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If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by MONEY247(op): 11:00am On Jan 26
I am a student
This is my second degree....
And let me tell you for free, school and money go hand in hand...

Tetiary education these days for the financially buoyant...
People are suffering in school...
Bro/sis enter street... There is more money on the street than school...

Learn a scalable skills like
Cyberspace security
Programming
Computer science
Outside tech skills... Learn
Data analysis
Public speaking
Video editing

Alaye skills also like
Vulcanizer (Those people are silent millionaires)
Mechanic for expensive cars....
🤣 🤣 so on

Bro school is not easy ooo
Except your papa get money...

I am in school and I do everything to make money...

People are making tons of money without regular conventional education...

Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by omodoagba(m): 11:23am On Jan 26
But why going to school is also very necessary
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by BangaRice: 11:23am On Jan 26
Who produced the cars and gadgets? Roadside technicians or graduates?
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by FalseProphet1(m): 11:25am On Jan 26
You can also become a pastor/prophet, there's serious money there. I'm a living proof.

This I have seen.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by KingDashx(m): 11:25am On Jan 26
When e reach alaye skills you come dey laugh why
No dey laugh person work
MONEY247:
I am a student
This is my second degree....
And let me tell you for free, school and money go hand in hand...

Tetiary education these days for the financially buoyant...
People are suffering in school...
Bro/sis enter street... There is more money on the street than school...

Learn a scalable skills like
Cyberspace security
Programming
Computer science
Outside tech skills... Learn
Data analysis
Public speaking
Video editing

Alaye skills also like
Vulcanizer (Those people are silent millionaires)
Mechanic for expensive cars....
🤣 🤣 so on

Bro school is not easy ooo
Except your papa get money...

I am in school and I do everything to make money...

People are making tons of money without regular conventional education...
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Greatex90: 11:25am On Jan 26
School is usually an added advantage for the period of time.
All individuals should go for now is skill, business , business investment , and any other thing that is profiteering.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Nwaikpe: 11:26am On Jan 26
What Nigerians mean by "learn a skill" is very funny.

But I really don't blame them. A country that doesn't give their graduates the opportunity to practice their professions rightly will have to settle for a redefinition of simple terms.

The poster obviously doesn't know what school is. That is why he even includes "public speaking" as a skill.

grin grin grin

After 10 years, when we all see the result of such posts on the fabric of the Nigerian society, we will then cry out to God to help save us.

Let me give you two countries:
Pakistan - High skill based
Israel - High education based

The first one are one of the poverty capitals of the world
The second one is one of the richest and the most advanced in the world.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Mintayo(m): 11:26am On Jan 26
Regardless, school and degree certificate is very important. One day, an opportunity will come that will require your degree certificate, then it will be a different story.

Yes, get as many skills, vocational etc as much as you can, but get a certificate, even if it is ND, even if you think you might not need it, you do not know when that opportunity will present itself.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by T0BY(m):
Others won't know until they experience it.. school no be cum chop.. as I type this, there are students now with low grade or gp, lack of textbook.. already depressed because no money to do the needful

If not financially capable, It's better to find handiwork and learn.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by karmaolu1(m): 11:28am On Jan 26
See one werey grin grin
Any way u don tell your neighbors❓
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by saphiere(f): 11:28am On Jan 26
MONEY247:
I am a student
This is my second degree....
And let me tell you for free, school and money go hand in hand...

Tetiary education these days for the financially buoyant...
People are suffering in school...
Bro/sis enter street... There is more money on the street than school...

Learn a scalable skills like
Cyberspace security
Programming
Computer science
Outside tech skills... Learn
Data analysis
Public speaking
Video editing

Alaye skills also like
Vulcanizer (Those people are silent millionaires)
Mechanic for expensive cars....
🤣 🤣 so on

Bro school is not easy ooo
Except your papa get money...

I am in school and I do everything to make money...

People are making tons of money without regular conventional education...
Social media content creation is the best.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by IAM4BAT4plus4: 11:28am On Jan 26
Tell them o






And louder 🔊 please
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by ufotunang: 11:29am On Jan 26
At.least one should go to school at least to secondary school level . so that he or she can be literate and able to read and write and communicate in English fluently and boldly with confidence .
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by AutoC: 11:30am On Jan 26
My advice, go to school first, oh!!!!(and by school I mean University not Polytechnic... Its important, You can go and learn skills after school unless you want to run rat race for the rest of your life...Very few, I mean like 1% of uneducated eventually make it in life without education most especially in Nigeria,,By going to school you increase your chances(also remeber not all that went to school aslo make it but the percentage are far higher). The surest thing in life is death..You can only increase your chances of achieving everything(Most especially success), and education is the platform
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by ufotunang: 11:32am On Jan 26
omodoagba:
But why going to school is also very necessary
..at least up to secondary school level so the person can be literate able to read , write and speak,, enlightened and communicate in English fluently
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by ufotunang:
FalseProphet1:
You can also become a pastor/prophet, there's serious money there. I'm a living proof.

This I have seen.
.abi..they is money in churches now..many of churches are now business centres
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Freshandfitpod: 11:33am On Jan 26
Also try betting you fit cash out or go do forex it might be your time.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Whois(m): 11:35am On Jan 26
School favours those that are sure they can graduate below 25years..

Others should respect themselves and go learn skills
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Impregnable101: 11:35am On Jan 26
Lots of truth in your post! Had my ND 2005, struggled from then trying to make ends meet, then i remembered i learnt plumbing during the 90's. 2013 i was Fortunate to get a job in one of the leading oil company in Nigeria as a plumber.

Still working there earning more than lots of people working in banks plus I'm also running my own plumbing company and God has been blessing us with good contracts.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by donleo92(m): 11:35am On Jan 26
At the end of it..........

School is still important, even if na 2.2, just get...... Then add am to the skill
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by DMCA: 11:35am On Jan 26
BangaRice:
Who produced the cars and gadgets? Roadside technicians or graduates?
Ask am again, again, and again.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by chimex38: 11:35am On Jan 26
BangaRice:
Who produced the cars and gadgets? Roadside technicians or graduates?
Unfortunately, the production aspect is not applicable in this part of the world, especially when it comes to sciences, tech and medical.
And this is majorly why people school, to make money via production.
Unfortunately, most end up in maintenance just slightly above vocational skills(if-at-all)
Comparing cost of acquiring as well as career-pay-package for both,
The financal commitment doesnt make schooling justifiable compared to vocation.

Unless one goes to uni just for awareness or literate sake.
Which unfortunately is not the case for majority.
People go for much more that.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Bongadu: 11:37am On Jan 26
BangaRice:
Who produced the cars and gadgets? Roadside technicians or graduates?
both




technician work the factory while grad propel the theoretical aaspect
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Fiscus105(m):
AutoC:
My advice, go to school first, oh!!!!(and by school I mean University not Polytechnic... Its important, You can go and learn skills after school unless you want to run rat race for the rest of your life...Very few, I mean like 1% of uneducated eventually make it in life without education most especially in Nigeria,,By going to school you increase your chances(also remeber not all that went to school aslo make it but the percentage are far higher). The surest thing in life is death..You can only increase your chances of achieving everything(Most especially success), and education is the platform
You biliv all those Alaba business men and women who didn't go university but have 100ths of millions in account not making it?

How many educated person making it ooo? If indeed you are a graduate, pls tell us how many of ur set that have made it? How many civil servants or even bankers make it?

I'm 100% sure that, the 1st -10, better persons in your set today, 9 of them made it to their present level, because of their personal skills and not by certificates they acquired in the universities.


You should stop thinking like man of 70's
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by YeyeGbami: 11:40am On Jan 26
Nothing beats skill abeg. Basic education is must tho!
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Mindlog: 11:42am On Jan 26
While studying for your degree program, were you not "learning skills" within the course you studied?

I studied Psychology and by my third year, I was already good in facilitating different psychological assessments and was earning with it, being an assistant to a Clinical Psychologist.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by DamnnNiggarr: 11:43am On Jan 26
Peter Obi made a comment like this some time ago; but the political cankerworm called for his head.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by MONEY247(op):
..... Kai damboroba
Shege damboroba
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by Obnoxious2001(m): 11:45am On Jan 26
BangaRice:
Who produced the cars and gadgets? Roadside technicians or graduates?
Matter of fact, most of the theories we are learning in school didn't originated from graduate or technicians. They originated from apprentice who made their observations from working for their masters.

What am I trying to say modern education created this hierarchy and classes.

A technician will likely outperform a graduate if he is willing to put effort to study and observe and vice versa.
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by markidoo(m): 11:45am On Jan 26
Word...!!!
I can remember an illiterate Landlord remind my Mum who's a Prof,, that she's living in an illiterate's house, for that reason he's going to increase our rent to the peak making us pay more than people that lived in a 4bed and 5 bed,, we had to quit that apartment,, that lead us to owning a Property in the Best place to Live in the City we currently live...
What I am saying is,, try and get yourself a business or learn a skill,it pays
The Landlord was a trader in the Big market in the city,z that's how he made so much money to build houses back then...
Re: If You Don't Have Money To Go To School Please Do Not Go, Learn A Skill. by ufotunang: 11:46am On Jan 26
BangaRice:
Who produced the cars and gadgets? Roadside technicians or graduates?
...he is not against one going to university..but a poor man child how can the poor father funds his child or children in university..high school fees, costs of accomodations/ hostel fees, buying of books, textbooks, feeding, transportation costs and other school levies and charges in university or tertiary institutions.. where will a poor man get money to fund this..so he saying that to sustain yourself in the university it's about money.. university is not free.....they are people that did not even go to university but they are successful in life and wealthy.... there is a talent and skills one has in which the person can make use of it and succeed and their is other life opportunities one can go into
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