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How I was asked to create a 100-page book for N5000.

It's heavily painful on me before I decided to do this. Let me go straight to the point.

So I saw the job vacancy online and decided to apply as I was without a job, cash-trapped, hungry and stranded at the time. After my interest was made known, the person sent 6 different screen-recorded materials for me to watch as training. Each lasts between 20-30minutes (burning of mobile data).
Then when I was done with the videos, he sent me a topic to start working.
Guess what?
I started but didn't really understand what was involved.
As I was creating the book, I got to 55 pages while I still had more to go.
So before I could get to the end, it was 115 pages.
This took me over a week to craft.
Also, I was expected to do thorough designing, editing and formatting on the book.
What the person expects me to do in details before the book is found satisfactory:
1. Take prompts to an AI tool and generate the book from part to part, section to section and copy same to another work environment after each generation.
2. Edit and format the texts to meet requirement
3. Log on to another AI tool to generate images pertaining to the content of the book.
4. Take the images from the tool you generated it from to another AI tool to resize, crop, compress and then export and paste where necessary in the book. Meanwhile, each page of the book required 3-4 images and by the number of the book pages, totalling would require generating, resizing, cropping and compressing over 300-400 images using your mobile data and pasting them in different points where necessary.
Then design the cover page to meet the standard.
All for N5k.
The cost of mobile data alone is almost half of that amount.
And then you spend a week or so to do the work and earn N5k.
Even ordinary typing in a computer centre is now N300/page wth no designs or heavy formatting.

Isn't this the height of abuse of human resource going on in Nigeria?
I'm pained because unemployment led me to this sad situation. Sad is an understatement.
Lastly, please if you have a remote job with better pay, I'm the best fit for you.
I have a laptop and smartphone.

This is what is currently happening in Nigeria, you won't blame anyone though but the country who is currently been ruled by incompetent politicians.

But, learn a lesson from above. Why not start creating your own book and sell? Since, you've gotten some experience

So many underpaid gigs in the country... Na God go just save person from this horrible situation sincerely

Stayupup:
How I was asked to create a 100-page book for N5000.

It's heavily painful on me before I decided to do this. Let me go straight to the point.

So I saw the job vacancy online and decided to apply as I was without a job, cash-trapped, hungry and stranded at the time. After my interest was made known, the person sent 6 different screen-recorded materials for me to watch as training. Each lasts between 20-30minutes (burning of mobile data).
Then when I was done with the videos, he sent me a topic to start working.
Guess what?
I started but didn't really understand what was involved.
As I was creating the book, I got to 55 pages while I still had more to go.
So before I could get to the end, it was 115 pages.
This took me over a week to craft.
Also, I was expected to do thorough designing, editing and formatting on the book.
What the person expects me to do in details before the book is found satisfactory:
1. Take prompts to an AI tool and generate the book from part to part, section to section and copy same to another work environment after each generation.
2. Edit and format the texts to meet requirement
3. Log on to another AI tool to generate images pertaining to the content of the book.
4. Take the images from the tool you generated it from to another AI tool to resize, crop, compress and then export and paste where necessary in the book. Meanwhile, each page of the book required 3-4 images and by the number of the book pages, totalling would require generating, resizing, cropping and compressing over 300-400 images using your mobile data and pasting them in different points where necessary.
Then design the cover page to meet the standard.
All for N5k.
The cost of mobile data alone is almost half of that amount.
And then you spend a week or so to do the work and earn N5k.
Even ordinary typing in a computer centre is now N300/page wth no designs or heavy formatting.

Isn't this the height of abuse of human resource going on in Nigeria?
I'm pained because unemployment led me to this sad situation. Sad is an understatement.
Lastly, please if you have a remote job with better pay, I'm the best fit for you.
I have a laptop and smartphone.

Hey Poster, can you work in a call centre?
Please note, it's not a remote job.

Olanre05:
Hey Poster, can you work in a call centre?
Please note, it's not a remote job.

I guess for those loan sharks?