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laivwire:
I agree with what you'be decided. Find an alternative source of income that you can rely on when there are no contracts but don't give up on building your experience and portfolio.

When you finally get your contract, you would get solid money. Don't forget to continue hustling for gigs too. It's not just about joining yourself to these one time projects. Sell yourself aggressively to anyone and everyone.

It's marketing that brings the jobs, not only skills. Lokoja is also a good place to build yourself because I can imagine that the competition in Abuja would be quite stiff thank you sir

lazkizz:
E No easy


No course in nigeria can save you, even the soo called medical sector.


Sell yourself and belive in your capability

UcheKingsley1:
Agbado - Is peter obi that caused it

liver123:
As an HND civil engineering graduate, I moved to Abuja immediately after rounding up my service in 2017. Reaching Abuja I started applying for jobs and moving From one office to another to summit cv all to no avail. Then there was this secondary school very close to me, a very popular school in the area and I decided to to give it a try. I went there to submit my CV and to cut the whole story short I was given the job to teach physics for senior class and computer science for juniors class. I did the job one year and I quit cos I can't cope with the stress. So I started doing some hustling job on the street to survive until I met a guy through a friend who studied civil engineering too and has worked in one or two sites within Abuja. Prior to this time, I had very little experience on site which was not able to boost my confidence if offered a job to handle site. He then encouraged me to just look for site and be going even if it's without pay so that I can gain one or two experience which I did and the experience was able to make me work with a man and after that man I also work under a senior engineer on six story building from foundations. Most of the challenges that comes with working under all this one man business as a site engineer is underpayment and inconsistency of work which is the major reason for this epistle. Some periods there will be no work and considering the fact that they pay monthly, it becomes difficult for them to pay you and you now become jobless at that point. During a period in Abuja, a man I work under has no contract coming and I became jobless and within that period I was referred to another man through my inlaw. I called the man and he told me he had a bridge work in my state kogi and that when the time comes for the execution he will call me. To cut the whole story short i started working with the man on the bridge work 2023 of which I was the only engineer on site for a 30m bridge across a body of heavy flowing water and to the glory of God the bridge is standing today and i have also completed order projects under this man. I relocated from Abuja to lokoja after one year work this man because most of the contract he handles is within lokoja and suburbs. My major challenge now is we have gone to statuesque, no consistency of work and the man is beginning to tell me now that he cannot pay anymore. How can I cope with life with this on and off of site work. As a site engineer you post pictures of big work people see it and thought you are making money meanwhile you are just struggling to survive. I am considering calling it a quite working under one man business as an engineer, let me be advertising myself and believing in God for a contract of my own. During this period I am considering going into laundry and build a brand from there , if i get a contract I go and If i don't get I face the laundry even though i don't have much capital for that but i believe i can start from somewhere.

Bittersweetnig:
try and get a clean 307 Peugeot saloon car and start Uber driving, this will help you sustain and you will be meeting with quality people on daily basis, introducing your profession and when you get a contract, you will go to site and do it then life continues

olaolaking:
If I were you, I will go to CAC to register my business name as a construction company. My mind will tell me what next from there