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So, I saw this cryptic post by a twitter user, the country has really gone to the woods. Will you be scared to accept a scholarship offer by the federal government? As it seems they've no interest on the wellbeing of citizens.

https://twitter.com/ElishaT07720233/status/1523935704832749568?s=19

HUSTLER001:
Some of these scrap collectors can be very annoying.I remember the day I kept a spoilt sound system in front of my house and then one just came from nowhere and wanted to carry it.That one didn't even pain me. What pain me was the way he was forming right to own it since it has become scrap.All I just needed to do was to give him a warning eye. Nobody adviced him but himself and he did the needful,hissed and walked away.I.diot!

But what you're saying is out of context. He isn't the usual scrap collector's you know. This was pure business. He owns a shop, you bring your scrap to him, he gives you money and takes it.

The woman said he's useless because she finds the business dirty and demeaning.

Mod, front page please.

I deemed it fit to bring this here.

Have you ever been shamed due to the nature of your work? Or, have you seen someone do that?

What was your reaction?

https://twitter.com/ElishaT07720233/status/1507276146207080455?s=19

Very silly sight

More...

You can as well share your experiences, even related ones...

https://twitter.com/ElishaT07720233/status/1505889020055719936?s=19

Laslasticlala

McGg:
Good for the students

Me I learnt tailoring while on the 2012/2013 6 months ASUU strike

Are you earning from it now? Are you okay with it?

Kobojunkie:
I listen to God instead!

Alright Sir.

Kobojunkie:
What has God got to do with the release of endorphins in your brain as you reward yourself for doing a good deed with a pat on the back and an announcement here on nairaland though?

And why must we all engage in this what you call "freewill alms" of yours as opposed to that which we were actually called to doing by God?

Hello Sir... Listen to yourself.

You read the aforementioned topic right? When last did you?

Before the "holier than thou" come for me, please, I beg you, this is a faceless forum, I wouldn't receive accolades nor praises.

Resist the urge to quote me a scripture about alms, I just decided to bring this here to get opinions.

So, today, I asked my dad to give me 100 naira for airtime, he did. Before then, I had only 40 naira at home, making my total funds 140 naira.

I went outside to sweep, my house is an open estate with more than a thousand building... I was sweeping when this young man approached me, with his tone, I knew he wanted something. Obviously, he was way older than I am but he was calling me, sir...

He said, "Sir please, it's not an insult, I'm a laborer, I want just 50 naira to sharpen this my farm tools... Please.."

I told him I don't have just 50 naira, he said even if it is 100 niara, that he'll bring back the remainings... I dismissed him with, "I don't have..." He hanged around still ruminating on what to do, he looked perplexed and bleak..

I called him, I said, " will you take 40 naira? That's what I have." He literally leap for joy.. I entered my room to remove the money, my kid sister followed me outside, meeting the man, she retreated and ran Inside...

I gave the man the money and he Left, my kid sister said, "he's a thief oh.. he goes around stealing in this estate... I fear him."

I smiled and kept mum, i.e. mute. I don't talk too much, I just meditated, "God knows why he brought him to me, judge not, even though he steals.. which I don't even have evidence for and haven't seen..

So, It happened in the morning, I'm still fulfilled as I'm typing this, I'm smiling..
The inner Joy of giving my widow's mite.. "love your neighbor," is the golden rule, I kept it and I'm proud of myself..

So, how about yourself, have you been in similar situation?


Laslasticlala

SocialJustice:
Please do this on twitter too.

How does it get to the appropriate authorities when one have very low followers on Twitter?

Tobest94:
if you can answer this question openly here, I’ll send you money for your registration

Please I have given an explanation above.

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Izurejoice:
how much

It's 5,000 naira.

Izurejoice:
how much

It's 5,000 Naira.

Please house...
UTME registrations is almost closing.. please, there's no Help forthcoming for me to register... Please someone should help me..

Modified...

Thank you all, I have registered already.

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jalodo2:
Oooook, now underdtand. Goodluck to u

Hmmmm
Thank You

jalodo2:
aint u an undergraduate?

Sir please, I dropped an explanation above.

Compuro:
You can make money writing articles na. I have people i pay 50k monthly. Why not take up such jobs ?

I'm ever ready sir.

Compuro:
How much ?

Why dd you not get a job as far back as a year ago ?

I'm not too financially stable, I was working before.

Compuro:
How much ?

Why dd you not get a job as far back as a year ago ?

The form is 5,000 naira.
Sir please if you can help, thank you.

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I need money to register for UTME, please

Someone should help me, God or Allah will bless you and uplift you. Thank You.

I do hear how people are helped on this platform, please, I don't know what to type. My story is long...

But please, I need money to register for UTME, please

Someone should help me, God or Allah will bless you and uplift you. Thank You.

Ocholu:
Let me be real with you OP;

So this thing na writing competition but na insults full am.

I think you have an aggressive way of writing. This was supposed to be emotional, but aggressiveness took more than 60% of it.

Kudos though! And keep fine tuning your skills, you'll be a good writer.

I don't understand you.
This isn't fiction but somebody's personal story, he choosed his own Diction.

Can you please spot out the aggressiveness because I'm baffled. If this isn't the same write up that People want him to win by all means.

Isn't it front page Worthy?

And it is the end of the year again. Here comes the festive period which comprises the Yuletide, the new year, and what? Of course, the year continues, every other holiday is not held in high esteem like the aforementioned. Isn't that discrimination and segregation to every other holiday? Smiles!!

When Individuals begin a new year after a whole lot of fun, they tend to make some resolutions, some go as far as drafting it out on a list. Why? Just to make sure they're able to attend to their desired goals. When they feel like giving up, they open their diary or wherever it was penned down, and, they can't pretend to be oblivious of the obvious. They push further, in the end, it is always worth it. There's a cliché that says "what is worth doing, is worth doing good."

Just like every other sane human, I made resolutions, albeit, some resolutions are practically inevitable. Experiences, winnings, and losses, etc. are all part of these inevitable resolutions. Hitherto, I'm not a type that will jot down my resolutions, not meaning it's absurd. No, it's absolutely okay and cool.

My Experiences!! 2021 was full of tremendous up's and down's, at a point I was literally fluctuating. You'll be reading my working experience which was fully driven by personal desires, I mean needs not wants, not material things, you get it? You might even learn a lesson or two.

After the Covid-19 pandemic, the world was literally in chaos with hardship taking its toll on humans, I wasn't exempted as well. Let me ask you, can you stay without a smartphone at your age? Smiles! You can't? What will you do to get the Smartphone? Your parents will get it for you? Then you're lucky, I call you a lucky-chap. Well, I wasn't as lucky as you're, my parents had the money, but not money to buy me a smartphone, trust African parents, your smartphone isn't a top-notch priority. I literally convinced them all night every day to see reasons with me why they need to forfeit some certain amount of money to enable me to get a phone. Unfortunately or fortunately for me, they saw reasons with me but couldn't just part away with that amount at that hard time. To them, It was a want, not a need, to me, it was my life. I was always daydreaming of handling my social media accounts, Writing all I can and getting paid if lucky, I couldn't just wait. How about school? Will I enter a higher institution without a smartphone? Hell no. I can't start listing all I wanted a smartphone for.

After months of futile bargains with my parents, I decided to end it abruptly and take the bull by the horns. To get what I want, I needed to leave my comfort zone. You wouldn't imagine what I did all just to get a smartphone. Ahhhh!! I went to work as a sales boy in a phone shop for six thousand naira (6,000) monthly. God, when I reminisce on this scenario, I conclude it isn't good to be a desperado. I was to work six days a week, 12 hours or more a day. I accepted it, but guess what? Hahaha, I ran away from the work after three days. Was it even up to three days? Whatever!! I was maltreated and used. I was advised to stand outside and be calling customers, more sales, more money. The sun, the stress, Hunger, name it. I endured. The straw that broke the camel's back was when my boss sent me to go and clean his new phone shop. Reader, trust me, if my boss was to hire people to clean up that new site, he would have done part away with equivalent or near of my salary. Gosh!! The place was so Dirty, the tiles had stained and needed chemicals for removal, the wall paints so dirty, the show glasses were crying for a change, so unpleasant and terrible, tremendously terrible. I was to clean up that place, I tried, but believe me, I was suffering, I became depressed under three days. I was trying to do the clean-up when my boss shouted gushed and screamed, he believed that I'm doing nonsense and should do it better, "scrub harder, what are you doing." At this moment, I nearly suffocated, why am I suffering like an orphan for a low wage of 6K when my parents are alive. Reader, guess what? Hahaha, I left the clean up at the spot and went home, I didn't even go to meet boss to tell him, I'm resigning after 3 days, I just left, told the next sales boy he should inform his boss I resigned, I left everything for him and whatever.

Hahaha, my smartphone hope had gone extinct, I went home. As fate would have it, after weeks, I landed a new job, I was to work as a POS attendant. Dear Reader, this work plunged and flung me into a deep depression. I faced so many things, ranging from being accused of money theft to Money shortages resulting in slashed or no salary plus debts. My boss didn't even help things, he was very rude and harsh to his workers, all of us I mean, I think he even had a soft spot for me, if not, I would have been crying every day, Ahhhh. The nature of point-of-sales (POS) work is very risky. Any premeditated or unintentional negligence, recklessness, carelessness, and what have you!! You're gone, you might even be duped, it happened to my co-workers many times that they ran into debts of hundreds of thousands, imagine working for six months without salary, God saved me in my working place, I seldom encountered Issues.

Dear Reader, in the end, I saved up and got myself a smartphone, all my intentions with the smartphone were fulfilled, I became a paid writer and all sorts. Okay!! At this point, I'll use the aforementioned story to tell you my losses and winnings. Mind you, my 2021 resolutions started coming on board when I started working, so, I can say, my 2021 began at that point, Howbeit, it was mid-year.

My Winnings? I became independent to an extent, though under my parent's roof. Via the work, I had money to cater to all my needs. I even volunteered, yes I call it volunteer because it wasn't my duty Afterall. Yes, I volunteered to sponsor my school needs for the initial part when I got admitted. I paid my rent, bought my wears, etc. My account balance was fat in 2021 although I exhausted it all, I'm glad it is my future I invested the money in. While working and getting money, I resisted all urges to follow trends, wear fashionables and go on outings, I even denied myself my desired food when the appetite came because I was trying to save up. So, in 2021, I became financially independent though it lasted for a while, the desired while. I'm now a student and broke as a damn hell nigger, don't laugh. I'm still getting Writing Gigs though, the power of my beloved smartphone I desired. Are you learning?

My losses, I had an academic loss, not losses. All thanks to Mr. JAMB a very good girl and a renowned bastard. This girl isn't very good, I now despise recounting the story, but I scaled through and will keep Soaring.

In conclusion, my 2021 resolutions were all achieved and I even had to input more resolutions along the line. I got myself a smartphone with my own money, I catered for my needs, I entered higher institution and still helped myself through to step in, I became a paid Copywriter and Writer and I improved my skills, etc. There are immeasurable. God is wonderful!! Hard work is wonderful!! Determination is wonderful!!

When you feel like giving up, remember I gave up and dusted my ass up, 2021, a good year. 2022, a very good year in anticipation, at the end, I'm thankful to God!! Are you thankful?

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