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What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Meerahbel(op): 6:28pm On Feb 23

What’s the one thing you learned at a job that school never taught you? 🤔

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Hardeybohwarley(m): 6:38pm On Feb 23

Meerahbel:
What’s the one thing you learned at a job that school never taught you? 🤔

Call me when this reaches fp.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Nobody: 6:55pm On Feb 23

At the end of the day, your personality and EQ carry more weight in this society than your IQ. Don’t get me wrong, being book-smart is great and both are definitely useful, but one clearly opens more doors than the other.

You can have all the degrees in the world, but if you don't know how to relate with people or manage your emotions, you’ll still struggle where others are gliding. EQ is the real game-changer.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by lordm(m): 8:28pm On Feb 23

Solving people's problems makes you rich

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Love800(m): 6:46am On Feb 24

Both are good. There is also some things you learnt at school that job never taught you.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Reverseng: 2:57pm On Feb 24*

1) Some leaders (Doctors, Forcemen etc) are insecure mostly because they know they're incompetent in their field of study, so they try cover up this defect with pride (by being sadistic, or being too nice to everyone without boundaries)

2) Most employees and employers are sad. There's that big emptiness/void we think a job promotion or money is going to fill, but alas, we find out our view isn't aligned with reality

3) People work jobs they hate to buy things they don't like to impress people they don't know.

Most of the people we look up to or call our role model, were most of the time forced into the profession they're in by their parents or friend group. You can never see or measure a person sadness, or vulnerabilities, especially when that person has chosen to use pride to cover up

I meet new people and we get talking and I ask them
"what course did you study"

They reply "Public Health"

Then I tell them something like, "This seems like a very responsible position, being in charge of the health of people who trust you with their health. You're comfortable with this kind of huge responsibility?"

Then they say "errmmmm"

Then I proceed " who's the most richest richhheeest billionaire you know of"
They tell me Mr X

then I say " if I was billionaire X, i ask you to choose a course that you'd love to study, regardless if it's a foreign course that can only be studied abroad, and also regardless of how much it'll be, what course would you choose to study?

Then they tell me " Nursing"

Then I rephrase " There really isn't any nobility in continued hardwork. Most people see suffering as hardwork. Imagine you make all the money in the world and all the richest people in the world look up to you, what then would you do when you're not working for money?"

Then the revelation continues...

You can really know that people aren't happy...go find out yourself and see. Try this exercise for yourself and you'll begin to understand that when people aren't truly happy by being in field or professions they don't like, then sadness creeps in and it grows to depression

I've written about this concept

https://www.nairaland.com/8598916/chimamanda-adichie-case-choiceless-children#138129653

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Liballo: 5:29pm On Feb 24

Reverseng:
1) Some leaders (Doctors, Forcemen etc) are insecure mostly because they know they're incompetent in their field of study, so they try cover up this defect with pride (by being sadistic, or being too nice to everyone without boundaries)

2) Most employees and employers are sad. There's that big emptiness/void we think a job promotion or money is going to fill, but alas, we find out our view isn't aligned with reality

3) People work jobs they hate to buy things they don't like to impress people they don't know.

Most of the people we look up to or call our role model, were most of the time forced into the profession they're in by their parents or friend group. You can never see or measure a person sadness, or vulnerabilities, especially when that person has chosen to use pride to cover up

I meet new people and we get talking and I ask them
"what course did you study"

They reply "Public Health"

Then I tell them something like, "This seems like a very responsible position, being in charge of the health of people who trust you with their health. You're comfortable with this kind of huge responsibility?"

Then they say "errmmmm"

Then I proceed " who's the most richest richhheeest billionaire you know of"
They tell me Mr X

then I say " if I was billionaire X, i ask you to choose a course that you'd love to study, regardless if it's a foreign course that can only be studied abroad, and also regardless of how much it'll be, what course would you choose to study?

Then they tell me " Nursing"

Then I rephrase " There really isn't any nobility in hardwork. Most people see suffering as hardwork. Imagine you make all the money in the world and all the richest people in the world look up to you, what then would you do when you're not working for money?"

Then the revelation continues...

You can really know that people aren't happy...go find out yourself and see. Try this exercise for yourself and you'll begin to understand that when people aren't truly happy by being in field or professions they don't like, then sadness creeps in and it grows to depression

I've written about this concept

https://www.nairaland.com/8598916/chimamanda-adichie-case-choiceless-children#138129653

How does the bolded relate to the “There really isn’t mobility in hardwork?”

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Reverseng: 8:57pm On Feb 24

That was an error on my part. It wasn't supposed to be "There isn't nobility in hardwork" but "There isn't any nobility in continued hardwork
https://www.nairaland.com/8603403/moral-continued-hardwork-morality-slaves

It's all ties together because it's a mean to get a person to begin to see your point of view so they can receive your questions well.

It's Nobility, not Mobility

Liballo:
How does the bolded relate to the “There really isn’t mobility in hardwork?”

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by DeltaBachelor(m): 3:53am On Feb 26

Okay. Here to learn

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by missidy: 9:41am On Feb 27

1. How to play office politics.
2. Your colleagues are not your friends, it's a dog eat dog world in the corporate world.

School never taught me this.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Meerahbel(op): 10:16pm On May 20

Hardeybohwarley:
Call me when this reaches fp.

Okay

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by PapaNnamdi: 7:01pm On May 21

On the job,
1. You don't have to be intelligent to get the good jobs or promotion, just get a good network, or know how to wonderfully kiss a diarrhea ass and you are good
2. Getting a job or working as an employee keeps you in a loop, education was actually designed to domesticate individuals and jobs keep them in a busy loop till they loose purpose and die,
3. Life has no meaning, you are the one that gives it meaning through your relative experience

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Meerahbel(op): 9:08am On Jun 15

PapaNnamdi:
On the job,
1. You don't have to be intelligent to get the good jobs or promotion, just get a good network, or know how to wonderfully kiss a diarrhea ass and you are good
2. Getting a job or working as an employee keeps you in a loop, education was actually designed to domesticate individuals and jobs keep them in a busy loop till they loose purpose and die,
3. Life has no meaning, you are the one that gives it meaning through your relative experience

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Lawalemi(m): 9:54pm On Jun 16

Be nice to your client and customers. You never can tell the favor you will receive through them

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Gotocourt: 9:55pm On Jun 16

Create jobs, don't wait for anyone.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by dauntless15(m): 9:57pm On Jun 16

You'll never get rich working a regular job, you're just accomplishing someone's dream while yours is on hold, and don't try to overdo your job, it won't make your boss like you more, or increase your worth, it'll only stir jealousy from colleagues and make your boss take you for granted especially when he sees you're eager to please him, its always going to backfire.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by femi4: 10:02pm On Jun 16

Meerahbel:
What’s the one thing you learned at a job that school never taught you? 🤔

Discipline and Reliability

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by correctguy101(m): 10:03pm On Jun 16

lordm:
Solving people's problems makes you rich

Lols... Not some imaginary x and y... Abi?

Lwkmd 🤣🤣

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by correctguy101(m): 10:06pm On Jun 16

Mine would be only what feeds you deserves to be ya passion.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by prinsam30: 10:09pm On Jun 16

LOYALTY..... School can never teach U this amazing word

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by correctguy101(m): 10:10pm On Jun 16

dauntless15:
You'll never get rich working a regular job, you're just accomplishing someone's dream while yours is on hold, and don't try to overdo your job, it won't make your boss like you more, or increase your worth, it'll only stir jealousy from colleagues and make your boss take you for granted especially when he sees you're eager to please him, its always going to backfire.

True words..

But we have customers who are like that too. I feel some of us who trade are like quasi-employees to our landlords and customers.... Some of them too do.

That's why I only mediate and send my boys after them. If the boy insult you, na you sabi....

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Bahamas95(m): 10:10pm On Jun 16

Office politics is the oga kpatakpata of them all.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Atroventricular: 10:10pm On Jun 16

How to fix a leaking intravenous fluid by using tourniquet to tie it on an infusion stand 😀

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by tommy589(m): 10:11pm On Jun 16*

Making good money aside salary as an employee,while wearing faded shirts and trousers to the office giving impression you depend on the miserable salary

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by correctguy101(m): 10:13pm On Jun 16

Lawalemi:
Be nice to your client and customers. You never can tell the favor you will receive through them

I'm always nice to mine customers and clients. I even barely interact with them... Even when I'm around, na to hide for inside o.

Let them deal with the boys. That way, none would receive credit because they feel they're close to me or deserve it.

If I tell you my pains, you go pity me.

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by correctguy101(m): 10:17pm On Jun 16

PapaNnamdi:
On the job,
1. You don't have to be intelligent to get the good jobs or promotion, just get a good network, or know how to wonderfully kiss a diarrhea ass and you are good
2. Getting a job or working as an employee keeps you in a loop, education was actually designed to domesticate individuals and jobs keep them in a busy loop till they loose purpose and die,
3. Life has no meaning, you are the one that gives it meaning through your relative experience

No. 3

Sometimes I wonder why people make such comments...

Is it that they feel their perceived definition of "meaning" is universal?

Some wereys even see getting high as "meaningful" .. lols

But if we see "meaning" as contributing to humanity and society, more than half of human population isn't qualified....

"Meaning" means too many things that that talk is rendered somewhere around being sensible or nonsensical.

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Lawalemi(m): 10:22pm On Jun 16

correctguy101:
I'm always nice to mine customers and clients. I even barely interact with them... Even when I'm around, na to hide for inside o.

Let them deal with the boys. That way, none would receive credit because they feel they're close to me or deserve it.

If I tell you my pains, you go pity me.

You be mechanic? grin

Anyway, depends on your kind of job.

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by gracias124: 10:27pm On Jun 16

dont kow what to say cuz im still looking for job

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by Cmanforall: 10:27pm On Jun 16

Lawalemi:
Be nice to your client and customers. You never can tell the favor you will receive through them

Be Nice because you want to be nice, or because you are naturally a nice person.
FORGET and don’t expect any favour in return

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Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by aswani(m): 10:27pm On Jun 16

Meerahbel:
What’s the one thing you learned at a job that school never taught you? 🤔

No matter how hard you work, if you don't want to be in oga's gang, forget your hard work counting for anything.

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by correctguy101(m): 10:29pm On Jun 16

Lawalemi:
You be mechanic?

Anyway, depends on your kind of job.

Lols... I be olodo for where vehicles dey o.

I'm a trader. One like other traders that can never make it to the Christian heaven.

Chinese heaven loves traders, so I heard. As you can never separate the Chinese from profit making...

Lwkmd 🤣🤣

Re: What’s The One Thing You Learnt On A Job That School Never Taught You? by tunjijones(m): 10:31pm On Jun 16

Many things.

Everything I am using to make money today, I didn't learn from any school.

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