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Karleb:
Everyday, I see Americans celebrating 100k per year on Twitter.

One was even celebrating his 150k/year tech business.

I don’t understand what these guys are talking about.

To put it in perspective, you can get a brand new tesla around 33k and that's like the coolest car anywhere in the world.

babzo:
Big mistake. And I'm not talking about London. Topic says USA.

The vast majority of houses in America don't have fences, talk less of gate, so such job as gate man doesn't exist.
Gates are usually in large industrial complexes and homes of the wealthy and famous.

Most millionaires who are not famous don't have fences.

2 weeks training is not sufficient for security, especially if you are handling guns which in all likelihood you ll be required to know how to use.

The idea of a gateman in Nigeria is a jobless half educated man earning barely enough to survive, so depending on Dash and gifts from. Visitors and Oga and food from Madam; that concept doesn't exist in the USA. Every job is paid well enough to give you dignity and afford the necessities of life.

frankson1:
And who is this one

Rossikk:
If you know the number of Nigerians who had thriving businesses in Nigeria, and due to the whole ''oyinboland is better'' mentality, abandoned or sold their businesses, land, cars etc, and migrated to Europe or US, only to be working now as low-paid security guards and bus drivers, with no career prospects, you will weep. Most of them are too ashamed and broke to return back home, and simply continue working their menial jobs there.

Lesson: If you have a business in Nigeria, you already have what 95% of Nigerians in the diaspora wish they had - financial independence. Being your own boss. Do not throw it away to become a nobody in the west.

maasoap:
As seen on Facebook today and it looked like greater number of responders went with gateman in USA.
As for me, considering all factors, I prefer to be a bank manager in Nigeria. What about you? Any reason for your choice.

Rossikk:
If you know the number of Nigerians who had thriving businesses in Nigeria, and due to the whole ''oyinboland is better'' mentality, abandoned or sold their businesses, land, cars etc, and migrated to Europe or US, only to be working now as low-paid security guards and bus drivers, with no career prospects, you will weep. Most of them are too ashamed and broke to return back home, and simply continue working their menial jobs there.

Lesson: If you have a business in Nigeria, you already have what 95% of Nigerians in the diaspora wish they had - financial independence. Being your own boss. Do not throw it away to become a nobody in the west.

babzo:
This man hennnnn....I am suspecting you...

Studymore123:
You started well but you don't have tell lies on a public forum. Many people are underpaid and millions struggle to make ends meet. Many default on their loans and others live pay check to pay check. There's need to increase minimum wage to improve the standard of living.

planetx:
He is telling you the truth, that is one person that will tell you the absolute truth about America or the UK

bitbillionaire:
[s]Nigerians with their incurably twisted, dark and negative mentality[/s]. I see this type of question as an insult to the great bank managers in Nigeria and an insult to Nigeria as a country and Nigerians in general.

If I'm able to rise to the level of a bank manager in our great country Nigeria nothing can make me accept even a tellers job in the US, not to talk of a gateman! Are you sick or something?

Qc1:
Facts:
(1) There is nothing called "gateman" in America. Although, you have security/ security man.

(2) security ( "gateman" makes more money than a bank manager in the USA.

(3) A bank manager in Nigeria makes far more money than a bank manager in the USA/Canada.

(4) Security in America makes makes more money than a bank manager in Nigeria.

(5) I'm a graduate of mechanical engineering from Rosemount Tech in Montreal QC and I specialized in CNC and conventional machines and worked in aerospace industry. I left that job because security pays $100k / year ( with a lot of overtime + 2nd job). I also had the opportunity to work as a security man for Scotiabank in Calgary AB for over a year and I can tell you I earned more than the manager who only earned $70k/year with a lots of experience.

(6) you're probably better off as a bank manager in Nigeria because at the end... It's not how much you earned but how much you can save.

Litmus:
Insult and demarketing of Nigeria is of course the aim but using childish Misdirecting and Trojan tactics: therefore Nigerians won't know what's actually happening because they will put it all down to some other Nigerians, for example IPOB, The Opposition, rank and file Disgruntled citizens, throwing shade at Buhari, his party, the country and so on....

dumodust:
Who deceived you that this is true? Blatant lie on points 1, 4 and 5

Lindodo20:
Your father who forgot to raise you properly, that's who.

Anuofia

babzo:
Underpaid? I am talking about living with dignity.
What full time job in America doesn't allow you to buy a car and have an apartment? Tell me bro. The job and the city.

Living pay check to pay check is a Choice. Person wey dey earn $15 an hour and goes to liquor store every weekend, bar every night, pays for cable, goes shopping every other weekend; that person never sabi.

Or you think it's like what ASUU says "My take home pay can't take me home"

America that pays people when they loose their jobs till they find another? Unemployment benefits. America that pays people who are poor to feed every month. That gives free or subsidized rent to the same people ? For ANYONE who applies o. Not just APC/PDP supporters or BMC Crew

sukkot:
i being dey chicago but i touch base for albany upstate new york, i enter st louis, i enter east orange new jersey and newark new jersey, i enter wisconsin, i enter indiana, and i enter new york city. too much suffering in the land. of course the suffering is different from naija kind of suffering. its more like industrial prison suffering. you are on the go all the time just to make peanuts to allow you to get by. that new york city alone if you are not earning over 250k a year you are suffering

dumodust:
When people say emigrating is for better opportunity for their kids, I wonder what they mean exactly
Question

If you don't work, make money and carry out your functions as a parent, your kids will still be poorly educated and messed up and it will be much worse abroad.

TheEnforcer:
I don't agree you have to earn over 250k to live in New york.You can live under that in expensive Manhattan let alone queens. Ok rent is about 1k5 or 2k .You can easily get by with 40k or more .How many people even earn more than 50k in the US and you are saying 250k .you don't know what you are talking about baba.Dont just reel out figures. I agree a lot of people work incredibly hard round the clock with little rest though

Studymore123:
It's worth celebrating. Median household income hovers around 69k. That's the income of every resident of that house.

I don't know of any brand new tesla going for 33k. The Model 3 RWD is currently Tesla's least expensive model for sale and goes for about 45k for the base model, when you include fees, you're shooting at almost 50k. Besides, there's nothing cool about the car anyone with a decent income can afford it, many still prefer Camry and the xse model costs some 36k.

Nonexisting:
I can only leave this country when I decide to have children. If I have children, I will choose the gateman in America over ordinary bank manager here. My reason will be to give my children better opportunities in life and there's no law that says I can not improve myself and even be a bank manager in the USA later. Nothing in life is static, gateman today, bank manager tomorrow but it will be worse if it's bank manager today, gateman tomorrow and we have seen it played out many times, no be Nigerian bankers again.

Okoroawusa:
Bank manager in Nigeria. I will travel to the U.S. quite often and the gateman in the U S. will always open the door for me over there.

Rossikk:
If you know the number of Nigerians who had thriving businesses in Nigeria, and due to the whole ''oyinboland is better'' mentality, abandoned or sold their businesses, land, cars etc, and migrated to Europe or US, only to be working now as low-paid security guards and bus drivers, with no career prospects, you will weep. Most of them are too ashamed and broke to return back home, and simply continue working their menial jobs there.

Please loud the volume. Tell them again. I've seen people earning half a million resigning and going abroad. To what end? Someone that's very comfortable in Nigeria want to go abroad and start again? The choice is there's.
Lesson: If you have a business in Nigeria, you already have what 95% of Nigerians in the diaspora wish they had - financial independence. Being your own boss. Do not throw it away to become a nobody in the west.

Rossikk:
If you know the number of Nigerians who had thriving businesses in Nigeria, and due to the whole ''oyinboland is better'' mentality, abandoned or sold their businesses, land, cars etc, and migrated to Europe or US, only to be working now as low-paid security guards and bus drivers, with no career prospects, you will weep. Most of them are too ashamed and broke to return back home, and simply continue working their menial jobs there.


Lesson: If you have a business in Nigeria, you already have what 95% of Nigerians in the diaspora wish they had - financial independence. Being your own boss. Do not throw it away to become a nobody in the west.

Rossikk:
If you know the number of Nigerians who had thriving businesses in Nigeria, and due to the whole ''oyinboland is better'' mentality, abandoned or sold their businesses, land, cars etc, and migrated to Europe or US, only to be working now as low-paid security guards and bus drivers, with no career prospects, you will weep. Most of them are too ashamed and broke to return back home, and simply continue working their menial jobs there.

Lesson: If you have a business in Nigeria, you already have what 95% of Nigerians in the diaspora wish they had - financial independence. Being your own boss. Do not throw it away to become a nobody in the west.