Depends on ;
1 - The state
2 - Are you paying rent?
3 - The distance to your place of work.

I'm a graduate without a job.
If you could be kind enough to link me with the job, I will forever be indebted to you.

romanhunk:
Bro enter UAE abeg, shoo 30k secretary job for a European university graduate is a no no no, unacceptable

Guy na money oh

The person should grab the job opportunity ASAP pending the time to seeing better offer. I come in peace.

kaycyor:
Please can someone survive a whole month with just 50k salary as a graduate.

I had a friend that just got employed in a big organization but he is placed on contract and 50k salary. Should he go ahead to take the Job or look elsewhere considering the deteriorating economy of Nigeria.

What's your advise on this guys.

Which adult can survive with 50K, a month?.....

Abeg my brother grab the job cost to get job for niger no esle oooooooo no time for time to weaste

Eriokanmi:
In my opinion, that friend of yours should just endure, though the salary seems small. He or she might be converted into a regular staff later. Most of the big organisations nowadays do this a lot.

The salary might be meagre but when other hidden benefits begin to show up, he'd be glad he took that job. The major problems most job seekers have nowadays is discontentment. Their mouths are so wide that they wouldn't mind earning 500k a month, as if it's so easy to create jobs. In the process, they end up at nothing. My sister inlaw started with a 40k salary as a contract staff with access bank. She was still single when she started, she joined immediately after completing her nysc. At the end of the month, hardly would she be able to save 10k cos transport would have gulped the chunk of it.

Barely 3 years into her employment with access, there was a circular from the head office, in which each departmental head was asked to recommend 2 diligent contract staff under them for an interview. There were some who had been there on contract for nearly 4 years before she joined them. Her boss recommended her. She also recommended a guy whom my inlaw met there. She said her boss lady was always strict on her, not knowing she was grooming her. In short, she passed the tests and interviews and was converted to a regular staff, through an internal job advert . She was posted to their call centre, the position she held until she joined another bank of South African bank's affiliate. I don't want to mention the name but people could guess with that description. She was posted to their call centre at ilupeju before she moved to a multinational finance company.

At times, starting very little pays because you never can tell of the robust benefits lying ahead.

Very true. You might even get recommendations and refferrals to other job opportunities while you are still engaged but who will recommend you while you are at home looking for a better pay?

Tell him to to take the job and while at it, look for better jobs. Half a loaf is better than none.

kaycyor:
Please can someone survive a whole month with just 50k salary as a graduate.

I had a friend that just got employed in a big organization but he is placed on contract and 50k salary. Should he go ahead to take the Job or look elsewhere considering the deteriorating economy of Nigeria.

What's your advise on this guys.

In Obama's voice, YES YOU CAN. 50k is A LOT whether na $, £, ¥, € or Naira.

It's relatively dependent on location and how financial intelligent he is on spending.

Queenserah26:
This question ehn A lot of things are involved - location, personal taste and so on.

Back to the question, I'll say it is possible.

#mytake

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A person on N50k/month salary wan form personal taste?
Air, water, clothes, accommodation, tp, food--the basic things you need to survive are cheap. Some people go carry their legs enter wetin go chop their money and start lamenting. There are still pocket-friendly ladies out there too.

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Emperor5:
What advice do you need again....are you the one to decide for ur friend.

I guess op is the one that got the job not his friend

Truly, it is his friend that needs the advice.
He will agrregate every comment on Nairaland and send it to him in a booklet

If someone can ask what difference exists between six and half a dozen, what shall we not see on Nairaland again?.

kaycyor:
Please can someone survive a whole month with just 50k salary as a graduate.

I had a friend that just got employed in a big organization but he is placed on contract and 50k salary. Should he go ahead to take the Job or look elsewhere considering the deteriorating economy of Nigeria.

What's your advise on this guys.

If the job wont take the whole of your time..
It's cool for a starr

kaycyor:
Please can someone survive a whole month with just 50k salary as a graduate.

I had a friend that just got employed in a big organization but he is placed on contract and 50k salary. Should he go ahead to take the Job or look elsewhere considering the deteriorating economy of Nigeria.

What's your advise on this guys.

NO. Dint settle for less. But do not dispare a little beginning

kaycyor

Calculate your rent, transport, feeding and other basic necessities. Add minimum 10k monthly savings.

If the 50k covers the above and the position or job isn't something you'll be ashamed to put on your CV, then take the job... From there, start learning a digital skill you can use to freelance on places like upwork and fiverr. Also find other vocations you can attach to the 50k job and keep developing yourself.

2-4 years time, you'll be earning comfortably well from your side hustle and you won't be scared of any employer in Nigeria who are mostly heartless.

Tell your friend to use his head. If he becomes lazy and refuses to persevere through the challenges and hardship and learn a good digital skill and keeps hunting for one high salary job, he will either end up a slave in Nigeria working for less than the value of his time or a broke man living from hand to mouth in the city or his village.

Just tell him to learn and learn.

Best wishes

What are his goals (long term)??

If he has some clear cutout plans of upgrading his skills, experience, connections, knowledge etc, then he should go ahead

kaycyor:
Please can someone survive a whole month with just 50k salary as a graduate.

I had a friend that just got employed in a big organization but he is placed on contract and 50k salary. Should he go ahead to take the Job or look elsewhere considering the deteriorating economy of Nigeria.

What's your advise on this guys.

It depends on where you are located.

But be that as it may, anyone with good money management and spending skills can manage life at 50K.

Eriokanmi:
In my opinion, that friend of yours should just endure, though the salary seems small. He or she might be converted into a regular staff later. Most of the big organisations nowadays do this a lot.

The salary might be meagre but when other hidden benefits begin to show up, he'd be glad he took that job. The major problems most job seekers have nowadays is discontentment. Their mouths are so wide that they wouldn't mind earning 500k a month, as if it's so easy to create jobs. In the process, they end up at nothing. My sister inlaw started with a 40k salary as a contract staff with access bank. She was still single when she started, she joined immediately after completing her nysc. At the end of the month, hardly would she be able to save 10k cos transport would have gulped the chunk of it.

Barely 3 years into her employment with access, there was a circular from the head office, in which each departmental head was asked to recommend 2 diligent contract staff under them for an interview. There were some who had been there on contract for nearly 4 years before she joined them. Her boss recommended her. She also recommended a guy whom my inlaw met there. She said her boss lady was always strict on her, not knowing she was grooming her. In short, she passed the tests and interviews and was converted to a regular staff, through an internal job advert . She was posted to their call centre, the position she held until she joined another bank of South African bank's affiliate. I don't want to mention the name but people could guess with that description. She was posted to their call centre at ilupeju before she moved to a multinational finance company.

At times, starting very little pays because you never can tell of the robust benefits lying ahead.

Best post response today on nairaland

50k salary is a miracle to some graduates out in he should take.it all depends on the cost of living of his enviroment. He should try to cut cost by all means.

50k is money bro. I'm a graduate and I'm getting 10k as salary monthly.

kaycyor:
Please can someone survive a whole month with just 50k salary as a graduate.

I had a friend that just got employed in a big organization but he is placed on contract and 50k salary. Should he go ahead to take the Job or look elsewhere considering the deteriorating economy of Nigeria.

What's your advise on this guys.

He should do a calculation of how much he would spend on transportation for a month, feeding.
If the house is free good for him otherwise, he will start immediate saving plans for rent renewal.

Also take into consideration that he'd have to take medication, buy shoes, clothes which won't be every month or one every month and family.
If he's planning to get a wife.

All these and more should be considered, but if there are no external 'mouths' then he can manage.

Ooopss! I almost forgot the 'my guy' sets of people, and the 'bro abeg borrow me small money I go give you back' group.

But it's still better than nothing. At least, he'd be expectant every month ends.

EjaikreTheViper:
My brother, sometimes it is not how much you earn. It is what you decide as your principle or what I call financial culture. If you are disciplined as a young man and inculcate the habit of saving in your everyday life, you will go far. Save and invest is the motto.

We often feel that you must jam a huge amount of money to become financially successful but it is wrong. The sum of N300,000 can be your seed capital for investment and after 4 years, your business can worth more than 20 million.

Op, tell your friend to save, invest and grow. Let him stay away from parasitic young women, drugs, alcohol, partying and useless fairweather friends

What can someone invest 300k on and would worth that figure in 4years? Please I badly want to know it.

Not In Lagos but other states you will just get by

Yes, if you can afford to eat only once a day, beg car owners for free ride to work and avoid hookup at all cost.

Some niggars earn 30k a month and still survive in dis harsh economy,,,URS is 50k yet u are complaining just tell us u wanna feel good cos u wanna earn 50k.���

No be lie

InvertedHammer:

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A person on N50k/month salary wan form personal taste?
Air, water, clothes, accommodation, tp, food--the basic things you need to survive are cheap. Some people go carry their legs enter wetin go chop their money and start lamenting. There are still pocket-friendly ladies out there too.

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kaycyor:
Please can someone survive a whole month with just 50k salary as a graduate.

I had a friend that just got employed in a big organization but he is placed on contract and 50k salary. Should he go ahead to take the Job or look elsewhere considering the deteriorating economy of Nigeria.

What's your advise on this guys.

Take it and grow from there, I took a job without pay for 3months and I traveled from ikorodu to Victoria Island everyday and it pays off in the end when I was eventually placed on 50k salary on contract basis and few months later was fully employed and all my benefits were paid in full from the day I joined the organization.
Sometimes you just have to start from somewhere and God can elevate you from there.

Npower beneficiary on 30k stipend, how are they surviving?

moscobabs:
Very stvpid question. Any Graduate that can not manage #50k salary is nothing but a theif.

Well you maybe right due to your financial status. A university graduate collecting 50k per month? Honestly poverty is a disease that can not cure by doctor. Let assuming that is house rent is 7k per month, 1k for electricity per month, transportation 5k per month, feeding 20k per month, calling card and data 2k per month and let say unexpected expenses of 5k per month and total expenses is 40k per month. And you can only spend this amount if you're not living in Lagos, Porthacourt and Abuja. At the end of the month he can only save 10k per month with this money can he even have a family of his own? To be honest with ourselves a graduate should not earn less than 150k per month had it been we have a reliable and passionate leaders. Nigeria is richer than 85% of European countries but our problem is bad leaders.

Nicholaspepe:
Pls, can your friend kindly pass the job to me?
I'm also a graduate, studied a good course and had good grades. I'm currently unemployed after NYSC. Job hunting in Abuja. I'm willing to take the offer. Thanks, may God bless you in Christ's Name. Amen

Meet those yeye agents to fix you somewhere. But trust me, you won't like the job

Not only that, he is always suffering from brain damage.

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