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onihaxy: Have you ever wondered why vocational students don't cry of unemployment?, I think its the differences in our mentality.

Academic students in nigeria has this mentality of going to school, graduate with good grades and then becomes gainfully employed by an established organisation while the vocational studentsthe mentality of learning any vocational skills of their choice, (tailoring, barbing, hairdressing, etc) and after their freedom, they become there own boss by establishing themselves and start training others and the chain of self-reliant continues

Back in the 90's, the academic students always mock their counterparts in the vocational line with the mentality that they (academic student) will make a better life than the vocational students. According to a pry song we do sing in my school back then, "if u go to school, ur shoes will be making ko-ko-ka sound but if you don't go to school, your shoe sole will be flat. Meaning that if you go to school, the vocational student will be serving you and you will be there leader, though this theory works back then when there are jobs on ground for graduates after school, but in this era. The table has been turned around, the vocational graduates who are self established are now recruiting academic graduates as their children's home lesson teacher, as their P.A, some has office assistance. The worse part of it is that so many graduates are even going back to this vocational people to learn skills.

It reminded me of back in NYSC days when vocational courses like barbing, catering, event planning, beads making, and so on was introduced, I happen to pick up paint making and learn, the guy who came to teach us then came in a nice saloon car. Came up to the hall and started the lecture, you need to see the gbagaun he was throwing. As he noticed that we were laughing at him, then he paused the lecture and switched over to his life story......

He begin by telling us his academic history. He said he dropped out in ss2 due to lack of funds in 2002. How he was mocked by his friends who proceeded to university. How he went to a paint company to work as a casual staff, there he learnt basic paints making. From there, he attended a seminar on making quality paints, bought the book and then started his life from there. He said 10years later which was 2012 that he came to teach us, he said he has built 2 houses, bought 3 nice cars, became a millionaire and finally. He has trained close to 3000 B.sc graduates.

He ended his story by saying getting rich in life doesn't depend on your qualifications, your english speaking accents, but your level of understanding how to be on your own, identifying people's need and providing solutions to it and then making your own money through it. Every1 in the hall suddenly kept quiet and tears start rolling from the eyes of most of us. The practical training class became a motivational class.
So I think the academic students and graduates of nowadays should stop or minimise the mentality of going to school, get good grades, and start applying for jobs but rather learn from the vocational students who studied to be the boss of their own.

Over to you fellow nairalanders, what is your own view?

Having both is the best

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@op nice job u re doing here. Just have this ish. There is the girl i lyk, admire and rate very high. We attended d same pry sch but different sec skul. We got talking online 3 yrs bk and she asked me if i had a gf, i said no. She said no when i returned d ques. A mistake i made, i asked her immediately if she would be mine, her response was "i will think over it" i never asked for her reply till date. I have a problem with rapport esp during calls and face to face. I always want dem to make d move and even when dey do i am easily discouraged maybe because of d rapport or i am very emotional(it affects my educationally). I rate girls too high as in will say in my mind am i fit for her or what do i have to offer. And because of that i will keep quite. I am also the quite type and a little proud and for fear of regection i will lock up. The prob nw is we hardly see just twice in the last 3 yrs. Her bother frd also trying to get her and we are not at good terms. I notice she was trying to frd zone(this happens to me always. I always act d gud boy and dey will think i can't do anytin) me and i cut comm for d past 2 months. I want to make her my target for d new yr. note: different higher institution but will surely meet at a base. Ur advice

Quatermaine: Having read this, I'll conclude that Uniben is a good school.

my thought exactly. Na only for hall 2 car park,where church fellowship and party go dey go on for the same place (love gutter or under ebelebor tree for front of hall 2) we dey do our own and maybe nite class at faculty(esp that building wey offices dey. I don watch live x-rated movie for there 2 times). Hall 4 or 3 guy go dey suffer for dem, off k boys go dey maga dem. If you fit get house for off k, den weekends na for compensation.

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http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/11/6-killed-many-injured-boko-haram-insurgents-invade-adamawa/

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