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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by oceanized25(m): 6:35am On Sep 09, 2020
Smatkomo:


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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Fembleez1(m): 10:35am On Sep 09, 2020
solutionh:
I did poultry business that's egg production for the first year after my nysc from the money I saved during my service year,then most of my friends do insult me that I smell like fowl shit.then I do sale eggs,mine wasn't enough for customer's so I do buy from other farm's in village's to supplement mine,I did this for like a year and some months,when my birds stopped giving me maximum amount of eggs u started looking for a buyer as God may have it,as I was passing by I met a man (Ugo from okija) carrying a truck load of old layers(fowl)when I stopped him to enquire weda he deals on birds,he affirmed he does so I told him I have birds to sale and at good rate,he told me that he just brought birds from ibadan that he can't buy more for the week,I insisted that I can sale mine myself if given the opportunity (the birds were consuming more feeds without laying egg)as God may have it he accepted but I will give him commission.
I finished the sales of the 431 birds within two hours and gave him his commission for using some part of his space.
the upper week he wanted to go to ibadan to get fowl at fabis farm,that week his conductor was sick and he needed someone to go with him,I obliged to follow but that I need to buy mine too,that's how I started the business.
December the next year a man that I do buy feeds from (emmason)called me to intimate me that there's a farm he do supply feeds on credit that owed him(capuchin farm's)a roman Catholic farm,he asked weda I can help him sale their birds during that festive period that they're looking for who to buy in bulk for him to recoup his money.on dec 21 they gave me on credit 500 birds at the flat rate of #1000 each I sold 1500 because it was festive period, before 1 pm I went back for more 1000 birds I did sale also for 1500each(then I the market I said to myself na so person dey get money)the next day I took 2500 birds did the same.
my people that's how I became a millionaire at my second years of leaving nysc,I don tire to type
I now own a school with population of 680 pupils and do other business also.
Don't mind my typo and errors
never give up
be good to everyone
the best advert it's a satisfied customer
take a step and keep stepping
water where u are standing
believe..........


Good morning Sir. I sent you a PM. Don't know if you got it. I'll like to contact you for some information.
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by JIMMY1393: 10:40am On Sep 09, 2020
Fokosobo:


Guy forget that thing, there is no field that cannot be saturated. Even medicine that used to be highly revered is now becoming saturated. Or do you think an average layman can study medicine?

Medicine is not saturated...there are ALWAYS going to be sick people so jobs will always be available...the thing with medicine is this country or do you think medical jobs are the same abroad?
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Kachi11061998(m): 10:52am On Sep 09, 2020
It needs a minimum of 5k to start.
yemi1504:

Does the VTU business need capital? If Yes, how much?
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Donpenny(m): 10:58am On Sep 09, 2020
FanOfMyself:

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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by prinsam30: 11:16am On Sep 09, 2020
ThreeBlackBird:

If you spent 17 years in a private establishment, you're not waxing stronger, I must be honest with you. If you you're in government's, then you're safe.


I understand perfectly well my brother, trust me I'm a boss of myself that's all I can tell u
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Smatkomo: 11:28am On Sep 09, 2020
mosho2good:

can u help a brother here with the online business

You can reach me on WhatsApp
08126868696
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Abdogood(m): 11:44am On Sep 09, 2020
winkmart:
Well, It is exactly 10 years this year and I must say the journey has not been that easy. I never sought for employment though. I had been running business: Recharge Card in Bulk before it went South after some robbery incident.

I got some few connections with Baba Obasanjo, so I worked at OOPL for 2 years from 2015-2017. But that life was not what I was designed for. I resigned and went back to the drawing board.

Presently I freelance and I think I have made in 3 years what I was only able to gather in 7 years.

My ADVISE:
Enterpreneurship is not for everyone and office is not for everyone. Understand your calling and follow it. But I think it is okay to gather experience working with a corporate firm for 5-10 years before launching your own business full time.

Note:
It is foolish working at a Job without having a side business for passive income


Baba Winkmart. I locate you. We both work at OOPL. Left same period. Today now 8years down the lain. Still counting my blessings. Working with OBJ did opens bigger job opportunities for me sha.

My carrer pursuit today is now what I study in school. therefore everyone should discover himself. Start humble. You should only be in compitetion with urself. This country will not do anything for you ooo. Just focus on what you can do for yourself. Even with you small hustle. Government will take from you through stamp duty, tax, increased tariffs, fuel price, TV subscription, data and mobile calls qnd various levies.
So, my people just think for what you can do for urself. There are thousands of opportunities out there. Get informed, research and keep learning. Dont be lazy, dont seek short cuts and heaven will help.

Let be honest with the way things is going in this country ehnn. It is not getting better ooo. Previous years always better than the present. Things dey hard by days.

Whoever forsee year 2020.. Who knows what year 2023 will bring. Naja youth brass up.

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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Franky826: 11:56am On Sep 09, 2020
Samfloxin:

I had the same thought when I was jobless, especially when I visit my classmate that dropped out in secondary school and went for apprenticeship. As at that time,the guy had made it and was living comfortably,even dashing me money. Today,the guy is admiring me cos he hasn't even SSCE cert.

Inside life!
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Bassmetrics: 12:35pm On Sep 09, 2020
Ok

6yrs After Graduation big thanks to Nairaland Forum


Impart Of Nairaland Forum In My Life & My Roofing Business (True Life Stories)
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Now Owned a Roofing Company In Nigeria[/quote]

5yrs after graduation, has not been easy but I thank God for where I am today!
I had to quote this man cos he is good in what he does, he is an honest biz man...I recall last yr wen i was on d search of some1 to roof my house outside lagos,searched online and stumbled on one of his posts, it was insightful, called and chatted him up and he cleared me on d areas I was confused. Though I couldn't contact him again cos of d distant location of d structure but wen one of my frnds wanted to roof his dat same year I searched for him and gave d job to his company; he did a nice job.But I never told him we 've met online b4.

Engr Imran Ayubb, u recall one young guy and a man dat called n met u in d gate of first bank, sobo busstop whom ur company roofed d man's house at Ayobo in Dec 2019...I am d young guy; nice to meet u in this forum. Keep it up sir, ur sincerity will keep on taking u up d ladder of success. I recommend him in case u are in need of roofing services!

Pls nairalanders, I am an Economist and biz man based in lagos;always on d look out for good biz opportunities!

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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Devynecheeh(m): 12:39pm On Sep 09, 2020
tensazangetsu20:

Follow this path.
If you are looking to get into web development.
Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript. If your goal is to work for a big company learn angular. Angular is a Javascript framework. If medium sized companies to startups are your thing then learn React.

For the backend if big companies are your thing pick up either java or c#. If medium sized companies are your thing pick up PHP and Nodejs. Smaller companies and startups mostly used Nodejs.

Am learning jquery now..should i still continue or drop it for the ones you just mentioned??
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by maasoap(m): 1:02pm On Sep 09, 2020
DontBullshitMe:
Nigeria is doomed.

Whoever that goes ahead to give birth in this country is doing his/her child(ren) a huge disservice.

This is deep. I guess we should have it at the back of our minds that we owe these children more than higher level of education. We should be thinking of what kind of skills they should acquire along the line
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Devynecheeh(m): 1:02pm On Sep 09, 2020
jelel6:


Take anything you can from this piece:-

When you start using words as 'better' to differentiate two different fields which solves two different problems, it's the first sign that you're approaching with an undesirable mentality.

Considering the topic of discussion and your questions, I think you're about to take a very important decision that will shape your future somewhat from here on. So, it's naturally that you're seeking for advice here.

When I was deciding to learn an IT skill, I literally spent more than a week doing my research and studying up to get a solid "overview".

I read articles on medium specifically. Medium is like the IT world playground. Read articles upon articles. I came across a 108 minutes-long articles on everything IT. It was the longest article I've ever seen written. ALL this I did before STARTING the journey proper.

I went through all those trouble because the last thing you'd want to do is second guess your decision to learn to code or do data science. You may end up spending more than a year without learning anything because your head and heart is not in the right place initially.

It may take you years to grasp any of the path you're contemplating. So take a few days to read ALL WHAT you can about data science and web development, independent of each other.

So don't start asking Google which is BETTER. Instead, ask what is web development and what is data science.

Whether you neglect or do both, focus on asking the right questions first. Don't take shortcuts when you're doing something like a 'feasibility study'.

Since I started on the programming pathway, I've only face what we call the 'imposter syndrome'. But I've never had self-doubt as to whether I made the right decision or not. And you can only give yourself that level of self-assurance when you know the PROS and CONS of what you're into.

Good luck
wow am motivated by this..
Am currently learning web development and i feel thats the best path for me..
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Nobody: 1:44pm On Sep 09, 2020
tensazangetsu20:
Well I did marine engineering. It took me a year after graduation with thousands of applications to get one interview. The jobs didn't even exist. I just sent out my CVs to the email address of shipping companies and prayed something hit.

I ran a business for a while and learnt to code and men it's so easy to get a programming job. It's only in the tech industry that one would apply for jobs and be getting an interview 3 hours later. Do well in an interview and you would be getting a job the next day.


I thought it's just me as a marine engineer but apparently many of my friends with engineering degrees can't get jobs. The jobs don't even exist. It's not about going online and sending out applications. How do you send out applications to what isn't there. The world is changing now. Proper research on the job market has to be done before one goes into the university. Don't go based on hearsay. Go and do your findings yourself.
Please I am really interested in learning programming, can u guide me on how to go about it? The time, cost and place?
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by FanOfMyself: 1:55pm On Sep 09, 2020
Donpenny:
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Hey bro, I will love to share with you, but the videos are not free. Just cost a token
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Donpenny(m): 1:59pm On Sep 09, 2020
FanOfMyself:

Hey bro, I will love to share with you, but the videos are not free. Just cost a token
DM me on Whatsapp for the amt
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by tunbebes(f): 2:54pm On Sep 09, 2020
Kenplay:

If you enter programming with such mindset to be an over-night millionaire then be ready for disappointments.

Those who excel in programming are those who see it with passion, with that same passion the patience will be there, don't go into programming because you heard there is money in it.
If the passion and patience is not there then please just reverse back.




Thank you. I understand. I was just being sarcastic. I haven't even started was just asking. That's exactly the way my friend was hyping the job abroad and pay like she lives and work there grin. She's not a programmer sef. I have other courses I'm taking online for now tho.
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Stricklybidness(m): 5:11pm On Sep 09, 2020
[quote author=Emuf post=93722648]

Very good path. I will advice you learn project planning first. Learn a planning software (primavera p6 and Microsoft project) it will give you a strong foundation in project management. Project planners make better project managers from experience.
You can then move further to do project management courses.[/quote
thanks you very much.
I really appreciate.
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by OGWILLS123: 5:37pm On Sep 09, 2020
tunbebes:
Thanks for sharing your experience. I studied estate mgt, a mum and wife. I'm way above 18☺. A friend told me I can do Web programming/coding and work from home. She said there are companies overseas that will employ me once I'm good at it. I'm ready to go for it but I want to ask if it's true I can work nd be paid in dollars or pounds from home?

Cc @tensazangetsu20
Very true tongue
you can work anywhere your laptop and internet connection is your
your office any where you go grin
you can work abroad and been paid in dollar$
currently learning web programming on YouTube now tongue

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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by yemi1504: 7:16pm On Sep 09, 2020
Current01:
How can I reach you? I need more information.
Never learnt it in school bro, talk to the guy I quoted bro
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Israel93: 8:21pm On Sep 09, 2020
yemi1504:


SMH, I will rather commit suicide if network marketing and insurance sales business are the only jobs in the world! Fact!
You said it all bro...thumbs up for you, this there digital/network marketing no be moi moi

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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Stricklybidness(m): 8:43pm On Sep 09, 2020
PapaNnamdi:
not up to 10yrs though, this should be my 6th year after nysc



I got my first job in 2015,
there and then I realized immediately that working isn't really for me,
I hated dressing corporate, that was the first problem I had at the job,

I always hated going to work,

work wey I suffer get


to too it all, my boss was now harassing me sexually,
omo naso I vex one-day after a heated argument carry my bag and stormed home,



I remember at night I was just thinking if na spirit enter my life,

anyhow that week gave birth to a business idea in me that changed my life,


I am presently a graphics designer, web developer and junior programmer,

my business is not really in need of my skills, but I just learnt it anyway cos I have alot of free time,


see enh, work no be for everybody


na once u de know,

and once u knw,

find ur calling,


My brother tats why the challenge lies.
Many graduates after school just want to get a job and survive. Ask them after 10years weda their are happy with what they are doing my brother you will be shocked.

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Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Stricklybidness(m): 8:55pm On Sep 09, 2020
kaywhy09:
Long story short, I'm becoming a pastor soon.

Kindly preorder prayer request
Way to go.
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Stricklybidness(m): 8:56pm On Sep 09, 2020
Naanlong01:
This year makes it three years that I have been a graduate. I didn't bother to look for job and told my Parents not to bother about looking for one for me.
Business is what I wanted to do and I am priviledged to be a barbing salon owner and a playstation business owner. I also do part time teaching in a private School so as not to completely make my Certificate useless. Planning to launch another business next year. This part of the North is a land full of opportunities for a visionary enterpreneur. The truth is, I came here as a Corp member.
Which part of the north?
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Stricklybidness(m): 8:58pm On Sep 09, 2020
Whiteangel1234:
Graduated from Anambra State university , Political science Department 8 years Ago . . I look for Job in Governmental Ministries for 1 year and no job then I went and learn trade for 2 years , Travel outside Nigeria and set up my Business . Happily Married to a Foreign Wife and Bless with a Daughter
Which kind trade?
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Stricklybidness(m): 9:10pm On Sep 09, 2020
magphilips:
I graduated 2005 from AAU, Ekpoma,i read international Studies and diplomacy, i didn't not bother looking for a job. i just start a business and i grown the business, and with time i invest in developing myself in other skill like network marketing and now am a pro in that area, making 6 figure monthly
my brother e dey sweet. i can show u if you like
Network marketing?
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by Stricklybidness(m): 9:13pm On Sep 09, 2020
Adeniyi27:
KEEP SAYING YOU CANNOT DO NETWORK MARKETING BUSINESS SOMEONE ELSEWHERE IS ALREADY NETWORKING YOU AND MAKING MONEY FROM YOU ��

- If you have a glo line, you are in Mike Adenuga's network.

- If you have a Facebook account, Instagram account, Telegram, Snapchat, Twitter or you use whatsapp, you are in Mark Zuckerberg's network.

- If you have a desktop computer or laptop, you are in Bill Gates' network.

- If you have ever bought anything on Amazon, you are in Jeff Bezos' network.

- If you have GoTV or DSTV at home, you are part of the network of Naspers Group and Adewunmi Ogunsanya.

- If you have ever bought Dangote cement, sugar,salt, spaghetti, noodles, flour, then you are part of Dangote's network.

- If you have a bank account with any bank, you are part of their network.

- As a worker/employee with any organization or company, you are not only a part of the owner's workforce, but also a part of the owner's network

The earlier you stop getting edgy or angry about network marketing and start asking yourself questions like "who are the people in my network", "what are my products & services" and "who are my customers & clients", the better.

"The richest people in the world look for and build network, everyone else is looking for work". Great minds, have a rethink and start building your team!

Impossible means I'm possible (Dangote)

For more info, call/whatsapp: Kenny 08064427803
I'm interested.
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by weareok(m): 9:19pm On Sep 09, 2020
Ogaemmii:
I graduated 2005 from AAU, Ekpoma,i read international Studies and diplomacy, i didn't not bother looking for a job. i just start a business and i grown the business, and with time i invest in developing myself in other skill like network marketing and now am a pro in that area, making 6 figure monthly
my brother e dey sweet. i can show u if you like
I am also a student of AAU now I would love to learn
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by KingWarri: 10:22pm On Sep 09, 2020
cooltola:



For programming language I would say it depends. If you are between 13 to 18 and want to get into programming. I would advice you to learn C and C++.

If you are above 18, JavaScript and PHP. I believe those above 18 would be looking to get into the labour market and those two languages have the most jobs out there. Cost implication. Well just data. You are gonna spend on data a lot and then you need a lot of time at least 4 to 5 hours a day.

Tensazangetsu20
thanks for the info. but want specific area would you advise one to practice on just like you did?
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by ernestita3(m): 7:34am On Sep 10, 2020
Ogaemmii:
I graduated 2005 from AAU, Ekpoma,i read international Studies and diplomacy, i didn't not bother looking for a job. i just start a business and i grown the business, and with time i invest in developing myself in other skill like network marketing and now am a pro in that area, making 6 figure monthly
my brother e dey sweet. i can show u if you like



I studied the same course. Pls guide me on how to go abt it. I am really interested. thanks and God bless u.
Re: 10 Years After Graduation: What Are Your Experiences In The Labour Market? by ernestita3(m): 7:36am On Sep 10, 2020
[quote author=Ogaemmii post=93710868]I graduated 2005 from AAU, Ekpoma,i read international Studies and diplomacy, i didn't not bother looking for a job. i just start a business and i grown the business, and with time i invest in developing myself in other skill like network marketing and now am a pro in that area, making 6 figure monthly
my brother e dey sweet. i can show u if you like.




Pls that's my mobile number.'- 08061300244

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