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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Nobody: 6:06pm On Feb 07, 2022
wanbissaka2:
abeg make una help me like my post make i see €10 chop

https://www.nairaland.com/6974352/10-giveaway-most-liked-story#110016920

Baba u go show me love oo

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by wanbissaka2: 6:07pm On Feb 07, 2022
miracood:


Baba u go show me love oo
naija-cuzin don carry all im village people come like im post.

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by solofresh(m): 6:13pm On Feb 07, 2022
azraeljaheel:
See as son of man dirty cos of 5h


god punish our leaders first then punish the masses wey dey take advantage of their fellow masses
And your parents undecided

Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by membranus: 6:14pm On Feb 07, 2022
telim:

Give acc details will send you 10k

God bless you, and bless you and bless you in JESUS Name, Amen.

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by chloride6: 6:22pm On Feb 07, 2022
OP, go and learn how to drive...

Or can you drive?

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Datboredberrry(f): 6:26pm On Feb 07, 2022
zexy2030:
I have been here before too. One of the days I broke my knee, I stopped and started using my brain to hustle.. I had to motivate myself with these words every morning

"If you can't use your brain, your body will suffer."

"More money is given to those who use their brains than their bodies."

Since then, I stopped and looked inwards, then with the little I earned, started self development.

Don't worry this phase shall pass.
someone made this comment in an earlier thread one dude went out to engage on this menial job and the guy said he now uses his brains to survive, I think it was u.
honestly you're so right.
I had to learn digital skills, develop myself with writing and research and made use of my intellect to survive.
At least when I'm hungry and out of funds I can contact my clients and write articles for them and get paid, the remuneration is even more better than this cheap labour and stress free

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by depure(m): 6:43pm On Feb 07, 2022
I have done this before. That we used to collect 500 per day. From 500 it was increased to 8pp.. later it get upto 1000 before I left the work I was paid 2000.
Mind you to before a bricklayer can get his day pay he must have mixed 2bags or more depending if is bricklaying.. plastering 4bags. And day pay is 2k.
Now back to what you are saying I believe is casting they told you of, casting is not more than 500.because if you are hard working you can cast more than 10bags before the work finish that day. I believe you didnt hear the person very well. If you are doing casting calculate 100 bags or 200 bags that work will take you mean casting should cost over 300k its not true sir. Sorry sha that your expectations was cut low it's your first experience

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Evidenx(m): 6:44pm On Feb 07, 2022
The guy should go Into painting of houses. a days work in painting is 5k.

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by lexy2014: 6:45pm On Feb 07, 2022
azraeljaheel:
so this morning i decide to set out in search of any menial job! Just to get wah to eat and atleast av a lil savings for d tiny project i intend setn off!



got to a place asked if they needed labourer! The man in charge of the construction said yes, but they gun pay me per bag of cement! Toh no wahala! Honest truth was that i heard 1500 per bag! 4my head i don reason say 4bags=6k!

am done with a bag now(mind u, u nid see the amount of sand they used in mixin a bag of cement, dem those bricklayerz na thieves)
elasticstone
make i collect my 1500 koz i know i cant survive 4bags of cements. The madman is tellin me now that it was 500 per bag he said!

which kin stupid country b this for christ sake?


I don't get it. Who is videoing u and taking those pictures? Are u trying to say u went to a guys site to work and u had the liberty or u were given the liberty to be snapping vidies and pictures while carrying cement and sand?

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Realpain: 6:49pm On Feb 07, 2022
I bag of cement supposed be 10 headpan of sand

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Aarenasbaba(m): 7:07pm On Feb 07, 2022
Where is ur location?...you have been short changed. you should have charged per day not per cement

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by seanwilliam(m): 7:11pm On Feb 07, 2022
I can perfectly relate with all you’re going through.. the truth is an average man from an average home can relate with this ( atleast 80%)..
Stop waiting for help or trying to garner sympathy .,

Replace hard work with smart work, stop fooling yourself!!!!,,


I’ve worked as a farmer, we would transport ugwu from ijebu itele to ikorodu, later I moved to tomato farm, we would take that one down to miles 12, then I moved to pineable, we go carry that one to Ijebu ode, later I move to poultry, later I did teaching job , worked at local pharmaceutical company , worked for coke as sales boy ( big supplier ), airtel motor boy , Lg show room( that time wey LG Dey sell Mobile gas, we go carry am go oshogbo, I go dance tire on top bus grin ), worked as a security at hospital ( I held 7 posts here, I go on gen, cutgrass, pump water, wash doctors motor on top 22k salary wey I go spend 8k for transport ), worked as a computer operator, and I no fit count numbers of time I do labor work self, there was a day we were casting concrete, the carpenter did not bind the plank well, we were almost finished around 4 pm naso the whole pillar open and the concrete went down, I cried that day cos I no go get paid without us completing the work ( the engineer wicked ehn), I left site after 8 at night ,,
Mind you, I did most of these while I was still school o. From abk I go go to Lagos , there’s a particular school at Johnson bus stop in surulere/aguda I don forget the area, we follow cast all the pillar



Baba nobody told me before I started using my number 6,
I’ve been a husler from day one
I started crypto vendor , and nairaland has been a blessing to me

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Goldbw122(m): 7:18pm On Feb 07, 2022
God bless your hand work Amen

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Goldbw122(m): 7:22pm On Feb 07, 2022
seanwilliam:
I can perfectly relate with all you’re going through.. the truth is an average man from an average home can relate with this ( atleast 80%)..
Stop waiting for help or trying to garner sympathy .,

Replace hard work with smart work, stop fooling yourself!!!!,,


I’ve worked as a farmer, we would transport ugwu from ijebu itele to ikorodu, later I moved to tomato farm, we would take that one down to miles 12, then I moved to pineable, we go carry that one to Ijebu ode, later I move to poultry, later I did teaching job , worked at local pharmaceutical company , worked for coke as sales boy ( big supplier ), airtel motor boy , Lg show room( that time wey LG Dey sell Mobile gas, we go carry am go oshogbo, I go dance tire on top bus grin ), worked as a security at hospital ( I held 7 posts here, I go on gen, cutgrass, pump water, wash doctors motor on top 22k salary wey I go spend 8k for transport ), worked as a computer operator, and I no fit count numbers of time I do labor work self, there was a day we were casting concrete, the carpenter did not bind the plank well, we were almost finished around 4 pm naso the whole pillar open and the concrete went down, I cried that day cos I no go get paid without us completing the work ( the engineer wicked ehn), I left site after 8 at night ,,
Mind you, I did most of these while I was still school o. From abk I go go to Lagos , there’s a particular school at Johnson bus stop in surulere/aguda I don forget the area, we follow cast all the pillar



Baba nobody told me before I started using my number 6,
I’ve been a husler from day one
I started crypto vendor , and nairaland has been a blessing to me
I can relate. To this story but your own high pass my own, congratulations bro

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Nobody: 7:30pm On Feb 07, 2022
this amount of sand to mix one cement, omo all the house go fall finish na

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by seanwilliam(m): 7:35pm On Feb 07, 2022
Goldbw122:

I can relate. To this story but your own high pass my own, congratulations bro
lol that’s why I just watch some people wey life just Dey rossy for from childhood, dem no no wetin God do for dem… I can boldly say it brother , I SUFFERED .. that’s why these days I’ll rather die than make I go back to trenches..
just to add bro .

I went to IFO to go do labor work till today me and my oga( the bricklayer ) no see the site engineer ,, my roommate then ( he’s on nairaland actually grin) he’s a welder , the engineer carry him 80k run .. na one big site ( dem Dey construct poultry).. imagine sleeping inside uncompleted building for like a week … shishi I no see collect ..


But we thank God , man no go tire..

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Nobody: 7:44pm On Feb 07, 2022
lexy2014:


I don't get it. Who is videoing u and taking those pictures? Are u trying to say u went to a guys site to work and u had the liberty or u were given the liberty to be snapping vidies and pictures while carrying cement and sand?


Lol couldn't make a video moreover the phone I was using sef na gbef...

Yeah I snapped it with the permission of the engineer...

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Goldbw122(m): 7:46pm On Feb 07, 2022
seanwilliam:
lol that’s why I just watch some people wey life just Dey rossy for from childhood, dem no no wetin God do for dem… I can boldly say it brother , I SUFFERED .. that’s why these days I’ll rather die than make I go back to trenches..
just to add bro .

I went to IFO to go do labor work till today me and my oga( the bricklayer ) no see the site engineer ,, my roommate then ( he’s on nairaland actually grin) he’s a welder , the engineer carry him 80k run .. na one big site ( dem Dey construct poultry).. imagine sleeping inside uncompleted building for like a week … shishi I no see collect ..


But we thank God , man no go tire..
Amen

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Nobody: 7:47pm On Feb 07, 2022
solofresh:
And your parents undecided


I don't like talking about my parents for a reason best known to me....

I tell you about them... The next thing people ask is "then what are doing here"?

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Robisky001(m): 8:07pm On Feb 07, 2022
OP I can relate with your story because son of man has been there before. Back in the days cement finish both hands and leg with sour and part of the skin will be torn off. Then, I use to prefer filling because it pays better like 12 tires will be given for 7K to 8K depend on the Engr. I thank God for his mercy and grace that abounds. My advice, to you, is to keep at least you'll have change to sort out one or two at the same increase your search for a job while trusting God to pave the way.

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by lexy2014: 8:08pm On Feb 07, 2022
azraeljaheel:



Lol couldn't make a video moreover the phone I was using sef na gbef...

Yeah I snapped it with the permission of the engineer...

Same thing we are saying. How will engineer be giving u permission to be snapping bag of cement and sand when u are supposed to be working? And look how neat your feet are after carrying cement and mixing cement.

Meanwhile, na only one of bag of cement na im make the client hire engineer?
Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by seyz91(m): 8:13pm On Feb 07, 2022
zexy2030:
I have been here before too. One of the days I broke my knee, I stopped and started using my brain to hustle.. I had to motivate myself with these words every morning

"If you can't use your brain, your body will suffer."

"More money is given to those who use their brains than their bodies."

Since then, I stopped and looked inwards, then with the little I earned, started self development.

Don't worry this phase shall pass.

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by seyz91(m): 8:15pm On Feb 07, 2022
Na my side be that, between arigbajo and abekoko,
inside a community called Ajowa
azraeljaheel:


ifo the name of the bus stop is called "arigbanjo"
Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by ThothHermes: 8:28pm On Feb 07, 2022
AutoChick4U:
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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Nobody: 8:32pm On Feb 07, 2022
lexy2014:


Same thing we are saying. How will engineer be giving u permission to be snapping bag of cement and sand when u are supposed to be working? And look how neat your feet are after carrying cement and mixing cement.

Meanwhile, na only one of bag of cement na im make the client hire engineer?


Chief engineer ooo bricklayer whatever you call them...

Morover nobi just a bag of cement... Take a lil tour through the diary maybe you go best understand...


And yeah engineer/bricklayer fit give you permission to take pic.(its just a pic FAM)..... Only if I had my phone at the bakery I would snapped it...

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by lexy2014: 9:05pm On Feb 07, 2022
azraeljaheel:



Chief engineer ooo bricklayer whatever you call them...

Morover nobi just a bag of cement... Take a lil tour through the diary maybe you go best understand...


And yeah engineer/bricklayer fit give you permission to take pic.(its just a pic FAM)..... Only if I had my phone at the bakery I would snapped it...


Story don de change. From engineer to chief engineer and now bricklayer. So you didn't know the difference between engineer and bricklayer? You just came on site to work, beg for work and then they allow to snap pictures instead of working. Like I asked, is it one bag of cement that made the client hire engineer?
Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by nesgeeek(m): 9:13pm On Feb 07, 2022
I understand how u feel bro. I've once involve myself with labourer work, and it's not always easy.
Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Goodfellow21(m): 9:16pm On Feb 07, 2022
lexy2014:


Story don de change. From engineer to chief engineer and now bricklayer. So you didn't know the difference between engineer and bricklayer? You just came on site to work, beg for work and then they allow to snap pictures instead of working. Like I asked, is it one bag of cement that made the client hire engineer?


Who be this wan again?
Over sabi investigator.

So na crime to snap where him go work? Huh?
I wish you fit question buhari like this Nigeria for don better.

Leave the young man alone if you can't help him rise again.

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by ately1(m): 9:24pm On Feb 07, 2022
Bro I dey enjoy your diary .. You are good with your right. I pray favour come your way this month IJN...

I over burst laugh for that snail part. Hunga bad.... Keep pushing okay..


Hard working man ... Abeg make Una support am ..e no easy at all

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Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by lexy2014: 9:36pm On Feb 07, 2022
Goodfellow21:



Who be this wan again?
Over sabi investigator.

So na crime to snap where him go work? Huh?
I wish you fit question buhari like this Nigeria for don better.

Leave the young man alone if you can't help him rise again.

I am lexy. who are you?
can u show me where i said it is a crime for him to snap where he go work? huh?

so how did u come to the conclusion that if i question buhari, nigeria will become better? if you knew that asking buhari questions would automatically make nigeria better, why havent you done so since 2015? so you mean that you had the solution to nigerias problems and you just kept it to yourself and did nothing about it? thats very selfish of you oga. if you had done the needful, maybe this gentleman wouldnt be looking for menial labour to do.

Pls, where did the "young man" fall that he needs to "rise again"? meanwhile, how does asking him the questions i asked him prevent him "rising again"?
Re: The Diary of a Cheap labourer (Daily Bread) by Billmah: 9:52pm On Feb 07, 2022
Oga I fit go register as an agent for [url]rimosite.com[/url] ..



Just go dey register sight workers and get N200 per site worker you refer....

Less stressful and u fit make money silently...

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