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Gerrard59:
I believe that is the basis for this thread, which is fine. The issue is explicitly stating that there are more women employed than men in the banking industry without presenting facts. An alternative way is: stating the bold, then ask, does this mean more women are employed than men by banks? Then responses would follow.

That can be tossed aside. My issue lies in other responders still arguing right in the face of hard facts presented by other responders. That is an annoying way to reason and behave.

Yeah, once some people hold an opinion, they want to argue until they become right.

Gerrard59:
It is hard dealing with most Nigerians. Facts have been presented, yet they argue stoopidly! Good enough this thread exists and unsuspecting, ignorant and arrogant readers go through it. Next time, hopefully, they would not open their smelly mouths waaaaaaaaa

My first thought regarding banking in Nigeria was that we had more women than men, noting that most Customer Service representatives and cashiers are women from my personal encounters.

That is the customer facing part of the bank and it would have been difficult to prove otherwise without data that shows us the opposite, therefore I do not blame anyone for creating such a thread. Someone even mentioned that most customer facing employees are outsourced contract staff, If you don't work in banking, you would not have these information.

It is like a client arguing with programmers on which programming language is the best for specific purposes, they will continue to argue based on what they see on Twitter or all forms of social media but their info will be largely incorrect.

Gerrard59:
East Asians are different from South Asians. To me, there is no difference between South Asians and Africans. Then when you consider the likes of Pakistan and Afghanistan, we are better off.

Yeah I have issues with South Asians too, I have worked with them in every company. Those guys are terrible, I try to avoid them as much as possible. Actually my brain doesn't even recognise South Asians as Asians, i rarely categorise them as such unless someone explicitly points it out to me.

Welcomme:
She is talking about the Asians from Muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, partly Indian, Morroco

Ohhhhh, i don't even consider those Asians Those are Middle Eastern people & Indians.

Asians are basically Hong Kong, China, Japan & Korea (South & North).

Moyissh:
As the topic implies, Nairaland is due for dark mode

Seun would never do it.

We can create a Chrome & Firefox extension but we need the page designed and you need to know the existing color codes for each type of post, background, comments, links etc.

1Sharon:
I'm not talking about those Asians. I'm talking about the peace be with you kind.

I don't understand what you are referring to.

1Sharon:
I got pissed off when I read about the Asian man. Asians are in no position to speak on Africans in the UK! They're the most despicable demographic.

Nibo latu jasi bayi, what did Asians do to you? Me I love Asians like mad. Especially those Koreans. I love their culture and discipline too much.

rockok:
I have noticed some sort of contempt for tech around my community. There's this effort to get me out of tech to the extent where I am being insulted, threatened, placed under the worse form of psychological abuse. Accused of witchcraft, I guess it has a lot to do with where I stay. Does this seem unusual? If you had have the same experience please let me know. How did you cope with it? The most difficult aspect is that it's within a higher institution.

Witchcraft ontop tech? Sounds like fiction

Why do keep telling everyone that you're doing tech, why can't you just close your mouth shut. If you don't announce it, no one will find out.

Meerahbel:
Back in college, I dated someone who was relatively rich. It was my birthday. We had a CCD outlet within my college campus, were we usually bought birthday cakes.

There were two cakes to choose from: chocolate or red velvet. He bought both because he didn't know my preference. Flexing in front of our friends was another reason.

At this point, we had already been together for over two years. Two years of ‘being in love' and still, he didn't know that chocolate flavour is the obvious choice. I disliked red velvet cakes. This made me notice — he didn't really know anything about me. The small things. Things that bring me joy. Things that trigger me. Things I would rather avoid.

I would always wear subtle colours and would tell him I hated anything that is brightly coloured. He would buy expensive funky colored headphones for me. This was a pattern.

I would make gifts for him. He wouldn't consider them as gifts at all because it wasn't store bought

Financially, my family wasn't doing great back then. So, I had a general disdain for people who didn't value money and spent it loosely. I hated his spending habits. Now, I am doing quite well for myself. I can spend recklessly if I want to and still not be broke. But I still hate people who don't value money.

'I bought this shirt for 3k' — that's how he talked. About things and about people. Expensive things and rich people. Rest didn't mean anything to him. Thank god, the relationship didn't work out.

The fact that he was rich wasn't an issue, but the way he treated money was.

The fact that he can afford expensive things didn't matter, when he didn't even know my likes and dislikes.

I can afford a lot of things that I couldn't afford 3 years ago. If a dress had a 4 digit price tag, it was an absolute no for me earlier. Now, even though I can buy them — I don't automatically look for expensive clothes. I look for clothes I like — sometimes they cost less, sometimes they cost more — I'll buy it if I like it and if it's a reasonable price. That's the attitude I have and the attitude I looked for in a partner.

You can make your partner happy with whatever money you have. You can also fail at making her/him happy, inspite of being stinky rich. It depends …

All you needed to do was to let him know what you liked, instead you came here to gaslight the shit out of us. It wouldn't have taken anything out of you to communicate what you like & didn't like.

You have mouth to speak & communicate but will rather do this. Makes no sense at all!

Nice one chief, keep going & i hope you make it through.

I paid for Devops course one time but too tired from work to even continue, kind of regret it but will still go back in the future. As one grows older, paying for courses or resources will be easy but finding time is extremely hard. Paid for so many courses on Udemy that I left hanging.

This people, once they go broke they just sit down and find any way they can find money. This event happened 8 years ago and I am not sure the man even remembers anything. Jamie Foxx of all people.

To be a celebrity in America is a big issue.

Jamie Foxx doesn’t have any history of groping anyone or being violent at all. This is not Puff Daddy.

airsaylongcome:
Omo, Tensa run am o. Run am clean. Na real talk and do.

As for why person eye no do dey here again. Many variables. Later closing hours. More need to study cos to be ahead of the competition (cos remote work nor too dey easy like that again). And then just an overall decline in the kinds of conversations happening here

I saw Remoteok website owner on Twitter saying remote work has gone down by 85%, that is very scary. A lot of friends I know in Toptal & Andela have their remote work cut off because employers say every one should return to the office. Meanwhile office means relocating to the US, who is going to even sponsor visas & to get visa appointment is like 2 years in the future.

Englishisamust:
Imagine someone using chatgpt code to write function and classes that manage transactions of 10000 customers on the database!!! I'm not rubbishing chatgpt, but as a backend developer you have careful of the way you use it because it can expose the app your are developing if it doesn't write your code very well...

How does it expose your app? If you copy code from Stackoverflow, wouldn't you read the code before applying it. This is sort of like copying someone's matric number while copying in exam.

You're getting there, I'd advise you to go to: themeforest.net/category/site-templates/personal

See the examples of those websites & get inspiration from other personal websites templates for professionals..

Re-use or get inspiration.

steno1:
.lol is not the criticism that I don't like, but how it was done. No one here has pointed out what the problem was. One said I should go and learn JavaScript and css, the other that I can't never get a job with this and so on... no pointing of what the problem is

The design is bad and the usage of colors are too much.

Look at Github.com's home page & compare it with your own, how many colors did they use.

Go to Behance.com and look for website designs you can emulate.

It's either you're stuck in 1992 (design wise) or you are completely new to using the internet with this type of design.

fastanddubious:
Seriously? 😳

Don't laugh bro, he might be representing Rainbow flag movement with all those colors.

Babygeek:
Thanks for replying. Please what kind of niche skills would you advice someone to go for..I am through with my Bsc, and I have lots of free time.. I even had to pay a frontend guy to mentor me. At least to accelerate my learning pace and someone I can ask questions when I'm Stuck.. He keeps assuring me their are a lots of job in Tech esp for a female Somehow, few days ago while going through programming groups on Facebook, Saw my mentor complaining about how it has been hard to get jobs from Nigeria

haha! Sorry for the laugh, but there are actually lots of jobs for women.

The programming sector for women is still understaffed & many companies want a mixture of men & women. So far in my experience, every team i worked usually has just 1 or 2 women that are programmers. In my last company of about 50 devs, we had 2 women & 2 of them were Tech Leads and from America.

Programming is hard o, I can't lie and that's why some babes run from it but the ones who stay move up really quick because nobody is there to compete with you, men aren't really the competition because there are slots for men and women differently.

Diversity hires are taken very seriously in some companies.

sheeda995:
You are the abnormal. He can take care of his baby, if he couldn't he should have remained a bachelor

Abi oh, what if she is sick for months, will he throw the baby away.

fullclub:
if nothing comes up by November then i will give up, withdraw and return.

LMAOOO. Pounds is currently 1500, if you go back peren! Na die be that

sisisioge:
Na so them make millionaires thousandnaires o. 10million naira don dey less than 10k USD. Na only Gid go save us o.

I saw some of your posts about traveling, then imagine you actually didn’t travel when you did, you would have been regretting the decision to stay in Nigeria and be patriotic by now.

fullclub:
sent. thank you

Responded.

fullclub:
i paid with row cash... row dollars.

form a that is still laying there since February i filled it.
no one word from thr bank. about 4 banks.

i heard people used 500k upward to run that form A. before i could seek help from people who has link in bank it has ended.. unification of naira sets in

Send me a PM, there are two groups on Nigerians in UK on Twitter that once you post about jobs, someone should get in touch to help you. There is no way you'd be on that group & don't get a job for 1 month.

Treadway:
no be even about intelligent my guy. Dung for brains like that Atk1nson dude irk me. Absolutely empty with nothing to offer.

In one thread, they are the ones that will say even if you need to sell your testicle to japa, it is worth it, and yet in another they are quick to put down those who heed their advise and run into some trouble down the road. If not dung for brains, how can a normal person tell another determinately that UK isn't a fit for him and he should forget about the 15m he has spent and go back to Nigeria. Who dash the monkey man banana and made him PM? 🤣🤣🤣

As for OP, i have said this in another thread, you can't dip both feet in the river and now complain of cold. You should do all you can do to stay afloat, I don't think it makes any kind of sense to turn back now. Perish that thought. Keep pushing, keep searching, keep networking offline and online. Something will def pop up, eventually.

Yes, the travel issue is very relative depending on what city, what time of the year & what person you spoke to. Some had it easier when they came, it doesn't mean others are foolish. Many of the opposers on this thread maintain the opinion that students should have all their fees which goes into about 25Million naira before travelling which is unrealistic.

OP is a support job away from finding his feet, I can bet you that he will never leave that 15Million spent to return back to Nigeria.

Treadway:
stories stories stories...I'm very sure you haven't walked in his exact shoes for a month, and rather than shut up, you'd instead pontificate like you are special. Fact: some will always have it easier than others not necessarily cos they are better or better prepared. It's just life. Nairaland will scream to everyone who can hear to japa like your life depends on it, and when you do and fall into some troubles, same Nairaland will say you no sharp, you no wise, you no dey hear word, you should have paid all your fees. Crap talk!

I also know someone that just moved around the time he stated, only did Amazon jobs for two weeks and got the same kind of job he was doing in Nigeria, which is the role of a hygiene manager at a flour production company. Not necessarily like he has two heads, but was just at the right place at the right time and they needed him and there was a fit. If that person was at a different location, I'm pretty sure the story would be different. This guy is literally the only contact of mine who isn't doing a dead-end boy boy job, or gaddem carework.

The OP has asked you advisors to link him to jobs if you can...he isn't asking for money. He has asked like three of you to link him to jobs in other locations sef if you can so he can work on his free days and commute back somehow during school days, una still dey speak English, cos aside the English you have nothing else to offer, except to put him down. Smh

You're very intelligent!

Atk1nson:
Not necessarily true. There are people willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

We were guaranteed by an Ethiopian who my wife only recently met. I have also guaranteed 2 people I do not really know so well. 1 is now fairly well settled. The other just came, and I hope she finds her feet.

A relative of mine came in, stayed away till she had issues paying tuition. Borrowed some cash and only paid 60% back running to 8 months now. The last time we spoke, she asked for an additional £8,000. Promising to pay all later.
I didnt borrow her and refuse to stand as a guarantor if she borrows it.

So its not by who you know. I stand as guarantor to 2 people I am not so familiar with, but will not stand for my own relation.

We are saying the same thing, because you already have knowledge that your relation is not trust worthy.

fullclub:
yes thats what I want to do rather than damage my profile.

Research about apps that give credit loans, get a quick loan & pay. Then work gradually to pay back. Start asking around.

Atk1nson:
The guy is a comedian.

Complaining it cost him 35million to travel. Whose fault, is Rishi Sunak responsible for the exchange rate?

Landlord's are requesting for 6 months upfront or guarantor..and a guy that has no job is complaining. If he was in their shoes would he give it to someone in his situation without added safety to guaranteed their income.
Someone guaranteed for me when I came in, I also guarantee for a number of people who came in when I settled in. Rather than look for someone to guarantee for him, he came to make noise online

For someone to even guarantee for you, it means you must have been a trust worthy person. Nobody wants to guarantee for someone that knows they use to owe people back in Nigeria. It is very difficult mahn.

People are trapped in Nigeria forever at this rate.

tensazangetsu20:
You will return to Nigeria after spending 13 million naira. Find a way to rough it. Reach out to Nigerians on Twitter and ask for work. If you go back to Nigeria you will regret it bitterly.

Justwise always dropping bombs that people shouldn't travel if they don't have complete fees, omo with this current rates, there is no way in hell your fees can be complete. Even if you sell all your father's land in the village

Kobojunkie:
You lied about western culture being isolated. It is far from that. The problem is the African upbringing does not readily train people to mingle easily with people from other cultures and races. Yes, there is a racist aspect to the average Nigerian that hinders socialization with people of other nations and races. And that is highly likely why this woman, though surrounded by so many people, believes she has to cry in silence and alone.

Whatever you wrote here is a lie.

Stop lying through your teeth, every one who lives abroad knows Western culture is deeply isolated.

Infact even the natives in the country are complaining and thats one reason Metaverse by Facebook did not work because it further promotes physical isolation and keeps everyone in a virtual world.

laivwire:
I won't bore you with long talk but what I'd say is from experience.

You will hardly find a job role that you're happy doing. You will eventually get tired of the monotony, office politics and even your wages after a while. Why? It's simply because companies do not give 2 cents about you or your passions no matter how much they talk about their social values and how they value their employees. Companies only want employees that improve their profit figures.

You can't get it in business as well because your client is your boss and you'd do what they want or you'd run out of business.

You can only follow passion when you have so much you don't need to rely on anyone ever again. And how do you do that?

Make as much money as you can right from yesterday. The earlier you hit your monetary value where you can't go broke again, the better for you. Everyone has their idea of this sum but for me it's a million USD.

If you earn 10% of $1.2m every year by stuffing your money in a hedge fund or something, you can live comfortably anywhere in the world on a salary of $10,000 per month doing absolutely nothing but following your passion.

This is very profound, I'm glad Nairalanders are thinking this way. My idea of a lump sum is half of the amount of you quoted in $, I'll just stash it somewhere & earn 10% yearly, I am good to go for the next 20 years.

Live a very decent & non-extravagant life, drive Toyotas & chill.

Sulele04:
Hello boss, I am a 200 lvl csc student student honestly I am at a crossroad, I want to start freelancing & earning tech money on freelance platforms like Upwork/Fiverr to help studies but I don't know what part is lucrative & easy for me to get in.

Also for career I also don't know what part of tech to focus on, we are currently being taught Java this semester & I am also side learning javascript, but I am just doing all this with no particular end goal.

Can you please advice me cause I have no information. 🤲

For freelance, focus on front-end web development, using basic core Javascript, React and PHP. Avoid all those other shiny new frameworks, they are for full-time roles majorly.

Then WordPress, Converting PSD to HTML, Chrome extensions, Salesforce etc.

Do it for a year & drastically save some money as backup, if possible save 60% of your earnings. Delete or block black tax family members or people from your phone.

Then after a year, start looking for opportunities in your preferred field.

Bottom line is you need money to survive to do what you love!

BunbleBee:
I currently work in a top firm in the industry as a young graduate and fairly compensated but I seriously do not like the team I'm assigned to. My team members are great but I do not see myself doing what we do in team in many years to come. Additionally, what the team does limits me to this same thing within the industry and the number of opportunities as a whole. The tasks are repetitive and not as technical like I would love. This demotivates me and does not make me actively develop myself in this field. I do not find joy in it. I have tried many times to switch teams but that did not work out for me. I work with members from the team I would like to join and I always wished I was in that team.

I'm determined to change this as early as possible as I believe this is the best time to take risk. I have decided that if I can't switch to my dream team, then I would have to find this dream in another firm (most likely smaller with lesser prestige but with opportunity to learn valuable skills). However, I am confused on if this is a wise decision.

I need your advice on this drastic decision I need to take.

Thank you all