Ofadaman:


If e easy go earn am for naija,
Only 5-6k pounds as if you dey earn reach 400 pounds per month got naija here. Get sense

DavSagacity:

Stop being sarcastic. Are u saying there no qualified health professional scattered around the country. I know your type.
Ire Oooo

YoshihideSuga:


I'm genuinely curious,

Was the business doing so badly before he sold them? Was he at a point attacked by herdsmen, police or robbers before relocating? What made him sell everything before relocating?

lanre316:


My Regional Manager at a new generation Nigerian bank where I work relocated to Canada to work as post office clerk, just a clerk, not even supervisor or any senior position. On top that, he complains that he spent most of the salary to pay rent and utility bills. Na the oga of my oga that senior my oga be that o. He sold everything he has to take his family of 5 to Canada.

I have always maintained my position that if I make my money here, I will never relocate. I can only travel there for holidays and flex. I pray God bless me with multimillion dollars level of success in my own fatherland. I have no intention to be a glorified servant in another man's land.

Adakintroy:
When black man think of the west they think of joining the white man on the throne immediately. Were as the reality is that you go straight down to the the base in line with intellectual/ financial pecking order.

You were the smartest man in your village maybe. But here in the city, you just another village man.

erico2k2:

Ask yourself this.E bad like that why dnt he return?If anyone abroad say they are broke they are not.they are broke just for U.

michlins:
return to start doing what exactly sir?


The position he left, will he return to it? Japa is best for people who have no where to start in Nigeria,if not plan wella or you will start scratching the surface

Fredfr33zy:


I do not think so, he was doing well, a young guy in his early forties. He already has two houses one on rent and lives in one(duplex) solar-powered and CCTV (just trying to portray how well he was doing). He has three kids, the bills were too much school fees and all, and the other business is on in Nigeria. I believe he would have lived a better life here in Nigeria when the kids have gotten to a stage where he can send them off to the UK for their masters OR he would have travelled alone and sent money back home.

Jewessgratitud3:
Soft life to hard life.

I guess when he got there and saw the pile of bills staring him in the face he had no choice but to grab the next available job.

If you are gainfully employed in naija, you don't need to japa. Japa is for someone who has no hope of ever getting a job in Nigeria. He'll appreciate any kind of job he finds there.

bolabizzle:
Just got word from a friend about someone who made the move from being a bank manager in Nigeria to working as a skyscraper cleaner in the UK. 😕

Smart move or not?

MSN1:

because; thats the fact.
If u are close to a senior professor, ask him/her to tell u their salary.
I bet u don't know the cash, stress and frustration it takes to get to professor evel.
The first day my now late Senior Professor palli told me his salary, i almost weep for him.
That is the money my Dad that dropped out @ pry6 makes in one business trip (for 1 week).

How do u guys even compare variables sef?.

Comparing country where a whole doctors are living from hand to mouth with countries where common labourers are balling hard is insanity and to think u guys don't know, those guys struggled and sweated to make to make their countroes work.
So, u guys want to go there and work in big big offices, Does that makes sense 2 u, going to ride on peoples sweat?

Those doing menial jobs there, live comfortably but the mentality of get ALL at once of Nigerians is what is driving MOST of them nut.

How many level 10 civil servants here can afford to buy even common corolla here?, can that be said of saner climes where small workers get access to the good things in life?.

Please whenever you guys hear pipo moving to saner climes, JUST SAY CONGRATS AND WORK HARDER TO JOIN THEM.
IF U GUYS KNOW WHAT NIGERIA WILL BE IN COMING YEARS, UNA GO FEAR!.

--This country has been sold and anyone that handle the mantle; IS JUST THERE FOR HIS SHARE, IT TAKES COMMON SENSE TO KNOW THIS.

Dshocker:


So if you don't have hopes of getting a job, why not use the millions spent on japa to establish here?

Jewessgratitud3:


Most people borrow to japa and if they use the money to establish here the may run into debt. So better to japa with the money where you can recover it and pay back

Get my drift?

ChybuzzDD:


You lack the ability to understand simple things.
Btw, who told you i'm in Nigeria?

What my post meant was that sky crapper cleaners and other people in that category can't earn 5-6pounds/month in the UK, as you wrongly claimed.
That's the salary of senior workers and professionals.

Jewessgratitud3:
Soft life to hard life.

I guess when he got there and saw the pile of bills staring him in the face he had no choice but to grab the next available job.

If you are gainfully employed in naija, you don't need to japa. Japa is for someone who has no hope of ever getting a job in Nigeria. He'll appreciate any kind of job he finds there.

unmask:
Well it depends on how much he earned as a banker and how much he earns now.

Sky scrapper cleaner is a risky job and will get rewarded for the risk. The problem is classism in Nigeria. We feel some jobs are beneath us because it carries no fancy title.

Jewessgratitud3:


That's what I'm equally saying. From Cool and safe job to a risky one though the pay is higher. It's also the way the op put it that spells comparison and make it look like one is more classy than the other. The same person will not do this kind of job here because of this mentally but is gladly doing it over there

unmask:
I think the major problem is handwork here is not as rewarding as it is over there. If sh*t packing paid more than banking, a lot of bankers will go there

erico2k2:

ofcos I do not, I have the NHS .SO I asked you a simple question you failing to ask, do you work as a civil servant or in the public SECTOR?

casualobserver:


If you are planning to go to the Uk or anywhere, you have to have professional skills that are in demand. Get your certifications before you go. Don’t go as an illegal migrant. You will eventually earn well. It may be a while before you get your 1st job and even the 1st one may not pay so much but once you do, you are good.

If you are planning to japa without high value skills or you think you have a degree, your suffering won’t have part 2.

Love800:
Are degrees not important there?

casualobserver:
people who have not entered a plane in their lives will come to Nairaland deceiving people.


As you can see below a window cleaner is a window cleaner. A high rise window cleaner may earn more than a regular cleaner but he will still earn less than the average American job.

correctguy101:


Keep wishing..

Seun will be like: "Shey this baba dey whyne me ni?"

ariesbull:


It's a lowly and low level paying job..Oya not intellectually tasking ....


And he can't do that for long

NOwazobia:
Naija bad whether na water the grass or not.


The country is very bad.


Everything is falling apart, people are barely coping.


Save us the sermon of if he bad for your eye...


Everyone, both the rich and the poor are paying more than times 2 than what they used to, but wages and salary have barely change, some even reduce the wages of their workers to keep business afloat.


Many who are not moving today don't have the means to, others cannot risk it, why some others don't know how to cope in a new environment, especially when they don't have anyone expecting them on the other side.


Some are criminals who find 9ja as a safer haven for their criminal activities.


Our politicians literally don't believe in the country, except for the ease to loot public resources. They easily run to foreign institutions for better health and vacations.


No one is more faithful and hopeful than the poor, but most still remain poor regardless of what they believe in.


Many have been watering but there is little to no yield.


It is either you match your prices aggressively to inflation or fold up completely.


The country is bad and very bad is on the lips of the successful and the unsuccessful...

Gerrard59:


There are countless software engineers who left Nigeria for the US and worked as software engineers. They went via H1B visa. Others started working after school. What visa did you use to enter the US?

ehissi:




This is the problem with some Nigerians, you assess ones income overseas based on the value of the money in your own country.

Is he living in Nigeria or living in the UK? Will he spend his income based on the cost of living in Nigeria in Naira or the cost of living in the UK in British pounds?

If I want to follow your argument in reverse, inside that same UK so, to buy raw akpu (Fufu) whey no big reach anywhere, is £2, which is #3,130 compared to #100 in Nigeria, e make sense abi?

£23,000 a year is just £1,917 pounds a month, how much is food, how much is house rent, furniture, fittings and electronics? How much is phone and phone bills? Car note and fuel? TV license? Gas for cooking and heat in winter? Clothes nko? NHS/Health care cost nko?


Based on current income tax system, personal allowance (which is annual income that isnt subject to any income tax) is set at a threshhold of £12,570. Anything above this to £50,270, the excess is subject to a 20% deductible income tax.

So by simple maths
£23,000 - £12,570 = £10,430.

20% of £10,430 is £2,086, so his annual income tax out of that £23,000 a year is £2,086. Which means his annual income after they deduct income tax is £20,914. That is £1,742 a month......

We have not deducted NHS and other deductible taxes from that £1,742, we haven't touched on your personal bills and utilities......

Anybody, earning £1,917 monthly before taxes is considered low income, anybody that earns £1,917 monthly before taxes that supports a family is considered poor in the UK!!

At #6,000,000 a year in Nigeria Sir, you are not poor. If they paid you that #6,000,000 here in a year, you are more than capable to live a comfortable life, dress well, buy a good used car, raise a family, send your kids to reasonably good schools and if you manage money well, build a house in one remote area to retire to as a pensioneer.

Try and achieve the same feat in the UK on £23,000 a year and see whether you no go jam rock!

Love800:
What is the meaning of H1B visa?

Love800:
He will do 2-3 jobs.
Simple