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egift:
Jonathan is trying very hard to reap where he did not sow. What a shame. Since there is nothing to support his interest, he is asking for neutrality as if Ebola just walked away on its own.

This Clueless Leadership must be voted out.

Mr man what are you eben saying?

onila:
but we won the match

Y did they still sack him

is winning a match a criterion to keep him??


remeber he won just one out of 4.

sheedy407:
Carrying them to support the falling building?

am not a member of his church but y'all need to be sensible sometimes

harkindele:
and must u quote d whole article? Smh

e dey vex you ne?
if say I just leave very long empty space wetin you go talk?

Giftedgreen:
As a student you probably would not believe us if we tell you that are absolutely naive and no, you are not on top of the world.

You will soon graduate from the university, service year is going to be awesome (at least according to the stories you’ve heard).

After service, you are going to get a job, have a family, build a home, become a millionaire and live happily ever after.

There is just one problem with your plan. The only problem with your plan is the real world.

This article is to lets students know things to look out for before they graduate so they don’t get railroaded.

1. A Degree Does Not Entitle You To A Job

We all know getting a degree means a lot of hard work and commitment but because you have a degree does not mean somebody is going to grant you an automatic job offer.

Gone are the days when all you needed to get a good job was a university degree.

We were all told the same lies in secondary school, get a university degree and a mouth watering job would fall on your lap.

The smart people are the ones who figured out this lie early in school and made sure the time they spent in school would separate from other students who were busy enjoying school life to the fullest.

It’s time to get your head out of the sand.

2. Start The Job Search Before You Graduate

Job hunting is a complicated thing and there is no almighty formula for you to acquire a job. Job seeking is not something you can “cram” for and pour out everything during an exam. There are no cheat notes for post-graduation experience.

The job hunting business is an on-the-training experience and the best way to get ahead of your colleagues is to start your career exploration during your service year or better yet during your university days.

You can research branches of your field, do internships (industrial trainings), find out what size of company is for you, and practice job searching techniques.

Put these tips in play and by the time you’re done with service, you’ll be prepared for the next phase of your life and it will be quite tricky for reality to hit you with tons of bricks.

3. Facebook Is Forever

Not just facebook, but twitter, instagram, and every other social network that you decide to be a part of.

What does this mean to an average student? Well it means that every obscure joke you post on Facebook, every explicit picture you share, every inappropriate comment will be visible to the world when you become famous or when you go job hunting.

At the very least, know how to manipulate your social media privacy settings and restrain yourself from littering your social media accounts with unfitting content.

Being appropriate on the web is just as important for a political career as it is for finding employment. Your binge drinking photos might be funny now but they won’t be so hilarious in five years time.

4. Life Is Expensive

You are probably surviving on the allowance you receive from your parents right now and you’ve realized that life can be expensive, EXPENSIVE.

Just wait until you have to live on your own, probably during service year or when you get your first job.

By the time you pay for house rents, transportation fare, recharge cards, light bills, water bills, food, utilities, and every miscellaneous expense. It won’t take long before you realize that life is expensive.

Everything would suddenly become so expensive that you would sometimes feel like crying.

This is one of the most painful things to learn. EVERYTHING costs money.

Anytime from now, you should learn how to create a budget for yourself. Otherwise your rent will be due, your kitchen will be empty and you will be busy dodging from the people you owe money.

5. Never Be Scared To Take Chances

This is probably the most important lesson you have to learn before you graduate, never be scared to take chances. You’ll never get anywhere you want if you don’t take calculated risks every now and then.

No one is telling you to jump out of a plane or go swimming with crocodiles (which would be awesome if you survive), but nothing in life comes easy. Yes, it is cliché, but it the hard truth. After all, nothing can deputise experience.

When you become a graduate, the best option is not becoming a boring office robot whose life revolves around work.

Your twenties and thirties are the some of the best years of your life, we kid you not.

Do not be afraid to face the real world with open arms, explore opportunities, and take chances. You’ll be surprised at what fate has in stock for you.

6. Learn How To Interact With People

Learning how to interact is a very valuable skill you need to have in your belt. It is a “street smart” skill. You could read a million books on how to interact with people but the only way to develop your interaction skill is to put it into practice constantly until it becomes a part of you.

This skill will surely be tested each time you go for a job interview. Heck! You even need this job more if you are an entrepreneur.

Learn to greet people with a smile. Say “thank you, please and I appreciate” whenever the situation deems necessary. These small gestures go a long way to make a huge difference. Don’t be so quick to dismiss the power of appreciation and courtesy.

Make small talk, get to know anyone you have to spend more than thirty minutes with, help them if you can. Who knows? You might meet your own saviour.

Don’t know what to talk about? You could talk about the TV shows you watch, the cool blogs you visit on the net (don’t forget to mention giftedgreen.com), the weather – hint hint : ).

Learn to be always positive, make sure people smile after talking to you.

7. A Skill Will Get You Farther Than A Certificate

What we recommend is that you pick up as many skills as possible, as long as you have a passion for it. Do not say “I am studying English Language, why do I need to learn HTML?” If you are computer major, take a couple of management trainings. It will help you in the long run.

The skills you acquire do not necessarily have to be educational; you could learn tailoring, baking, programming, carpentry . . . anything. You never know when your minor skill will become your added advantage, or your primary source of income.

Not only that, you will be able to converse with a larger variety of different people, plus it shows your employer that you are a fast and versatile learner.

8. Save Something – Anything

Start saving now and you’ll be setting the foundation of your financial future.

There is always a need to save, even if it is the tiniest bit each month. Like we said earlier, life is expensive and the best way to be prepared is for you start saving right now.

Whether it’s for a big purchase, an emergency or for your future it’s important to have a little money for fall back to during rainy days. Trust us, those days will come.

9. You Are Going To Need Lots Of Hardwork

You are now a graduate, you no longer need to read through the night, attend boring lectures and write difficult examinations. Your life should be an easy pie from here. Right? Wrong.

In fact, this is the time that you need to work harder than you imagined, if you want to be successful.

Although you could relax; get a federal government appointment, and retire on your pension. This is perfect, if you want to be mediocre.

We are you are among those that want to be successful. In order to do that, you are going to need a lot of brain work, stay up late at nights and lots of reading if you are going to be among the 1%.

Even if your father is a billionaire, it’s a lot of hard work maintaining all that money.

10.Success Takes Time

After applying all these, do not expect to become a millionaire overnight, or in a week or in a month. Success takes time......

imagine how many hours it took this to make FP, if it were some stup-id post now, it'll go straight to FP.
thanks OP for this!

eeew... you mean Ahmed musa formerly of kano pillars 22 years?


anyway happy birthday to him regardless of his 'age'

MrCork:
. .brother,plis be civilized & quit actin like a Nigerian for once in yor life & u shud be proud to be g@y.....may i remind u that g@y guys r normally harmless & emotional....which simply mean u shud be proud of yo sensitivity emotional side.

....bro juss stick to slum guys coz u clearly dont gerrrrit (no offfenae)

get the fuvk outta my site SOB!!!

MrCork:
...brother u r confuse coz i neva said u was g@y....i was simply referin to yor emotional side coz u sound emotional like g@y man meanin u not really g@y but u g@y in a Nigeria kinda wsy but u don't wher women's dress......hope this make sense and hope u gerrrit.


...anyways real men prefa light skin females and g@y guys prefa slim men and since yor slim,u may not relate to lightskin females

...hope i make sense (no oofense)

I just have no time for mediocres like you. Now get out.
imagine a mofo calling me ga.y?
get out n never you quote me

MrCork:
....bro..sorry if .i up set u coz i wasint referin to g@y men. .....i said real men....and for the record,all females r expected to be beautiful & light skin....purrriod.

....u r proudly g@y & i don't expect u to under stand....stay proud (no oofense)

muthafukker was there any where in my post that I said am gay? furk off son of biaatch...

All ladies are expected to be light skinned? huh?
tell me more son! at least I could gain from this conversation

MrCork:
...light skin females..half cast females..white females..

..this is what every men want ....piiriiiod!

first of all not all men.

and second, are you light skinned? if not STOP demanding for what you can't offer yourself. pe-fuckin-riod!

MrCork:
...thank u....are u light skin?

nigga what's with you n light skin?

Suljosh:
Ewoh? Just like you mofo.

I see..
you now resort to insults. I don't have time for that.

Strahovski:
Hi, personally i never called you a fraud but you look like a fraud really.

Do you know why?

First of all, do you manufacture domain names? NO and in order to provide domain names to people you either become a Valid and Approved ICANN Registrar => https://icann.org || OR, if you cannot afford the documentation or pricing of ICANN, the next choice is a reseller program from any Approved Registrar. And for you to go through all that, you should be ready for business. Most Reseller providers charge a deposit of $99 , some $199, some $300. And some e.g GoDaddy are Monthly $35.

So if you have so much money or time to establish a domain name company either as an Approved Registrar, or a Reseller, what stops you then from setting up a website where you would sell these domain names? Or did you just pay $99 or $199 or $35 to come up to nairaland and sell? Of course Not! No one does that!

So, it means, that you are no Registrar, neither are you a Reseller of any company... You are just a client/customer who would buy the domain name manually(If you do not scam people) and then give them the details to the domain.

You ain't a fraud? If i buy the domain name from you, how do i manage the domain name? Update WHOIS Info? Update NS Records? Manage other things that can be managed? Will i do it over the phone? What is the name of the website at which i would login and do that?

Where are you getting the domain from

For now, you are a fraud until you answer my questions.
I bet you gonna use a Godaddy Coupon code to buy the domain at $1.99 or $2.99 and the remaining amount left, about $4 is your profit. C'mon kid, i smell coupon or scam.

I don't have time to get a site for selling of domain names, So as a customer I buy domain names in number at a price lesser than the actual and i sell at the price I want.

calling me fraud is just baseless as anything since non of those I've dealt with come here scream I did this or that.

I now understand the main reason why everyone was screaming fraud and scam.
After conversing with a client I discovered that the reason was/is because of the ridiculous cheap price of which I sell the domain. I now get the reason.

I then had to tell him soon I'll increase the price After selling to the current people I've not finished up with, If at all he'll come back to this thread He'll testify to that.

So everyone Screaming fraud and scam I now see why you're doing so cos my price is too good to be true. I'll definitely make it how it's "supposed" to be.

ok.
what then did you tear?
or better still which of the reports do we believe.

everybody throwing lies like what I don't know. na wa oh

Suljosh:
is't English the masses want to hear? You're so childish.

ewoh...
I just stated that oh... am not his fan or anything oh... I've watched so many northern politicians talk and they commit blunders.
so I don't know why you said am childish

this guy speaks better english than many northern politicians

oluwapoju:
ur existing data will first be deducted

oga its like that's not true oh. my SME is still intact

pastoraaaaaa:
Why are you guys calling people names .. The guy said he is selling domain @800 .. Or don't u think it is possible?

I personally buy domain @ #300


Note: what u don't know is above u..


Stopping calling him a scammer u little bitch's

exactly what's on my mind. and to be sincere I don't scam people

sapientia:
Vinshu is correct all the way.. I wonder the kinda bulk you are talking about that you would sell a domain for 800 naira.. Haba.. Let it not be that you are being scammed yourself.. Have been in such situation where a trusted friend involved me.. Because of the trust i have in him.. I entered the bussiness.. At the end of the day.. It was a scam.. I lost almost a million.. He too lost more than that.. So i learnt my lesson.. Check your source well if you are not the direct link.. Which i doubt you are.. 800 for a domain?.. Damn.. You must be kidding

oh yes! I must be kidding but just chill when guys I'll be concluding transaction tomorrow with them will testify hope you n vinshu won't hide your faces

Strahovski:
Lol, lots of Fraudsters here

I don't have to keep replying everyone of you but testimonies from tomorrow will do that

Vinshu:
I repeat you are a fraud! You are going to scam nairalanders!

You buy in bulk is even a reason why you should open a website not compulsorily a web host, it can be a domain only website. Where you sell your domain names at N800 not on Nairaland Forum. There has been so many scam reports lately. Someone reported of being scammed by one guy for web design. Another reported of being scammed for a Joomla Component.. You are all Scammers! No Website!! All of you:

"Contact me: 080123456567";
"Email Me: scam@gmail.com";

and so on.. Anonymous people! No official Form of contact! No Legal Business yet you sell items. You may call me immature because i am not buying your bullsh*t crap!

Advice For Others: If you need a domain name, you know where to go. There are domain selling websites with Legal contact information and have high trust rating not buying over the phone from an anonymous Nairaland Fraud!

ok. I see

imagine!
anyway its their show, anybody has the right to do what ever they wish since they're the sole owners

ClintonNzedimma:
this are the kind of nairaland that should be in a psychiatry ward.

bro no need for insults but I think she's just plain immature in handling things like this.

Vinshu:
You are an obvious Fraud!

- No Website

- No form of identification

Selling .com N800 over the phone

I really have pity on anyone who falls for this.

Hungry Jobber

JESUS christ!
lady have we met before?
why then do you come out openly to call me a fraud? you don't know how this hurts an innocent person.

if you look at my signature you'll see my site/blog but as for a web hosting site no cos I buy in large quantity and resell infact there's a nairalander am billed to get him his own on monday ones he pays. he's ClintonNzedimma we've been chatting for sometime now infact ask him am selling at a lower price to him.



so please n please lady don't tarnish my image here on Nairaland, besides I use my real names in what ever I do, will I just disgrace myself cos of N800?

or maybe you want me to increase the price for people to believe me.


I don't just want to continue writing n writing but please stop painting someone you don't know black.
am begging oh..