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When has anything ever been properly probed or investigated in this country?

Person go dey cry unemployment. Work come, to see transport to and fro daily na grace. 1.5k daily for transportation feeding excluded. How much be the salary sef. If you no work, dem go say you lazy, if you work, na systematic slavery.

If u have some extra, hit a brother up

So here I am, no food in two days thanks to Sapa.
In retrospect, this Friday wasn't good for me. Imagine fasting without breaking. Na wa o. I went around today and everything seemed enticing. The Aboki that fries yam with dried pepper, the Abacha seller, the buns and egg rolls inside glass show cases. These are things that I would hardly go near but hunger has formatted my brain and made them super delicacies in my throat.

Make I go sleep, maybe tomorrow will be better. *Sigh

Thanks for your advice everybody. I'm taking it one day at a time. God bless you

GerogeI:
I am pushed to respond to you in my spirit. Let me point out a few things.

1. You lack hope. You are not investing your effort in any thing with the potential to become successfully rewarding.

2. You are putting too much emphasis on formal education and getting formal employment. That boat sailed from Nigeria a long time ago. You could have gone to univlag and graduate and still be jobless.

3. You parents lost their livelihood and are still struggling to live in Lagos. They should have moved to a more affordable environment, instead of relying on your odd jobs.

4. You think nothing can work, but all you have been doing are odd jobs. This is same reason I tell people never relocate abroad just for odd jobs, they can never meet your needs.



Answers.
No matter who you are there is always something in your hands.

1. Did you know you can study parttime, or distance learning, or through the open university and get properly educated. 32 is sufficiently young to achieve whatever you want. But a certificate may not get you a job.

2.Rather than thinking of certificates. Think if utilitarian Education. Software and Tech, oil and gas welding, Art and Music. Get yourself these by looking for people to volunteer to, so you do not pay fees. Yes, you need to leave home and head to where your desired opportunity lies. You need to think of your future, not just helping your parents. Look for oil and gas welding companies and volunteer eg. Oilserve, Ennikom.

3. If you are not keen on formal sector, the informal sector is there. That's where Igbos survived the war. What does your parents have? A piece of land in rural setting is great. Head there start a poultry farm, start small with very little and work to expand it. Or farm vegetables or rear fish or goat. Any form of farming is better than working as a fuel attendant cause you have the potential to grow and expand. Sit down and think about what you have in your hands and start something with it.

4. Stop living other peoples life or dreaming of it, we all have our paths and challenges. You are very lucky but you are not aware. You have good health, there are people with so much resources, but cannot even eat a single meal without pains. The only thing wrong is that you are not investing your efforts well. Your are investing in short term solutions -odd jobs

Thank you for your perspective. I live in Lagos. i have been thinking about applying to NOUN. I saw their application for the new year ends in May so I have some time to gather the application fee. I just fear I might not be able to afford the fees as it's over 100k. I forgot to add that I attended NIIT to get a diploma in Software engineering at some point but couldn't further because it became unaffordable even though they allowed fees to be paid in installments. I wasn't just able to meet up. As for the welding job, if you could link me up, it'd be great. I'm just about willing to do anything right now. My parents sold off their lands over the years. I really wished they hadn't. I've never been to my village. I don't even know what it looks like. Even if my father has land there he's probably forfeited it already because he's not been there since I was born either.
My dream would be to go to culinary school but It's way too expensive. I've realised my passion is in making food. Especially over the fire cooking (grilling, especially) .It's when I'm at my happiest. I must have watched over 2000 videos on YouTube on this subject. I figure at this stage in life, if I'm not doing what I love, more depression would set in unless the money's good.

Hmmm

You may be wondering what madness drove me to this but it isn't madness but a deep rooted depression that built up for over 15 years.

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