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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by enomakos(m): 9:32am On Nov 09, 2019
fairy88:
Mine was after working for 15 days, on the day am suppose to receive my salary, being on my birthday, getting to the gate, I was giving a sack letter and was not allowed to go inside the company, just like that, simply because I refuse to play the card..I cried like I lost someone, my pain was not only the money, but combining studies and working, yes I was schooling and working, morning am in the school, get home 3pm, leave for work 5pm, from work to school again the next morning, for 15 days I couldn't get enough sleep and it went just like that.... what would a poor girl do? Nothing, I got that job because I need to pay my fees, no appointment letter was given, who will fight for me? No one, I left it for God.
sorry o
that my country for you
Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by landforeast(m): 9:33am On Nov 09, 2019
12k as a Computer Instructor many years back. Now I pay people from 40,000 and above.

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Olodo24: 9:33am On Nov 09, 2019
Zero Naira. I was working for my sister's husband (a very wicked and stingy man). He said he couldn't pay me since I was staying in his house and eating less than two square meals.

I'm happy for where I am today, but I have a message for everyone : don't work for free for anyone simply because you live in his/her house cos that thing sets one backwards in the hustling race. It's better to sleep under the bridge and work for pay than to sleep in a mansion for a free work

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Depressed101: 9:34am On Nov 09, 2019
Reading all this comments, i dont tthink i deserve the nerve to complain.. I have seriously never been under payed....
As early as my secondary school days i was earning nothing lesd than 1.5k or more nothing less for bricklayer job. This was in 2012/2013, in 2014 i was earning 8k monthly with a daily minimum pocket money of 500h, thats about say 12k +8k =20k. In a beer warehouse

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by tech18: 9:35am On Nov 09, 2019
5k per month as a volunteer teacher
Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Depressed101: 9:35am On Nov 09, 2019
fairy88:
Mine was after working for 15 days, on the day am suppose to receive my salary, being on my birthday, getting to the gate, I was giving a sack letter and was not allowed to go inside the company, just like that, simply because I refuse to play the card..I cried like I lost someone, my pain was not only the money, but combining studies and working, yes I was schooling and working, morning am in the school, get home 3pm, leave for work 5pm, from work to school again the next morning, for 15 days I couldn't get enough sleep and it went just like that.... what would a poor girl do? Nothing, I got that job because I need to pay my fees, no appointment letter was given, who will fight for me? No one, I left it for God.
you didn't do anything? You lefr just like that? People cool sha oo
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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by enomakos(m): 9:36am On Nov 09, 2019
KingAzubuike:
165,000k.

Did it because I had no option.
still better than most people own
Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Nobody: 9:36am On Nov 09, 2019
TOPCRUISE:
Way back 2012. As a Bsc degree holder I was employed in an organization willing to pay only N10,000 and paltry commission for targets that is far difficult to achieve. I joined following advice of job experience from wicked and village pipu on this yeye forum. 3 months later I was sacked not able to meet their unrealistic target. I have no regrets because am now self employed doing great.
At least you got the work experience grin cheesy
Nice to hear you're doing fine now .

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by enomakos(m): 9:37am On Nov 09, 2019
Onlydaughter:
Working for my mum, she paid me zero naira with reasons that it's in the food she gives me cheesy
better mama

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by mountex(f): 9:38am On Nov 09, 2019
KingAzubuike:
165,000k.

Did it because I had no option.

165K in a month and u still see it as small pay what population of Nigerian collect 165k every month

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by m140(m): 9:38am On Nov 09, 2019
Working with a cargo company then , worked from morning till night carrying cargies at Nigerian avians, was thinking manager go fill my pocket that day paaa, it wasn't funny, at about 8pm we go to the office store to offload my manager go say he wants to go get money from ATM was so .... happy, he came back and started giving stories, e be like say make i kill am, that was the first time i use a train cus i was left with N120 , he even left me standing, MR Kazeem ,,, i cant ever forget him. Most people just wicked , since then i left the job about two weeks to that time and promised myself never to work for someone again, and i haven't till now.

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Gofwane(m): 9:40am On Nov 09, 2019
5k at a filling station. But what we made during fuel scarcity was 10 time that amount grin

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by m140(m): 9:40am On Nov 09, 2019
Slawormir:
Damnnnnn

As a real niggarrr
Gone are those days!!!
My first salary in one national integrated power projects in Edo state under some expatriate ( maylasian, Thailand and Pakistani) was thirty thousand naira then.

But now i don't do salary shit

Now i just keep on bombing with my updated tools and format while changing my internet protocol from static to dynamic
You still going to start afresh, i guarantee you "No shortcut "

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Mydazz(m): 9:40am On Nov 09, 2019
Research Editor, TNSRMS, 2008-2011, #650 per day, with Occasional Overtime, Public Holiday is #1,300,....... and Errors are calculated and deducted from monthly,....... Quite an experience!!

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by dROC1: 9:40am On Nov 09, 2019
Was paid 0 naira for all my 6 months at GTE 13 years ago, but as God would have it, I met the person that connected me to my present company during lunchtime at GTE, and God turned my nothing to something a year later.

Today would not be possible if I didn't go through that phase as God had planted my helper around a 0 naira job.

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by m140(m): 9:42am On Nov 09, 2019
Auxtin85:
Me and 5 friends fell a tree for a friend’s mom, it took us 5 days and she paid us #100.
Your mum can't pay you na, the friends mum is also their mum n

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by solsticey2k3(m): 9:42am On Nov 09, 2019
It was one insurance company o. They said we will be paid based on commission, no fixed pay. And you know how selling insurance can be in Nigeria. I’m not sure I even got paid once sef in those 4 months I spent there. And I was spending tfare to and fro like about #500 everyday. How naive I was then that I just wanted to build up my cv. And this was 7 years ago.
Well something must wise a man up

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by StRichard(m): 9:43am On Nov 09, 2019
Slawormir:
Damnnnnn

As a real niggarrr
Gone are those days!!!
My first salary in one national integrated power projects in Edo state under some expatriate ( maylasian, Thailand and Pakistani) was thirty thousand naira then.

But now i don't do salary shit

Now i just keep on bombing with my updated tools and format while changing my internet protocol from static to dynamic
grin my fellow niggarr
Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Daviddson(m): 9:44am On Nov 09, 2019
blackboy:
Mine was N650 in 1994 teaching in a school. Was low but the money i used it to set up a poultry farm back then and did me some good. Though i trekked to n from work to save. I only had Waec.

Someone I know after NYSC 2000 was paid N6k for teaching in a private school. He was married and with no job instead of being a jobless husband .
You were a teacher in 1994 and you're still putting 'boy' in your name? Where's the maturity, oga? grin
Truth234:

It depends on when the account was opened, he did his NYSC in 2000/2001 and registered on Nairaland in 2005 (14 years ago) one of the very first set.
If the account was opened recently, you had made sense.
You did a nice job doing the research, but it still doesn't make sense for somebody who finished youth service "4 years ago" to continue using "boy" to refer to himself. I'm done please, because it's just a harmless observation.

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Herbizard33(m): 9:44am On Nov 09, 2019
11k 2015 Private school, I don't teach I only typset there Exam and Test on Computer and do practical for some student every Thursday.

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Cjayboy: 9:44am On Nov 09, 2019
Hmmmm...My was in year 2009, while waiting for my desired banking work as an IT. I,humbly joined building work as a help boy and was paid #1,000 daily, but not up to 1 week my banking work came calling..
Praise the Lord!!!!

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by OvaSabi1(f): 9:45am On Nov 09, 2019
Auxtin85:
Me and 5 friends fell a tree for a friend’s mom, it took us 5 days and she paid us #100.

Na wah o. She for just soak una garri and groundnut after each day's work. Would have been better. Or perhaps this was in the 80s when 100 naira had more value?

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Nobody: 9:45am On Nov 09, 2019
5 dollars per appointment selling knives for custco lmao my black friends didn’t want a knife so na just demonstration I Dey do sotey na me commot go Macy’s myself
Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Fundamentalist: 9:46am On Nov 09, 2019
Worked at a private school 17k after 3 months I resigned , then a company were I work Monday to Saturday (45k), then changed location to another state (80k), I'm my current NGO job (250k).
Life isn't funny.
Alhamdulillah

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by gabsmilez(m): 9:47am On Nov 09, 2019
philip0906:
150k, 4 Years back.

This was my first job as I had just shutdown my tech startup.

I got to find out that I was clearly under valued and my colleagues in same position were earning at least 50% more. I didn't negotiate my salary well but needed to get back on my feet so I had to accept the offer.

I stayed on that job for 1 year before resigning and getting a way better offer.
oya bro show me love na, with a job not money but if na money i will colect
Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by ArticleBeast: 9:47am On Nov 09, 2019
Daviddson:
You were a teacher in 1994 and you're still putting 'boy' in your name? Where's the maturity, oga? grin
E reach to ask o... Some of us never comot womb by then o

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Benjaminbassey1(m): 9:47am On Nov 09, 2019
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Happy weekend
grin
ma nigga, you correct die" chaii.. na only you post better thing here

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by m140(m): 9:47am On Nov 09, 2019
olamilarks:
I also remember my first job, teaching at a school in Ikorodu for 12k monthly, later I took two classes and the money increased to 17k and then I started driving the school bus and the money jumped to 27k. I was working like crazy and all the other teachers envied me. Worked at a KFC as a doorman for 15k monthly, 2 days on, 2 days off. Took another at a tomato processing company for 800/day 7am-7pm.
I saved up money and did drivers license, got a 40k job and it was like a 400k monthly job. Nowadays, I just drive Uber and wait for the next big stage, life is in stages!
I love your spirit, you ain't trying to live a fast life , you will definitely get there, bros isn't the journey interesting?

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by m140(m): 9:48am On Nov 09, 2019
SEGLIZ:

those private nursery and primary school are devils. hardly do people come out to tell good tales about them.
That business is not easy , if you sef start am with small money , you go owe teachers tire sef even if you are paying 500 monthly

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Auxtin85(m): 9:48am On Nov 09, 2019
OvaSabi1:


Na wah o. She for just soak una garri and groundnut after each day's work. Would have been better. Or perhaps this was in the 80s when 100 naira had more value?

Lol it was 17yrs ago but all of us don grow in all aspects of life now

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by ArticleBeast: 9:49am On Nov 09, 2019
Fundamentalist:
Worked at a private school 17k after 3 months I resigned , then a company were I work Monday to Saturday (45k), then changed location to another state (80k), I'm my current NGO job (250k).
Life isn't funny.
Alhamdulillah
Baba link me for the NGO na... I dey KD

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Re: What Is The Lowest Pay You Have Received For A Job Due To Desperation? by Auxtin85(m): 9:50am On Nov 09, 2019
m140:

Your mum can't pay you na, the friends mum is also their mum n

That woman get as she take dey that time oo, she nor dey even allow us pluck fruits from her compound.

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