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You are eating by yourself at a restaurant , and then someone from your old secondary school recognizes you from a distance.

You: Did they see me? They totally saw me. Oh shit!

You are sitting at home chilling and then your aunt and her husband arrives at your house with their entire family WITHOUT calling first.

Aunt: we were coming back from church and saw your light on so we thought we'd stop by.
You: Damn it! I should have switched of the lights.

Pillyportions:
Learnt Poultry farming, and drying of cat fish. I also hope to learn one or two things after my nysc camping.

That's nice.

feldido:
I love learning new skills.
Started from an early age.

It's a good thing. Keep it up

feldido:
1.Mason(brick laying)
2. Electrical Wiring
3. Satellite TV installations
4. Computer Hardware repairs
5. Computer Networking
6. Phone repairs
7. Auto Tecnician(electrical/mechanical)
8. Agriculture(snail, fish, plantain) and
9. Luxury Customizations (Gold plating and crystallizations)


Funny enough I a mechanical engineer.

Oh boy! Na jack of all trade be this oh
OK. I just saw the remaining part of your post.
Not bad at all.

BeeBeeOoh:
Painting but, my major problem is “I Am Of Heights”. Once it's above 2 storey, abeg carry ur wahala & go..

You are scared of heights
Then if we are to go by market segmentation, I guess your target market includes only bungalows and two storey buildings. Not bad at all. That is still a large market.


The economic situation of the country leaves us with no option than to cater for ourselves in every honest way possible. A lot of youths have decided to learn a skill and most of them eventually develop these skills to levels where it generates a reasonable amount of income for them.
Presently I am in a paid employment but I am also taking some courses in business management because I see myself managing a business soon.
A guy I know who recently finished his NYSC program is currently teaching people programming and website design which he learnt during his service year. Learning skills like these can be very profitable when there is no available white collar job, in fact, one can make a livelihood out of it.
My barber is someone who learnt the skill even before going to the University. He opened the shop with his older brother. He was a teenager at that time and along with his brother, they kept doing the business. That did not however stop their education. I don't know how they did it but both of them still kept on with their schooling. His older brother got admission into the university while he continued the business. As his brother was about to graduate he also got admission into the university. With both of them very busy, they had to employ another person to take care of the business. Now both of them have degrees and the barbing business is still on.

So you see that one can help himself with the little skills he acquires and most can be acquired at little or no cost apart from your determination. It does not matter whether you're a graduate or not because your destiny is not wrapped in your certificate.

So, I want to throw the question to you, what skills are you acquiring now or have you acquired that has helped you or is helping you now.

Share so that others can learn or get encouraged..

Resurgence:
That is outbound.

Inbound is 300 to a dollar.

OK.

agarawu23:
Is my face seeing double abi no be my real face?

Western union to naija is now 300/$

Na true?

Firstbank even told me it's 347/$ when I called them on saturday!

stanisbaratheon:
why not, we're humans like the europeans you know.



My little niece can't eat any other milk apart from 123 milk else her stomach will ache her for days. What would you call that if not allergy??

Sounds like an allergy.

Litmus:
not to mention dead ones...

Chai!

Litmus:
In Nigeria, a great many tribes have traditions of "Forbidden Foods". That is, foods people of the tribe are deterred from consuming. It is cloaked around ancestral gods and the like, but i personally believe the origin lies in allergic reaction to certain foods. My branch of the Isoko tribe at one time were forbidden from consuming coco-yams (sweet-potato). It was thought that if you broke the rules and went ahead and eat coco-yam the gods would punish you with the condition we now know to be Vitiligo.


Nigerians used to be quite prissy about foods, which is why it surprises me to have come on this forum to read about people, supposedly Nigerians, consuming all manner of ghastly living thing.

"consuming all manner of ghastly living thing"!

jejemanito:
And after ONE YEAR it did

Yes o.

I'm back...

Feels good to be back on NL after a long break.
What did I miss?

Lalasticlala, I am making a request. You know what I mean.

^^thanks

RickRichards:
Dear Nairalanders, see the rickety wall she put up as defence.
Funny even when she's trying to look serious, isn't she a true Disneylady? She truly belongs in cartoons.

Mr. Richard, abeg no derail this thread again. Na beg I dey beg

BlackrulesDworld:
Topic should be "How social media affects vikel2014 self esteem"

Suggestion noted.
By the way, you did not have to quote the entire article just to post a reply. It doesn't look nice. Please unquote the article.

RickRichards:
Talk is cheap. When OP marries a toothless dame, I'll believe this.

You still did not get the point. To you, she she may be a toothless dame but to someone else, she is a beauty. Do you know that no matter how handsome you think you are, there is someone out there who will say about you "the guy no too fine" meanwhile you are thinking that you've got the handsomest face in town.

agarawu23:
Romance section huh?

Where should it have been?

What comes into your head when you hear the word " beauty " or "handsome"?
Hold your thoughts, feelings and images and let me try something. From here on in, do me a favour and FORGET EVERYTHING that you currently know or have been taught about beauty . FORGET that you should be a certain size. Forget that you need perfect skin to be seen as flawless. Forget about that fake tan that you need to glow. It starts here. I want the definition of beauty/handsomeness to cover character and not just measurements and proportions. I am angered by the increasing amount of people losing self-worth and letting their confidence become crippled by the media's outlandish remarks. I want to start... a beauty revolution.

Imagine a free world in which you could wake up in the morning and not feel obliged to meet ANY standards. A world where you didn't fear being judged for the clothes you wear or the face you were born with.
The media is harmful in warping the minds of adolescents and adults to believe the perfect body or the perfect face is a fixed set of criteria.

The phrase, “ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, used to be a comforting and honest saying. It made us feel like we can all be loved and that we are good enough for the people who surround us.
When the media broadcasts titles such as “slim down for summer”, “improve yourself with plastic surgery” and “contour your features”, the phrase becomes irrelevant. We forget that people treasure us for so much more than just our appearance and suddenly, we feel a lot less valuable.
Nobody should feel pressure to look a certain way just to feel happy or wanted.
Beauty in the media is portrayed as one stereotype, bracketing off the perfect man or woman. If we fall short of these expectations, inevitably, we don’t feel enough.
But you are. You are enough.

The following will help you believe me and understand why:

The false images in the media portray unrealistic standards. Photos are airbrushed and photo shopped to perfection. You will never look like the models in magazines because most of them don't look like that themselves!
The images only provide damaging outcomes such as jealousy, low self-esteem and sometimes even depression. The bar is set exceptionally high and the bar itself is an illusion. It doesn’t exist. Beauty magazines promote self-hatred, low self-esteem and poor body image.
In a humane world, there should be no correct answer to “What is beauty?” It is common fact that what one person finds attractive, the next person may not. Yet, we are told by the media that one thing is pretty and the other is ugly. Nobody should be able to define what beauty is. So, what on earth gives us the right or royalty to believe that we can or should?

On top of this, the media deliberately targets children and adolescents at a time when their brains are developing, their imaginations are vivid and they have a tendency to believe the unbelievable. At a young age, children may not have the ability to rule out propositions made by the media – it simply won't cross their mind as they won't recognise they could be false. If you’re told that “you can’t be beautiful unless you are slim”, the likelihood is, you will take it as gospel. After all, when you’re a child your perception of the world is so pure and the world seems so good. Why would the media lie? But the sad truth is - they do. Constantly.
Studies show that persistent exposure to “ideal beauty” in the media takes psychological effects in people of all ages. From distorted body image to low self-esteem, the results are devastating. The average consumer is exposed to 1,500 advertisements each day, and an average young woman will have received over 250,000 commercial messages through the media by the
time she is 17. I think that is absolutely appalling. Advertisements erode one’s
self esteem , then within the same advert offer to sell it back to you one
product at a time. The media poses an enormous threat to our people. It sells irrational messages in attractive packages, making it seem normal to change your image drastically, or go to unhealthy extremes to achieve an ideal
that was never actually set in stone in the first place.
The medias representation of beauty is clearly doing more harm than good. Do we really want to submit to a restricted way of life that causes us to be unsatisfied with the skin we're in? I really can't stand to see anyone else get affected by the ridiculous labels and branding given to people by the media.
As cliché as it sounds, (I don't even care anymore), everyone is beautiful and handsome. You just need to take the time to look.


Source:http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-beauty-ideal-is-the-media-destroying-our-self-esteem

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Interesting drama about to unfold...

Oh really?

Hahaha, funny replies.
Lalasticlala, come and take this to F... make we hear answers o!

Shymex and his usual alpha-male philosophy.

See them wretched souls.

Lalasticlala, please move this to FP. Thank you

True talk.

Mod, may this thread find favour in thy sight. Amen.