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forgiveness:
I will continue to say this, monthly salary is nologer effective in this modern world.

What we need to deploy is pay per hour.

Salary work is a flash in human history, it is not the norm. It is the invention of a capitalist, exploitative system, and such system in roughly a century has proven to be ineffective.

For most of human existence, work has always been individualised. You do your own thing, hire someone for a short time if needed (eg clear the farm), or exchange what you have for what you want (trade by barter).

The pendulum is just reseting back to normal. It will be a painful adjustment, but a necessary one. People have to figure way to sustain a living, than depending on others to put them on a permanent payroll.

A payroll that demands sacrifices like autonomy, lack of individualism, uncertainty, stagnant income under constant attacked by inflation, etc

The smart one are readapting and going with the tides, while the rest are busy looking for a better job or doing more than one job to further enslave themselves.

Nazgul:
That's because most 9-5 jobs can no longer give you that dream life you long for. Rent alone in Lagos is crazy. Imagine paying up to 2m for 1bedroom flat. You'd have save up your salary for at least 6 months (or more) to be able to afford that.

The economy has made it extremely difficult for people to finish the university, get a job, buy a car, get married and live happily ever. That dream is totally dead.

What most people are going into is freelancing and remote jobs. At least whatever you earn there is in dollar so it would have value as compared to someone earning in Naira.

I know a very foolish church members that were trained all through university by a mother who had a restaurant, and a father who is a carpenter.

For over three decades, these jobs are what their parents used to cater for the family, until the parents got old, could not do the business anymore, and had to close shop.

Meanwhile, these three siblings (two boys and one girl) who are all in their 30's are busy jumping bus to look for work with humiliating salaries. Sometimes calling me to help with transport or medical bills for sick parents.

I always ask them, why did you allow your parent business to crash?

your parents already have a huge customer base to inherit from, structure, knowhow, and free mentorship until your feet are firm in the ground. Their answer are always nonsense such as ''food is not my passion'', I studied mass comm, I cant be cutting meat and doing such job etc.

I weep for them. I then asked him, is your passion jumping from place to place looking for job that pays less than 100k? begging for money and being unemployed?

His sister has accepted her fate and start to hawk cream and drugs, but she was a heir to a business that if she developed, would be in the level of ''Amoke Oge'', or Chicken republic.

The foolishness in those siblings make my blood boil. Same business your parent used to build house in the village, did all kinds of things, train you guys in school, you abandoned to go look for some office job that strips you off all dignity in this Nigeria?

Thats the situation of many youth in this country. They keep looking for some perfect job outside, while they can easily inherit what their parents have build for decade, all because the job is not flashy enough.

If it is not flashy, why cant you grow the business? that is the point of your education. Your education is not to oppress people, but to spot opportunities and like the story of the servants and talents in the bible, you multiply your talent.

GloriousGbola:
being self employed means volatility

The stick to 9-5

Hamachi:
The stick to 9-5

https://www.nairaland.com/hamachi

i am talking about real work not OS work

Well said

pansophist:
I know a very foolish church members that were trained all through university by a mother who had a restaurant, and a father who is a carpenter.

For over three decades, these jobs are what their parents used to cater for the family, until the parents got old, could not do the business anymore, and had to close shop.

Meanwhile, these three siblings (two boys and one girl) who are all in their 30's are busy jumping bus to look for work with humiliating salaries. Sometimes calling me to help with transport or medical bills for sick parents.

I always ask them, why did you allow your parent business to crash?

your parents already have a huge customer base to inherit from, structure, knowhow, and free mentorship until your feet are firm in the ground. Their answer are always nonsense such as ''food is not my passion'', I studied mass comm, I cant be cutting meat and doing such job etc.

I weep for them. I then asked him, is your passion jumping from place to place looking for job that pays less than 100k? begging for money and being unemployed?

His sister has accepted her fate and start to hawk cream and drugs, but she was a heir to a business that if she developed, would be in the level of ''Amoke Oge'', or Chicken republic.

The foolishness in those siblings make my blood boil. Same business your parent used to build house in the village, did all kinds of things, train you guys in school, you abandoned to go look for some office job that strips you off all dignity in this Nigeria?

Thats the situation of many youth in this country. They keep looking for some perfect job outside, while they can easily inherit what their parents have build for decade, all because the job is not flashy enough.

If it is not flashy, why cant you grow the business? that is the point of your education. Your education is not to oppress people, but to spot opportunities and like the story of the servants and talents in the bible, you multiply your talent.

pansophist:
I know a very foolish church members that were trained all through university by a mother who had a restaurant, and a father who is a carpenter.

For over three decades, these jobs are what their parents used to cater for the family, until the parents got old, could not do the business anymore, and had to close shop.

Meanwhile, these three siblings (two boys and one girl) who are all in their 30's are busy jumping bus to look for work with humiliating salaries. Sometimes calling me to help with transport or medical bills for sick parents.

I always ask them, why did you allow your parent business to crash?

your parents already have a huge customer base to inherit from, structure, knowhow, and free mentorship until your feet are firm in the ground. Their answer are always nonsense such as ''food is not my passion'', I studied mass comm, I cant be cutting meat and doing such job etc.

I weep for them. I then asked him, is your passion jumping from place to place looking for job that pays less than 100k? begging for money and being unemployed?

His sister has accepted her fate and start to hawk cream and drugs, but she was a heir to a business that if she developed, would be in the level of ''Amoke Oge'', or Chicken republic.

The foolishness in those siblings make my blood boil. Same business your parent used to build house in the village, did all kinds of things, train you guys in school, you abandoned to go look for some office job that strips you off all dignity in this Nigeria?

Thats the situation of many youth in this country. They keep looking for some perfect job outside, while they can easily inherit what their parents have build for decade, all because the job is not flashy enough.

If it is not flashy, why cant you grow the business? that is the point of your education. Your education is not to oppress people, but to spot opportunities and like the story of the servants and talents in the bible, you multiply your talent.

the parents are also at fault because they did not involve the children in the business

we had a contractor working for us on projects. man was uneducated. making good money. his son read civil engineering. the boy did hie IT in our department., he worked on and off at the company. Today he is running it.

this actually applies to anyone who wants their chjildren to run their business. the children HAVE to be involved and the earlier teh better

that is actually what being a nepo baby is about

but if you are not involved in your parents business you wont even know where to start

i run a consulting/construction partnership and i am trying to bring my son aboard. very frustrating venture - but we move

pansophist:
I know a very foolish church members that were trained all through university by a mother who had a restaurant, and a father who is a carpenter.

For over three decades, these jobs are what their parents used to cater for the family, until the parents got old, could not do the business anymore, and had to close shop.

Meanwhile, these three siblings (two boys and one girl) who are all in their 30's are busy jumping bus to look for work with humiliating salaries. Sometimes calling me to help with transport or medical bills for sick parents.

I always ask them, why did you allow your parent business to crash?

your parents already have a huge customer base to inherit from, structure, knowhow, and free mentorship until your feet are firm in the ground. Their answer are always nonsense such as ''food is not my passion'', I studied mass comm, I cant be cutting meat and doing such job etc.

I weep for them. I then asked him, is your passion jumping from place to place looking for job that pays less than 100k? begging for money and being unemployed?

His sister has accepted her fate and start to hawk cream and drugs, but she was a heir to a business that if she developed, would be in the level of ''Amoke Oge'', or Chicken republic.

The foolishness in those siblings make my blood boil. Same business your parent used to build house in the village, did all kinds of things, train you guys in school, you abandoned to go look for some office job that strips you off all dignity in this Nigeria?

Thats the situation of many youth in this country. They keep looking for some perfect job outside, while they can easily inherit what their parents have build for decade, all because the job is not flashy enough.

If it is not flashy, why cant you grow the business? that is the point of your education. Your education is not to oppress people, but to spot opportunities and like the story of the servants and talents in the bible, you multiply your talent.

You've said it all.

I believe there's this sense of fulfillment most of these people get whenever they tell someone they're off to the office.

Similar to your story, there was a woman in my former area while I was growing up we do call her Iya beji. She was a widow with 5 children (3 boys and 2 girls) who had a bar, and for decades ran that bar successfully. She used it to train her 5 children. Her success was so pronounced that she started buying her drinks from the brewery directly and not from distributors. She rented another shop which she used to store drinks from the ground to the ceiling.

Upon her death, her kids couldn't even maintain the business, from the eldest to the youngest, not even one of them decided to learn that trade. Today the boys are struggling with underpaid jobs, I don't know much about the girls.

What most people fail to understand is that you can still achieve your goals with a good business, most especially a business with a structure and a dedicated customer base like you rightfully pointed out.

GloriousGbola:
the parents are also at fault because they did not involve the children in the business

we had a contractor working for us on projects. man was uneducated. making good money. his son read civil engineering. the boy did hie IT in our department., he worked on and off at the company. Today he is running it.

this actually applies to anyone who wants their chjildren to run their business. the children HAVE to be involved and the earlier teh better

that is actually what being a nepo baby is about

but if you are not involved in your parents business you wont even know where to start

i run a consulting/construction partnership and i am trying to bring my son aboard. very frustrating venture - but we move

The particular case I explained is not the fault of the parents. I know this family, and the parent did everything to make the daughter take on the trade, but she refused. She considered it low class.

Of course there are situations where the children are not groomed to take over, but in many cases, kids are just not interested to further their parent's business if it is not grown enough

If the restaurant is like chicken republic for example, the kids would all be willing to run it, but since it is small scale, they dont want it.

It is also this thing called ''exceptionalism'' that plagues most people. The idea that there is a perfect job in a huge coporation, that will connect them with other high class folks and they all roll together.

Same mindset of exceptionalism that makes a gambler believe he will be in luck and win, and it is others that will loose, or a poor girl thinking a rich man is waiting for her.

To be able to pursue your passion is a privilege, and most of us dont have it. If a person comes from a poor background, what he/she can do is to work hard, sacrifice himself, and pass the privilege of a cozy job to their offspring. Your kids might chase their passion if you put the foundation for that today.

Life is a ladder, and if you born in the lowest level, you dont have the resources to reach the extreme top, but you can reach half, then your kids reach the top. This is a sad thing to accept for most people, but a life of ignorance is worse, as it makes a person worsen their situation.

Parents have tried. They have reached half, oya take it higher, instead of dump it and go look for a job under another mans's structure that he has built, by probably inheriting it from his/own parents.

Nazgul:
You've said it all.

I believe there's this sense of fulfillment most of these people get whenever they tell someone they're off to the office.

Similar to your story, there was a woman in my former area while I was growing up we do call her Iya beji. She was a widow with 5 children (3 boys and 2 girls) who had a bar, and for decades ran that bar successfully. She used it to train her 5 children. Her success was so pronounced that she started buying her drinks from the brewery directly and not from distributors. She rented another shop which she used to store drinks from the ground to the ceiling.

Upon her death, her kids couldn't even maintain the business, from the eldest to the youngest, not even one of them decided to learn that trade. Today the boys are struggling with underpaid jobs, I don't know much about the girls.

What most people fail to understand is that you can still achieve your goals with a good business, most especially a business with a structure and a dedicated customer base like you rightfully pointed out.

Lots of people gave birth to fools that they call children lol

This is not an isolated incident, it is common with our generation of young people.

Something flashy has replace substance. They rather earn 150k in an office job, than be a small business owner where they earn more, or maybe less, but with prospect to grow it without the burden of office politics.

With huge ego and pride, they rather be in dm's and social media begging for money, but ashamed to actually enter street and hustle.

They care about what people that cant give thrm 5k if they almost want to die, than actually ignore the non-existent strangers and fight for your life.

When parents send their chilldren to university, the hope is for them to return and grow the business bigger than they could. Also, parents are old school, didnt grew up with social media., and lack the ability to run a business in this high tech environments.

Kids should come and prove why they are graduates, and finding meaning through growing family business.

Love800:
How does the common-man spends his money in dollar?

Many of the items we buy, are denominated in dollars if We look at it. The suits, watches, building materials, shoes, cars, shirts.

Dollars go up, and these things go up!!! You know a TM Lewin Shirt in Nigeria is around 70k now abi?

Back then, We had a situation where Government was putting dollars behind our expenditures for us, and We didn’t know it!

Someone who was earning N160,000 around 2011(and for a long time after) was earning 1k Dolls per month.
We were just spending free government dollars without knowing it!! Now, if they paid You 750k, would you be enjoying?

pansophist:
The particular case I explained is not the fault of the parents. I know this family, and the parent did everything to make the daughter take on the trade, but she refused. She considered it low class.

Of course there are situations where the children are not groomed to take over, but in many cases, kids are just not interested to further their parent's business if it is not grown enough

If the restaurant is like chicken republic for example, the kids would all be willing to run it, but since it is small scale, they dont want it.

It is also this thing called ''exceptionalism'' that plagues most people. The idea that there is a perfect job in a huge coporation, that will connect them with other high class folks and they all roll together.

Same mindset of exceptionalism that makes a gambler believe he will be in luck and win, and it is others that will loose, or a poor girl thinking a rich man is waiting for her.

To be able to pursue your passion is a privilege, and most of us dont have it. If a person comes from a poor background, what he/she can do is to work hard, sacrifice himself, and pass the privilege of a cozy job to their offspring. Your kids might chase their passion if you put the foundation for that today.

Life is a ladder, and if you born in the lowest level, you dont have the resources to reach the extreme top, but you can reach half, then your kids reach the top. This is a sad thing to accept for most people, but a life of ignorance is worse, as it makes a person worsen their situation.

Parents have tried. They have reached half, oya take it higher, instead of dump it and go look for a job under another mans's structure that he has built, by probably inheriting it from his/own parents.

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pansophist:
Salary work is a flash in human history, it is not the norm. It is the invention of a capitalist, exploitative system, and such system in roughly a century has proven to be ineffective.

For most of human existence, work has always been individualised. You do your own thing, hire someone for a short time if needed (eg clear the farm), or exchange what you have for what you want (trade by barter).

The pendulum is just reseting back to normal. It will be a painful adjustment, but a necessary one. People have to figure way to sustain a living, than depending on others to put them on a permanent payroll.

A payroll that demands sacrifices like autonomy, lack of individualism, uncertainty, stagnant income under constant attacked by inflation, etc

The smart one are readapting and going with the tides, while the rest are busy looking for a better job or doing more than one job to further enslave themselves.

You are so observant and long-sighted.

I switching to farming full-time.

pansophist:
It is also this thing called ''exceptionalism'' that plagues most people. The idea that there is a perfect job in a huge coporation, that will connect them with other high class folks and they all roll together.

Same mindset of exceptionalism that makes a gambler believe he will be in luck and win, and it is others that will loose, or a poor girl thinking a rich man is waiting for her.

To be able to pursue your passion is a privilege, and most of us dont have it. If a person comes from a poor background, what he/she can do is to work hard, sacrifice himself, and pass the privilege of a cozy job to their offspring. Your kids might chase their passion if you put the foundation for that today.

Life is a ladder, and if you born in the lowest level, you dont have the resources to reach the extreme top, but you can reach half, then your kids reach the top. This is a sad thing to accept for most people, but a life of ignorance is worse, as it makes a person worsen their situation.

Parents have tried. They have reached half, oya take it higher, instead of dump it and go look for a job under another mans's structure that he has built, by probably inheriting it from his/own parents.

Too much wisdom!

Premiumbuy:
Premium peace Be Unto You


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