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Should a graduate push a wheelbarrow or not?

I've shared my story here multiple times and a lot of you already know my story.

But I still want to share it for the benefit of those who don't know my story.

As a graduate, I sold doughnuts knocking from shop to shop on the streets of Makurdi.

As a graduate, I've worked as a security guard with a salary of N25K per month.

As a graduate, I've sold chin-chin from shop to shop on the streets of Lagos.

While I was doing all that, I had a family to take care of.

I've seen a lot of posts recently from people sharing their opinion on why a graduate shouldn't take up a Wheelbarrow job because it's beneath their status.

You see that statement “A graduate like me?” is the reason why we still have a lot of broke graduates out there today.

They all want to rise to the top but nobody wants to start from the bottom.

I won't advise you to go and push Wheelbarrow but hear me.

There is a season in a man's life called “Survival Phase”.

At that stage in your life, you just need money to survive and take care of your basic needs.

You think I was happy working as a security guard even with my certificate?

I wasn't, but I had to do it to survive because that was the available legit option.

I really needed money because I have a family to take care of and can't continue to beg or depend on others for financial assistance.

If you're at that survival stage of your life right now as a graduate, whatever legit you find to do, please do it with all diligence.

It is better to work and earn an honest living than to beg or do illegal things to make money.

Even if it means packing sh!t to make money, pack the sh!t.

After all, sh!t money doesn’t smell sh!t.

Don't bother about what people will say.

“What will people say?” will not put a dime in your pocket.

However, while you're at it, be seeking bigger opportunities.

From that security guard post, I went straight into an office that was AC fitted to work as a customer service representative.

Of course, my salary also went up.

Why?

Because I didn't just sit down there as if that's my final bus stop in life.

While I was doing the job, I was submitting my CV in other companies where I could secure a better paying job.

I'm not where I want to be yet, but I don't look like what I've been through nor do I look like where I am coming from.

Whatever your hand finds to do right now, go all in and do it with honor.

That thing may not be the thing.

But it may be the thing that will lead to the thing.

Sit down there and be asking fulani question. No go ish barrow dey wait for tulumbu to give you white collar job.

OGA if you see to push go ahead your life is a journey and that wheel barrow is not your final bus stop.

Please let us always endeavor to read a post before we jump into posting reply

letitrainnow:
Should a graduate push a wheelbarrow or not?

I've shared my story here multiple times and a lot of you already know my story.

But I still want to share it for the benefit of those who don't know my story.

As a graduate, I sold doughnuts knocking from shop to shop on the streets of Makurdi.

As a graduate, I've worked as a security guard with a salary of N25K per month.

As a graduate, I've sold chin-chin from shop to shop on the streets of Lagos.

While I was doing all that, I had a family to take care of.

I've seen a lot of posts recently from people sharing their opinion on why a graduate shouldn't take up a Wheelbarrow job because it's beneath their status.

You see that statement “A graduate like me?” is the reason why we still have a lot of broke graduates out there today.

They all want to rise to the top but nobody wants to start from the bottom.

I won't advise you to go and push Wheelbarrow but hear me.

There is a season in a man's life called “Survival Phase”.

At that stage in your life, you just need money to survive and take care of your basic needs.

You think I was happy working as a security guard even with my certificate?

I wasn't, but I had to do it to survive because that was the available legit option.

I really needed money because I have a family to take care of and can't continue to beg or depend on others for financial assistance.

If you're at that survival stage of your life right now as a graduate, whatever legit you find to do, please do it with all diligence.

It is better to work and earn an honest living than to beg or do illegal things to make money.

Even if it means packing sh!t to make money, pack the sh!t.

After all, sh!t money doesn’t smell sh!t.

Don't bother about what people will say.

“What will people say?” will not put a dime in your pocket.

However, while you're at it, be seeking bigger opportunities.

From that security guard post, I went straight into an office that was AC fitted to work as a customer service representative.

Of course, my salary also went up.

Why?

Because I didn't just sit down there as if that's my final bus stop in life.

While I was doing the job, I was submitting my CV in other companies where I could secure a better paying job.

I'm not where I want to be yet, but I don't look like what I've been through nor do I look like where I am coming from.

Whatever your hand finds to do right now, go all in and do it with honor.

That thing may not be the thing.

But it may be the thing that will lead to the thing.

I still dey push wheel barrow, after spending years in uni

No condition is permanent bro....and I'm equally happy for your upliftment......

So long you don't give up during your time of hustling and struggling, there's nothing you can't achieve..... Just believe 🙏