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Hehe you're just learning? Haha eleyi omo. I'd advise you go do some series of personality tests to know your strengths and weaknesses & get hobbies & interests that can generate income otherwise you'll keep frustrating yourself. School system as we know it is crap. Nothing but mental slave camp to produce mindless robots to make other people wealthy. You sell your soul to banks, corporations, companies for peanuts.

School,Universities destroy knowledge.

Inverted Hammer:
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It is better to have a gun and don't need it than need a gun and don't have it.
You are living in the present. How about the future?

Remember that Solid wanted to re calibrate the Maura. People living in Nigeria were elated. Today, the same Maura is N400/dollar. What changed? Life moves from present to future. That future is here and it sucks. When your future comes, will you look back in regret.

No one knows what tomorrow will bring. Stay in school. Get your education. Be the best you can be by graduating in flying colors because whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
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God bless you my brother!

Again I repeat may God bless you for this comment, I just don't get it for crying out loud!! Why will you just spew such out as an undergraduate

I can see change of proper orientation everywhere. Yes the country is in a funny state presently does not mean there won't be a better tomorrow. Don't even try to ridicule that profession because whether anyone likes it or not your degree will always give you an Edge.

Let us not give up in our PURSUIT in life to be great either skilled or unskilled, remember "what is worth doing at all is worth doing well" why not try concentrate with your DEGREE and come out with a GOOD grade.

You never can tell what 2mao holds, my people do say "owun ti eye ba je ni omaa gbefo" its what a bird eats that he will fly with.

Finally, Hold on bro and never try to loose focus!!

professionally if am to advise you then the follwing analysis must be made: The skill you have acquired is independent of your future & education because1) without it you can stil be what you want to be (2) it is already your asset,your knowledge you power (3) you can choose to abandon, the skill, disown it and pick it up later (4) the skill doesnt have power to determine your academic future all because it is independent. But note that your academic enjoys some degree of independnt which i term non-core independent because: (1) lack of some certain level of education can limit you to some level in life (2) geting to this level is as a result of effort you put together in primary & sec sch so, where u are owes your past alot...so, dont stop half way

Dahkogrin007:
Without education, u might end up answering "sir" to ur mates.... Think it well

Please, allow me to unconcur!

Instead, if he knows what he's doing, the first classers would do "yes sir" for him.

#word

Yungwizzzy:
Anyways i go watch me episode 11 of this Adobe primere pro YouTube tutorial. Hmmm video editting is the skill I booked to acquire 1st quarter 2016



Yungwizzzy

op abeg I go for like follow you watch the Premiere Pro videos. Abeg give me the links make ah check them out.

Ramwab94:
You're probably deaf! Didn't you hear him talk previously that he loved getting engaged with computer works, and that he even tutors the so called 'First Class' students in CCNA, Web designing et al? He said he's got a penchant for something, not an ordinary thing, but an intellectual work which brings money into his pocket and stops him from requestin stipends from home anymore. Guy abeg grow up!

I guess dahkogrin007 missed the bolded line.

He's already getting "yes sir" from graduates while being undergraduate. Shouldn't the graduates be ashamed of themselves?

abayomi93:
bros,well done oh. But. What did u graduate with?

You sef ask abi?

Na wetin we just dey debate be that. #Graduate

Sunkyphil:
u can't compare there with naija

crap! It could happen anywhere!

Bro! You are not far from the truth.. I can beat my chest and tell the world that Education in Nigeria is bull-crab. Imagine a lecturer comes to class, put an outdated equation on the board that he copied from somewhere. After solving, you ask him, how did you arrive at this answer and his response is "take that home as your assignment" in some of this tertiary institutions no knowledge is being transfer to the students. Ma brother, na too go dey arrange the "Blocking money" down. That is the only language they understand.

Most Nigerian youth read without insight and sense, know how to read basic English and write, know basic calculation, technical college or ND is enough, learn a trade and face it, I've seen roadside okada mechanic having 2 houses modern one while his mate graduate struggle to pay rent, my own brother is even another testimony, hes pure damn farmer but men, a farmer using suit, camry and own more than 7 pen, land acquisition is uncountable, he dine with governor and commisioner of Agric, his graduate mate now some of his staff and some learning under him, get ur grip, learn what u can do on ur own and forget nysc dream bullshit, its mere paper, not ur brain or skill

Ehya. Op sorry

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Bro as a grad of Computer Engineering and a professional in IT presently - in the IT department of a large organization - I think I'm qualified to advise you.

I started my IT career in 1998, just before university, with programming and desktop support. When I was in school, I was just as dissatisfied as you are now. At some point I didn't take my studies seriously and came out with a 2:2. I'll say by and large that was a mistake I'm still paying for, cos I went in search of Jobs but didn't land the ones I would really like. I've had CCNA since 2007 and a few other certs.

The IT skills you say you have are really not a big deal trust me. Right now you're just like several other IT guys out there. You think it's a big deal because you're taking care of small bills in school. From what I read you don't particularly stand out in any key field yet. You're just learning all that comes your way now. That wouldn't earn you much later though it's a good foundation for the future.

So unless you do really specialize in a specific and preferably difficult area maybe get your CCIE and stuff like that or and you have very clear plans in owning a company with a clear sense of direction and capital to execute, you'd better go back to class, dust those books and start cramming, reading doing whatever. Trust me I've been there.

Being in school really shouldn't stop what you're involved in now. You're not doing anything major yet, just some small jobs here and there so..unless and until you own a thriving business whose income can rival that of a fresher in a bank OR until you come up with the next great app or idea, go the FK back to class. Thank me later.

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs were all driven, talented prodigies and some had major financial backing so don't be deceived. Some of them actually did get into Harvard. Except you're actually a genius and just decided to leave that part out. In that case ignore my advice.

Kfed4ril:
I had to counter u cos my uncle till 2day Is an illiterate nd as I speak 2 u he has people like u(graduates) he pays salaries,

Datz y I said he "might".... President Buhari doesn't v a university certificate too

[quote author=ume post=43103043][/quote]bros u try na,engineering no be beans oh.I tink 2.2 is a good grade,infact over 60% of graduates from Nigerian universiteis are making 2.2. Only about 20% make 3rd class and another 20% make 2.1

bamite:
I'm starting my own construction firm soon.This is 3 whole years gone after nysc and no single job,so i've decided to be my own boss and interview people wen i get contracts to work for me.

Just wondering, how often will a start up construction firm in Nigeria get contracts? And of what size?

ogbeni evry1 has his or hr destiny, yea unemployment rate en ñigeria z nt encouraging bt shouldn't stp ya from studying.

Artorius:
Just wondering, how often will a start up construction firm in Nigeria get contracts? And of what size?

depends on how well you market yourself, and you can start with little contracts here and there.

POVERTY is not really lack of money, but lack of belief
in
opportunities. Whether you are rich or poor has to do
with your attitude towards an opportunity when it
comes. Part of why the World’s Richest Billionaire – Bill
Gate said “If YOU ARE BORN POOR IT’S NOT YOUR
FAULT; BUT IF YOU DIE POOR IT’S YOUR FAULT” .
Your future is in your hands. Remember that TODAY is
the TOMORROW you said YESTERDAY. If you don’t
learn
how to build your dreams today, someone will hire you
(as an employee) to build his/her own dreams. And you
know what? You cannot achieve financial freedom if
you
keep working for someone all your life. You need to
choose your own hours and work for yourself.
Do you know that every morning you wake up and use
tooth paste to brush your teeth someone else is
making
money? If you want you can make money every day to
meet your financial needs.

You Bette think of making money first.

8 years now and never collected a salary for one day.

You better wake up.

Listen to Olamides album. Fucking with the devil. There is reason I fight with poverty.

Ybnl.

Voice on the street.

Welcome to the street if you fail you must repeat and I only look up to god baba God bonjour

Our schools /education systems teach and deliver to you 18th century education and expect you to be relevant in 21st century ...
check P. N OKEKE's physics, you'll still see d 'graanngraan' doorbell, who uses that now?

emmyw:
[b]This is what am saying, when you really do the opposite of your passion, that's how it feels. am in the same faculty with you, but my mission is not just to gain employment, if you really know what you are doing, Job will hunt you after graduation. so many people are studying MBBS because their friends are into it, or their parents want them to, thereby making it highly competitive. this is really why i love myself so much, employment or no employment, i believe that if i study the course i have passion for, God will surely bless me, so stop generalizing things, you are simply frustrated in your field, you really have to backup and forget about that your mindset before you end up had i known.

That you do web design, computer training for some people, etc i do all that, i simply believe that i can even design websites you can't code, so my brother, forget about your country's economy and focus on your future, don't ever live the life you will regret, i don't want to type much, a word is enough for the wise.[/b]

see this one wish job they hunt for you they there I guess that is what ur lectura they tell u. .mugun

Op I think you should pay attention to what laidback and some well meaning nairalanders here have suggested. Here is my analysis:

It takes nothing out of you to finish up your course, rather it adds to your bragging rights. The last thing you want is to be faced with an opportunity and you don't have the paper qualifications to back up what you know. The world is a tough place, people don't have the time to give you a trial period or a second chance to reveal your worth, your qualifications would do most of the talking in your absence.
Now more importantly, you think you are making money now from your few transactions, well yes it looks like cool money now cos you are still a student and the world hasn't heaved it's weight of responsibilities on you yet. Those small courses you are relying on, can only take you as far as you are willing to go with them. An example: When most of us had our undergrad education, some of the technologies existing now where not fully developed, some none existent at the time. Whatever it is we thought was the future has become obsolete cos the world is developing every year and faster. Keeping up with the trend is a life long struggle. Your today's computer course might no longer be used 5 years down the line, however, your university certificate never gets obsolete, it's yours, it's your bargaining power to get your foot past that door and into the board room to reveal what you have been doing with your brain even after graduation, studying never ends cos new stuff would always be discovered by researchers.

My advice: Do both. Get your degree and learn your computer/technical courses as well, you never know when someone would go digging into your background to vett your professional audacity. If you go the business route, you don't want competitors nicking your clients after telling them you aren't a professional cos you didn't get a degree.

michealabm:
me sef tire o, studying maths and everything is cramming

Ahswear! Just finished my B.Tech. I wrote my project in complex analysis and everything was just abstract. Cramming is essential for good grades in Mathematics o (at least in Nigeria). I'm thinking of porting to Financial Accounting and going for ICAN exams to broaden my usefulness in the labour market. Waduyu think bro?

jimmy101231:
see this one wish job they hunt for you they there I guess that is what ur lectura they tell u. .mugun

Talking to you is a waste of time, because I don't think you understand what I mean by that, just simple English. I know the God am serving.

unemployment, Education and Money are different things that can be or not a function of the others entirely. But
as unemployment is a menace so also is not attending school.
Therefore, by combining the two is what I call menacity.
short words is for a wise

y will der be jobs when you are criticizing his LONG ABA TIE. #buynaijatogrowthenaira.... according to bruce

michealabm:
me sef tire o, studying maths and everything is cramming

I crammed maths and got 100%.. (40 in test, 60 in exam) in one of my maths courses during undergraduate days. I studied engineering sha... All na cram and pour.