will change many lives.

Which will in-turn make you money.

Just learn from your mistake.

Success doesn't come to those who fall and remain on the floor, it comes to those who never stop trying and getting up to their feet.

My 2 cents, though

ScanGist:
Call me, let's do something

CodeTemplar:
You only asserted my point. His inexperience cost him. How can he try to build a SM from scratch for something that Facebook could easily create a module or plugin for in 48 hours?

powerkey:
chat me lets talk

realsmartprince:
Hello....
I love a passionate individual like you willing to create something iconic for the world to see........
Although Am also a dreamer, but we can rub mind together on WhatsApp if you want.

modestbrowser:
The title is n act of parody to gainer more people to view this thread.

I'm really hurt guys... Yet I cannot tell why.
I'm sad yet I cannot tell why.

U bring a complex project to programming on this section, you see hundreds of people struggling the project, then I ask myself.... Is programming that easy?
This thing I've been doing for about a year now is it that easy?
I mean, I've built a forum like nairaland, a courier logistics website, a mini blog, a school fully working CGPA calculator and some other projects I wish not to share.... I saw the amount of thinking required to do this things from the very scratch, then I ask myself am I really dull?
The way Nairaland programmers boast of codes with over 100,000 line as if its nothing, then I must be a dull programmer.


The way Nairaland programmers rush big projects and promise to finish it within a week then I must be dull programmer.
Or is it because I'm working alone?
Why is life like this?

Why am I this dull and Nairaland programmers this smart?