askibee:
higly motivational realy a big piece of work. .. d lord bless u nd increase you

Amen

Tamakay:
Beautiful one there. I just wish I can give u 1000 likes. Keep it up guy.

Thanks

400billionman:
Everything here is true..

Thanks

finesthaykay:
Thanks...was helpful

You are welcome.

NasNation:
Thank U so much coach,I was immensely inspired and motivated.

You are welcome sir. Thanks for reading the post.

jeff1607:

how every?

Fine o my boss

jeff1607:
taiwo, I don catch u. so na here u dey? am sure u remember this name

The Jeff I know is called Man o war

fostorikaJah:
Nice write up.....I jos wish u cn write dis on d stars and moon above so every1 cn c

Thanks

abbey621:
This is not new information, it's the same information spun around differently. New graduates must be able to scan their environment, look for opportunities and exploit them. In Nigeria it's more about who you know more than what you know, so networking should be number 1. In Nigeria you don't really have to be skillful, your intelligence is not as important as your smartness. Your ability to convince people that you know more than you really know. Your ability to communicate is much more valuable than your degree. In an interview can you sell yourself? Are you a shark or do you crumble under pressure? Finally if you've not picked out any value in what you've read so far, I'll leave you with a gem. Not everyone is meant to work in an office, not everyone is meant to work under someone. Some of us are natural entrepreneurs, don't think because you spent so much on a university education that you must follow a laid out path in life. Relax, think and make your own path.......

Great contribution sir

DeGenius3:
I really Appreciate the efforts you are making to EDUCATE young people.
I have been sharing your stuff with my young friends and they've really
appreciated it a lot.

Keep it up bro.

Thank you sir

nigscholars:
Nice article, thumps up, Taiwo.

Thanks for your comment. Do you know me personally?

WORDS alone are POWERLESS only ACTION can make a DIFFERENCE.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intellingent but the one most adaptive to change- Charles Darwin

Informative and inspiring.

ShutdownBrown24:
Good one bro! See! I'm a certified public administrator, but sometimes I do imagine how will I live upto my expectations in life, will I serve the government for 35yrs & earn a penny of 10 - 20 million Naira as pension, when my mate are buying house in banana island for 600million, travelling around the world & driving lattest cars. No! I can't be a paid slave.


Before my career education I enrolled my self in a skill acquisition, that will enable me live up to my expectations. Now I used my skill acquired to buy my self anything I want in life, though this is just a tip of an eyes Berg.



Skill is very good bro.

Thanks for your contribution sir. If we must win we must learn to align our strategies for survival with the current realities in our environment.

Osemond123:
nice write up, May God keep blessing you.

Amen. Thanks for your comment.

boboLIL:
nice update buh youths of dis days dont wana work dia way up ..there is no shortcut 2 success..

That is true.

Sandydayz:
Thumbs up!!

Thanks for reading.

This article is dedicated to students who are still in high school, and undergraduates in the higher institutions learning. For those who are privileged to have access to formal education, there is this long time belief that higher education would guarantee one financial security, fame and success in life. Hence the common advice parents give their children is “go to school, get good grades and a high paying job is guaranteed”. The reality is that this belief and strategy of surviving in the real world is now outdated. Graduates who see the acquisition of a degree as a means of surviving in the real world only get outside there to find out that they were not ready for life at all.

To survive in a 21st century world as a Nigerian graduate, you must equip yourself with the following five tools.

(1) SKILL: One thing you are going to need badly after school and for the rest of your life is money, that is why you still see men in their 40s, 50s even 60s still riding okada and driving taxi to earn money. The truth is that immediately you become a graduate your parents or those who were responsible for your training will stop supporting you financially. They will assume you now have all it takes to survive, so the collection of pocket money will stop, and you will have to start solving your financial problems with your own earning ability. What this implies is that you will have to look for job with your certificate, and most often you will likely be underemployed, meaning you will not be paid what you are worth. The consequence of this is that you will end up not having enough financial resources to actualize your goals. Solving your financial problem will become difficult, and definitely the need for money will rise, because you will start thinking of getting a place for yourself, so that you can be on your own, getting married, going for a master’s program and so on. As this happens, psychological problems such as frustration, depression, self-pity, low self-esteem will start setting in, and if you are not careful, you may get demoralized to the point giving up on life.

To survive or avoid this you need a skill. Skill is the ability to do something very well. In the real world, people don't pay you for your certificate, they pay you for what you can do, and that's is the only legal way of getting money in the society, if you do otherwise, you would be called a fraudster, a thief or an armed robber. For example if I know how to repair phones anyone who has any problem with his/her phone will always come to me , and by the time I help him/her to solve the problem, the individual will pay me for that service. Now the question is what can you do? How can you render direct service with your current course of study?

The point here is you must have a skill. If you have none yet, enroll in a training center and start learning something. There are so many things you can learn within three months, and that would earn you nothing less than 50,000 per month.

Never look down on any skill, just consider your interest and what you love doing, and then acquire a skill in that area. When you do this, you can easily become your own boss after school or even before you graduate. If you are a graduate already reading this article and don’t have a job yet I recommend same. With an extra skill, you can increase your income. Never put your hope on getting a job that is not certain. To be forewarned is to before armed.

(2) INFORMATION: There is a general believe that knowledge is power, and that is very true. The 21st century world is information driven, and you need to consistently update yourself with the latest information in the areas that are critical to your survival. Sometimes people suffer because of ignorance.

If you must meet up with the latest trend, you have to develop the habit if continuous learning, you must be an ardent reader and an unrelenting information seeker. Try as much as possible to know everything you need to know that will help you to maximize your potentials. Always remember that what you don't know is more powerful than you. Keep yourself informed so that you will not be deformed.

Besides the acquisition of information, one other critical thing is the application of the information you have obtained. Having information without using is meaningless. Strive as much as possible to know all that you need to know about moving to your next level and take action at the right time.

(3) GUT: According to oxford advance learner dictionary, gut is defined as the courage or ability to do something difficult or unpleasant. The truth is that life is not fair for anybody, and definitely you are going to have your own share of life's difficulty in your quest for success. If you must succeed in the real world, gut is a necessary factor, because without it you will lack the courage to take action when things are not favorable, and that will keep you long in the valley of mediocrity. You may be very intelligent while in school, but after graduation you will discover that so many of your classmates who were not as intelligent as you were back in your school days are getting ahead, the reason is simply because they have the gut to try their ideas and that's what is getting them going.

To develop this quality, all you have to do is to cure yourself of every known fear. Experts in the field of personal development have identified certain fears that contribute to people's failure in life. Such fears include, the fear of death, fear of loss love, fear of ill-health, fear of criticism, fear of physical pain, fear of old age and so on. I assure you that if you can master these basic fears, you are going to have enough gut to try anything. Action is what produces result. You will never succeed if you don't try and to try all you need is gut.

(4) HARD WORK: In all of human history, hard work has been a critical tool of success, nothing can replace it. For you to survive and excel in the real world, you need an unwavering ability to take action, and persevere until you succeed. Most persons fail in life due to idleness. If you want to be poor all you need to do is be idle, and before you know it poverty will overtake you. A wise man once said that “where talent is lazy, hard work overtakes it”. No matter how knowledgeable, gifted and talented you are, if you refused to be hard-working, you will definitely be a failure. Always have it in mind that hard work is the only way. Never forget to always blend your hard work with strategic planning and persistence. Hard work combined in this manner will produce success.

(5) NETWORKING: Networking has to do with your ability to connect with people that will help you in getting to your next level. Niyi Adesanya, a personal development expert based in Nigeria once define individual competitiveness (in my own word, your capacity for success) as ‘’what you know + how you express it × by who you know and who knows you’’. I completely agree with his definition. The caliber of people you know and people who know you has a way of facilitating your success in life. As the world is today, the people we know to be the best in certain field are not actually the best. There are so many people who would have out-shined them if they are brought out of obscurity, but because they are not known by those who can position them to receive the honour they are worthy of, they remain irrelevant in their cocoon. If we must fully maximize our potential and remain relevant, our ability to network and connect with people who can help us get to our next level is critical.

Author: Taiwo Emayosanlomo, Success coach and Personal development expert.

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simdam500:
Nice tips... so very interesting even useful for the beyond!

That is true .

charley94:
guilty of nos 5 and 6, but i have come to realize that one cannot be to young to create or do something big. Mark zuckerberg created facebook at age 19

You are right.

Inspiring

Tobbey:
thank you for the post

You are welcome

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I don't know if you are the owner of sabi9jablog.com. If you are I want you to please delete this article from your blog and also replace the linkl with the original source of this article for violating my copyright.
This article was written by Taiwo Emayosanlomo. My nairaland username is emasky4real. This article was first posted on my blog(www.taiwoemayosan..com) and was later shared on nairaland with my blog link included as the source . To view it on nairaland click this link https://www.nairaland.com/2549601/8-reasons-should-never-take
I am not angry that you posted my article on your blog or that you shared it on nairaland but taking the credit for the product of my mental labour is insulting and annoying.
From: Taiwo Emayosanlomo, the author of 6 MISTAKES YOU WILL LIKELY MAKE BETWEEN AGE 20-30 AS A YOUNG NIGERIAN

anyaekekehinde:


Taiwo from FGC Idoani

Happy to know you are doing a great work

So you still remember my name bro. I am happy to meet you on this forum. I guess you are Uma's brother. Just trying to be sure. Thanks for reaching out to me

id4sho:
This is a master piece. Realities of life......

Thanks

pimpinlala:
Classic indeed

Thanks.

manie:
It will make you success conscious, positively affects your mindset, enhances your leadership skills and you definitely be different from your peers and colleagues.

You spoke my mind. Thanks

rapmike:
Made all six mistakes; I now feel like crying as I look at this. I needed this in my Part One not now.

Mistakes are part of life, afterall we are not born with a life manual. Regret won't change anything , it will only stagnate you. You have to put regret aside and think how to attain the kind of life you really desire. My book , OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS IN LIFE will be of immense benefit to you. Also try to lay your hand on some of the books I listed. Also note that Stephen covey's book is 7 habits of highly effective people not 7 habits of highly successful people. I didn't discover that error until the post got to the font page and it is no more possible to edit. You can also contact me on whatsapp for one on one chat. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO BECOME WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEING.

rapmike:
Made all six mistakes; I now feel like crying as I look at this. I needed this in my Part One not now.

Mistakes are part of life, afterall we are not born with a life manual. Regret won't change anything , it will only stagnate you. You have to put regret aside and think how to attain the kind of life you really desire. My book , OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES TO SUCCESS IN LIFE will be of immense benefit to you. Also try to lay your hand on some of the books I listed. Also note that Stephen covey's book is 7 habits of highly effective people not 7 habits of highly successful people. I didn't discover that error until the post got to the font page and it is more possible to edit. You can also contact me on whatsapp for one on one chat. IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO BECOME WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEING.

Kazrem:
And if you are just waking up at 30, then you will be disappointed in yourself. You will regret wasting those precious years of your 20s by the time you reach age 30.

I resonate with that.

Thanks