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Kemetian:
Doing those menial jobs when you have advanced degrees can be soul destroying.

People think it's all about money and earning dollars or pounds or Euros, good roads, 24 hr light etc.

But all those things mean nothing after a couple of months there. You will be in one job far below your level collecting insult from one secretary that looks at you as a dropout, to be doing such menial work.

Meanwhile you have a degree and experience in a professional capacity the secretary can only dream of.

If you get there and do a menial job despite your degree, You will definitely reach a point where you will ask yourself if you made the right choice with Japa.

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

OriOko88:
Pathetic. Modern Slavery.In the 21st century.

jiggyman:
100%, u can make 3k monthly and still feel unhappy! The funny part is as a mental health worker u earn roughly x1.5 of a office staff.

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

motymop:
you wrote not quite true as if there are immigrants driving taxis in the uk

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

FashionCookie:
Wetin u want make we come do with this story.

Lanretoye:
Abeg wetin be your own discipline?…na the ones wey Dey ugheli police station be 90% of the population of lawyers in this country.i don’t know what is wrong with some of you and reasoning,in fact i am very sure that you don’t even have children in school.isn’t it insane that someone doesn’t see lawyer’s that have their own chambers and the ones doing very well in their field?,na the ones wey Dey hustle for police station be your own yardstick.howmany lawyers self Dey the ugheli police station compared to population of well to do lawyers in the country

brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

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brain54:
I have this Ghanian friend that worked at a hospital...

As an anesthetist. He had a poultry large poultry farm and did crop farming as side business. This is a poultry farm that had close to 10,000 birds and was doing well and he was comfortable. His wife also worked as a staff of one of the highest paying companies-Cocoabod.

Dude woke up one day and said he was leaving all these behind, including his wife and 2 kids to travel to America to go "hustle."

He told me he worked in Winter and his fingers froze from the cold.


Scenario 2 is another friend that recently traveled sometime in the middle of last year. This one also had a good job, an 11 acres peice of land where he did pig farming as side business (he even gave me about 3 acres from the part he wasn't using on which I planted maize and okra last 2 years) he had property a wife and recently had a kid.


This one called me just early this year telling me he was now in America looking for a job.

He told me he recently got a job, he didn't disclose the type of job. But I suspect it's one of those unskilled jobs. He was telling me recently when we chatted how he had to work and was paying the person whose paper he was using to work.

He said something like he was saving money for now to get his own papers and couldn't even afford to get a decent bedsheet for now. He didn't want to open up on many things but I could sense his struggles.


My question is why would someone be doing fairly or averagely okay in their own country and decide to travel to another country not to go work as skilled or start a business but to go do demeaning unskilled labor work.

Why would I leave my country where I live almost as a king to go live in a rat race.


I can never understand that.

Another person was confiding in me recently that he wanted to travel to the US. This is someone that has a small factory, into iron rod sales and construction business. I just looked at him and told him not to do it. He should focus on growing his business and I used the other 2 people I mentioned earlier as examples.

If I want to travel to the US or any other country it's to go flex, explore, or look for bigger business opportunities and not to go hustle and start from the scratch.

A crocodile in the my country is better than a lizard in obodo oyibo!

Tayorshd87:
Many will still call u a bad person for trying to tell them the truth.

Japa is only made for people that are not doing well in their own country and that doesn't mean the country is totally bad too.

Nigeria is this and that yet we have produced many business millionaires in this same country..

People should understand this and know peace 🕊️✌️

Kemetian:
Doing those menial jobs when you have advanced degrees can be soul destroying.

People think it's all about money and earning dollars or pounds or Euros, good roads, 24 hr light etc.

But all those things mean nothing after a couple of months there. You will be in one job far below your level collecting insult from one secretary that looks at you as a dropout, to be doing such menial work.

Meanwhile you have a degree and experience in a professional capacity the secretary can only dream of.

If you get there and do a menial job despite your degree, You will definitely reach a point where you will ask yourself if you made the right choice with Japa.

OboOlora:
She is just seeking media attention
Over 90% of Nigerians than relocated since 2022 are either into care, warehouse or other menial jobs

No shame in that, as long as it pays your bills and you don't get carried away with it but seek other professional passions after COS is over

9JAMac10:
Female lawyers are overrated take that to the bank. Law is a masculine profession. Nobody reasonable or rationale hires a female lawyer to represent them. She shocked that she been lied to her whole life about being a talkative and combative woman disguised as lawyer hahaha. Only professions women should engage in is healthcare , teaching or culinary industry. Those are feminine jobs. She better go to nursing school while working as a CNA

jaxxy:
Lawyer profession has jurisdiction and practice limitations. Ur Lawyer ends in Nigeria until u upgrade it for global recognition and practice.

ZombieDredd:
Not quite true.

Many immigrants entered NHS band 5,6.( Lab Scientist, doctors, biomedical science, radiography, physiotherapy etc etc)

That's not starting all over again

OriOko88:
Pathetic. Modern Slavery.In the 21st century.

brain54:
Na the like king wey you see pain you...?

I no say I be king. I only use am as metaphor as compared to the kind life I go live there.

Get it? Why you no say I be crocodile?

And is vacation in South Africa the standard to measure quality of life.

And besides I mentioned in the post you quoted that if I wouldn't mind going to flex and explore other countries rather than going to join in the rat race over there

Right now that isn't a priority!

Kemetian:
Doing those menial jobs when you have advanced degrees can be soul destroying.

People think it's all about money and earning dollars or pounds or Euros, good roads, 24 hr light etc.

But all those things mean nothing after a couple of months there. You will be in one job far below your level collecting insult from one secretary that looks at you as a dropout, to be doing such menial work.

Meanwhile you have a degree and experience in a professional capacity the secretary can only dream of.

If you get there and do a menial job despite your degree, You will definitely reach a point where you will ask yourself if you made the right choice with Japa.