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BlueRayDick:
U no get point .

Any SSCE holder or OND holder can be trained to be a secretary in no time . The same cannot be said of MASSCOM application . Who told u MASSCOM’s application is only for the role of OAP ?

U should be angry someone is going to school to waste time on “secretariat studies “ , instead na MASSCOM wey broad well and get room for specialization u Dey vex for

You no get point, last last there are half a million secretaries/PAs in Naija, whether overqualified or not. The job to student ratio is much healthier than MassCom.

How many jobs dey MassCom for Naija vs how many students?

Some years ago, I spoke to a young man who was having issues getting to uni for many years. He said I should help him to write JAMB. By this time he was already mid twenties, had been at Uni studying accounting but found out his matriculation (which he worked) was fake in the final year and the uni didn't recognise him as a student. So he's spent many years in the wilderness at this stage after that crushing disappointment. He was in such a dark place, I asked him what he wants to do in Uni, he said "las las, lemme just go and get a MassCom degree". He was a very intelligent lad but in a sunken place and saw MassCom as the easy path to say he's doing something. I said no, let's do Accounting Chartership and close off your earlier disappointment in the proper way that is more befitting of your brains. Today he is a chartered accountant earning close to 7 figures, when he could have been the average MassCom failure if I listened to him and allowed him to settle for the path of least resistance.

Ibime:
Masscomm is the most oversubscribed course in school. Every below average and unambitious student dey rush am

The truth be say na from secondary school the matter dey get K leg

The farther away you go from sciences and Maths, the less options for you in good courses

A pure science student can come to your field to still.study your prime courses end up studying accounting, even law, but you cannot be an art student and ever study Engineering or Medicine but once you don go Art class you've boxed yourself into either Law or nothing

Nothing includes Philosophy Literature Secretariat studies, History, Mass communication etc

BlueRayDick:
Omo ! Courses Dey

That year if Unilag don release merit list finish , dem go come advertise courses wey Dey available wey people wey get good grades fit change their course to for them to be considered admission .

You will see them Listing courses like Education Admin, Guidance and counseling , Adult Education, Human Kinetics Education, Christian religious study , fisheries , social work , etc.

You go come begin ask people “ where can I work if I study social work “? 😂

That adult education off Me 😂
Like Person go use four years study adult education…Omoh people Dey try ooo😂

raumdeuter:
Shey people dey employ Secretaries these days abi na job description wey dem afrodoc TrebleChamp and GloriousGbola dey give their mentees

To put mentees on company payroll instead of paying them from Ogas pocket

Is it that mentees tend to become Secretaries or Ogas just dey mentor Secretaries

Nowadays na executive assistants people employ and na the ogas at the top dey get Executive assistant; not the old practiser of secretary for everybody on senior management.

BlueRayDick:
Nowadays na executive assistants people employ and na the ogas at the top dey get Executive assistant; not the old practiser of secretary for everybody on senior management.

Most of the secretary jobs don lost to owning a laptop

raumdeuter:
Nowadays I think people have more materials and the teachers probably know more about the subjects

In my time na mostly older NCE people dey teach with a few older already married graduates wey do sandwich courses. Most of our teacher sef no fully understand those Physics and Maths well. Last last dem go teach you Avogadros law using Fuji music using textbooks written in 1960. Bunday, Godman, Lamcombes

In my time highest in Jamb is usually around 260 to 280

If you get luck and a smart dedicated Corper is posted to teach you, you will see the difference especially in science courses from the older permanent teachers

Nowadays because of the scarcity of jobs, younger Uni graduates are going into teaching, they understand better, have better resources and teach better

You've said it all.

BlueRayDick:
Omo ! Courses Dey

That year if Unilag don release merit list finish , dem go come advertise courses wey Dey available wey people wey get good grades fit change their course to for them to be considered admission .

You will see them Listing courses like Education Admin, Guidance and counseling , Adult Education, Human Kinetics Education, Christian religious study , fisheries , social work , etc.

You go come begin ask people “ where can I work if I study social work “? 😂

'You can work anywhere, companies will be begging you to work for them' Lori iro walahi you go cry. Human Kinetics

Ibime:
You no get point, last last there are half a million secretaries/PAs in Naija, whether overqualified or not. The job to student ratio is much healthier than MassCom.

How many jobs dey MassCom for Naija vs how many students?

Some years ago, I spoke to a young man who was having issues getting to uni for many years. He said I should help him to write JAMB. By this time he was already mid twenties, had been at Uni studying accounting but found out his matriculation (which he worked) was fake in the final year and the uni didn't recognise him as a student. So he's spent many years in the wilderness at this stage after that crushing disappointment. He was in such a dark place, I asked him what he wants to do in Uni, he said "las las, lemme just go and get a MassCom degree". He was a very intelligent lad but in a sunken place and saw MassCom as the easy path to say he's doing something. I said no, let's do Accounting Chartership and close off your earlier disappointment in the proper way that is more befitting of your brains. Today he is a chartered accountant earning close to 7 figures, when he could have been the average MassCom failure if I listened to him and allowed him to settle for the path of least resistance.

See u are an old man who is speaking off Ur knowledge of things over 20 years ago. If not u will not be talking about secretariat job that has almost been pahsed off the Nigerian work space.

PA/EA which replaced secretary jobs doesn't even require you to have a degree in secretariat studies for u to excel at it. Anybody going to study such course in this age and time is just wasting his or her time cos he or she will still need to look for daily bread in another field.

There are 720 functional radio stations in nigeria, I don't know the exact number of TV stations in Nigeria but I know it should be in hundreds. There are different career paths in that MASSCOM u despise so much; career paths like Journalist,Reporter,Public,Relations,Specialist,Advertising,Copywriter,MarketingCommunication,Specialist,Broadcast Producer,Videographer, etc

Na u just know the bad dream u Don get about the course.

raumdeuter:
The truth be say na from secondary school the matter dey get K leg

The farther away you go from sciences and Maths, the less options for you in good courses

A pure science student can come to your field to still.study your prime courses end up studying accounting, even law, but you cannot be an art student and ever study Engineering or Medicine but once you don go Art class you've boxed yourself into either Law or nothing

Nothing includes Philosophy Literature Secretariat studies, History, Mass communication etc

This is very true as I'm a living witness. I'm currently studying Psychology; this is after studying Maths at the same uni. I don't even study as much as I did in my younger days and I'm still on a good standing. I take my course mates tutorials on Stats courses and they see me as one kind of "god". These are courses in which you're expected to know in maths dept, it's basic.

Also, numerical courses are far more profitable than non-numerical ones. The more maths you know, the better your chance of making money- This is solely based on my observation so far.

KingTom:
'You can work anywhere, companies will be begging you to work for them' Lori iro walahi you go cry. Human Kinetics

😂😂😂

Ọmọ! That thing make some egbon study rubbish course that year. U go just see say those egbon finish school dem no see work for years

NUC has unbundled Mass Communication and elevated it to a full Faculty with the following departments:

Public Relations
Advertising
Broadcasting
Film and Multimedia Studies
Development Communication Studies
Information and Media Studies

When I was in Uni, Mass Communication was known for having never produced a First Class graduate. That record was later broken and the department has produced some first class graduates in recent years.

The department also began its exams two weeks ahead of other Faculties (alongside the Faculty of Education) because of the large number of courses that had to be written by the students.

The unbundling is a good development and brings it inline with current demands, and offers students the opportunity to specialize in their areas of interests that align with their career aspirations.

I may be wrong but I kinda feel Film & Multimedia Studies is a duplication of Theatre Arts.

raumdeuter:
Most of the secretary jobs don lost to owning a laptop

Exactly. Almost every company expects u to know Ur way around Microsoft office before they will employ u.

No company will pay for secretary that will help u prepare PowerPoint which u need to present to a client. U are expected to prepare slides for presentation to clients, write reports urself and do everything urself.

KingTom:
'You can work anywhere, companies will be begging you to work for them' Lori iro walahi you go cry. Human Kinetics

Any course that they tell you you can work anywhere and companies will be begging you, better go check out the course yourself

Naso them tell My guy wey study sociology

semid4lyfe:
NUC has unbundled Mass Communication and elevated it to a full Faculty with the following departments:

Public Relations
Advertising
Broadcasting
Film and Multimedia Studies
Development Communication Studies
Information and Media Studies

When I was in Uni, Mass Communication was known for having never produced a First Class graduate. That record was later broken and the department has produced some first class graduates in recent years.

The department also began its exams two weeks ahead of other Faculties (alongside the Faculty of Education) because of the large number of courses that had to be written by the students.

The unbundling is a good development and brings it inline with demands of the 21st century, and offers students the opportunity to specialize in their areas of interests that align with their career aspirations.

I may be wrong but I kinda feel Film & Multimedia Studies is a duplication of Theatre Arts.

Yea, a degree in mass communication, tailored to the needs of the modern times is a pretty decent deal.

The unbundling makes sense, and theatre arts is different from film and multimedia. Film and Multimedia is closer to information and media studies than it is to theatre arts.

BlueRayDick:
See u are an old man who is speaking off Ur knowledge of things over 20 years ago. If not u will not be talking about secretariat job that has almost been pahsed off the Nigerian work space.

PA/EA which replaced secretary jobs doesn't even require you to have a degree in secretariat studies for u to excel at it. Anybody going to study such course in this age and time is just wasting his or her time cos he or she will still need to look for daily bread in another field.

There are 720 functional radio stations in nigeria, I don't know the exact number of TV stations in Nigeria but I know it should be in hundreds. There are different career paths in that MASSCOM u despise so much; career paths like Journalist,Reporter,Public,Relations,Specialist,Advertising,Copywriter,MarketingCommunication,Specialist,Broadcast Producer,Videographer, etc

Na u just know the bad dream u Don get about the course.

All those Peller, content creators and OAPs, how many of them get MassCom?

There are 720 radio stations in Nigeria who employ mostly people who didn't study MassCom, but there are half a million Directors that need PAs. I know you don't need Secretarial degree to do Secretary work but last last there are still more jobs for them. Even at that, you can't be a PA to a high flying Corporate Director without a degree. PAs for corporates these days are expected to have strategic knowledge to step in and communicate on behalf of their boss to the point that even lawyers are serving as PAs in some of the most blue chip companies today.

Nobody was doing MassCom like that 20 years ago, na useless indomie generation start this MassCom trend

How I knew MassCom was a useless course was even 10 years ago. My first cousin born to my uncle wey no hold was adopted by one of my aunty wey get pepper. She trained this girl in one private school in AkwaIbom paying N300k per term which was $2k dollars then. I heard the girl was doing well such that when I visited PH in 2014, I insisted I take a road trip to Uyo to visit her in her boarding house. The next year which was her SS3 year na him matter cast, I heard she's started playing and becoming unserious. My Aunty who is a PHD holder, alumni and board member at Abu Zaria had set it up for her to go study law at Zaria. On top of that, that my aunty is well connected to the point of being friends with Sultan of Sokoto and sitting on the board of ABU Zaria and could have paved way for her professionally with connections and jobs if she just followed the path my aunty set for her. She said no, that she wants to do Masscomm at Uniport. She finally flopped her final exams scoring 180 and my aunty disowned her. That's when she said she wants to use that 180 to go to Polytechnic, I said last last you must sit at home for one year and write JAMB again. She finally passed the JAMB to get to Uniport but to study journalism which is not far from Masscomm. At this point I've almost washed my hands off her but still giving her small benefit of the doubt. Her first year of uni, she called me one day. Before even greeting and talking as adults, she started fake crying "Uncle, I need money". That's when I shouted at her that is that how you talk to adults with childish voice? From then I washed hands off her, she can't squeeze N1k out of my hand today. She is the one that educated me on the unambitious nature and general uselessness of MASSCOMM people.

BlueRayDick:
😂😂😂

Ọmọ! That thing make some egbon study rubbish course that year. U go just see say those egbon finish school dem no see work for years

My brother I say that year you go see Fishery niggas dissing say dem go get oil company work when dem graduate say Shell and Chevron go dey rush them even ExxonMobil

Shegzdave:
Any course that they tell you you can work anywhere and companies will be begging you, better go check out the course yourself

Naso them tell My guy wey study sociology

E be things guy!

semid4lyfe:
NUC has unbundled Mass Communication and elevated it to a full Faculty with the following departments:

Public Relations
Advertising
Broadcasting
Film and Multimedia Studies
Development Communication Studies
Information and Media Studies

When I was in Uni, Mass Communication was known for having never produced a First Class graduate. That record was later broken and the department has produced some first class graduates in recent years.

The department also began its exams two weeks ahead of other Faculties (alongside the Faculty of Education) because of the large number of courses that had to be written by the students.

The unbundling is a good development and brings it inline with current demands, and offers students the opportunity to specialize in their areas of interests that align with their career aspirations.

I may be wrong but I kinda feel Film & Multimedia Studies is a duplication of Theatre Arts.

You're absolutely right, back then in Unical it was Theatre and Media Studies and na there boys dey escape go watch waist rolling plays for Chinua Achebe arts theatre. Everytime we catch our guy there e go say na for 'research purposes'

Ibime:
All those Peller, content creators and OAPs, how many of them get MassCom?

There are 720 radio stations in Nigeria who employ mostly people who didn't study MassCom, but there are half a million Directors that need PAs. I know you don't need Secretarial degree to do Secretary work but last last there are still more jobs for them. Even at that, you can't be a PA to a high flying Corporate Director without a degree. PAs for corporates these days are expected to have strategic knowledge to step in and communicate on behalf of their boss to the point that even lawyers are serving as PAs in some of the most blue chip companies today.

Nobody was doing MassCom like that 20 years ago, na useless indomie generation start this MassCom trend

How I knew MassCom was a useless course was even 10 years ago. My first cousin born to my uncle wey no hold was adopted by one of my aunty wey get pepper. She trained this girl in one private school in AkwaIbom paying N300k per term which was $2k dollars then. I heard the girl was doing well such that when I visited PH in 2014, I insisted I take a road trip to Uyo to visit her in her boarding house. The next year which was her SS3 year na him matter cast, I heard she's started playing and becoming unserious. My Aunty who is a PHD holder, alumni and board member at Abu Zaria had set it up for her to go study law at Zaria. She said no, that she wants to do Masscomm at Uniport. She finally flopped her final exams scoring 180 and my aunty disowned her. That's when she said she wants to use that 180 to go to Polytechnic, I said last last you must sit at home for one year and write JAMB again. She finally passed the JAMB to get to Uniport but to study journalism which is not far from Masscomm. At this point I've almost washed my hands off her but still giving her small benefit of the doubt. Her first year of uni, she called me one day. Before even greeting and talking as adults, she started fake crying "Uncle, I need money". That's when I shouted at her that is that how you talk to adults with childish voice? From then I washed hands off her, she can't squeeze N1k out of my hand today. She is the one that educated me on the unambitious nature and general uselessness of MASSCOMM people.

The problem is u are an old man who was trained to believe STEM courses or the age long trio of Accountancy, Economics and Law are the only way to show one is serious with his or her life.

The fact the people whom u know that studied MASSCOM did so out of fear for those aforementioned STEM courses, Law and the likes has made u greatly prejudiced.

You need to be really really open minded in this age ; time has changed! Serous students dey study MASSCOM and dem dey do well for themselves. The world did not start and end with those relatives of urs who didn't cover themselves in glory after studying MASSCOM. People dey wey study Accountancy wey no gree write ICAN or ACCA but joyfully writing CIPM( HR professional exam) because dem no fit kill themselves

KingTom:
My brother I say that year you go see Fishery niggas dissing say dem go get oil company work when dem graduate say Shell and Chevron go dey rush them even ExxonMobil

😂

Theflint1:
Yea, a degree in mass communication, tailored to the needs of the modern times is a pretty decent deal.

The unbundling makes sense, and theatre arts is different from film and multimedia. Film and Multimedia is closer to information and media studies than it is to theatre arts.

I opined Film & Multimedia Studies and Theatre Arts are similar because I was looking at both in terms of movie/TV & Theatre productions which are essentially performing arts, and require the same professionals and BTS personnel.

Also themes of commonality will be acting, script writing, production, directing, casting, speech & dialogue, sound production, continuity etc.

Good topic with interesting perspectives.

Reading intently..

BlueRayDick:
The problem is u are an old man who was trained to believe STEM courses or the age long trio of Accountancy, Economics and Law are the only way to show one is serious with his or her life.

The fact the people whom u know that studied MASSCOM did so out of fear for those aforementioned STEM courses, Law and the likes has made u greatly prejudiced.

I like am like that. Before I employ you with art degree I need to see a prestigious uni on your CV so I can differentiate between those who studied arts by choice and those who studied arts because of low IQ or selfishness.

There was one nigga I did both primary and secondary school with. I have known him all my life and he never crossed class C or D to enter class B talkless of A, from primary to secondary. Today he is a high flying lawyer having knuckled down in his SS3 and University years. Anither of my nigga who was near the bottom of the class (placed between 20th and 30th but never demoted to class B) is now an Anaesthesiologist in USA collecting good pepper. That shows that belief, determination and ambition are the most vital ingredients even in a "dull" student. There is no excuse for anyone with a triple digit IQ to be studying Masscomm except in abroad setting in a prestigious uni, then we will know it's by choice. Do you know that even in England, the worst, most dull and most unambitious students in my time would scrape together one E and go to Uni to study "Media studies" which is our version of MassCom here. We just saw them as time wasters who just want to enjoy student loan for 3 more years before facing the real world.

BlueRayDick:
The problem is u are an old man who was trained to believe STEM courses or the age long trio of Accountancy, Economics and Law are the only way to show one is serious with his or her life.

The fact the people whom u know that studied MASSCOM did so out of fear for those aforementioned STEM courses, Law and the likes has made u greatly prejudiced.

I like am like that. Before I employ you with art degree I need to see a prestigious uni on your CV so I can differentiate between those who studied arts by choice and those who studied arts because of laziness or lack of aptitude

There was one guy I did both primary and secondary school with. I have known him all my life and he never crossed class C or D to enter class B talkless of A, from primary to secondary. Today he is a high flying lawyer having knuckled down in his SS3 and University years. Another of my nigga who was near the bottom of the class (placed between 20th and 30th but never demoted to class B) is now an Anaesthesiologist in USA collecting good pepper. That shows that belief, determination and ambition are the most vital ingredients even in a "dull" student. There is no excuse for anyone with aptitude to be studying Masscomm except in abroad setting in a prestigious uni, then we will know it's by choice.

Do you know that even in England, the worst, most dull and most unambitious students in my time would scrape together one E at A Levels and go to Uni to study "Media studies" which is our version of MassCom here. We just saw them as time wasters who just want to enjoy student loan for 3 more years before facing the real world.

Ibeme:
I like am like that. Before I employ you with art degree I need to see a prestigious uni on your CV so I can differentiate between those who studied arts by choice and those who studied arts because of laziness or lack of aptitude

There was one guy I did both primary and secondary school with. I have known him all my life and he never crossed class C or D to enter class B talkless of A, from primary to secondary. Today he is a high flying lawyer having knuckled down in his SS3 and University years. Another of my nigga who was near the bottom of the class (placed between 20th and 30th but never demoted to class B) is now an Anaesthesiologist in USA collecting good pepper. That shows that belief, determination and ambition are the most vital ingredients even in a "dull" student. There is no excuse for anyone with aptitude to be studying Masscomm except in abroad setting in a prestigious uni, then we will know it's by choice.

Do you know that even in England, the worst, most dull and most unambitious students in my time would scrape together one E at A Levels and go to Uni to study "Media studies" which is our version of MassCom here. We just saw them as time wasters who just want to enjoy student loan for 3 more years before facing the real world.

I agree with u that with determination and hard work, even a below average student can move up to become an above average student over time.

There was this guy we met in class in JSS2 because he repeated JSS2 while his mates were promoted to JSS3 . For U to repeat at the level u are considered a very poor student. Due to football matters, we became friends; he would play on my team most times during lunch break.

We both passed to JSS3, albeit his result wasn't as good as that of my other friends. When we did our JSCE (Junior Waec) and this guy saw my result, he just told me he will go to whatever department I chose and that was exactly what he did. We were in the same class till SS3. Somehow I had a very huge impact on his life and didn't even know.

The guy just imitated me by putting efforts to read as much as he played and discovered he wasn't as dull as he had thought. He just wanted his results to be half as good as mine usually was.

Last I heard from him, he was a full time lecturer in a polytechnic and an adjunct lecturer in another polytechnic. Even me I shock say the guy can ever learn to the extent of imparting knowledge in others.

The easiest way to prove Ibime wrong would be to see if any of the 12k students who scored the 300 above put in Mass comm as their potential course of study.

God help him if a large % happen to fall in that bracket.

Is there a breakdown of the intended courses by the Jamb candidates BluerayDick?

User09:
The easiest way to prove Ibime wrong would be to see if any of the 12k students who scored the 300 above put in Mass comm as their potential course of study.

God help him if a large % happen to fall in that bracket.

Is there a breakdown of the intended courses by the Jamb candidates BluerayDick?

You sef know it's zero

There was a thread in the last 6 months of the top JAMB scorers from the last 10 years and what they are doing now and they are all doing numeric jobs or numeric further education

To be fair, I've also got my bias against them - cos I'm pro STEM anyday anytime

But in this day and time of passion - People should actually go with what they want provided the decision is well informed

But if ure stuck or were born in a developing country and truly want to better your odds in life - The answer and path to take should be clear to you.

And this is not just because it's in demand, but because it is where you are most likely to encounter critical thinking, curiosity and rigorous problem solving skills in your prime academic years

BlueRayDick:
Omo ! Courses Dey

That year if Unilag don release merit list finish , dem go come advertise courses wey Dey available wey people wey get good grades fit change their course to for them to be considered admission .

You will see them Listing courses like Education Admin, Guidance and counseling , Adult Education, Human Kinetics Education, Christian religious study , fisheries , social work , etc.

You go come begin ask people “ where can I work if I study social work “? 😂

You see that human kinetics education, who study am don hammer like this coz Canada dey find am gaaan.
But people go dey laugh courses like am

BlueRayDick:
During the time of Prof. Bello Ahmad Salim , people wey Dey score 300 no Dey pass 2 in the whole Nigeria . The first person may score 320 , second person 307 and third person 297 in the whole of Nigeria .

I know this because I saw two of such brochure where they will have pictures of the best 3 candidates in the previous year’s examinations

I’m shocked over 12k are scoring above 300 nowadays .

In the 90s people were not scoring up to 300. Highest scores were 256, 267, 277.

Does anybody know the marking scheme of JAMB now?

KingTom:
'You can work anywhere, companies will be begging you to work for them' Lori iro walahi you go cry. Human Kinetics

Go through the health care pathway for Canada and look at part of the university courses, you'll see human Kinetics there😁.

Ibime:
All those Peller, content creators and OAPs, how many of them get MassCom?

There are 720 radio stations in Nigeria who employ mostly people who didn't study MassCom, but there are half a million Directors that need PAs. I know you don't need Secretarial degree to do Secretary work but last last there are still more jobs for them. Even at that, you can't be a PA to a high flying Corporate Director without a degree. PAs for corporates these days are expected to have strategic knowledge to step in and communicate on behalf of their boss to the point that even lawyers are serving as PAs in some of the most blue chip companies today.

Nobody was doing MassCom like that 20 years ago, na useless indomie generation start this MassCom trend

How I knew MassCom was a useless course was even 10 years ago. My first cousin born to my uncle wey no hold was adopted by one of my aunty wey get pepper. She trained this girl in one private school in AkwaIbom paying N300k per term which was $2k dollars then. I heard the girl was doing well such that when I visited PH in 2014, I insisted I take a road trip to Uyo to visit her in her boarding house. The next year which was her SS3 year na him matter cast, I heard she's started playing and becoming unserious. My Aunty who is a PHD holder, alumni and board member at Abu Zaria had set it up for her to go study law at Zaria. On top of that, that my aunty is well connected to the point of being friends with Sultan of Sokoto and sitting on the board of ABU Zaria and could have paved way for her professionally with connections and jobs if she just followed the path my aunty set for her. She said no, that she wants to do Masscomm at Uniport. She finally flopped her final exams scoring 180 and my aunty disowned her. That's when she said she wants to use that 180 to go to Polytechnic, I said last last you must sit at home for one year and write JAMB again. She finally passed the JAMB to get to Uniport but to study journalism which is not far from Masscomm. At this point I've almost washed my hands off her but still giving her small benefit of the doubt. Her first year of uni, she called me one day. Before even greeting and talking as adults, she started fake crying "Uncle, I need money". That's when I shouted at her that is that how you talk to adults with childish voice? From then I washed hands off her, she can't squeeze N1k out of my hand today. She is the one that educated me on the unambitious nature and general uselessness of MASSCOMM people.

You are not beefing Mass Comm actually. You are beefing your unserious Mass Comm student cousin.
Mass Comm na just collateral damage.