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Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by omoadeleye(m): 12:00pm On Sep 12, 2025
paragon10:
What is jama jama?
LoneSoldier:
Which one is jama jama again?
No sleeping, any job that shows up you run am
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by wunmi590(m): 12:26pm On Sep 12, 2025
Munzy14:
You are investing.

Only pray to have a good ROI
Lol, amen thank you my brother
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Sherishmi1: 2:30pm On Sep 12, 2025
God!
God!!
God!!!
It has been God all the way 🥰
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Inspirer1: 2:40pm On Sep 12, 2025
Information sourcing...
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by yewit37486:
LoneSoldier:
Am a salary earner who works from home, the company is not in Nigeria.....

The salary is huge and i don't have people I give it to, so that is one huge advantage for me, I don't have a wife or kids, and I don't choose to have..... I love how naira is useless in this country, because my salary when converted to Nigeria naira, you go know say something drop.....

If you are a single man and you have something you are doing that gives you money, whether non-salary earners or salary earners you will have peace of mind, suffering won't be there for you....
Very selfish way of thinking. Typical Nigerian mindset = once it is okay with me, everyone else can go to h--ll.
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Hassanmaye(m): 6:29pm On Sep 12, 2025
wunmi590:
huh

Choi, even we that earn salary, we are still begging God for more, last 2 month salary and half of last mo th salary was used to pay my 2 kids new session school fees and also paid my wife new session masters program, nah garri I dey soak for office since first week of this month 😆 🤣
Blood of Zachariah
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Fhaze(m): 8:50pm On Sep 12, 2025
Precious201010:
I've mapped out family and friends like 15, I do visit once in 2 weeks... So that's how we are surviving... Play with their children small, eat and go home...
My ego didnt allow me do this, maybe my case would've been different now if i just zeroed my mind
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Precious201010(m): 10:49pm On Sep 12, 2025
Fhaze:
My ego didnt allow me do this, maybe my case would've been different now if i just zeroed my mind
grin people are wired differently.... Children generally loves play, and parents loves those who plays with their kids..

Even if I didn't go in a week, the children will be the one asking their parents to do the calling.

Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Samueltemi337(m): 6:57am On Sep 13, 2025
Sonofgod1990:
Na sportybet kept me going All dis while oo cool
Good morning
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Sonofgod1990(m): 8:26am On Sep 13, 2025
Samueltemi337:
Good morning
Xup bro
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Samueltemi337(m):
Sonofgod1990:
Xup bro
Modified: Nevermind
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Fhaze(m): 10:02am On Sep 13, 2025
Precious201010:
grin people are wired differently.... Children generally loves play, and parents loves those who plays with their kids..

Even if I didn't go in a week, the children will be the one asking their parents to do the calling.
Strategy grin
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Hypnotise: 11:20am On Sep 13, 2025
Inspirer1:
Information sourcing...
What Kind of information
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Hypnotise: 11:22am On Sep 13, 2025
Hamachi:
As for me , na online hustles o...most especially in the IT and Forex trading sectors.

As for Nigeria, the country is doomed to destruction ...and if anyone is thinking things will get better is just being outright stupid
Exactly, you’ve said it yourself. Web development is the key to things getting better for Nigeria as a whole.
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Openair: 12:00pm On Sep 13, 2025
onyxo76:
sure thing.
Chief, I just sent you a pm
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by onyxo76(m): 1:46pm On Sep 13, 2025
Openair:
Chief, I just sent you a pm
replied you already
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by PhilipEboh:
dapada91:
give me a range of how much you make in a week,I mean the net profit(the profit that's your own that you can spend without investing it back in the business(you don't have to drop the exact figure,just the range, something like xx to xx thousand everyweek).please I look forward to your reply.
Good afternoon, truth is you can't use mine to determine yours if you begin because we are not in the same location, there's more profit in phone accessories compared to the sales of phone itself except you have multiple millions to buy directly from China, which makes you an importer/distributor/wholesaler. I am a retailer, thus, I buy from distributors. For normal screen guards one of the fastest selling item in the shop, I buy for ₦200 naira and sell at ₦1000, some customers like yahoo boys pay ₦1500. I give u price based on how I perceive you! YES! The screen guard you have on your phone. It's that profitable, there's another we call privacy, we buy ₦500 and resell at ₦1500. I buy iPhone , typeC and Android cords for ₦600 and resell at ₦1500. Extremely fast chargers I buy at ₦2700 and resell at ₦4000 sometimes ₦4500 and ₦5000 depending on the customer bargaining power but 4k being the last price. For button phones; you make little profit from it, same with Android phones because people know the prices of phone from interacting with one another even before they get to your shop.
A week, i Make an average of 70k to 100k in profit, but in raining seasons that can be devided by 2 because u Will experience low turn out of customers as a result of the weather. The 70k profit is for sales of phone accessories alone and it comes with serious dedication and availability in the shop as customer can walk into the shop at anytime so it requires sitting in your store for long hours. There are other things I added like POS, Charging, Sales of mineral (I have a deep freezer in d store), recharge cards, SIM cards, data etc. I have a phone repairer in front of my shop, repairing and remitting money to me on daily basis. When I started 4 years ago, I open 8am to close sometimes 11:30 pm at night. My wife had to cry for me to reduce my closing time, for my safety at least, because I carry cash for POS around. But now because of competitors, the profit and sales margin is reducing day by day and and overall, I record the sales of phone accessories as the main source of revenue now, the rest is just to attract customers to the shop and comes with petty profit.
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Openair:
onyxo76:
replied you already
Chief I couldn't find it.
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Abidek900(m): 4:47pm On Sep 13, 2025
PhilipEboh:
I own a shop,I sell phone accessories, charge people's phones, POS, sells Button phones, minerals and recently added SIM sales. There are too many competitors around me now compared to when I started so it's really tough and time-consuming.
Are you saying it's no more lucrative?
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by dapada91: 6:14pm On Sep 13, 2025
PhilipEboh:
Good afternoon, truth is you can't use mine to determine yours if you begin because we are not in the same location, there's more profit in phone accessories compared to the sales of phone itself except you have multiple millions to buy directly from China, which makes you an importer/distributor/wholesaler. I am a retailer, thus, I buy from distributors. For normal screen guards one of the fastest selling item in the shop, I buy for ₦200 naira and sell at ₦1000, some customers like yahoo boys pay ₦1500. I give u price based on how I perceive you! YES! The screen guard you have on your phone. It's that profitable, there's another we call privacy, we buy ₦500 and resell at ₦1500. I buy iPhone , typeC and Android cords for ₦600 and resell at ₦1500. Extremely fast chargers I buy at ₦2700 and resell at ₦4000 sometimes ₦4500 and ₦5000 depending on the customer bargaining power but 4k being the last price. For button phones; you make little profit from it, same with Android phones because people know the prices of phone from interacting with one another even before they get to your shop.
A week, i Make an average of 70k to 100k in profit, but in raining seasons that can be devided by 2 because u Will experience low turn out of customers as a result of the weather. The 70k profit is for sales of phone accessories alone and it comes with serious dedication and availability in the shop as customer can walk into the shop at anytime so it requires sitting in your store for long hours. There are other things I added like POS, Charging, Sales of mineral (I have a deep freezer in d store), recharge cards, SIM cards, data etc. I have a phone repairer in front of my shop, repairing and remitting money to me on daily basis. When I started 4 years ago, I open 8am to close sometimes 11:30 pm at night. My wife had to cry for me to reduce my closing time, for my safety at least, because I carry cash for POS around. But now because of competitors, the profit and sales margin is reducing day by day and and overall, I record the sales of phone accessories as the main source of revenue now, the rest is just to attract customers to the shop and comes with petty profit.
thank you so much for this insightful reply.i want to go into pos and phone accessories, that's what attracted me to your post.
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Premiumbuy(m): 8:30am On Sep 14, 2025
Hamachi:
My Recommendation for You (as a starting point):
If you want quick earning potential → start with Web Development.
If you want job opportunities in companies → start with IT Support/Networking.
If you want future-proof, high-demand skills → start with Data Analysis.
Premium peace Be Unto You


Thank you for your time. Among these three, which of them can I learn and start making money under six months?
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Adonisty: 9:09am On Sep 14, 2025
Hamachi:
My Recommendation for You (as a starting point):
If you want quick earning potential → start with Web Development.
If you want job opportunities in companies → start with IT Support/Networking.
If you want future-proof, high-demand skills → start with Data Analysis.
Is it the same web developent that AI is about to eclipse?
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by PhilipEboh: 9:11pm On Sep 14, 2025
dapada91:
thank you so much for this insightful reply.i want to go into pos and phone accessories, that's what attracted me to your post.
Go well
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Blessedarethepe(m): 12:44pm On Sep 15, 2025
wunmi590:
huh

Choi, even we that earn salary, we are still begging God for more, last 2 month salary and half of last mo th salary was used to pay my 2 kids new session school fees and also paid my wife new session masters program, nah garri I dey soak for office since first week of this month 😆 🤣
No kpai yourself before money come o.
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by wunmi590(m): 1:16pm On Sep 15, 2025
Blessedarethepe:
No kpai yourself before money come o.
My brother, nah true you talk oooo, God will preserve me and all of us 🙏
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by b0rn2fuck(m): 3:05am On Sep 16, 2025
Precious201010:
grin people are wired differently.... Children generally loves play, and parents loves those who plays with their kids..

Even if I didn't go in a week, the children will be the one asking their parents to do the calling.
I won't try that again in my life because na so I stay knack married woman because I love playing with kids a lot..
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by bestmutiu2019(m): 9:36am On Sep 19, 2025
onyxo76:
salary one side... sports trading on another, a good extra 100-150k monthly from sports trading if you know how to go about it. sporty has been a good platform.
Hello boss
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by SamuraiXXX: 1:01am On Sep 24, 2025
stagger:
Cocoa soared to all-time highs last year. That is the major reason. It traded above N15m per ton...serious money.
N15 million per ton for ordinary cocoa? Are you sure?
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Veenview(m):
Saviola86:
Any man not earning a minimum of 150k in present day Nigeria now should quit his job.

That's roughly 5k per day and there are lots of things to do on a daily to make you that 5k.

I am a graduate with high grade and was working and earning 60k a month which they later offered to increase to 120k when I tendered my resignation letter but that didn't deter me from leaving. I rejected the offer and still left.


Before my resignation, weekends I used to visit alaba market to snap products from vendor and market. Wasn't regular but once in a while deals used to click.

I also used my savings to get a good bicycle and registered on Uber, bolt, glovo etc which I used for dispatch.

Made some money, sometimes 10-20k daily and that's how my income grew until I was able to rent a shop and started selling with steady customers.


I can boast of earning over a million on a monthly basis and still finding more.

Even aboki selling orange on the streets make 5k daily, so why should I stay put in an office waiting for month end to earn a fixed salary of 150k when I can enter streets, hustle, improvise and make above that.

Even POS operators make more than 5k.

If you don't know what to do or can't ride a bicycle. Goto major markets, regular show your face and build trust.

When vendors have dispatch to do, tell them to give it to you. If regular dispatch riders charge 7k to deliver, tell the vendor to give you 4k


Use 1k or 1500 enter bus to deliver the item and pocket 3k or 2,500.

Come back to the market and wait for another job. Before the day ends you could find like 3-5 deliveries to do and make like 15k daily.

If you have sense you will save, Have a plan to invest elsewhere because you are not going to do that forever
God's continuous blessings sir.
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Legendguy(m): 9:14pm On Sep 27, 2025
PhilipEboh:
I own a shop,I sell phone accessories, charge people's phones, POS, sells Button phones, minerals and recently added SIM sales. There are too many competitors around me now compared to when I started so it's really tough and time-consuming.
Small business like your is prone to competition, no be only you go dey chop money
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by PhilipEboh: 3:38pm On Sep 28, 2025
Legendguy:
Small business like your is prone to competition, no be only you go dey chop money
Exactly
Re: Non-salary Earners, What’s Your Source Of Income; How Are You Surviving? by Saviola86: 6:19pm On Sep 28, 2025
Veenview:
Good morning sir. Your post really found me well because I needed this right now, it's every inspiring. God's continuous blessings sir.

It's been few months I got through with my NYSC, and within me, I have decided to tow same path you did. My place of residence is close to Alaba international market. Let's say I had a client purchase goods through me, how do I go about issuing receipts so that the client will reach out to me directly incase he wants to buy next time instead of reaching out to the main dealer directly.

I hope I passed the info correctly. Anticipating your response sir. Thanks.
You can print a receipt with your proposed company name. 10k can get you like 5 or 10 booklets.
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