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Poster your issue is very simple.

You are currently in Nigeria and since you plan to stay in Nigeria for 2/3 years, It means you still have time.

I'd advise you to take steps in these particular order

1. This time you have should be used to focus on your job, build your CV and professional certificates, if your career requires any.

2. During this time, you should save your money.

3. Marry your wife in Nigeria within this 2/3 years, don't suspend your marriage plans, carry her along.

4. If you decide to travel for your studies, make her the primary applicant for the study VISA and you become the dependent. It means you should have every right to work. Dependents are permitted to work in Canada. They need to have an Open Work Permit for this. It will allow them to work full-time anywhere in Canada without any curbs. This should be easy.

5. If you choose to go with the PR route, that is fine as well. For PR route your age will work against you in next 2/3 years at 30, so might still need your wife to be the primary applicant.

6. Don't travel any where without your wife, It is going to be a fruitless venture. I promise you. Canada is cold and lonely, forget about the noise on Nairaland.

7. Ignore those saying you should learn coding. Please Ignore them. Coding isn't the only way to earn good money and it isn't for every one.

Shalom!

chariisGRACE:
My head no go carry coding.

I'm a graphically inclined person. I will still go to college to study Architecture.

The UI/UX design is just for the main time...

You are making a mistake that you will probably regret. UI/UX design is where the money and talent is. If you are going to spend your time on something, spend it on something worth while.

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ezehisaac:
I studied Software Engineering with one of the best private universities in Asia and I can authoritatively tell you that 4 years of active studies are not enough to be a good programmer.

Within this period, I was exposed to C, C++, C#, Java, Php, SQL, Wordpress, Android, iOS, Graphic design, Multimedia content development.

During my finals, my rector told me that he has a gift for me for being a 1st class graduating student.

Guess what the gift was. He told me to go and study frameworks like VueJs, Laravel and slack.

He said with these 3 frameworks, my future is secure.

I'm yet to study any of them because I'm busy with side projects coming up every now and then, though small and engaging as an Intermediary Software Engineer.

To create my own path, I picked SQL and Software Designs.
I believe with these two, my dreams of developing robust algorithms for my dream software will surely be achieved.

It's taking you 4 years because they have decided to teach you a lot that you won't probably need to use when you get hired abroad, you will most likely be hired to do one thing & use one programming language for the specific work you were hired to do.

--- C, C++, C#, Java, Php, SQL, Wordpress, Android, iOS, Graphic design, Multimedia content development.

In every thing you listed here, you are going to be hired for only one of them, Just one.

Even though your professor told you to study both VueJs, Laravel. You will also use just one of them eventually. It's either you become a VueJs Frontend Developer or Laravel Full Stack Developer. You will choose one.

Domistic:
Hello My People
What is the best way to send a laptop to Lagos. I needed to send my laptop back to Naija urgently. Does Dhl or Royal Mail work? Abi we have cargo agents that handle that here?

Use DHL please, it is expensive but efficient.

EmmyKing86:
Hello everyone.

I noticed a few pages ago there seemed to be some confusion about ILR 10 years route, so I would like to share my positive experience.

Date of Standard Online Application: 31/08/2021
Payment Debited & Confirmation email received: 31/08/2021
Documents Uploaded via UKVCAS website: 14/09/2021
Biometrics submitted in person (Cardiff): 15/09/2021
Complex Letter: NONE
Received positive decision email: 17/12/2021
Received BRP: Waiting.


I accumulated the following visas during my 10 years stay: Tier4 student visa (5 years; 1yr Master's, 4yrs Ph.D.), Doctorate Extension Scheme (1yr), Tier 2 skilled visa (4 yrs).

For ILR long residence route (10yrs), you can fast-track the decision via the super-priority payment (extra £800) opened at 1 am (yes, after midnight). I would have done this but was not aware of the 1 am super-priority opening.

For me, it was imperative that I switch from tier 2 to ILR as soon as possible. I have always not really fancied my stay in the UK dependant on my employers or any other party. There are several instances where individuals and their families had to relocate back to Nigeria/other countries because they lost their jobs, company went bust e.t.c. and could not get another sponsor. A lot of people fell victim to this, especially during the pandemic.

A little bit of advice for those who recently came to the UK and are seeking permanent residency in the future is to plan accordingly. Start small and gradually grow big. As you may all have read from people's experiences, it's really not easy particularly for those coming with family on tier4 students visas. I cannot overemphasize cultivating the habit of saving and financial discipline as an application to transfer to another visa category or extend your visa is quite expensive. Also, put into consideration the cost of living e.t.c. Please, don't be too quick to spend lavishly while giving people back at home any kind of false impressions. Again, there are people who had to leave prematurely after making extravagant purchases due to losing their jobs and being unable to find another one on time.

Wishing you all good luck and all the best.

Honestly this is one of the reasons why Canadian PR is simply the best for anyone who can go through the hoops to get it. Imagine after spending years in the UK, then one day a company turns it back and say no more visa sponsor.

Aphrodite007:
I was friends with their friends and them so it wasn't too hard. but i still didnt get it-- they know what they are looking for, for the visa.

Actually those people are really mad I tell you. A friend of mine did it and got it. No lawyers or anything like that. I clearly understood what they were looking when I sat down to analyse it properly.

He had 1 company CEO from the UK, 1 company from central Europe, 2 CEOs from Nigeria. I came to discover that they mostly rate UK company recommendations which is very biased.

Now only the top 1% of people in Nigeria that have this kind of credential which is really unfair.

Also having a volunteering work for humanitarian purpose on your CV is also important.

Overall it’s just 50/50 and no guarantees at all. My conclusion is they are mad.

Aphrodite007:
Went on a hiatus guys- sorry for my absence- was dealing with a divorce (we just grew apart chasing money hehe)

I’m trying to get a global talent visa (tech nation route). The hope is to get it and then create a thread that would teach others how to do it but I got rejected on my first application. The plan now is to try again (while addressing the mistake I made in my last application) or pay a lawyer (waste of money as I still have to explain everything to them anyway lol)

Doing the talent visa alone made me realise how invaluable just wise (however annoying he is), Lexus and lagosIMH are for their invaluable contributions to Nairaland (sorry you can’t use this for an endorsement but I appreciate you guys loads for all you’ve done and are still doing on Nairaland.. ok let me add ralphjean before he slaps me lol)

I’m back now sha.
Party time- the devil is back

For your Global Talent, how are you able to convince CEOs of you former companies to write a letter of endorsement for you?

Why did they reject your last application?

mrcodebreaker:
Interviews are not wins. You ll get to realize this in due time. Let me just say. In my opinion.

After reading your quote, I smiled. Anyone who isn't in an actual programming field cannot grasp the information you are passing. That is why context is important. IT is very wide, a project manager or scrum master might never experience what you are saying. Very rare.

I did 6 stages of proper coding / behavioral interview with a company and I was dropped at the 6th stage. I got sooo depressed big time. Interviews are useful for learning but until you get the job, it is nothing in programming field.

CsRockefeller:
Thanks very much. Guess you dived into another industry?

Yeah into mobile dev now.

CsRockefeller:
Afternoon. Please can I get your number, or you send a message on 0703940435 two.

I have a wordpress project I need you to work on.

I can't bro, I stopped writing WordPress 5 years ago. Go to Upwork and hire a competent WordPress developer.

tensazangetsu20:
I don't understand some developers. Do they think that real development doesn't go on in WordPress or what. Can they build a WordPress theme or plugin from scratch. Can they use the WordPress rest API to build a real application. Can they work on APIs within WordPress and connect it to an external application. I don't understand people o

The WordPress stigma is very real, in 2015 a company hired me as a web developer to work on Backend and create WordPress themes and Plugins, almost everyday colleagues make this kind of statements like Expression function.

airsaylongcome:
When you say watered down can you explain? A man would be expected to know the nitty-gritty of DSA but a woman would be fine just knowing how to write system.out.println(Hello World)?

NO.

There is always a required skill level that interviewers expect from you, usually when you pass that required level it means you are now competing with other candidates who are intelligent and have similar skills to you.

So if you are rejected at this stage, it would be because other candidates are better fit into the role than you are. Not for competency.

Now a team hiring for diversity will prefer to hire 2 ladies and 3 guys, it means the women would have less people to contend with, because few women apply for Development positions as compared to men. It's like 80/20.

It doesn't mean those women are dumb, they have already proved their competency by passing the required skill level initially.

PS: it's also a reason why some people do well in interviews and when the company doesn't give them an offer, they get confused. The reason is because there are more people to contend with for that position.

BRATISLAVA:
If you say it's watered down, then it is. You are right.

Women are unqualified and should not ordinarily be given inclusion in tech, likewise other minorities. Every woman in tech is there just because she's a woman. Standards were thrown in the bin for her sake. Women are employed for supposed emotional benefits, because all women make stuffy men groups more lovely. Otherwise they are incapable of anything in tech.

Says only contributions from one end.

Well, you've tried to look down from the condescending men's podium to at least answer one of the questions. There's less testosterone talking and more sense to it.

Go ahead and tell us how everything in tech is watered down for women. We'd all appreciate that unique recruitment insight.

And if it's inclusion we are still talking about, let it not be called watering down but its true name.

Please go back to my post and read again, i said the women most times get to the final round, and the decision on who to hire at the end may favour them because we already have so many males on the team and we need more females to join a team because they bring a different experience. Diversity is needed.

Your mind is just full of Men vs Women wars. This isn't romance section, nobody is fighting for male dominance here.

You can keep complaining about watering down, my work is to explain to you. Yours is to understand.

If you understand and keep ranting, no problem.

If you don't gerit, just forget abourit.

BRATISLAVA:
It appears inclusion is misconstrued as favoring women in tech. Women are qualified for those roles.

The guy who said he was interning and the two CS grads took over more prominent roles, would you have the same objections if it were males with connections under the same circumstances?

How do you know if recruitment would've screened men differently? Are you part of the recruitment team and have some unique insights for us?

I asked how recruitment waters down things for women and got no response. I was hoping we could all learn something new. Rather than a response, there are more posts claiming things that sound more like personal opinions than fact. Have any of you interviewed women in tech to know what their competency and recruitment scrutiny was like in relation to their roles? No response?

It defies logic for a company to hire two unproductive staff who do fairly important work, because they are females.

Anyway, the testosterone in here is stifling.

Hiring and interviews are watered down for women in US tech market and some newly Nigerian tech markets, especially women of color, Muslim women or women who are in the marginalized groups like LGBTQ etc. This watered down approach is something i support fully and i believe is for the good of everyone.

Why do I say it's for the good of everyone?

According to Clement Mihailescu of AlgoExpert. Software engineering is not only about being a coding wizard, there are other qualities like team management, communication, timeliness and treating marginalized people with fairness etc.

Some women naturally posses some of these qualities than men and if a woman is in your team, there will be more cohesiveness. Everyone will start acting friendly which is good. At least according to my personal experience with my US company.

It defies logic for a company to hire two unproductive staff who do fairly important work, because they are females.

About this, watering down also doesn't mean she is dumb, because she must have passed the minimum mark to be amongst the finalist of the interview. The issue is when making the final decision, her being a woman is a plus for an existing male dominated team full of egoistic teammates, she will make the place better.

It's not all about Men vs Women, at least this is not about Men testosterone talk.

If you want specific details of how interviews are watered down for women, i can give you.

tensazangetsu20:
True but for a junior Dev who is just starting out it's not easy getting an American remote job but it's easy to get Germany, Holland and co and the pay will still be ten times higher than Nigeria

Yes true for junior devs, i didn't put that into consideration. US companies are always looking for Senior Senior Senior.

Ajibade123:
I don't know my LinkedIn keeps bringing only Nigerian jobs

It's village people, you need to fast and pray regarding this. So the situation can change

Change your job search country and you are fine lol.

tensazangetsu20:
One thing I would like to add especially for newbies. America isn't the only country with remote jobs. A lot of people just set their sights on the USA. See try everywhere. There are countries that absolutely do not send where you are from at all at all and their governments have made laws for indigenous companies to hire programmers. Europe, developed Asian countries like Japan and South Korea and even developing Asian countries like Vietnam have Millons of jobs and they don't mind hiring foreigners at all.

Also places in Latin America like Mexico, Brazil, Chile and co. The list is endless. A lot of people just have their sights set on working remotely with American companies. Just expand your options.

From my personal experience, people look forward to remote jobs in US because they are the only ones who have a lot of cash at their disposal.

150k USD in America is what is a Mid-level dev can earn, meanwhile they are happy to find a dev in Africa to pay 50k or (4000 per month) contract. In other European countries like Germany, Holland etc they will offer to pay you 1500 - 2000 Euros per month for an African dev which seem like a lot of money to them.

See ehn, the money people earn in the US is like blood money putting it in literal terms. A Mid-level dev in Palo Alto can be earning 250k USD as opposed to a Principal Dev in Germany earning 80k Euros.

US is the way, i cannot decieve you bro.

BlackSan:
Correction! I will not cry!
Perhaps you are outdated on job opportunities and the roles of Data scientist but I will not argue with you further. Not because you are correct in your assumptions but because it is of no use.

Okay

Xinjin:
lol you sound too harsh though

I apologise if i sounded harsh.

BlackSan:
I thought about what airsaylong said and I decided to fully focus on Data science. Well yunno one never stops learning in the Tech industry, I don't want to waste my time anymore.
I'm currently learning python, though I'm quite familiar with the fundamentals, functions and methods but I intend to stay on python until I'm able to create personal projects.
So you are working as a Data analyst and a developer? I don't get it.

I don't know who is advising you but your love for a particular field alone doesn't justify you going to that field. You have to make sure there are also opportunities before you choose where to focus.

Have you ever browsed LinkedIn jobs or any where and you saw influx of Data science jobs? Or is it sand that you want to be eating after learning data science? Have you ever asked yourself why and how do companies recruit for data science roles?

This is the same reason people choose foolish courses in the University like Sociology or Biz Admin because they like it or their friends told them to do it without any research from their own end.

You will finish learning this data science now and start crying all over NL for jobs. You berra use your head.

laytoshtwo:
Please increase your fees,it is not everyone that can teach Spanish.

I agree bro. Spanish is not common like French.

world123:
Hi House,

So I got an offer as an online tutor to be paid 2$ per hour. I am thinking it's too small. How much do you guys earn per hour as an online tutor?

The price depends on the value of what you are teaching.

Also most people who usually collect peanut to do anything is because they are beginners in that field. If you are super sure you know what you are teaching, please don't charge $2.

MHBNeiman:
I disagree.

You are far behind in knowledge and understanding.

world123:
Most organisations do not want to employ someone who already has a an existing relationship with a staff. So next time, when see somebody you know at a place you intend to work, please look away. Don't even behave like you know them if you really want the job.

Spot on, I went to an Interview where I surprisingly saw my former lecturer at Technical School as one of my Interviewers . He and other seniors interviewed me, I just looked away as if I have never seen him before. Answered all his questions with straight face and seriousness.

I called his phone later greeting him & we laughed, he told me "Boy you are wise"

BusinessDream:
See your style. You are not even considering the insecurity in the North. They just kidnap 18 people in keke in that same Kaduna but because you want to play politics with someone's life you are denigrading Ibadan. Between Ibadan and OGUN, which is closer to Lagos but I sensed you know Ogun is an APC state and thus avoid stating that Ogun is the closest but chose Ibadan that is farther...


OP, better borrow yourself sense and stay in Ibadan for your own good. In the last 48 hours, they have kidnapped a lot of people in the North, even that Kaduna, 18 people were kidnapped from a keke yesterday... read nairaland front page.

have mercy on your family. I am not a Yoruba person o. I be Igbo boy but I will never talk like this man I quoted here.

Hmm you are right on this security issues, I refuse to accept an offer from Babbangona some time ago because of the Northern Kaduna issues.

10 years ago, everybody would have advised the OP to take this golden opportunity.

alfarouq:
Company is most likely Afex, Babbangona or Thrive agric. The base of operation is most likely Zaria that is where most of their staff are resident. Apart from recent surge in Kidnapping, Zaria is a peaceful town. The bandits usually have people they are targeting and I doubt you will make their list any time soon. Life itself is a risk

Your analysis is correct about Babbangona & Thrive agric, I really wish Nigeria was a peaceful country. Living in the North is super cheap & people can save more than 50% of their salary in the North after flexing & drinking.

Darkseid:
Make we ask 2Face or Davido

DC fan, never imagined someone would be named such on Nairaland

feelgoodstuffs:
Did She tell you she wants to go to school?

Immigrate legally bro, else you will suffer abroad. You people like too much corner corner.

Poland is giving work Visa but as of late they stopped ( as i heard ). So options are few for work Visa. Na student Visa options remain.

Studymore123:
Many of these comparisons doesn't make sense. Many of the coders on this platform are unnecessarily loud, I think it’s the excitement that they earn foreign currency. Many people in Nigeria have been making millions for years but now it seems as if coding is the only profession in the to make it big.
Anywhere in the world Doctors generally earns far more than coders.
Nigeria coders makes so much noise because of currency conversion. You're paid 1k or 2k working remotely and that translates to about 500k/1M monthly. In the US that's peanuts but in Nigeria that's some money.
While I encourage anyone who is able to leverage such opportunities but please let's try to avoid senseless comparisons.
Whether you read Medicine, Arts, Science, Social Science or Humanities you can leverage your skills by using remote jobs to earn better than your peers earning locally. A friend read Fine Arts and earns about 4k monthly, English 2k monthly, Math’s 2k monthly, Graphics design 3k monthly, Sociology 2k monthly.
The technology for Doctors to work remotely is not widespread and I don't know if it's in Nigeria. Technologies like Hyperreal holograms, 3D operating rooms, MS Hololens, and Corning's specialty glass are becoming widespread and Covid-19 has caused a surge in telemedicine. In the next few years Doctors living in Nigeria and working remotely will be a norm.
I appreciate coders for their relentless activities and extending the functionalities of technology. While coders can reveal in the moment please avoid unnecessary comparisons.

You are correct about coders being loud and all, this remote work doesn't even excite me, we are leveraging on the fact that the value of our currency is so bad. So i don't see it as a plus because a lot of local companies are stuck with 200k salaries and now they are complaining because they cannot match the pay of foreign tech since their profit is in Naira.

Coding isn't the only profession to make it big, we also need other professions to thrive as well. Being a Doctor should earn you good money anytime, any day.

Some of these people don't tell you the crazy areas about tech or this remote jobs, some of this companies have most terrifying culture. A company like CrossOver for example that monitor your activities, takes your screenshots etc. You have no privacy whatsoever, subject you to crazy inhumane treatments because of dollars.

The interview process in tech is also really nothing to write home about, completely shitty interview process that can take you 7 to 8 rounds of technical + behavioural interviews. At least i have done 7 rounds before and still didn't get the job.

Also if you lose your remote job in tech, you are in panic mode because it may take you months to even smell another remote job.

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