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Those wey dey talk 4years in school no be beans.
Boy wey do apprentice for em master for 8 years, that one na kpomo?

Where is that man that's is diligent in his works he shall stand before kings' weather graduate or not you must be good and strive to be the best in whatever you do. The wisdom required to excel is from THE ALMIGHTY GOD and not from the classroom

U made a point bt is nt proper for a graduate to be saling moi moi, there are other little occupation he or she can engage his self,

Even back then when I was n school, I never imagined myself working in any company after my education, I was always thin of how to build my own company, but see where I dey today........nwanne aka chukwu di ya

Tell us your esperience on how you started. As in, did u sell akara and akamu? Or did you sell firewood before you made it? ....You dey talk like say e easy to dey sch for 4-5yrs and after that you begin sell akara for you to cum and buy.... The thunder wey go fire you dey do press up. This talk no make sense.

nice write up, but I believe it's not easy; most graduates have dreams of starting a career in the field they studied. secondly, finding finance to fund a business ain't easy and even though you get the finance, the enabling environment may not be there. In Nigeria, it's the survival of the fittest.

Jayuba:
Tell us your esperience on how you started. As in, did u sell akara and akamu? Or did you sell firewood before you made it? ....You dey talk like say e easy to dey sch for 4-5yrs and after that you begin sell akara for you to cum and buy.... The thunder wey go fire you dey do press up. This talk no make sense.

Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe......Bros you wicked o, abeg no vex.

wonderful write up.. our youth need to start thinking out of the box. The sky is just the starting point.

kevinhacker:
when GEJ said that unemployment rate has reduced , some was like "ah but I'm still here 'GEJ don lie again ooo! " but the fact is most of those that came out with good result are well EMPLOYED!

those that graduated with good result ate employed,no wonder nigeria is ruled by a dumb president,u are pathetic so everybody should graduate with first class,2.1 and 2.2,am sure u still in school abi,wagbon

The babe wey I follow do night vigil for my room wan use mess kee me...maybe she don chop too much moi-moi.

KingsJohnson:
Nigerians and Their Graduate Mentality

The title of this write-up might sound absurd, but it remains the fact. I have discovered that most
Nigerian graduates (even the ones that graduated with a 'pass') rates themselves so high and depends so much on white collar job and when you try to introduce them to little business or jobs, they wouldn't hesitate to
remind you that they are
graduates... If you are a graduate and so what?
They don't think of any thing apart from working in a big company with fine office and a company car lol. I think people
should stop this mentality of believing that going to the university is to gain employment because its really not it. Going to
the university should be to broaden your thinking faculty, enhancing your person/personality, equipping your mind set and acquiring leadership and entrepreneur skills.
Who says a graduate can't be a shoe maker, tailor, vendor, small scale business man/woman,
caterer,etc? A graduate can do all these because the purpose for your education is to help you add swag to whatever
you want to do so as to
differentiate your style and that of an illiterate.

A graduate can be selling
"moimoi", yes you read it right "moimoi"... Just add a little swag to it and you will see bankers, doctors,
engineers, politicians, etc rushing to eat your moimoi... Everything in life is all about packaging, how you package yourself, how you package your business, your relationship, relationplane, relationboat, relationkeke, even relationbarrow, u name it cus all hands are not equal!

White collar job is not meant for everybody, so the earlier you get that into your head, the better
and faster you get yourself self employed and start making it for real and big. Your going to the university is
also to make you an employer of labour. There are lot of people that made it without seeing the four walls of the university, so you that's a graduate should do very much better than them.
The truth is, I don't believe that there is no job, the only problem is that people are sometimes too selective because they see themselves as graduate and can't see themselves collecting peanut as salary. But the truth is, that small job can be what will expose you to the big job you dream of.
Instead of sitting at home, why not just manage it. You sit at home and complain of
how the govt has not reduced unemployment and your mates are busy establishing themselves
in one way or the other.
A graduate can be a hair stylist, just add swag to it and you are good to go.
Some will say they want to start up business, but they are looking for millions to start it up as a
'graduate wey dem be naa' lol. But you can actually start up a small business and grow from
there... Most billionaires started small.
You are a graduate and you have been jobless for years, please take that your certificate and
hide in your box, ask the illiterate millionnaire how he made it and start up something. Stop waiting for the govt, the Nigerian govt that I know will
not change unless God sends a Messiah and I know the Messiah
has come and gone since 2000 years ago. It will not take you time to learn tailoring, baking, catering, trade, Machenic,etc... Imagine all the years you have wasted looking
for a job, you would have started counting at least in thousands by now if you decided to get
yourself self made. Even as you are learning that trade or handwork, you can as well be looking for a job.
So my fellow Nigerians, undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates is time to get things done, become financial independent and goodbye to our greedy and selfish politicians.

Nyc 1....if u hav ambitions to sell moi moi or b a barber to name a few, u dnt nid to waste ur tym tru all d hardship sch presents...nt to add insult to injury,4 some1 who came out wit very gud grades....u must b wicked...if u hav a child, send him to sch n at d end, let ur expectation b d goin bk to learn hw to barb to survive.....nigerians sha

Ok, na im I allow d wheelbarrow wey dey our house dey waste? Oya! Tym 2 start smetin

What if u dont have money to start dat little business u've mention.
in my own case I finished youth service program dis year february nd no job, no money to even start selling fire wood talk more of other business.
d little money I gathered during my youth service which I use to rent dis gura gura Gwali house here in Abuja.
Graduate mentality or no Graduate mentality, money is not flowing to d poor who manage to get education .
meanwhile I hold B.Tech Estate Management.
thou I graduated wit 2:2

daresma93:
Time to dump my certificate and start sellin buns

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its not easy to be a graduate, at least let them enjoy the bragging right. seriously am in total support of graduates having extra skills as they may fall back at it. since,the with collar jobs are not forthcoming. Am a perfect example, a caterer and a graduate.

They will never the truth. Graduates ko Groudnut ni

iceberylin:
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when you said there is God o the only thing that came to my mind was.Praise God.

:Dwalahi u get sense abeg place ur orders for ur babes or wives....still coming up tho...na small small

The point the op Is trying to make Is That graduates should try to think outside the box when It comes to earning a livelihood especially when white collar jobs are not forthcoming. Nobody expects You as a graduate to go and Start frying akara or cooking moimoi under a tree as many people are implying here but creativity and packaging Is the point. There Is nothing Bad in getting a relatively décent shed where people can sit to have a meal. Some people even visit companies who dont have cafeterias with proposals to supply the workers with a well packaged lunch and supply meals and pasteries during meetings and social events. The mind Is a very créative weapon if Ur willing and ready to use it

The Politheivians are still to be blamed, how on earth can you expect someone who had spent close to millions of naira just to bag a degree to start selling moimoi or learn a trade whereas the society had been naturally well ordered. These are some of the many lies they sell to us.

Must I go to the university to add some swag to selling moimoi, abeg save me the scrab jo

KingsJohnson:
Nigerians and Their Graduate Mentality

The title of this write-up might sound absurd, but it remains the fact. I have discovered that most
Nigerian graduates (even the ones that graduated with a 'pass') rates themselves so high and depends so much on white collar job and when you try to introduce them to little business or jobs, they wouldn't hesitate to
remind you that they are
graduates... If you are a graduate and so what?
They don't think of any thing apart from working in a big company with fine office and a company car lol. I think people
should stop this mentality of believing that going to the university is to gain employment because its really not it. Going to
the university should be to broaden your thinking faculty, enhancing your person/personality, equipping your mind set and acquiring leadership and entrepreneur skills.
Who says a graduate can't be a shoe maker, tailor, vendor, small scale business man/woman,
caterer,etc? A graduate can do all these because the purpose for your education is to help you add swag to whatever
you want to do so as to
differentiate your style and that of an illiterate.

A graduate can be selling
"moimoi", yes you read it right "moimoi"... Just add a little swag to it and you will see bankers, doctors,
engineers, politicians, etc rushing to eat your moimoi... Everything in life is all about packaging, how you package yourself, how you package your business, your relationship, relationplane, relationboat, relationkeke, even relationbarrow, u name it cus all hands are not equal!

White collar job is not meant for everybody, so the earlier you get that into your head, the better
and faster you get yourself self employed and start making it for real and big. Your going to the university is
also to make you an employer of labour. There are lot of people that made it without seeing the four walls of the university, so you that's a graduate should do very much better than them.
The truth is, I don't believe that there is no job, the only problem is that people are sometimes too selective because they see themselves as graduate and can't see themselves collecting peanut as salary. But the truth is, that small job can be what will expose you to the big job you dream of.
Instead of sitting at home, why not just manage it. You sit at home and complain of
how the govt has not reduced unemployment and your mates are busy establishing themselves
in one way or the other.
A graduate can be a hair stylist, just add swag to it and you are good to go.
Some will say they want to start up business, but they are looking for millions to start it up as a
'graduate wey dem be naa' lol. But you can actually start up a small business and grow from
there... Most billionaires started small.
You are a graduate and you have been jobless for years, please take that your certificate and
hide in your box, ask the illiterate millionnaire how he made it and start up something. Stop waiting for the govt, the Nigerian govt that I know will
not change unless God sends a Messiah and I know the Messiah
has come and gone since 2000 years ago. It will not take you time to learn tailoring, baking, catering, trade, Machenic,etc... Imagine all the years you have wasted looking
for a job, you would have started counting at least in thousands by now if you decided to get
yourself self made. Even as you are learning that trade or handwork, you can as well be looking for a job.

So my fellow Nigerians, undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates is time to get things done, become financial independent and goodbye to our greedy and selfish politicians.

I hear u Mummy, graduates shouldn't depend on white collar jobs bt be an employer of labour, if dat is d summary of ur write up, a graduate cnt be an employer of labour in a sinking economy, owk let's assume dat we shouldn't depend on what governent can do for bt what we cn do for the government, good and fine, such ''belief'' wll materialize in a country whereby government have provided enough social amenities, security, stead power supply, balanced and steadily growing economy, these are the basic things that wll nt make the Nigerian's graduate to be '''poke-nosing'' or '''chucking''' eyes for white collar jobs. I'm open up for correction[s] frm anybody.

Another thing is going for a 2nd degree just to have a better chance of getting employed.

The truth is that, the above should be secondary and to know more about your discipline should be the koko.



...not that I agree with all the op's point anyway.

EDITED


You don't depend solely on what a white collar job pays you, truss me! a man gotta invest!

Nice write up

ultraawesome:
God is watching you

is God a nairalander?

choi....just finished eating 2 leaf-wrapped moi moi with bread,naa to rest and visit nairaland ,naa so I met "moi moi" again....dere is God ooo


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Nice write up tho

emmyrichie:
@Op! Why did you tag Nigeria as an underworld (on your profile)? Woe betide you tagging my homeland an underworld.

I wish I knew you in person, so that Nigeria can banish you forever. Shows you have no self esteem.

NB: your write up was fine until I went through your profile.

Oga na wa for you oh. Na wetin dey make you vex be that. How you sure say the guy no dey underworld So because I used Mars as my location, that means I have no self esteem? Everyone is a liberty to put whatever they like as their location.

ayusco85:
is God a nairalander?

God sees all things

iconize:
Nigerians see some crappy papers called certificates as the ultimate, hence the lack of skills amongst many youths.

Dont mind some graduates

KingsJohnson:
Nigerians and Their Graduate Mentality

The title of this write-up might sound absurd, but it remains the fact. I have discovered that most
Nigerian graduates (even the ones that graduated with a 'pass') rates themselves so high and depends so much on white collar job and when you try to introduce them to little business or jobs, they wouldn't hesitate to
remind you that they are
graduates... If you are a graduate and so what?
They don't think of any thing apart from working in a big company with fine office and a company car lol. I think people
should stop this mentality of believing that going to the university is to gain employment because its really not it. Going to
the university should be to broaden your thinking faculty, enhancing your person/personality, equipping your mind set and acquiring leadership and entrepreneur skills.
Who says a graduate can't be a shoe maker, tailor, vendor, small scale business man/woman,
caterer,etc? A graduate can do all these because the purpose for your education is to help you add swag to whatever
you want to do so as to
differentiate your style and that of an illiterate.

A graduate can be selling
"moimoi", yes you read it right "moimoi"... Just add a little swag to it and you will see bankers, doctors,
engineers, politicians, etc rushing to eat your moimoi... Everything in life is all about packaging, how you package yourself, how you package your business, your relationship, relationplane, relationboat, relationkeke, even relationbarrow, u name it cus all hands are not equal!

White collar job is not meant for everybody, so the earlier you get that into your head, the better
and faster you get yourself self employed and start making it for real and big. Your going to the university is
also to make you an employer of labour. There are lot of people that made it without seeing the four walls of the university, so you that's a graduate should do very much better than them.
The truth is, I don't believe that there is no job, the only problem is that people are sometimes too selective because they see themselves as graduate and can't see themselves collecting peanut as salary. But the truth is, that small job can be what will expose you to the big job you dream of.
Instead of sitting at home, why not just manage it. You sit at home and complain of
how the govt has not reduced unemployment and your mates are busy establishing themselves
in one way or the other.
A graduate can be a hair stylist, just add swag to it and you are good to go.
Some will say they want to start up business, but they are looking for millions to start it up as a
'graduate wey dem be naa' lol. But you can actually start up a small business and grow from
there... Most billionaires started small.
You are a graduate and you have been jobless for years, please take that your certificate and
hide in your box, ask the illiterate millionnaire how he made it and start up something. Stop waiting for the govt, the Nigerian govt that I know will
not change unless God sends a Messiah and I know the Messiah
has come and gone since 2000 years ago. It will not take you time to learn tailoring, baking, catering, trade, Machenic,etc... Imagine all the years you have wasted looking
for a job, you would have started counting at least in thousands by now if you decided to get
yourself self made. Even as you are learning that trade or handwork, you can as well be looking for a job.

So my fellow Nigerians, undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates is time to get things done, become financial independent and goodbye to our greedy and selfish politicians.

1st of all d main reason of getting a job is to practice wat u studied at d university not abt money,DAT y dey call u graduate trainee n dey pay u change.if u av a dream u won't work for money. Cos experience bring money If u knw wat u doing. Dere is no point for a carpenter apprentice to involve in tailor.my dear if not for d bad Nigerian system. Dere is not in like sellin moi moi cos u want to make money. D reason of being a professional is to actualize ur dream. Am a civil Engr n I am practising my profession. For y'all DAT read micro biology n u working in a bank. I advice u to get capital n equip a lab were u can enjoy ur practise. Tank u