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EkenmaPeter:
Good morning guy, I wish to tell you my experience working with a "One Man Business" in Nigeria.

Note: A start-up is not the same as a "One Man Business". One man Business is a business run by one person. He takes decision alone and also take the risk alone, but a start up could have one or more people to who take decision concerning the progress of the start up.

Working for a "One Man Business" is different from freelancing.

So not to keep you waiting, I will give you signs and things to look for when working for a "One Man Business" as a programmer.


1. They steal ideas.

As a programmer you are the designer, thinker , fixer and also the the one who gets the blames when things goes wrong. You can recommend an idea to solve what you are working on, when you stop working for them , they keep using your ideas without paying you any form of commission and you can't sue them because no documents was signed.

2. They want you to build the best thing after google for them.

I didn't say you can't build your own search engine but building such a project require a team work. You to work with different types of developers to achieve that. But they will want you to build there crazy ideas without considering the fact that such project is very complex without having a good developer team at hand.


3. They don't like to employ more programmers or web designer

If you finally decide to work for them, be rest assured that you will be the only one doing all the things you can do, graphic, seo, content, backup, bug fix, redesign, build, optimize, create responsive design across all platform, security and testing, email marketing, the list is never ending.

Just know that any thing you can do they will assign it to you unless they don't know. You end up doing things that are not in your job description or be ready to lose your job.

4. You may end up using your own money on some task.

5. They are not always patient

These kind of people can't work on long project or believe you when you give them time to finish a particular task. Since they are paying you monthly, they believe you should do the magic so that they won't waste money paying you every month. They will stress you out and always look for ways to cut your salary.

6. They pay very little but expect high expectations

7. Be ready to do other job apart from the one you are employ to do.

8. Don't rely on the job seek for side jobs.

9. They will want you to tech them something but don't teach them.

10. You are must likely to work with your own tools/pc.



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obiscology:
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Kazeem12345:
No bro. The last mail I got from Embassy na visa interview mail .

Bartork:
Read this pages. You need a Form A from gtb, firstbank, diamond bank, access, stanbic etc.
Or a domi account

You'd get more info from this pages.


https://www.nairaland.com/2098236/general-german-visa-enquiries-part/94


https://www.nairaland.com/676173/german-embassy-visa/341


https://www.nairaland.com/676173/german-embassy-visa/101



https://www.nairaland.com/676173/german-embassy-visa/43



https://www.nairaland.com/676173/german-embassy-visa/86



They are answers that have been given by people who have done same.



And no am not in germany.

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chinok97. no wahala. thanks bro:
no feedback ohh, none. oti sun mi.. na dem sabi.. Aug2, i m dere by 5:45am with my appointment mail printed out.

chinok97.Do you have any feedback from the embassy??:
After reading yours, i was like lol, tough luck , jst to get a similar mail now, extended by 7days, Hian... na to mail dem oh

chinok97.Have you heard from them again?:
After reading yours, i was like lol, tough luck , jst to get a similar mail now, extended by 7days, Hian... na to mail dem oh