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ITbomb:
Don't drop the idea, you really need that laptop. It will open doors of opportunities for you to be self employed

Graphic design might be your starting point but believe me as you become good in it, you will learn so many other skills on your own if you have a laptop and treat it as your office not game box or movie theater

naijacutee:
First of all, I would say you need that laptop. Even if you have to borrow to get a laptop, and work out of a cafe, do it. Treat this as seriously as you would treat a job. If you have the time and the willingness to learn, there are at least 15 different bankable skills you can learn, and not have to carry your CV from door to door. You will be able to pitch for jobs online and get paid your own rates in mostly USD.

Obviously you need to be good at what you do to command higher rates, but in the meantime, you mughg even be able to get paid while your learning. You can even decide to test the waters before making your mind up on what skill to pick.

All you need to do is:

1. Sign up on freelance websites (odesk, pph, guru, upwork) and look for small, specific tasks you can do, or learn quite easily.
2. Pick one task with over 20 job requests. A lot of requests for this task means that there is demand for the said skill.
3. Search for as many resources as you can and learn to do this task.
4. Start adding more resources to your knowledge pool, and learn to do similar related tasks.
5. Grow and kick ass

Here are specific things you can learn to do that bring in money:
Graphic design
1. Logo design
2. Banner design
3. Infographics design
4. Powerpoint presentations design
5. Business cards and letter heads
6. Brochures, magazines, menus
7. leaflets and posters
8. Animations
(Web development)
9. Building sites with Wordpress
10. PSD to Wordpress conversions
11. UI mock ups
12. Ecommerce site designs
13. Fixing issues
14. SEO
(Copy writing)
15. Writing articles
16. Proofreading articles
17. Transcribing audio recordings
18. Social media management
Video
19. Video editing

You will find more resources here: http://www.unchainable.com/24-bankable-skills-you-can-learn-without-going-to-university/

Eddodoh:
Respect!!! I really appreciate and I will act on it ASAP

naijacutee:
I hope you do. There are people less articulate than you who are succeeding. Let me know if you need help with anything.

obajoey:
Following.
Learning graphics with passion.

naijacutee:
First of all, I would say you need that laptop. Even if you have to borrow to get a laptop, and work out of a cafe, do it. Treat this as seriously as you would treat a job. If you have the time and the willingness to learn, there are at least 15 different bankable skills you can learn, and not have to carry your CV from door to door. You will be able to pitch for jobs online and get paid your own rates in mostly USD.

Obviously you need to be good at what you do to command higher rates, but in the meantime, you mughg even be able to get paid while your learning. You can even decide to test the waters before making your mind up on what skill to pick.

All you need to do is:

1. Sign up on freelance websites (odesk, pph, guru, upwork) and look for small, specific tasks you can do, or learn quite easily.
2. Pick one task with over 20 job requests. A lot of requests for this task means that there is demand for the said skill.
3. Search for as many resources as you can and learn to do this task.
4. Start adding more resources to your knowledge pool, and learn to do similar related tasks.
5. Grow and kick ass

Here are specific things you can learn to do that bring in money:
Graphic design
1. Logo design
2. Banner design
3. Infographics design
4. Powerpoint presentations design
5. Business cards and letter heads
6. Brochures, magazines, menus
7. leaflets and posters
8. Animations
(Web development)
9. Building sites with Wordpress
10. PSD to Wordpress conversions
11. UI mock ups
12. Ecommerce site designs
13. Fixing issues
14. SEO
(Copy writing)
15. Writing articles
16. Proofreading articles
17. Transcribing audio recordings
18. Social media management
Video
19. Video editing

You will find more resources here: http://www.unchainable.com/24-bankable-skills-you-can-learn-without-going-to-university/

naijacutee:
Well done. There are so many jobs out there, and our young people need to learn to refine skills enough to be able to pitch to a global audience. Unemployment only exists when we limit ourselves to our immediate surroundings.

You might find this a helpful learning resource: http://www.unchainable.com/8-free-and-paid-sources-to-learn-graphic-design/

When you're ready to pitch, here's where you can look for jobs. They are not necessarily results you might get from location based searches, so quite useful. I would suggest bookmarking and working from the list:
http://www.unchainable.com/14-best-sites-for-finding-creative-graphic-design-jobs/

naijacutee:
I hope you do. There are people less articulate than you who are succeeding. Let me know if you need help with anything.

Syrine234:
Nice blog and nice words but you got something missing and that is the social media sharing icons...i will love to share your writeups and that that to me is traffic for your site!

naijacutee:
Thanks for pointing that out. Shareable buttons are not at the bottom of posts! Share away! :-)

naijacutee:
First of all, I would say you need that laptop. Even if you have to borrow to get a laptop, and work out of a cafe, do it. Treat this as seriously as you would treat a job. If you have the time and the willingness to learn, there are at least 15 different bankable skills you can learn, and not have to carry your CV from door to door. You will be able to pitch for jobs online and get paid your own rates in mostly USD.

Obviously you need to be good at what you do to command higher rates, but in the meantime, you mughg even be able to get paid while your learning. You can even decide to test the waters before making your mind up on what skill to pick.

All you need to do is:

1. Sign up on freelance websites (odesk, pph, guru, upwork) and look for small, specific tasks you can do, or learn quite easily.
2. Pick one task with over 20 job requests. A lot of requests for this task means that there is demand for the said skill.
3. Search for as many resources as you can and learn to do this task.
4. Start adding more resources to your knowledge pool, and learn to do similar related tasks.
5. Grow and kick ass

Here are specific things you can learn to do that bring in money:
Graphic design
1. Logo design
2. Banner design
3. Infographics design
4. Powerpoint presentations design
5. Business cards and letter heads
6. Brochures, magazines, menus
7. leaflets and posters
8. Animations
(Web development)
9. Building sites with Wordpress
10. PSD to Wordpress conversions
11. UI mock ups
12. Ecommerce site designs
13. Fixing issues
14. SEO
(Copy writing)
15. Writing articles
16. Proofreading articles
17. Transcribing audio recordings
18. Social media management
Video
19. Video editing

You will find more resources here: http://www.unchainable.com/24-bankable-skills-you-can-learn-without-going-to-university/

fiddzy:
naijacutee good day to you ma.I have been thinking lately ,i am about to graduate from uni . An agric student ,i said let me enquire from experienced freelancers if there are articles on agriculture related fields.I have good working laptop,a computer literate ,internet(my phone can be used as a modem) thanks in anticipation God bless.