phemmyfour:
It's more about the experience not the 5k. There are many 5k or more jobs out there that doesn't provide any relevant experience

I agree with you. The experience was more than the 5k

Skyview01:
Looking back at my career trajectories and jobs I have had in the past if someone would ask me what was my best and life-changing job, I would say without any shadow of a doubt, it was my job at a small-sized audit firm along Ikorodu Road Lagos that changed my career as an accountant.

It was the year 2000 and I was done with my Accounting Technician Service(ATS) - I started with my SSCE and passed my PE1 with ICAN.
I was preparing for the next level and desperately looking for a job. Without a degree, OND, HND, and Nysc, or any formal education for that matter. I was a poor broke dude coming from a large poor family, all eyes were on me in the family and I could not afford to fail.

For me, it was a do-or-die kid of affair!

As broke as a church rat, I would always go to the newspaper vendors at the Cele bus stop in Lagos every Tuesday, and pay a token to borrow the Tuesday Guardian.

That was before the internet era, I would write out all the vacancies and return the paper to the vendor. That way, At some point, I had submitted more than 200 applications with no feedback. Totally discouraged, I taught the village people are on top of my matta and might be under some spiritual spell.

Around mid-2000, I came upon a brilliant idea, I made up my mind that I needed experience from an audit firm very badly on my resume if I were to succeed as an accountant. So, I printed more than fifty(50) copies of my resume and starting from Anthony bus stop on Ikorodu Road, up to Oju-Elegba bus stop, you know there are lots of small accounting firms along that axis.

I trekked and distributed my resume and cover letters to all the firms I could find while in the hot sun, sweating like a Christmas goat about to be slaughtered for the pleasures of others.

My modus operandi was to walk up to the receptionist of any firm and tell them I was looking for a job. I would give out my resumes and cover letters like candies on a Halloween night, asking for them to contact me if they happen to have any vacancies while I tossed resumes under doors for offices that were closed.

When I got back home, I would wake up in the middle of the hot night to pray and cry to God for divine favor on my applications.

One month after that exercise precisely, I got a call from one of the audit firms I had dropped my resume to come for an interview for the position of Semi-senior at a whooping salary of N5,000 naira in a month. I was so happy and was jumping upandan with joy, even went to the local revival hour service to share a loud testimony in the church.

Most of the time, I could not afford transport fares and would hitch a ride on the open back of a neighbor's pickup truck for free while immaculately dressed in my cut-and-join three-piece suit and a fat guillotine, neck-chocking tie, sweating and smelling like a Canadian skunk, to work in the at my 5k naira job.

I worked in that company for about one year and learned a lot, I was able to lead audits of manufacturing companies, government agencies, and finance and construction companies, and within one year, I was already well-grounded in accounting work experience.

Going back to the topic of the thread, the reason why I rated that, 5000naira/month, job was that later in the years, all three breakthrough jobs I had specifically requested experience in an accounting firm as a major requirement.
I wouldn't have gotten those jobs without my audit firm experience. I later went on to finish my exams and lectured for the institute, and the rest, as they say, are now stories.

Never let anybody put you down and do not despise days of little beginnings, That little position you may be occupying today may be a building block to a brighter future and hard work does pay.

Whatever you want in life, go out there and fight for it like it's a matter of life and death.
After you have tried your best, you can now go and pray as though you depend on God 100% (if you are religious)

Without that 5k job, I am positive I may not be where I am today, and the purpose of this write-up is to encourage millions of young one's out there. The country may be tough and our leaders may be failing us, prices of commodities may be sky-high in the market, but that is not enough excuse for you not to succeed.


Thanks for reading.

Nonsense!

Lies!!


Are h richer than Dangote today?

saasala:
Nairaland people, don't read this story and start accepting stupid 5000 job o. It won't change your own life

Some people will never be inspired or encouraged, no matter what.
And they'd drag others down with them too.

Elcemento:
You got a call in year 2000? We didn't have GSM in the year 2000, we had very expensive mobile cellular services which i doubt you could afford, judging from your story. For the sake of genuineness, please change the year you quoted above.Thanks.

You are very correct. I was carried away while typing and will go and edit. Nipost letter and what I meant to convey was the fact that I was contacted for the job.

Good catch!

Skyview01:


I agree with you. The experience was more than the 5k

I read your story with so much excitement, I couldn't wait to read the end. Encouraging.
I even shared it with some people on my WhatsApp.

MOTIONTECH:
Thanks for this write up, it will be a sin if I don’t thank you for this post.

You are welcome bro.

Reinamaria:


I read your story with so much excitement, I couldn't wait to read the end. Encouraging.
I even shared it with some people on my WhatsApp.

Thank you. When I have the time, I will write about my struggle to leave Nigeria with no contact or connection, and how I found myself in West Germany and eventually Canada and lots of other things.

atobs4real:
Such is life.
It worked for you bro

Thank you!

saasala:
Nairaland people, don't read this story and start accepting stupid 5000 job o. It won't change your own life

An motivational speaker.

DenreleDave:


I don't use bank óò.

I pay online... Quickteller

I transfer to quickteller and do every thing ónline

Ok. Please am I to register as a professional student or

BigIyanga:

But u dey Canada or US? Lol

It doesn't take me anything to be there my siblings are there. Sounding as if it's a big deal. Have more freedom here over there am just a bloody immigrant earning monthly and paying bills monthly...in the income bracket of average citizens..over here I can get away with many things.

9jatriot:
You see that job experience eh, some sensible people will even pay the company to have it. Some will volunteer in companies to gain it.

Yet you find many broke and unserious people brandish degrees and certifications without experience and start feeling entitled to big salaries.

Many of them are on nairaland 247, opening threads upandan without trying to improve themselves and be useful

You are right. I would have worked in the audit firm for free as I was still living with my parents.

free2ryhme:




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When I read this part i knew the lies wont stop

Op is an evil liar.

nedekid:


Yeah, at even ₦85 to $1 ie his 5k salary in year 2000 is 55k in today's money.
Fuel price in year 2000 was ₦20 per liter. Ie 75liters was ₦1,500. Ie his 5k salary could buy him 75liters, 3.3 times in a month. Today his 55k will buy him 75liters once.
OP tried in moving up, quite an insiping story.
5k in 2000 had more value than 50k today.

I did not even know the cost of fuel at the time as i never dreamt of a car, no generator at home as well. Heheheh!

Patriot9:

Ok. Please am I to register as a professional student or

What's ur qualification

DenreleDave:


I don't use bank óò.

I pay online... Quickteller

I transfer to quickteller and do every thing ónline

Please tell me more about it and how much did you pay

Patriot9:

Please tell me more about it and how much did you pay

Omo... What's ur discipline and are u a graduate

LikeAking:



Op is an evil liar.

Yes he is, do not believe anything he writes.

@OP, shame on you for lying to the Nairaland community.

Old people everywhere 😛 you may not have life totally figured now, just keep praying, working and believing, it's going to get better💯

Me feeling like a motivational speaker😀

DenreleDave:


What's ur qualification

HND BANKING AND FINANCE

Patriot9:

HND BANKING AND FINANCE

We dey the same.. Check my profile

Msg me on whatsapp

Skyview01:


Yes he is, do not believe anything he writes.

@OP, shame on you for lying to the Nairaland community.

Lo 😁

You dey whine abi

saasala:
Nairaland people, don't read this story and start accepting stupid 5000 job o. It won't change your own life

😂😂So this is the only thing you can pick from that inspiring story?Haba mana!!!

Kemadealadire:
[/b]Old people everywhere[b] 😛 you may not have life totally figured now, just keep praying, working and believing, it's going to get better💯

Me feeling a motivational speaker😀

You will be that old a decade from now.

N5000 in the year 2000 is like 40k to 50k today.

No sir! Operations started in late 2001. I could still remember the day ECONET launched their services, some weeks later, MTN. Please,do more research on that, I guess you were talking about when they were licensed.

onajo2000:

GSM came 1999

spencekat:
You will be that old a decade from now.

Yes na, I pray God keeps me and I grow old till I am 200.

Onefornaija24:


DO Jiji ADS WORK for gadgets like phones and laptops?

Is the VIP advert package worth paying for on Jiji?

Scam ni. It doesn't work I have done it

Skyview01:


I agree with you. The experience was more than the 5k

I love this your story

BabaIbo:

I don't regret mine, I started seeing money early in life sha.
I rather see it as a lesson which is one of the things that guided my ways and success today.

You know when I was young, I was more like my dad's managing director in his business, you know kids born into a business family.
I dey see money, I opened my first bank account very early in life. As far back as late 90's and early 2000's, some days I dey handle(I won't call it stealing because na my papa money 😂), 30k to 50k as money to blow.
Sometimes, I will want to imagine what I could have achieved had it been I channelled those money into the right spending, but since I don't like regrets, I will just delete the thought from my head.

I buy things that are not necessary, I and my friends sometimes deposit money(in hundreds of thousands) in boutique and be collecting the clothes gradually, na now I know how deep those boutique guys go don fleece us, but it is what it is.
Lodge girls in hotels or guesthouse, go to clubs to blow money and so many nons ense acts.

My changing point was when I gained admission, omoh my dad taught me financial lesson wey I no wan learn by force, he only send me allowance only once in a month, he no send if I burn everything that same day, I must not call him for any extra money, some times I will just run back home from school, and say I'm done with schooling. That how do they expect me to study with empty stomach, my dad no go send me, na my mama go dey beg am on my behalf and he gave me some money, that was the genesis of my financial discipline.

Hahahaha, spoilt child...smh

You too spoil, I hope your old man drill you well? My own old man na military drilling the man give me anytime I pilfer something un-smattly... so this daddy wisened up and started pilfering smartly. Got caught most times still, that's why I suspect my old man. Everyone knows if you wan catch monkey, you must be a monkey .. hahahaha

My brother, you don make me remember my old man, he's a jungle soldier and an old schemer that's why he's able to catch me in most of my schemes...
I miss the guy jor, wish I had spent more time with him in his old age... Smh


But no, regret and this ancestor no fit tie the same wrapper. No matter what happens, I'm mostly indifferent. My calculative mind has very little time to bother about some things.

I'm following you from now on, you're a man to my heart, abi how Jesus take use those words...

nams77:

I love this your story

Thanks bros. I will share my japa story next

Skyview01:
Looking back at my career trajectories and jobs I have had in the past if someone would ask me what was my best and life-changing job, I would say without any shadow of a doubt, it was my job at a small-sized audit firm along Ikorodu Road Lagos that changed my career as an accountant.

It was the year 2000 and I was done with my Accounting Technician Service(ATS) - I started with my SSCE and passed my PE1 with ICAN.
I was preparing for the next level and desperately looking for a job. Without a degree, OND, HND, and Nysc, or any formal education for that matter. I was a poor broke dude coming from a large poor family, all eyes were on me in the family and I could not afford to fail.

For me, it was a do-or-die kid of affair!

As broke as a church rat, I would always go to the newspaper vendors at the Cele bus stop in Lagos every Tuesday, and pay a token to borrow the Tuesday Guardian.

That was before the internet era, I would write out all the vacancies and return the paper to the vendor. That way, At some point, I had submitted more than 200 applications with no feedback. Totally discouraged, I taught the village people are on top of my matta and might be under some spiritual spell.

Around mid-2000, I came upon a brilliant idea, I made up my mind that I needed experience from an audit firm very badly on my resume if I were to succeed as an accountant. So, I printed more than fifty(50) copies of my resume and starting from Anthony bus stop on Ikorodu Road, up to Oju-Elegba bus stop, you know there are lots of small accounting firms along that axis.

I trekked and distributed my resume and cover letters to all the firms I could find while in the hot sun, sweating like a Christmas goat about to be slaughtered for the pleasures of others.

My modus operandi was to walk up to the receptionist of any firm and tell them I was looking for a job. I would give out my resumes and cover letters like candies on a Halloween night, asking for them to contact me if they happen to have any vacancies while I tossed resumes under doors for offices that were closed.

When I got back home, I would wake up in the middle of the hot night to pray and cry to God for divine favor on my applications.

One month after that exercise precisely, I got a call from one of the audit firms I had dropped my resume to come for an interview for the position of Semi-senior at a whooping salary of N5,000 naira in a month. I was so happy and was jumping upandan with joy, even went to the local revival hour service to share a loud testimony in the church.

Most of the time, I could not afford transport fares and would hitch a ride on the open back of a neighbor's pickup truck for free while immaculately dressed in my cut-and-join three-piece suit and a fat guillotine, neck-chocking tie, sweating and smelling like a Canadian skunk, to work in the at my 5k naira job.

I worked in that company for about one year and learned a lot, I was able to lead audits of manufacturing companies, government agencies, and finance and construction companies, and within one year, I was already well-grounded in accounting work experience.

Going back to the topic of the thread, the reason why I rated that, 5000naira/month, job was that later in the years, all three breakthrough jobs I had specifically requested experience in an accounting firm as a major requirement.
I wouldn't have gotten those jobs without my audit firm experience. I later went on to finish my exams and lectured for the institute, and the rest, as they say, are now stories.

Never let anybody put you down and do not despise days of little beginnings, That little position you may be occupying today may be a building block to a brighter future and hard work does pay.

Whatever you want in life, go out there and fight for it like it's a matter of life and death.
After you have tried your best, you can now go and pray as though you depend on God 100% (if you are religious)

Without that 5k job, I am positive I may not be where I am today, and the purpose of this write-up is to encourage millions of young one's out there. The country may be tough and our leaders may be failing us, prices of commodities may be sky-high in the market, but that is not enough excuse for you not to succeed.


Thanks for reading.

Thanks for being human. Thanks for sharing. I am a graduate with 4. something CGPA, remember me.