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Munzy14:
You are right..Worst case is here in SE....Young Igbo boys no want to artisan and craftsman work.

Na most Benue guys and northerners we dey use build here .

And they have learnt to extort plus the shakara...Of recent I have embarked on self development towards these things via YouTube and elsewhere..

In 2020, I hired one to assist me run a small job he came with outrageous bill, I told him hold on...Days later he came back and saw It was done perfectly...He was like haaa Oga nothing wey you no dey do o...

Since then, he dey respect himself anytime I call him for job...yeye people.

Blablamalala:

Munzy14:
E shock the guy...Them no know say I don test kpako before the blessings..

Any how matters be, I go run am..

Blablamalala:
It is sweet to have tasted kpako life before blessings it makes you a complete package.

NnamdiN:
make me

Onyewarri:
In recent times I couldn't help but think about how the artisan and Craftsmanship industry of Nigeria will be 10 years from now.

I remember back in the 80s and 90s, it is common and even a thing of pride whereby people sign up for apprenticeship for a couple of years to get the required skill in their field of interest.

Some Parents like my father even insisted on adding artisanry to formal education as plan B. So all each children had to learn a skill while waiting for admission or during the one year industrial training period in higher institutions ( A legacy I will earnestly follow with my lineage).

Aside the fact that it is a huge boost to ones C.V., you will never beg for food unless you weren't serious with your training.

But today you hardly see youngsters, learning Craftsmanship or artisanry. Every body wants to be a content creator, a programmer, content writer, Yahoo yahoo and the likes.

Nobody wants to be a plumber, an electrician, a technician, a mechanic, a bricklayer or tiler, welder, iron bender and the likes.

Have you noticed how difficult it is to get an experienced and skilled artisan these days. Sometimes you have to wait for days for them to come and do jobs for you in your house.

The crux of the matter is the crop of experienced and skilled artisans and Craftsmen and women presently available are those from the 80s and 90s. Most of their apprentices are actually with them just to make ends meet thereby prioritizing the need to make money above that of properly learning the skill from their master.

Personally I think it's just a matter of a couple of years before we realize the dire situation of artisanry and Craftsmanship in this country. Maybe by then we will start looking for foreigners to fill in the gaps.

What do you guys think?

Schprobs:
Look around u and tell me how many artisian are doing well
Who is going to be foolish enough to do work that can't save 100k in his life time.
Who will go into work that everyone look down on us especially those empty brain gruaduate.
Who will go into stuff that u have to do it all ur lifetime without retirement.

That's not even the problem
When a contract it's out. They will never give it out to the expert, they have to share the contract among so empty head graduate(engineers) before remembering the doer of the works.

Nigeria fail us
I won't even allow my children to fall victim of handwork

Let's us all be carrying paper around

Kate06:


Look op...I dont know you but I am sure you will not dare do a job that will take you 35 years to save #100,000 in this economy.

I doubt if you know how much pure water for a bag cost now or what food prices are saying . When are you gonna settle down with this our Nigerian ladies that don't want to date poor guys with your daily wages of #5000 or less?

Right from when I was small,I have decided my faith and dream of no stress job like going to the office from AC to my car with AC but as soon as one graduated and start facing the reality in Nigeria,nobody will tell him to learn a digital skill and do freelancing or join a forex broker with 97% win rate .

Na ur type go see small legit hustler for street with a car and you will tag him yahoo boy. How old are you?

Have you forgotten we are in the 21st century when almost many skills are fading away with the advent of robot who do such works and other program applications?

How come you don't know digital skills like programming,graphic and design,digital marketing and a host lot of skills are taking over the conventional skills you used to know.

You had better change your mentality and meet this new generation young boys to show you the way.

Edited: If you want to join the 2 trading companies I am presently getting alot of income each week,DM me.

NnamdiN:
Pay hourly and have a standard wage, a lot of people will do a lot things. Abi make I leave 250k per month soft hustle go do welding because of passion?

Shoodboi:
First, this is not true:




Secondly, I knew you were going to mention internet fraud the moment I started reading and you didn't disappoint.



Plus the fact that you included it with things like content creator, a programmer, content writer, and then added "and the likes" at the end instantly discredits your argument in the faces of people in those fields (including me).

What links do those careers have with fraud? Seun Osewa who owns Nairaland is a programmer.


But I'll put that aside since I understand what you're trying to say (unless you have hidden intentions).

You need to understand how the world (and the method of generating wealth) is changing and how people follow those changes, without even realizing it.

In the past, wealth was generated from farms. Basically, the more farmland you had, the more money you had.

Wealth later moved from farms to industries (factories, etc.) during the industrial revolutions. And people followed...

That's why we had lots of craftsmen and technical schools in the 80s and 90s compared to today since there were lots of industries in the world and most of the tech stuff we take for granted today were evolving at the time.

Now, wealth has moved from industries/factories to services and people are following suit.

That's why you're seeing less people in craftsmanship these days.

And let's not talk about our increased population,
The increasing complexities of skills required to become a craftsman,
The destruction of the middle class who are the biggest spenders, which means fewer jobs for craftsmen,
The massive deindustrialization that has been happening in Nigeria since the 70s due to poor government policies and forced us to focus on importation over manufacturing/assembling, and so on.

That said, you'll be surprised to know that everything you're saying now was the same thing everyone else said in the 80s and 90s:

They complained about people leaving the farms for craftsmanship. And now, you're complaining about people leaving craftsmanship for the digital world.

You'll be surprised again to learn that someone in the future will make the same complaint about people leaving the digital world for something else.

It's just the world happening and is nothing to bother about.

Onyewarri:
I have no issues with yahoo guys and content creators and their likes. I just cited them as a form of reference


The thing is that everybody wants quick money and the easy way out.

Shoodboi:
On the other statement, digital/tech money is not quick money. You'll spend years rolling in the mud before seeing anything. You could start earning few weeks/months after learning but you'll almost never achieve your full potentials until a few years.

Onyewarri:
True talk bro. But a good welder earns more. Trust me. Don't let their appearances fool you

Onyewarri:
[s]Mind your language boy. I am clearly not your mate.

It is mindsets like yours that brought us to where we are.

I am not rich yet but I am damn well comfortable. Married with two handsome boys, living in a lovely 2 bedroom apartment in the heart of PHC. A landlord and currently driving my second car, a 2009 Toyota Camry (spider). Started my own company after resigning as technical head from a well known multinational company you would kill to work for and I am still in my mid thirties.

All these are possible not because I have a degree in computer science or a diploma in computer engineering but because I learnt a technical skill during my one year I.T.

A skill that opened doors that my formal education couldn't. A skill that took me places and gave me connections beyond my imagination.

So once again. Mind your language boy.[/s]

Onyewarri:
Mind your language boy. I am clearly not your mate.

It is mindsets like yours that brought us to where we are.

I am not rich yet but I am damn well comfortable. Married with two handsome boys, living in a lovely 2 bedroom apartment in the heart of PHC. A landlord and currently driving my second car, a 2009 Toyota Camry (spider). Started my own company after resigning as technical head from a well known multinational company you would kill to work for and I am still in my mid thirties.

All these are possible not because I have a degree in computer science or a diploma in computer engineering but because I learnt a technical skill during my one year I.T.

A skill that opened doors that my formal education couldn't. A skill that took me places and gave me connections beyond my imagination.

So once again. Mind your language boy.

Obagreatdatoye:
You are right bro


Why will anybody want to become an artisan...when you will see someone that is privilege to own a car.... treat a vulcanizer like an animal and look down on him like someone who do not deserve to live.....same goes to bricklayers and plumbers who are treated like a second grade human....who will observe all these inhuman and want to settle for same...ko possible.

Schprobs:
Many artisans out there they labour with pain and hungry are not riding okada keke or conductors just to survive.

Same Nigeria when u render service to customer to pay your balance it's a big problem.

Nigeria must suffer it for treating us likes trash

ChybuzzDD:
Says who?
It took me about 2weeks to get an experienced electrician for my house wiring.
It took over 1wk to get the skilled pop technician currently working there
Experienced Tiler and plumber will also take time get once the pop guy is through.

Where did you see the trained ones looking for jobs

Akaegwu:
You are not in the field. Contact the right person, you will get one in few minutes. There are lots of them without job presently. I'm speaking from experience, because I'm an electrical contractor.

Onyewarri:
Just this evening, I was on the phone with my cousin and she was lamenting how difficult it is for her to get a block moulder/brick layer for her ongoing project.

According to her, all the artisans she got kept giving her excuses and telling her to give them more time even though she has waited for some of them for over 2 weeks now.

At some point she became worried and started feeling that something else is wrong.

I told her not to get herself worked up, that it is not peculiar to her. That it is the situation of things now and it may get worse with time. She also confirmed that her husband said something similar to what I told her.

So guys, you see. What an elder sees sitting down.........

Onyewarri:
True talk bro. But a good welder earns more. Trust me. Don't let their appearances fool you

Contekbbc:
Las Las, no be money all of us dey find?

Olam09:
Hmm.. well you said the truth as for me i learnt screenprinting around 2017 and i still dey use am chop till today despite working as a salary earner.. don't mind this youngsters they gonna learn the truth soon. That didn't even stop me from publishing two books also because i love to write play I'm a playwright also.. if you type in Olamide Akinosun into Google search bar a snippet will tell you all about me. My bio is like this : playwright, graphic design and screenprinting..

Love800:
Do you still write books?
You write dem for money or what actually?

Olam09:
I write books for future purpose they're like investments.. I'm currently an entrepreneur and artisan.. and that's what feeds me.