Tyrene:
It is called On The Job Training (OJT). Suggest you develop your own learning plan to keep track of your progress. Also, learn to always ask questions.

Surely you will get there if you are humble and patient.

litigator:


Nobody has time to teach you anything. Be you an apprentice or an employee.

It’s your duty to hack into your boss or employer’s brain, make a copy of the brain and add it what you already know. While observing my a fundamental rule of power. “Never outshine thy master”. Know and act like you know little but have an insatiable appetite to learn vivaciously.

But in other to hack into your Master’s / Employer’s brain, you have to bring something to the table.

You must be possessed with the desire to learn and help him reduce his stress. If you can do this, he will trust you and start giving little things to handle and you grow from there.

This is what I call the “Jacob’s principle”.

And my Eastern brothers adopted this method years ago under the ‘ Nwa boy’ module which is now a subject of discuss at the IVY league school. E.g Harvard Business School.

I have tried it repeatedly and it has worked for me tremendously. I always end up sacking my bosses cos they won’t let me go and won’t pay me well.

Mind you, I did this as a baby lawyer and that’s a how I learnt everything I know today. And it’s how I became a consultant to my fellow lawyers when it comes to litigation.

I photocopied the brain of all the bosses I ever worked with or worked for. From SAN down to the best litigator I ever met in my existence.

But this came at the cost of working 16 hrs minimum everyday with no weekend or holidays.

I even did my colleagues cases just to gain experience. They thought I was being foolish or trying to overly please our bosses. But I knew what I was seeking after.

But let me ask; what is your plan?

How do you intend to achieve this plan?

4Humanity4All:
Hello Nairalanders. So, I want you guys to give your opinion about something.

For those of you that have learnt one trade or the other in Nigeria be it Tailoring, Mobile phone repair, Barbing, mechanic and so on, is it true that those bosses do not teach their apprentices well? I mean, is it that they just work and expect you to watch and just understand it just like that? Please, say your opinion.

Now, this is specifically for Hardware mobile phone repairers. How was your learning process like? Were you taught very well or you had to figure out stuffs on your own? I'm actually experiencing such now and I feel it's unfair. I have great interest in mobile phone repair but I hate being insulted for what I wasn't taught in the first place.

Is this a norm in Nigeria?

americaninja1:
That was how I left where I went to learn phone software repair within 2weeks After paying 40k to learn in 2016. Guy no Dey even talk. He go just Dey unlock phones go, na u go dey figure out how e do am urself.
Told me to pay another 100k to download necessary softwares needed. I just had to quit.

fineboynl:
.. Majority will not bother to teach you ontime. They want you to first suffer and served them before they will teach you.

From previous experience when a master teach the boy at once. He will think he already knows the work so why will he continues to served and doing boy boy to the master.

Some boys doesn't stay long they just move ahead once they know small thing. They will think about making money what that little they already learnt
The first year is to send you messages and errand. He will only show you the small small things. By this time the master have study your behavior very well. From the second year that when he will start teaching you the main things.

Homeboiy:


My boss taught me well.

Even when we his boys are not in the shop and the does a new thing

He will call us back to teach us .

Efos communications
God bless you.

4Humanity4All:


Hmm. Thanks for your response. Does that mean I need to use YouTube to learn phone repair after paying #52000

iamyemiakins:
I learnt iPhone software, hardware & repair. I wasn't taught much by my boss then, although we did theory and practical. Na to just teach you small and expect you to continue watching them, to master it on time

Kevinsamba:
That's how it is o
Very few masters actually teach
The rest na just watch and learn
But i personally think it should be a mixture of both
(Teaching & learning while watching)

americaninja1:
That was how I left where I went to learn phone software repair within 2weeks After paying 40k to learn in 2016. Guy no Dey even talk. He go just Dey unlock phones go, na u go dey figure out how e do am urself.
Told me to pay another 100k to download necessary softwares needed. I just had to quit.

Johnayro:
Same thing I experienced while learning inverter installations and repairs, whenever my boss is fixing inverters I only observe with eyes, sometimes when I ask questions I get a very shallow answer, but I was lucky that my boss son was also in the shop learning as a matter of fact he has been there right from childhood, I learn more from him, other Engineers around and from YouTube, main boss only knows how to use someone for his own gain.... Mtcheeew

4Humanity4All:
Hello Nairalanders. So, I want you guys to give your opinion about something.

For those of you that have learnt one trade or the other in Nigeria be it Tailoring, Mobile phone repair, Barbing, mechanic and so on, is it true that those bosses do not teach their apprentices well? I mean, is it that they just work and expect you to watch and just understand it just like that? Please, say your opinion.

Now, this is specifically for Hardware mobile phone repairers. How was your learning process like? Were you taught very well or you had to figure out stuffs on your own? I'm actually experiencing such now and I feel it's unfair. I have great interest in mobile phone repair but I hate being insulted for what I wasn't taught in the first place.

Is this a norm in Nigeria?

4Humanity4All:


Hmm. You have a point here. I however believe this is one reason Africa or at least Nigeria is backwards. Unnecessary competition. To what end please?

4Humanity4All:
Hello Nairalanders. So, I want you guys to give your opinion about something.

For those of you that have learnt one trade or the other in Nigeria be it Tailoring, Mobile phone repair, Barbing, mechanic and so on, is it true that those bosses do not teach their apprentices well? I mean, is it that they just work and expect you to watch and just understand it just like that? Please, say your opinion.

Now, this is specifically for Hardware mobile phone repairers. How was your learning process like? Were you taught very well or you had to figure out stuffs on your own? I'm actually experiencing such now and I feel it's unfair. I have great interest in mobile phone repair but I hate being insulted for what I wasn't taught in the first place.

Is this a norm in Nigeria?

lolu2019:
Just drink tea and honey before u going.i t will open ur mind to whatever they are doing.or u pay ur extra money for coaching. especially if ur oga na illiterate,e go just dey send u message or bully u.

4Humanity4All:


Your response is well appreciated. However, what's the point in paying huge sum of money for the training if they won't have time to teach me?
Make it make sense please.

4Humanity4All:
Kindly help move this to front page please�

4Humanity4All:


Your response is well appreciated. However, what's the point in paying huge sum of money for the training if they won't have time to teach me?
Make it make sense please.

wunmi590:


I think I it used to be then, when people learn for free, but such rarely happen now as most of them now pay thier boss alot of money to gain the experience.


How will you pay a boss to teach you, and he/she is using you to play.....

Additionally, it also depend on individual ability to put his or her mind in the little that the boss teaches...

My wife learnt tailoring for just 3month while waiting for NYSC and used YouTube to master the remaining, she's now a master in sewing....