Viking007:
Your post really got me I had to quote it twice.

90% of Nigerians just want a simple life. A life they can provide for their average family - food, shelter, good health, very average education, that's all. Nothing extravagant. They don't need 30 million naira.

A good percentage of Nigerians won't see 5 million naira before they die. According to a recent CBN statistics, only about 10-20% of Nigerians have above N100,000 in their bank accounts.

robertmugabe:


Lol...they will rather tell you to go and hustle than giving you their illegally hard earned cash....

AfroKnight:
EFCC looking at the OP like

Daviddson:
I hope you're also aware that EFCC has arrested thousands of them this year alone? And have been convicted and are currently serving jail terms? And some have died in the fraud and are in hell? Etc etc.

iLegendd:
Sorry.

robertmugabe:


I only disagree with u where u said all sins are equal bf d maker. Equating all sins to the same severity, in your own little human wisdom how fair do you think this is ?

don't mind that fool. Hell fire kor,hell fire ni

Martinez39:
There is nothing like hell fire. Once you die, you cease existing.

Martinez39:
No time to even console the brother.

MZrapper:


Whatever makes you sleep at night is welcomed.

yemifez:

I think you should be more concerned with what takes you away from Jannat. Such statement should not come out of a MUSLIMA's mouth

MZrapper:


Since you are Allah's mouth piece, keep judging.

iLegendd:


2020 is a year of less talk, mind your business, and more focus, so I'm getting ready for it.

MZrapper:

Whatever makes you sleep at night is welcomed.

Viking007:
Your post really got me I had to quote it twice.

90% of Nigerians just want a simple life. A life they can provide for their average family - food, shelter, good health, very average education, that's all. Nothing extravagant. They don't need 30 million naira.

A good percentage of Nigerians won't see 5 million naira before they die. According to a recent CBN statistics, only about 10-20% of Nigerians have above N100,000 in their bank accounts.

MZrapper:
PLEASE make money regardless of how it comes.
No one cares how you make money, just be rich.

robertmugabe:
Pls permit me to post this piece here as it seems not to be compatible with all the sessions available...

I will be brief as much as possible...

I am typing in disdain and gross depression. I am 32 years old. I finished from a university in the year 2012. As it is always of any person living in the glory and self-simulated value of finishing with good grade and from one of the leading universities in Nigeria, one would, of course, erroneously expected to retire from the academic environment, to a cushy labour market environment. Far from what I confidently pictured while in school, it is 6 years now and still counting, of active service in the labor market in search of deserving job. From the beginning of post-university time, many of my friends picked up YAHOO instead of wasting their time in d tensed labor market while some newly opted for it along the line of their hopelessness in the labor market. I was invited but I took my uncompromising stance. So far, I have tried to upgrade my self sha with professional exams but yet not materialising.

Behold, my friends are now juicily successful in their fraudline path. Even if I get good work today, it may take me 15 years of conservative savings before matching their lofty height of success. Almost all of them are now married, have an obviously paying businesses and of course, possess what it takes to earn Daddy status in their respective environment. While me no even get an apartment of my own... Ah still they live with my brother who is already married.

I am aware of how they make their money through compromising gmail, but I was hellbent even though the cross breeds of alerts on their respective phones is always intimidating. Even, sometimes, they did engage my service of writing an official and professionally worded statements meant to be furnished to their clients.

Funniest thing and not unexpected anyway, some of them are now stylishly cutting me off. Because I am presently far below their current social status and probably because I seems to them not to be a serious type or seems to them to be a coward.

For days now, I have been contemplating compromise and it's appearing to me that it is getting too late to be an upright man.

Dear Nairalanders, pls have you ever been in this situation and how did you overcome the thought of such compromise ?

Paige001:
Pls don't join them oh, crime never pays, they might be successful now but would surely be caught someday

robertmugabe:


Well, you may call them low life in your own narrow way of reasoning but in far broad societal expectations, they are far from what you call them until the time of consequences of their actions, if at all there will be. Baba it is not in my nature to compare my self but at some point of protracted hopelessness, you spontaneously find your self in d habit of putting your life in retrospective assessment and measure against the societal expectations and those things you see all arround...

robertmugabe:
Pls permit me to post this piece here as it seems not to be compatible with all the sessions available...

I will be brief as much as possible...

I am typing in disdain and gross depression. I am 32 years old. I finished from a university in the year 2012. As it is always of any person living in the glory and self-simulated value of finishing with good grade and from one of the leading universities in Nigeria, one would, of course, erroneously expected to retire from the academic environment, to a cushy labour market environment. Far from what I confidently pictured while in school, it is 6 years now and still counting, of active service in the labor market in search of deserving job. From the beginning of post-university time, many of my friends picked up YAHOO instead of wasting their time in d tensed labor market while some newly opted for it along the line of their hopelessness in the labor market. I was invited but I took my uncompromising stance. So far, I have tried to upgrade my self sha with professional exams but yet not materialising.

Behold, my friends are now juicily successful in their fraudline path. Even if I get good work today, it may take me 15 years of conservative savings before matching their lofty height of success. Almost all of them are now married, have an obviously paying businesses and of course, possess what it takes to earn Daddy status in their respective environment. While me no even get an apartment of my own... Ah still they live with my brother who is already married.

I am aware of how they make their money through compromising gmail, but I was hellbent even though the cross breeds of alerts on their respective phones is always intimidating. Even, sometimes, they did engage my service of writing an official and professionally worded statements meant to be furnished to their clients.

Funniest thing and not unexpected anyway, some of them are now stylishly cutting me off. Because I am presently far below their current social status and probably because I seems to them not to be a serious type or seems to them to be a coward.

For days now, I have been contemplating compromise and it's appearing to me that it is getting too late to be an upright man.

Dear Nairalanders, pls have you ever been in this situation and how did you overcome the thought of such compromise ?

frugal:
Nonsense. So you can write and can't join fiverr?

Bogieman:
You need to change your friends. (B4 they change u)

NUJABEZ:

I have fourteen guys whom I regard as friends. Not only are we friends, but we were also born in the same street, we grew up in the same compound, we came of age together. Collectively, I’d say we have known each other since birth.


Out of these fourteen people, thirteen are into Yahoo. They’re quite successful too. I am, I think, the most academically gifted amongst them all, but I am also the least successful in monetary terms. Abdul has built a 12-room mansion in Abeokuta, Kareem runs a thriving car-wash and lounge business; Dike currently lives in Cyprus where he married to a Cypriot, have 3 kids, and living large; Chisom is now a car dealer -- his dealership in Oregun contains more than 40 assorted and exotic cars; Dare runs a printing press that is contracted to the Lagos State Government till 2023; Jabba owns a wholesale liquor business that, according to him, moves 5000 crates of beer per week; Me, Nujabes, what do I own? Nothing much I should say.

Are my happy that I do not have as much money as they do? No, I am not. Am I envious of their success at the moment? God Forbid!

I have one thing that they could never have: I have a clean heart. My conscience does not prick me. I can boldly tell anyone what my line of work entails.

Two weeks ago, I was invited by Ikeja Local Government to coach in workers Digital Innovation and management. In the first week of February, I am going all the way to Calabar to coach another group on Digital Innovation. I love what I do even though it is not generating much money, but I know that with time, my efforts will accumulate. I am using my mind and creating value, growing mentally and spiritually.

You said it will take 15 years to accumulate the money they have, well, why not start now? In 15yrs you will be 47 if you ask me that's a great age to retire.


Some facts that you should consider:

1. I can boldly tell people what my work entails
2. I create value in society; I do not take value
3. My mind is very sharp because I have taken pain to develop myself.
4. Hard work will grow you mentally and spiritually.


It is par for the course to experience feelings of envy or regret when we see our peers doing well in comparison to us. However, an ethical and morally sound person, which you seem to be will not dwell on it, because the satisfaction that comes from doing the right thing should out-weigh whatever monetary gains that could have come from compromising your moral stand.



Bottle up these feelings of disgust and regret; seek ways to develop your self. Do you know where the cushy jobs you speak of are? Reach out to those companies unrelentingly. If you want to do business, develop your business plan, pour all your energies into it.


The heart of what I am trying to say is this: this bad energy that has gotten you down has no place in your life if you want to beat your unethical friends -- you need to up your hustle as well.

NAMES WERE CHANGED.

MZrapper:
PLEASE make money regardless of how it comes.
No one cares how you make money, just be rich.