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Acidosis:
What do you want to show before age 20 apart from your SSCE?

The people you surround yourself with may destroy you if you are not careful.

It's not the way you think Sir.

dawnomike:
drop your email... I will mail you

coolly113@gmail.com

Purvan:
I hate guys like you that complain like twinks


Man up and face your life


Improve your skills till you're best


Socialise, Make friends

I guess you must have really been lucky enough not to have a tough phase in your life in which you will complain of.
I didn't even want to be seen as a weak person, that's why I didn't complain to anyone physically, only for someone online to tell me this.
Tbh this complain you see has made me feel good in a way, at least I've been able to share my problems with people who I can't see.
I'll face my shit alone of course.

Kobojunkie:
Lack of creativity is the major problem of the average Nigerian youths, it seems. Yes, times are hard and there are no jobs but why wait for someone to give you money or work when you can create something for yourself.

You all seem to have skills but not the ideas on how to use the skills to make yourselves marketable or at least worth more.

https://www.nairaland.com/7870676/where-start#126306738

I suck at marketing anything at all, you have any idea how I could learn this properly?
See I'm always open to learning new things that could help me.

dawnomike:
You don't have to feel overwhelmed about life at this point. I truly understand how you feel.
Be strong and brace up to pick yourself up for better days are ahead.

Anyways, where is your location?

Let's have a chat if you don't mind

That's fine by me, how do I reach out to you Sir?

I've been really sad lately because of how my life is going and I'll be 20 soon with nothing to show for it.
As a kid growing up, I was used to live the soft life until my family came back to Nigeria and things have been tough since then.
My major breakthrough was in 2021 when I made so much money from just holding digital currencies for 1 year and half. I tried venturing into the real world to invest and that's when I started crumbling. One of the best thing I remember doing with that money was seeing myself through school till I finished with very little support from family.
I've been the one holding my family financially as the first child ever since we lost my dad to an accident that same 2021.
Last year 2022 wasn't bad as I was just staying afloat with some kind hustle also trying to learn different digital skills, almost all my friends ventured into Yahoo so I distanced from them and they're big boys now, sometimes I wish I would have joined them.
This year is worst, I graduated this same year and I've been at home since then, doing literally nothing.
I have skills, I'm a technical writer, I'm a front-end developer planning to improve to full stack, I speak 2 international languages and have been able to get transcription gigs which I didn't even get paid well so I stopped, I've been trying and trying to get gigs since this year all to no avail. I've even lost count to what I've done to be honest.
I have never worked for somebody, not because I can't, in fact I use to work for my uncle as a data entry operator but it was fully remote and that was 2020 before he shut down operations. I'm a chronic introvert with anxiety but very hardworking I swear.
(Omorrr) the last 3 months when I saw things getting worse I decided to go out and look for jobs, the only one I saw available was teaching, lol and the pay they said is 25k. I couldn't even do cos by the time I calculated TP alone it was like 60%. I just continued staying home for real, at least I make well over 50k staying home pressing phone.
I just needed something that will be enough to take care of I and my family. The year is coming to an end and I don't even have any savings for the first time in 3 years, house rent is on the way. I don't have any addiction and I'm very economical with money too, Sometimes I feel suicidal because the pressure is getting too much.
I really want to plan my life all over again but I just feel like giving up.
I could go on and on with what's happening to me but it'll be very long.
I don't need sympathy from anyone, I just needed a platform to say it all out because who do I even want to tell this all to?
I'll appreciate some words of encouragement and some suggestions on what I could to help myself at this stage. I may be deactivating this account, been more comfortable as a guest.