Peppermintflav:
Nice one

larrypourl:
Good day nairalanders.

My Shoe Making Adventure You'd Love To Read.

The past few months hasn't been easy for most people due to the COVID-19 virus causing Global unrest. Businesses, offices, engagements, sports and other human related activities have been shutdown around the world and Nigeria inclusive.
Initially, it was a moment of relaxation and to ease my nerves of the daily stress encountered at work as I only engage myself with sleep, food, social media and the TV programs as salary alert never stop beeping but got tired of the new routine overtime.

If there was something I missed out while growing up, that would be not learning a craft, well, I quickly decided to make use of the indefinite holiday to revisit what was missed out as a kid. I thought of what I liked, stuffs I spend on, a skill that can be acquired within a short time, something I can always use or gift people even if I don't go commercial, not capital intensive, and would serve as side hustle asides my usual 8am - 4pm Job. BOOM!!!! SHOE MAKING popped into my mind.
Going forward, I started making plans and feasibility study of this craft, followed by downloading videos of how shoes are made on YouTube to equip my mind on how this can be done, I watched those clips over and over but still couldn't get it because I lacked the basic knowledge, then I enrolled as an apprentice to acquire this knowledge in a local shoe making factory that I've known for a while because I
patronized them. The guy who owns the place laughed when I made my intentions known to him, in his words ''Oga you can't have time for this now with your job'' but I insisted that I would begin and if the lockdown is relaxed in the near future, I'd drive down to his workshop after office hours and would close after another Three (3) hours.

To cut the long story short, I commenced training on the 1st June 2020 and can confidently make simple Palm slippers, Sandals and belts exquisitely. Making cover shoes and loafers are kinda technical but with time, I'd get it. I have been able to achieve this because I knew what I wanted and submitted myself to teaching, I asked questions from other apprentices, the youngest apprentices there are always with me
to guide me whenever the boss assigns certain tasks to me because I had to submit myself to them in order to learn fast and I'm enjoying it. Let me also tell you that I've made over 50% of what I paid as training fee within 3 weeks of training..

All I was trying to do on my WhatsApp status was to intimate and update friends about my new adventure and never intended to start making money from it now till after my training but I can't just let the oder coming in slide away , gave some tecnical order to the Oga while I handle the simple ones. SO COME PATRONIZE ME O....

The essence of sharing this is to encourage people to make use of this lockdown to acquire skills, learn some crafts, read, learn and unlearn. Be open to new ideas, and please always remember to stay safe by abiding with the precautionary measures put in place.

My foot wears are affordable so feel free to contact me. I love you all.

See samples of what we made in the factory attached below. Don't mind the environment but that's where those lovely footwear are made

Okikiadehussein:
Wow, I love them
I started my own apprenticeship on aug 20, 2020 and it's been nice making footwears for myself, my family and a few friends sha
Some of mine