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Hi everyone, I'm posting this section because I need more attention on this topic.

I am now ex corper from today, no more 77k again and now thinking of what next to do.

I served in Kano state, people do say there are many opportunities here but I am yet to see that in this environment.

Pls I need a piece of advice on how to scale through after NYSC🙏

I don reason tire😄

i thought they are going to pay you double allawe when you are through? or have they stopped?
77k+77k is enough to start a private venture for yourself.

Carry your brown envelope and trek the streets. Doing so will put you ahead of Nairaland’s administrator.

Alwizkidi:
Hi everyone, I'm posting this section because I need more attention on this topic.

I am now ex corper from today, no more 77k again and now thinking of what next to do.

I served in Kano state, people do say there are many opportunities here but I am yet to see that in this environment.

Pls I need a piece of advice on how to scale through after NYSC🙏

I don reason tire😄

Same question I asked 18 years ago when I was rounding off my youth service.
I started with teaching and serious job hunting. Met a couple of disappointments.
Job applications without invites. Job applications and tests without invitation to oral interview. Tests and oral interviews without job offer. I was only focussing on high profile jobs and I didn't have any godfather or rich and connected uncles.
I finally ended up with bank job. I've been there since then.

louken:
Same question I asked 18 years ago when I was rounding off my youth service.
I started with teaching and serious job hunting. Met a couple of disappointments.
Job applications without invites. Job applications and tests without invitation to oral interview. Tests and oral interviews without job offer. I was only focussing on high profile jobs and I didn't have any godfather or rich and connected uncles.
I finally ended up with bank job. I've been there since then.

typically the Nigerian story.....this was my fate too 10yrs ago after service, after teaching for about 2yrs I went back to med school. truth is theres no blueprint to how your life ll turn out, just let your gut feeling guide you through. All the best

They paid it already

Nothing next bro.

I will advise you to get a skill, this is 2025 people don’t really do job hunting like before due to the high rate of unemployment. This is Nigeria where the uneducated ones employe graduates, graduates riding bikes/Keke, doing all kinds of menial jobs that does not requiring skills and lack prestige…If you don’t want to find yourself in that situation, get a high paying skill this will put you on track for the future.

I also graduated years ago, worked in different fields (Banks, supermarkets, power companies, real estate etc) with nothing to show until i acquire a skill which is paying me now. I am now a professional photographer/videographer/editor and also working towards having my own photo studio.

Skill will take you places and also meet with high-profile people (this one is 💯 sure)

I feel sad when I listen to some Keke or bike riders who are graduates with good courses and grades but ended up being a driver.

The day I gave up on this country was when a dispatch rider came to deliver an item to me, this guy had 1st class in chemistry but the country failed him and ended up being a dispatch rider just to make ends meet.

louken:
Same question I asked 18 years ago when I was rounding off my youth service.
I started with teaching and serious job hunting. Met a couple of disappointments.
Job applications without invites. Job applications and tests without invitation to oral interview. Tests and oral interviews without job offer. I was only focussing on high profile jobs and I didn't have any godfather or rich and connected uncles.
I finally ended up with bank job. I've been there since then.

i love to get a bank Job too, Can you help?

NYSC simply means , Now your suffering Continues.



Hit the streets and make money.

Now you're officially on your own and you now take direct responsibility and consequences for your actions.

Except you have a skill that you've used professionally over the last few years, don't bother starting a business.

Now is the time to milk all your contacts from friends, relatives, fellow corpers, mentors, former teachers and literally anyone you've had a good rapport with. Maintain contact, subtly keep in their minds that you're job searching and ready to provide value.

Make yourself useful at every opportunity but don't be a pest and don't sacrifice your finances for actions that won't give you any return. Volunteer, send emails on LinkedIn, write posts and make yourself visible to everybody.

If you have a field in mind, look for a company "close" to your residence and offer to work free on a "part time basis". Emphasis. This could be half day or two days in a week.

If you have a skill you desire to learn, go an enroll and start learning but be ready to follow through so you don't waste your time. Just be sure you do your honest research on how you can make money with that skill 1 year down the road.

It's not a crime to go back to your father's house too while you hunt. Save every penny.

Good luck.

OP
If you were able to save from the 77K, start any small business.

Then find a Job that can up to 150K and try do it together with the business.