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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by ABSTRUSE: 8:39pm On Jun 11, 2020
Donald95:
For me, I concluded my schooling (Caritas Private University) and service when i was 22 years. I stayed with my widowed mother till i became 24. That 2 years was full time war because I battled within myself over my non- educated friends that are mostly into tanker and Container motor drivers flourishing while me that much is expected from had nothing but "thank you" whenever i finish eating my mums food ( not jealousy though)


Mid of my 24 years, i moved in to stay with my sister in Enugu. Away from home, i was more free to engage my self no matter how humiliating the work look.

I started with Teaching. I was paid 15k per month, after 5 or 6 months of saving, i rented my own apartment, Used the remaining money to buy rice, tomato paste and beans in large quantities. I made good savings before the year ran out.


The next year, i opened a phone charging place and employed a girl while I was still teaching . Money started flowing in small small. I had about 300k few months later so, I opened Firstmonie outlet.

I started massive saving. I was targeting to open an iron company where i will sell building materials last 2 years, but the required capital is too much so, I went into rice.

I am Thankful to God for where i am today.


You can still make it if you don't have a job. Just start as small as possible.

Move away from home and squat with your sibling or good friend if you are too ashamed or not free to engage yourself.

What's the start-up capital for building materials business?
Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by shege45: 8:40pm On Jun 11, 2020
Finished Nysc at 22.
Sat home jobless for 5months
Found a teaching job of 25k
did that for about two and half years
Moved out of the country last year
Still a work in progress

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Olakunleyakub(m): 8:42pm On Jun 11, 2020
Am still a work in progress but I blv commitment and consistency are the master key to success.
Donald95:
For me, I concluded my schooling (Caritas Private University) and service when i was 22 years. I stayed with my widowed mother till i became 24. That 2 years was full time war because I battled within myself over my non- educated friends that are mostly into tanker and Container motor drivers flourishing while me that much is expected from had nothing but "thank you" whenever i finish eating my mums food ( not jealousy though)


Mid of my 24 years, i moved in to stay with my sister in Enugu. Away from home, i was more free to engage my self no matter how humiliating the work look.

I started with Teaching. I was paid 15k per month, after 5 or 6 months of saving, i rented my own apartment, Used the remaining money to buy rice, tomato paste and beans in large quantities. I made good savings before the year ran out.


The next year, i opened a phone charging place and employed a girl while I was still teaching . Money started flowing in small small. I had about 300k few months later so, I opened Firstmonie outlet.

I started massive saving. I was targeting to open an iron company where i will sell building materials last 2 years, but the required capital is too much so, I went into rice.

I am Thankful to God for where i am today.


You can still make it if you don't have a job. Just start as small as possible.

Move away from home and squat with your sibling or good friend if you are too ashamed or not free to engage yourself.
Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Celestinenwankw(m): 8:42pm On Jun 11, 2020
STIll jobles because of my ill health and am not happy with such hopeles suituation.pls any one with anY advics on better way should help am tired of life
Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Rich4god(m): 8:42pm On Jun 11, 2020
Onyi22:
I knew very well that we have a lot of broke ass guys on this forum...
See how they have start confessing,
Tufiakwa!!!!
I will not settle with a guy that starts from small oooo, My man must be born with a silver spoon
look at this man...

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Igolonwaanyi(f): 8:43pm On Jun 11, 2020
Onyi22:
I knew very well that we have a lot of broke ass guys on this forum...
See how they have start confessing,
Tufiakwa!!!!
I will not settle with a guy that starts from small oooo, My man must be born with a silver spoon


How much do you have yourself?


The truth you don't know is this- rich men can't settle for broke girls who have nothing to bring to the table.

Let's assume you're broke, are you breathtakingly beautiful? How packaged is your ManCHESTer and ASSnal.

If No to those question, you better start looking for blue eyes to charm wealthy men, or get a loan to work on your body.

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Goalnaldo(m): 8:44pm On Jun 11, 2020
I am still jobless and there is nothing I haven't tried, believe me. Currently I'm managing my blog and hoping it will get approved for Adsense. I believe I will succeed in life. I didn't spoil someone's own.

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Nobody: 8:45pm On Jun 11, 2020
Onyi22:
I knew very well that we have a lot of broke ass guys on this forum...
See how they have start confessing,
Tufiakwa!!!!
I will not settle with a guy that starts from small oooo, My man must be born with a silver spoon

Yet, you were not even born with a rubber spoon grin. They just gave birth to you like that . Which man will rescue you from this your poverty situation when you don't have anything to bring to the table?

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Reucy(f): 8:46pm On Jun 11, 2020
Onyi22:
I knew very well that we have a lot of broke ass guys on this forum...
See how they have start confessing,
Tufiakwa!!!!
I will not settle with a guy that starts from small oooo, My man must be born with a silver spoon

I just want to believe your comment is a joke. If it is not, What happens to you working your to become a silver spoon?
Never said you should settle for less but have rethink on your mentality.

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by EncoreTrades(m): 8:46pm On Jun 11, 2020
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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Akemim(m): 8:46pm On Jun 11, 2020
Finish Secondary school at 19
NYSC at 25
Self employed and also doing my masters, would have finished this year, but COVID 19 and ASUU
Building my house now

Still looking for other stream of income now that I am home... I still stay with my parents though.

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Favoritedealer: 8:46pm On Jun 11, 2020
Make I no lie na Yahoo i do,finished UNI at 23,I stayed home for a year and looked for job everywhere I didn't see shit,got a phone and a laptop then started bombing, I made my first million at 24.
7 years later now I'm a legit business owner if you can call it a business sha, I have 9 taxis and I employ young men to drive them and they deliver to me weekly .I guess I'm still jobless cos I don't do anything all day.i just wait till weekend and collect my due

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Goalnaldo(m): 8:48pm On Jun 11, 2020
shege45:
Finished Nysc at 22.
Sat home jobless for 5months
Found a teaching job of 25k
did that for about two and half years
Moved out of the country last year
Still a work in progress
please which country did you move to and did you raise the traveling fee solely from the teaching job?

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by oyindare(m): 8:48pm On Jun 11, 2020
You are so right, depression is one crazy dude�
Donald95:


Start something now. Depression may hit you soon. Looking at your school mate and age mate flourishing while you are koboless can cause depression

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by humilitypays(m): 8:49pm On Jun 11, 2020
My advice to all young people reading this:

Whatever you want to do, please be consistent with it.....even if money is not coming in at the start, don't quit to start another thing afresh.....just stay focused, consistency is one smartest way to excel......if you can open a shop and be selling mobile phone chargers in one street, just make sure you are always in that shop 8am - 7pm if possible. Don't ever give people the impression that you are not always available. Just sit down there and be browsing your phone or counting people passing, believe me, you are building a future sustainable business place. Let everybody on that street know you as the phone charger seller! Be proud of it, and watch out.


Try this for 2 years in whatever you are doing now and come back for testimony cool

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by kipesco(m): 8:50pm On Jun 11, 2020
In a face of moving to a level higher than where I am.
Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by obayendo1010(m): 8:50pm On Jun 11, 2020
Haha
My own easy die from skool I enter street from street I done rush 2 building now rent I dey enjoy now back to back all thanks to God and bitcoin....

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Nobody: 8:51pm On Jun 11, 2020
Nice thread, OP.
I've never been unemployed, though I won't say I'm financially okay.
My side hustles sustained me throughout by schooling days (ND and HND) and during my service year.
I stayed at home for few months after I finished service last year October.
I started my retail business early this year and it's to God be the glory....

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Mightyhaiz: 8:52pm On Jun 11, 2020
Was

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by AmazingELixir: 8:53pm On Jun 11, 2020
Oops!

Ok I graduated far back served and almost a year after my discharge from NYSC ...my cousin whom was then working with a multinational company one of those Schlumberger affiliates then pleaded with me to come help him write a promotion examination .I went with him and after the exams the results were announced and he came up amongst the tops..so happened that some of the guys that turned up for the examination knew me very well and raised alarm when their names weren't listed amongst the successful candidates and the test was eventually cancelled and rescheduled for another day as the slots were for host community .

I was relatively very young then, the company liaison officer appealed to me to enter for the examination on my own standing but I turned the offer down because back then my views on people that go to drilling operations on rig platform are non university graduates or dropouts, a view I still regret up until now. Most of those guys are now big boys , some international staff earning hard currency and with properties in choice areas around town.

Well fast forward, I wrote interviews in two companies I was successful in both, one is an EPC company that is into power and energy solutions and the other is a drilling/,oil servicing company, the former offered to pay me N30k as a fresher while the latter offered N55k.

In my small and naive sense then I took up the N30k offer because I needed to gain experience on core engineering which they offered as against travelling to the high sea to drill or prospect for oil

Well my experience with the company was very rewarding in terms of technical capacity building and know how but the salary was abysmal although they later increased it to N168k monthly after about 3 years but I still have my regrets.

Now I have left the company and joined another where I do N400k but the job is anything but fulfilling because I detest lazing away without proper technical challenges

In all I'm grateful for my life..I'm comfortable financially but I should be in a better place by now.

Ok bye that's my story.

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by seedorfg(m): 8:53pm On Jun 11, 2020
I'm in my late twenties and am still actively jobless, in fact make it seems like illusion in my hears.



please help me, am jobless, am seeing myself useless to myself and family.

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Vulcan24(m): 8:53pm On Jun 11, 2020
paulolee:
good...we still in the jobless stream rightnow trying to swim out of it and praying to get a job and on how am coping...na to jus take my bath, wear nice clothes and spray perfume join and stroll to the the nearest bet9ja shop in ma area bt in the next 3 streets (just like say na company wey i de do I.T) and join the other jobless boys in street to discuss abt the latest news 4 area, gist abt any of us dt av received job offers recently and wish him well while praying for our turn and start forcasting matches for the day that we do sell to interested cliants that dnt av time to book games and walked bk home at intervals to eat whenever am hungry, the funny thing na the way people they greet me when i de come back for evening like who jus return from work and meself go they answer like who had a busy day....las las man go de alright..

from a very nowhere, I asked God this evening that the heaven open doors that will take away the tears and years of pain.

you will receive your surprise within this month because you have found mercy.

in Jesus name I have prayed for you. amen

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Nobody: 8:54pm On Jun 11, 2020
Finished school

Went straight into fx and crypto
No time
No regrets
E too bad 2kusd a month

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by SavageBoy: 8:55pm On Jun 11, 2020
Onyi22:
I knew very well that we have a lot of broke ass guys on this forum...
See how they have start confessing,
Tufiakwa!!!!
I will not settle with a guy that starts from small oooo, My man must be born with a silver spoon

While you were born with wooden spoonundecided

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by OYENIYIJK: 8:55pm On Jun 11, 2020
GentRoyal:
Nice thread, OP.
I've never been unemployed, though I won't say I'm financially okay.
My side hustles sustained me throughout by schooling days (ND and HND) and during my service year.
I stayed at home for few months after I finished service last year October.
I started my retail business early this year and it's to God be the glory....
thanks for this bro but a thread like this, serious people want to know the inside and outside of every testimony.

Please, what is your side hustle those days?
Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by kaziblake(f): 8:57pm On Jun 11, 2020
Not easy but I will get there someday

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by OYENIYIJK: 8:58pm On Jun 11, 2020
seedorfg:
I'm in my late twenties and am still actively jobless, in fact make it seems like illusion in my hears.



please help me, am jobless, am seeing myself useless to myself and family.
God will Help you bro...

But alot of people here has spoken about teaching stuff and it has helped their career in one way or the other, and their is no way you won't find a school to teach,, why not shoot your shot after this pandemic?

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Hezmatosky: 8:59pm On Jun 11, 2020
Best best go learn handiwork. Am alive today is because I learn engineering job o after university. Nigeria can ruin one's dreams. Hope for job in this country on your own peril angry

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Asadujames202(m): 9:00pm On Jun 11, 2020
"You that's much is expected from"



Because you get one useless certificate wey boys they use roll weeddd smoke
Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by youngsahito(m): 9:03pm On Jun 11, 2020
Poloyanabo1:
I was last jobless at 19, since i got into business I've lived happily ever after, there's a sense of fulfillment that comes with being your own Boss!
Not without its numerous challenges tho!
what kind of biz are you into?

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Re: How Old Were You Jobless, Staying At Home And How Did You Make It? by Darexylamine: 9:05pm On Jun 11, 2020
bbewaj:
After my Nysc @ 25, when there was nothing for about 2years, I decided to squat with a friend then I started online business, UK used laptops to be precise.... To God be the glory

Boss oo... I want to be one is of your disciples in this.... Show me way with this UK used laptop business, i really need enlightenment, pls

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