If u need my candid advice, go back to school. Time n tide wait for no man. No body ever saved money for issues. When I applied to study law at a time we faced terrible family issues after d death of my mum, my elder brother asked me if I want to go suffer in school. At d time, even to feed in a day was a tuck of war let alone school.

Alas, today my determination paid off. I am not just a lawyer but a senior lawyer who nurtured d family to lamplight. Go back to school as advice by ur dad, school isn't a place for a tea party,so being a citadel of learning, u should expect some difficult situation, it's part of d building process.

Sheffdon:
Now, to be honest, I just clocked 26. I was done with my sec. education way back in 2012. Due to one problem to the other, i couldn't further. I had to involve myself in some menial jobs to sustain myself for the meantime and along the way, i learned phone and computer engineering and i do brush through some very important books occasionally.

This is where I need your wise opinion guys. Dad got into a problem when i was about to finish sec. School and since then,hes been repaying debt till now. Infact, debt has consumed all his salary. He's just borrowing from peter to pay Paul to survive.


And he's still of the opinion that i go to school. I got admission to study pharmacy at OOU in 2018, paid the acceptance fee but couldn't pay school fees and i lost it for good. So he wants me to try again but where will he even see the money when school wahala comes again? He's gonna go the borrowing way again i guess; compounding the problem we have at hand


So I've been thinking....what if i go back to factory work, then get myself a computer and learn programming "frontend development for a start"? I want to dedicate atleast 1 to 2 years to learn it. Then after that, i would proceed to school either on part time or full because i still want to further my education to get the b.sc cert. at the minimum.

Honourable men and women, CONSIDERING THE NIGERIA OF TODAY, i need your wise words at this critical junction of my life.



If I'm done with the programming, can it atleast sustain me a little bit?

Should I faithfully follow my dad's intention or just go through my own plan?


Thanks

Hello,
There is something I want you to master today. Following your mind and gut. You won't lead yourself to the wrong path. Know this.

After knowing that, what is your mind telling you? School or programming?. I advice you use one stone to kill two birds. Gain admission and target cheaper universities eg Oau. The cost of studying in Oau is cheap compared to other universities.

I want you to have this at the back of your mind, you can be WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE TO BECOME.

Dilanom9:
Visit my profile if you bet on football matches

Betting ke yu there!

Sheffdon:
Now, to be honest, I just clocked 26. I was done with my sec. education way back in 2012. Due to one problem to the other, i couldn't further. I had to involve myself in some menial jobs to sustain myself for the meantime and along the way, i learned phone and computer engineering and i do brush through some very important books occasionally.

This is where I need your wise opinion guys. Dad got into a problem when i was about to finish sec. School and since then,hes been repaying debt till now. Infact, debt has consumed all his salary. He's just borrowing from peter to pay Paul to survive.


And he's still of the opinion that i go to school. I got admission to study pharmacy at OOU in 2018, paid the acceptance fee but couldn't pay school fees and i lost it for good. So he wants me to try again but where will he even see the money when school wahala comes again? He's gonna go the borrowing way again i guess; compounding the problem we have at hand


So I've been thinking....what if i go back to factory work, then get myself a computer and learn programming "frontend development for a start"? I want to dedicate atleast 1 to 2 years to learn it. Then after that, i would proceed to school either on part time or full because i still want to further my education to get the b.sc cert. at the minimum.

Honourable men and women, CONSIDERING THE NIGERIA OF TODAY, i need your wise words at this critical junction of my life.



If I'm done with the programming, can it atleast sustain me a little bit?

Should I faithfully follow my dad's intention or just go through my own plan?


Thanks

If you are interested in learning programming, I can teach you html, css, javascript and PhP for free. Let that be my contribution

Anaerobi:
What a Loving Dad that wants the best for his son....


From the depth of my heart, I pray may doors open... May you and your family be favoured before God and before Men...


talk with Dad, convince him to understand that you know how difficult things are, that you want to start a better job, then promise him you will get back to school once you have some saves.... and you should also do your best to keep to your promise.

I love your write-up.
Op do this and leave the rest to God

Sheffdon:
Now, to be honest, I just clocked 26. I was done with my sec. education way back in 2012. Due to one problem to the other, i couldn't further. I had to involve myself in some menial jobs to sustain myself for the meantime and along the way, i learned phone and computer engineering and i do brush through some very important books occasionally.

This is where I need your wise opinion guys. Dad got into a problem when i was about to finish sec. School and since then,hes been repaying debt till now. Infact, debt has consumed all his salary. He's just borrowing from peter to pay Paul to survive.


And he's still of the opinion that i go to school. I got admission to study pharmacy at OOU in 2018, paid the acceptance fee but couldn't pay school fees and i lost it for good. So he wants me to try again but where will he even see the money when school wahala comes again? He's gonna go the borrowing way again i guess; compounding the problem we have at hand


So I've been thinking....what if i go back to factory work, then get myself a computer and learn programming "frontend development for a start"? I want to dedicate atleast 1 to 2 years to learn it. Then after that, i would proceed to school either on part time or full because i still want to further my education to get the b.sc cert. at the minimum.

Honourable men and women, CONSIDERING THE NIGERIA OF TODAY, i need your wise words at this critical junction of my life.



If I'm done with the programming, can it atleast sustain me a little bit?

Should I faithfully follow my dad's intention or just go through my own plan?


Thanks

On a very good note age is not on your side, to be a student without proper financial backbone is not advice able

That your plan on learning about programming is good but you have to put more interest into it,but you will have to augment it with a degree to make it more meaningful .

I know a lot of folks back then in Sec School who didn't have the brain and financial capacity to further their education but who are currently doing much better than us financially, time is too precious to waste, I'm not saying you shouldn't go to school though, I'm just saying you should think it through

@Sheffdon, plan to go to school.

The coding you want to learn isn't time-bound. You can learn it while in school, you can learn it after you graduate, you can learn jt during your holidays.
It requires a high amount of discipline to learn it successfully to the extent that it can become a major source of livelihood for you.

Trust me, when things get "difficult" you'll abandon the coding, and the reasons will seem genuine enough to you. You'll suddenly "realise" that everyone is coding, that the people teaching you are not very professional enough, that you had one other business idea that you invested your money in so you couldn't pay to learn in reputable institutions, that you need a sophisticated laptop, etc etc etc

You'll find excuses and it'll be hard to continue. And one day you'll wake up 4 years gone and you're not earning a decent living from the little you've learnt, you'll be 30 and still no degree or any other fall back option.

Again, plan to go to school. You can learn the coding and all what-not while you're in school.

You can find means to support yourself, so you won't be relying on your dad alone.
Time goes by quickly. You may regret not going to school when you had the chance.

Sheffdon:
Now, to be honest, I just clocked 26. I was done with my sec. education way back in 2012. Due to one problem to the other, i couldn't further. I had to involve myself in some menial jobs to sustain myself for the meantime and along the way, i learned phone and computer engineering and i do brush through some very important books occasionally.

This is where I need your wise opinion guys. Dad got into a problem when i was about to finish sec. School and since then,hes been repaying debt till now. Infact, debt has consumed all his salary. He's just borrowing from peter to pay Paul to survive.


And he's still of the opinion that i go to school. I got admission to study pharmacy at OOU in 2018, paid the acceptance fee but couldn't pay school fees and i lost it for good. So he wants me to try again but where will he even see the money when school wahala comes again? He's gonna go the borrowing way again i guess; compounding the problem we have at hand


So I've been thinking....what if i go back to factory work, then get myself a computer and learn programming "frontend development for a start"? I want to dedicate atleast 1 to 2 years to learn it. Then after that, i would proceed to school either on part time or full because i still want to further my education to get the b.sc cert. at the minimum.

Honourable men and women, CONSIDERING THE NIGERIA OF TODAY, i need your wise words at this critical junction of my life.



If I'm done with the programming, can it atleast sustain me a little bit?

Should I faithfully follow my dad's intention or just go through my own plan?


Thanks

Give your life to Christ and be sincere in serving him.He'll show you d way to go in life.My life was in shambles when I decided I'll not go to church again.2 years, I was just running from pillar to post, one problem after another.Like the prodigal son, I came back to start serving God in d church I stopped attending, Winners chapel and all that suffering is now over. THE CHOICE IS YOUR TO MAKE NOW.

damoobaba:


Give your life to Christ and be sincere in serving him.He'll show you d way to go in life.My life was in shambles when I decided I'll not go to church again.2 years, I was just running from pillar to post, one problem after another.Like the prodigal son, I came back to start serving God in d church I stopped attending, Winners chapel and all that suffering is now over. THE CHOICE IS YOUR TO MAKE NOW.

Glory to Jesus!

TalkTalkTwins:
Yes, follow your mind and you'd be grateful you did

I'm not a programmer, but I work online legitimately and to be honest with you, you can make a living off the internet

It's forex or blogging

oga, good day I stumbled into a post on face book recently about a free university study from home. the people university so check out is very cheap. you try it as you are working. or learn a trade like sewing or even tiling it would help a lot. Follow Gods Desire for you and He would Help u.

SeriouslySense:
Just go to these sites to check, for videos courses or even new books

1)https://scanlibs.com/
2) https://z-lib.org/
3) You can try playing with this site, if you want to know html, css and bootstrap, JavaScript and its family language ---> https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.ASP

I assure you there are many other sites, you just have to search.

You're leading him to tutorial hell mate. I think the best you can do is to share precise details of the books or materials you think will aid his learning. I just broke out of tutorial hell and even if some people claim it's a place every budding programmer will visit, having the experience at the beginning can be detrimental as you might end up losing focus.

Hassanmaye:

It's forex or blogging

Blogging

But I started learning crypto trading recently

PrimadonnaO:
@Sheffdon, plan to go to school.

The coding you want to learn isn't time-bound. You can learn it while in school, you can learn it after you graduate, you can learn jt during your holidays.
It requires a high amount of discipline to learn it successfully to the extent that it can become a major source of livelihood for you.

Trust me, when things get "difficult" you'll abandon the coding, and the reasons will seem genuine enough to you. You'll suddenly "realise" that everyone is coding, that the people teaching you are not very professional enough, that you had one other business idea that you invested your money in so you couldn't pay to learn in reputable institutions, that you need a sophisticated laptop, etc etc etc

You'll find excuses and it'll be hard to continue. And one day you'll wake up 4 years gone and you're not earning a decent living from the little you've learnt, you'll be 30 and still no degree or any other fall back option.

Again, plan to go to school. You can learn the coding and all what-not while you're in school.

You can find means to support yourself, so you won't be relying on your dad alone.
Time goes by quickly. You may regret not going to school when you had the chance.

You said everything that has to be said. Agree with you totally. Seem like you tried your hands on Programming at some point in the past?

It will be a great advantage if you indeed need learn front end programming as you rightly wish to.

I appreciate your dad too making efforts to get you educated, schooling is really brat with money so get skilled, and earn online certification as much as possible. Your schooling will be useless if you can't be self sustainable besides you're of age to leave dad's loins to stay more responsible. Best wishes

Follow your own plan.

At this stage in your life you should not be hoping on people to help you pay your school fees cos most times that help will not come.

Sheffdon:
Now, to be honest, I just clocked 26. I was done with my sec. education way back in 2012. Due to one problem to the other, i couldn't further. I had to involve myself in some menial jobs to sustain myself for the meantime and along the way, i learned phone and computer engineering and i do brush through some very important books occasionally.

This is where I need your wise opinion guys. Dad got into a problem when i was about to finish sec. School and since then,hes been repaying debt till now. Infact, debt has consumed all his salary. He's just borrowing from peter to pay Paul to survive.


And he's still of the opinion that i go to school. I got admission to study pharmacy at OOU in 2018, paid the acceptance fee but couldn't pay school fees and i lost it for good. So he wants me to try again but where will he even see the money when school wahala comes again? He's gonna go the borrowing way again i guess; compounding the problem we have at hand


So I've been thinking....what if i go back to factory work, then get myself a computer and learn programming "frontend development for a start"? I want to dedicate atleast 1 to 2 years to learn it. Then after that, i would proceed to school either on part time or full because i still want to further my education to get the b.sc cert. at the minimum.

Honourable men and women, CONSIDERING THE NIGERIA OF TODAY, i need your wise words at this critical junction of my life.



If I'm done with the programming, can it atleast sustain me a little bit?

Should I faithfully follow my dad's intention or just go through my own plan?


Thanks

School 4 years + NYSC = 5+strikes=6 years, then come out searching for jobs.

Programming >is a year or 2.. You got yourself what will sustain you for a lifetime, no job hunting.. Rather jobs will hunt you.


The decision is yours to make.

Bukky001:



My brother or sister, Times come in our lives when we don't know what next to do. At this juncture, The best thing to do is to talk to God, get close to him so you can hear his direction. He created and designed you, He knows why you are in this present situation. Don't rely on opinions and advice of people. Most of them will do worse if they are in your shoes and that is what they will come and give you as advice. Peace!!!

we always say talk to God, pray to God. but how can we know the mind of God or plan of God for our lives. will God just say it to our ears on what to choose? i am just confused

I know, what he needs is the efficiency to research on his own, so he has to do his research, more organization skills in extracting understanding and making use of vast information.

Believe me, we need to develop the ability to research and find answers on our own, the information is there, so we need to understand how to make use of it. I don't think it helps to spoon feed every time,

SageX1444:
You're leading him to tutorial hell mate. I think the best you can do is to share precise details of the books or materials you think will aid his learning. I just broke out of tutorial hell and even if some people claim it's a place every budding programmer will visit, having the experience at the beginning can be detrimental as you might end up losing focus.

Programming seems like a good choice of skill. You can build your skills alongside school if you're intending the Bsc part. Also select a Federal uni not OOU or any other biased expensive shitty school. They're all shitty but Federal schools are the better of the shittier! Ugh! I for say my u fashi school, work on a skill but since your papa insist. Polytechnics are not bad too, Federal!

SageX1444:
You said everything that has to be said. Agree with you totally. Seem like you tried your hands on Programming at some point in the past?

Nahh. I just know how these things go because I've seen it happen to people around me. People seem to create fancy ideas for themselves when they're trying to escape a more challenging option.

Learning a skill is great, especially an ICT-skill in this 21st century. But it just shouldn't be in exclusion of getting a degree, especially in this Nigeria.

Getting a degree goes beyond the certificate- the grooming, the exposure, the network - and then yes, the certificate, because there's no telling when it will become very important, so why should someone put himself at a disadvantage?

Cc Sheffdon

Whoknowsme:
I love your write-up.
Op do this and leave the rest to God

thank you brotherly.

I don't know his Dad, but I see a man that loves his son so much and wish to give him the best education.... I see a Loving heart, just that the economy of the country isn't favorable.


and the young guy too is just good guy that understands... I just love them... they have a pure heart and are understanding.

It's really a pity what you went through all these while, having to loose your admission. I like your the fact you are sincere with your situation. Just follow any path that will not add to the financial burden of the family. Discover your passion and follow it. Education is just Academic exercise, it does not guarantee any future. Get on with the programming, be the best you can be at it. The sky will be your limit, you can always get a BSc later in future in a more comfortable way. Good luck!!

Sheffdon:
Now, to be honest, I just clocked 26. I was done with my sec. education way back in 2012. Due to one problem to the other, i couldn't further. I had to involve myself in some menial jobs to sustain myself for the meantime and along the way, i learned phone and computer engineering and i do brush through some very important books occasionally.

This is where I need your wise opinion guys. Dad got into a problem when i was about to finish sec. School and since then,hes been repaying debt till now. Infact, debt has consumed all his salary. He's just borrowing from peter to pay Paul to survive.


And he's still of the opinion that i go to school. I got admission to study pharmacy at OOU in 2018, paid the acceptance fee but couldn't pay school fees and i lost it for good. So he wants me to try again but where will he even see the money when school wahala comes again? He's gonna go the borrowing way again i guess; compounding the problem we have at hand


So I've been thinking....what if i go back to factory work, then get myself a computer and learn programming "frontend development for a start"? I want to dedicate atleast 1 to 2 years to learn it. Then after that, i would proceed to school either on part time or full because i still want to further my education to get the b.sc cert. at the minimum.

Honourable men and women, CONSIDERING THE NIGERIA OF TODAY, i need your wise words at this critical junction of my life.



If I'm done with the programming, can it atleast sustain me a little bit?

Should I faithfully follow my dad's intention or just go through my own plan?


Thanks

From my little experience I would advise you to go for a 9-18 months programming course part time as you can mix up the learning and menial jobs, you also get a certificate for it that you can use to apply for a B.Sc to 200lvl straight.

Having coding skills or a digital marketable skill is the first step as you can try freelance with your skills while pushing for your dream. Goodluck
Where do you reside?

Sheffdon:
Now, to be honest, I just clocked 26. I was done with my sec. education way back in 2012. Due to one problem to the other, i couldn't further. I had to involve myself in some menial jobs to sustain myself for the meantime and along the way, i learned phone and computer engineering and i do brush through some very important books occasionally.

This is where I need your wise opinion guys. Dad got into a problem when i was about to finish sec. School and since then,hes been repaying debt till now. Infact, debt has consumed all his salary. He's just borrowing from peter to pay Paul to survive.


And he's still of the opinion that i go to school. I got admission to study pharmacy at OOU in 2018, paid the acceptance fee but couldn't pay school fees and i lost it for good. So he wants me to try again but where will he even see the money when school wahala comes again? He's gonna go the borrowing way again i guess; compounding the problem we have at hand


So I've been thinking....what if i go back to factory work, then get myself a computer and learn programming "frontend development for a start"? I want to dedicate atleast 1 to 2 years to learn it. Then after that, i would proceed to school either on part time or full because i still want to further my education to get the b.sc cert. at the minimum.

Honourable men and women, CONSIDERING THE NIGERIA OF TODAY, i need your wise words at this critical junction of my life.



If I'm done with the programming, can it atleast sustain me a little bit?

Should I faithfully follow my dad's intention or just go through my own plan?


Thanks

. 1 Pray to God for his guidance 2 Call your Dad and discuss your plans with him 3 Ask your Dad why he wants you to go back to school and his plans for footing the bills there.Tell him your reservation 4 Both of you should arrive at a reasonable conclusion. Your mother should be part of the discussion if she is around 5 Follow through the decision you make together and commit it into the hand of God The truth is many Nigerians suffer in public schools because of their backriunds and they struggle hard to complete their programme.Yiur dream to be educated will not be an exception .God will do it Just be focused.All will be well.

Just go to school now...one thing you should consider is nysc in this country atleast Don't suffer through out ur stay in Nigeria...go for ur studies and hustle along...have seen people who sponsored themselves alone to school

Your mind is in the right place. Just as some said, try to make your dad understand your plans. The future is bright as long as you don't take your eyes off the goal. There are times when you'll want to give up and seek the comfort zone. Don't. I am rooting for you! Kindly give us updates when you achieve certain milestones. Your story might just inspire others. Cheers, mate!

Bro.... don't hang your hat where your hand can't reach. Find out how those who graduated over the last 5 years are doing. This is 2021... what are your chances of being a top notch programmer? Those who are making a very good living... find out when they got their job and what was the competition like to get that job. Today programmers are a dime a dozen..... are you one that good look has blessed? Sit down and think hard on two things.... supply and demand ... what skill or whatever is in short supply but there is a great demand? I will continue to say in Naija it is competent auto mechanics... but such is never in our books. Thus is just one.... why enter a crowded field? Tell your father you want to be an auto mechanic he will disown you! Younare 26...an adult ... look well before you leap.