₦airaland Forum

Rocktation:
Well for one, there is a huge error on your part; all japas are not the same. Stories of people in that UK have always been the most terrible of the big four English speaking western countries to japa to...suffice to say. Canada closely follows suit..with people bagging Canadian masters degree and still celebrating care and warehouse jobs.

I will advise you to do more research for your sake.

Having education doesn't mean you're smart. Knowing the system gets you further. Anyone with a masters degree doing minimum jobs in Canada is a fool. The issue is most people in Nigeria are fools and legitimately don't know how to hustle. Especially when they come to an organize country like Canada.

SixSeven:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHvdCQzkpj0

What's the point of posting this video ?

AirBay:
Say that again. I am getting paid 2years arrears this week as my union renegotiated pay and its starting 01/01/2024....time to party.

Haha uncle Sam with take half of that back pay. I also got 2 years arrears. Then my union got us a 9% pay increase, followed by a 3.5% raise each year for the next 2 years. Then our contract expires, and we're back at the negotiating table.


We also got our benefits topped up. Organized labour is amazing. Pay your dues and let your union do the rest.

Another reason I advocate minorities and new commers to enter the public sector. It trumps the private sector in every way.

On top of retiring earlier with more wealth than your private sector counterparts, the probability of losing your job is 6 times less.



https://share.google/BDz9rFkccZBfrWUNj



"Government employees retired an average of 2.2 years earlier than their private-sector counterparts.

They also faced substantially lower risk of job loss, with an annual job loss rate of 0.6 percent compared to 3.5 percent in the private sector—a difference of six times."

Judasiscarriot:
Hi, please, the jobs you listed, do they require certification ?

No. Some don't even need a high school diploma. Man know man happens in Canada. Not as bad as naija though

Luckybelt:
How can I buy on my own without going through 3rd party. Not sure of what these guys are doing for me.

They're not doing anything for you. The financial industry finesses people who are ignorant on investing. I use to be that ignorant person.

You can go through your bank or wealth simple. If you go through your bank, as to open a "self directed RRSP, TFSA, etc" From there you can search and pick which ETF best fits your objectives. Research each ETF before buying. I can give you some suggestions. I am not a certified financial planner.

With MER and all you'd pay 0.42% in fees. I guarantee you're paying at least 2% in fees now. In short you'll be paying your "advisor" almost 300k dollars in fees in 20 or so years of investing. They eat off ignorant people. Dump them.

Judasiscarriot:
Hi, please, i believe you are talking about what we call 'government job' here. Are they easy to get, or is it the same connection, who do you kmow, and co, as it is done in Nigeria ? Also, can one do business and the government job

I find federal government jobs are harder to get than municipal government. As for business, whatever you do outside your work hours is your business. Nigerians and their obsession with business confuses me.

TheCongo2:
Hello bro,

Thanks for your feedback.

I’m interested in understanding why you believe employment in the private sector is a scam.

I’ve held that view for years myself, but I’d like to know what your conclusion is based on—whether our perspectives align or if we arrived there for different reasons.

Hello, sure.

The lack of union representation when it comes to discipline. Job security with longevity. The benefits and retirement package can't be compared. A higher level of fairness and transparency when it comes to promotion. I would never work in the private sector again.

Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world. They claim they never carry last. But Nigeria and Nigerian people are last in everything

TheCongo2:
Hey Maternal, long time bro. I just randomly jumped on here and I’m happy to see you’re still active. About the unionized jobs you mentioned — I’ve never worked in a unionized environment myself, but I’ve always heard it can be tough to get in because of the politics around it.

What’s your take on that? Are things actually more open now, or is it still the same story?

Afternoon Congo,

Yes it's tough to get in full-time permanent because all your problems would be over, especially as a minority in Canada. The politics is that the whites don't want us to get in.

These jobs being more open depends on supply and demand. Right now a few cities are hiring a lot of transit operators, so ones chances of getting in is a lot higher for example. I'd aim to get into a mincipality, provincial, then federal in that order. But private sector is a scam in my opinion.

JIREN01:
Hi everyone, I do have a question. Is it just me or it’s so difficult to get a job in Canada? It’s so crazy and strangely challenging. I’ve spoken with a few guys who have been here for a while (2018/2019 arrivals) and was told it was easier in the past. The job market is unbelievably horrible at the moment, and the tech bubble, which is obviously waning, evidenced by the series of layoffs, didn’t help matters at all. Almost every job vacancies on LinkedIn have >100 applicants in just a few hours of posting. To everyone, I’ll appreciate any ideas on areas or fields with lesser competition that one can pivot into. Any roles with a fast learning curve where you can learn the ropes very fast and get up to speed in no time?

The job market is actually easy. If you look into unionized blue collar jobs you'll be laughing. If you change your mindset to "I'll do whatever makes sense", oppose to "how will people back home look at me ?" when looking for a job, you'll be fine. Municipalities are hiring transit operators, road workers, etc. A lot of jobs available.

Lie lie ...

What else will she say ..

Tayorshd87:
That's to tell u not only Nigeria all these things dey happen but Nigerians are too quick to abuse our own government 🤔

That's just the reality

It's not hard to understand. Thus person went through THE RED LIGHT. The government installed traffic lights. They will investigate this individual and put him in jail if found guilty. The government also built well paved roads. The government is working and doing their job. This is solely on the individual. What don't you understand ?

Hismercy234:
Mindset

Can you please tell us how a youth can Develop their passion in Nigeria. Simple question.

Babaibe:
Dey play. USD na CAD abi. Na you be otondo,many only travel to Canada to acquire the passport and later travel to countries like Saudi Arabia to make good money as expat. You have never see video of Nigerians living as destitute in Canada. That your cleaning job that is paying 100,000 USD, those one can not do it. You might be fooling people not me with over 15 years traveling experience.Abroad will make you live comfortably like me if you can work , but not rich . You can not even have 150 million naira savings in 20 years in your naija account, except if you are not paying bills, or you choose the dirty path (fraud, gangsterism and drug)

From "Tell me that country where cleaners make 100,000USD annually" to "That your cleaning job that is paying 100,000 USD, those one can not do it."

After shamelessly being embarrassed and proven wrong, you have now pivoted your gaslighting. Your opinions here are officially irrelevant. Not that it was relevant before.

Hismercy234:
Go and find any area you have passion that have value. Develop it and you will attract wealth. Average people pursue money, money pursue wealthy people. In this information age, if u are poor, it is your fault; regardless of the type of government you have.

I understand. How do I develop it. Thats my question. It's a simply question

Hismercy234:
Must u start by creating job for others? Can't you create for your self first? Sincerely I wonder how our youths reason. So people who are succeeding in Nigeria, how are they doing it . Nigerian youths believe that the essence of going to school is to be employed. Wrong mindset

Can you give me in great detail how a youth like myself, is suppose to create employment for myself ? Serious question.

Hismercy234:
🤣 You said no job? So is spirits that create job? So in all ur seriousness you think you must be employed before you are successful right?

You want the unemployed youths to create jobs ?

Babaibe:
This guy is a pathological liar. Show us your G-wagon.Tell me that country where cleaners make 100,000USD annually.100 USD is a very big money in the US, and accomodation is not joke.Stop misleading people with your rubbish.I am sure you have never travel beyond lagos.

I notice you are now very quiet

TheGift:
My.Father.is 84, His brother is 82 His sister is 80

Again what's the life expectancy in naija vs America ?

Babaibe:
This guy is a pathological liar. Show us your G-wagon.Tell me that country where cleaners make 100,000USD annually.100 USD is a very big money in the US, and accomodation is not joke.Stop misleading people with your rubbish.I am sure you have never travel beyond lagos.

Your insecurity is showing again. Nobody cares about what one drives here. Driving a good car is nothing here. Millionaires in New York take public transport. The price of accommodations depends on where you live again. But to answer your question about the 100k dollars per year salary:


https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-janitor-making-100k-plus-in-salary-alone-group-says/

Nobody in this cleaning department made less than 100k dollars that year.

https://cw33.com/watercooler/the-112000-job-garbage-truck-driver/

No garbage men made less than 100k dollars that year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/415-bus-drivers-sunshine-list-1.5505087

Bus drivers make 100k dollars per year easily.

https://www.sunshineliststats.com/Salary/mitchmiller/2019/9/cityofottawa

This bus driver made 200k dollars this year.

https://www.sunshineliststats.com/Salary/denniscrowe/2021/9/cityofottawa

This CLEANER made over 100k dollars this year

https://www.sunshineliststats.com/Salary/jacquesazangiombun/2021/9/cityofottawa

This CLEANER made over 100k dollars this year.

My friend go and sit down. Toilet cleaners, bus drivers, or garbage men touch money and live better lives 99.999% of Nigerians in Nigeria could only dream off. Bank managers in naija would be cleaning their bum bum. Stay in that S-hole country because of ordinary 500k NAIRA ? lol. This is what happens when you've never really traveled abroad, and all you know is poverty and suffa suffa.

Babaibe:
You began well, but your conclusion drifts far from common sense. While you seem eager to defend the UK, you also appear to take pleasure in ridiculing Nigeria. You rarely acknowledge anything positive about your own country. You constantly highlight what’s wrong with Nigeria, yet you gloss over the UK’s flaws, the same UK where many work endlessly like machines just to survive.

Are there not countless Nigerians who started small, legitimately, and now have success stories worth celebrating? Why paint Nigeria as if everyone here lives in misery? The houses, cars, and architectural beauty in cities like Lagos and Abuja can rival and in some cases surpass what you’ll find in London.

True, our country faces challenges, but so does the UK. Only an ungrateful person describes his father’s house with disdain while glorifying a place that sees him as inferior and where empathy is scarce. Nigeria will rise again, and when that happens, many who now mock her will realize they were living in modern-day slavery abroad.

In the end, if you truly have focus, patience, and intelligence, opportunities anywhere, including Nigeria, should not intimidate you. How many UK citizens are truly wealthy? Their idea of success often differs from ours: owning a flat on mortgage and a car bought on credit, both paid off over decades.

If that’s your definition of a good life, then perhaps it’s time to re-evaluate your claims and rethink the narrative you’re pushing.

Naija is a S-hole country. It's been trying to rise since Oct 1st 1960. How can one have hope in something that's been failing and getting worse since 1960 ? Ewu

Babaibe:
Definition of comfort is relative. Did you put out the same effort and sincerity to your work in Nigeria, like you did in UK

If you live in the poverty capital of the world Nigeria, then yes comfort is subjective. In a developed country it is not. I don't live in the UK

dederocs:
Na suffer oga...100k a year abroad is not a big money, how is this possible on a minimum wage of 12 USD an hour...dont you pay for house rent? do you work 24hrs?

Sharing a small flat with people and living like a pauper is not life, if anything happens your room mates go share your small properties

Unless you live like a pauper to save, it's a boring suffering life, in this short existence, doing menial jobs in your 40s is suffering, even in heaven. Young boys spend 100k USD a month in Nigeria...or did you travel from a village?

100k dollars will give you a decent life abroad in an expensive city. 100k dollars abroad in an affordable city, you're laughing. Village boy, only an uninformed person works for minimum wage pass one year after arrival. A unionized toilet cleaner makes over 100k dollars per year easily. You don't pay house rent there too ?

Broke baby mama's get free subsidized housing. Roommates ? Stop projecting your failures on to others. Living in a face me, face you, with no running water, no electricity, etc just to say "I get my own place" is no flex. Those poorly built houses with poor workmanship.

Someone that lives in the poverty capital of the world, with the world's lowest life expectancy is opening mouth, talking about menial job. 99% of people in that country do menial jobs.

I know you're trolling. But stop discouraging people to migrate. That's wickedness

Babaibe:
Now tell us about the warehouse job you are doing abroad (10 to 12hrs shift), or you fighting for shift in the UK

What does it matter what a person is doing if they're making good money living comfortably ? These shame tactics don't work in a developed country. Nobody cares about status here.

TheGift:
I am in Lagos, i have structured myself and my life to ensure. I have peace of mind. If I was in the US and my kids were going to schools there, I will not have peace of mind, due to gun violence in schools and racism in society. To each is own

What's the life expectancy in naija compared to America ?

Mindlog:
In as much as I am skilled worker, those doing minimum wage job here in the UK are living way better than those in Nigeria, earning the minimum wage of N70k as their own suffer no get part 2.

Someone working in McDonald's live better than the glorified bank manager in naija.

dederocs:
How long will you continue to labour, unless you are a skilled worker, na suffer.

Not true. This false narrative needs to stop. A unskilled laborer in a unionized job can make up to 100k dollars per year abroad easily. I'm talking about North America. A minimum wage earner at McDonald's has a better quality of life and more Money than 95% of people in naija. America in the 1700's is more developed than naija in 2025. Never compare the two labour market. Naija doesn't even have labour laws like that.

Gerrard59:
This and many more are why right wing parties are springing up and winning elections. However, so-called liberals with their Ikoyi and Lekki constituency have refused to acknowledge the pain and worries of the ordinary westerner.

I'm not surprised by all the happenings in the West. People can only take enough at some point. If person talk, dem go call am Uncle Tom and racists.

If only humans will learn to understand basic nature, biology and economics, they would understand how humans behave. History is there for anyone to read.

Right wing parties are not winning elections. It's actually the opposite. PP had an embarrassing loss, to the point he couldn't even win his own seat, until he moved to Alberta. The Liberals in Australia (Their version of the a conservative party) had an even more embarrassing loss than PP. The Dems in the US had a horrible campaign. With the way the American economy is going, and some of Trump policy, if you held elections today, I don't see the Republicans winning. Isn't that why they're shuffling things in Texas ?

The media is just being the media. They have to sell stories. The economy is changing. You adapt or get left behind period. A lot of these protesters are really entitled. Not saying all their issues aren't legit. White people make up almost 70% of the Canadian population. They literally shape the policies. Most people in Canada don't care about these protesters. It's actually feel embarrassed for them.

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