Coldie:
I finished school 2015 all the way to 2020 I no work for once, at least u see teaching job.

I apply for teaching job tire I no see, God of abroad saved me.


One day I was walking on the road, one woman walked up to me, looked at me and ask me oboy u no get work, everytime I see u for the past how many years na, na so so waka Waka up and down u dae waka. U no go go work.

To compound my woes, girls way being dae die for me wen I dae uni 90% of them stopped talking to me online and offline, they just start look at u like a miscreant.

Women that back then used to call me my inlaw stopped, if u want to get problem with them just call them sososo person inlaw, na quarrel or warning u dae find.


Joblessness would so much reduce your self esteem, girls way be ur mate or way u senior go dae look u like say them senior u.


In Nigeria if u hear people going into yahoo and fraud, don't blame them. That country frustration is it's middle name.

I never frustrate finish for that country small money u dae use manage police go just see u arrest u, dae ask u to bail yourself for doing nothing. Say let you do business government will frustrated u, say ok be self employed and a deal fails report to police money them go use end the case is approximately the money the person owes u.


I love Nigeria, but only God himself from heaven knows where the country is heading

Bros i need to talk to you

Dont give up guys. Keep developing yourselves, especially your communication skills. I graduated in 2006 and got gainfully employed 9 years later in 2015. For those 9 years, I engaged in private school teaching and other menial jobs to keep body and soul together. But eventually, God intervened.

obamartins:


The opportunity is open for the OP only, not for everybody.

Ballack1:
Depressed,I nearly committed suicide on Sunday,if not for God..No hope at all

This was my thought all through the night. Kept ransacking my brain on the fastest way to end it.

No work since 2016
Although am currently teaching physics but the take home is nothing to write about.
I am currently trying to learn programming but it's hard

Seniorwriter:
@OP...You are a graduate and yet you don't have an extra online skill or don't know how to earn via online with what you learnt in school/university but can be comfortably browsing for 20hrs daily watching movies and every other frivolity but complain of financial constraints not knowing it's your very undoing(Fault).

Do you know that no matter what you study or know the online space has persons or organizations in the look out for such hands?
Most times the reason why people don't earn via Online is because they don't know how to go about monetizing whatever knowledge or qualification they have acquired!

Recently a Forklift Driver reached out via the facebook ID and wanted to learn transcribing but along the line we discovered he was versatile in his profession so I had to get him mentored on how to document his activities & knowledge after 3weeks mentorship he now earns @least $140 weekly with his podcast of the different viable alternatives in forklift procession...recently he was contacted by an online firm through lensa.com that requires remote forklift drivers that can use AI to work.




Your ignorance smells to the high heavens..
I'm sure many people here will be shaking their heads @your post.
Deep Quote
Ability to learn and relearn is a Superpower.

Proactivity Leads To Productivity.
@SeniorWriter

Will you shut the hell up with your nonsense right up

tensazangetsu20:

Theres nothing to exxagerate. There is no opportunities in Nigeria. The only thing I will advise a young Nigerian graduate is to get coding skills start while in university. With tech skills your job market is global and you can work for foreign firms and earn well while living in Nigeria. Everything else is shit. Doctors aint even finding things funny now.

just ignore the guy..na motivational speakers them ..

900warriorz:
The Boy don become Tailor, we meuve

same here wety person go do

May God provide jobs for all Nigerian youths, but I will advise you to leave the country, which is what I did. Nigeria doesn't have any plan for us youths

tegafej:


I can relate to your story

It has been God's grace

I'm in my finals studying Petroleum Engineering and the comments I'm seeing here is nothing short of depressing.

I really had to learn some things the hard way. I have one little advice for aspirants here: DON'T STUDY PETROLEUM ENGINEERING AS FIRST DEGREE!!!

The future if the oil industry is bleak, getting a job comes with a good pay and all but the field is too streamlined so there's barely a job for 3/10th of Petroleum Engineering graduates; mechanical engineers are getting the jobs. As a PE, you can't get a job in ME but a ME can easily get a job in PE.

AAbuja:
Did you graduate in 2016? How have you been coping?

After all these years all I can point at is a teaching job I Engaged in Fetching 15k a month. I quit tho after innumerable nonsense and pathetic experiences.


I feel like I am not doing enough. I feel like I am not trying enough. When I look at my dad and see his Grey hair, I feel like I have failed him because I am still eating his food bought with monthly pension. I am still sleeping and waking up under his roof at over 30years old.

As a child, I remembered the week when I was to enter Jss1, dad took me to a boutique and bought me a very fine white canvass. Now over the years I can't even afford to buy him a shoe. The last time I bought him anything was 2017 during my NYSC.

I feel I have failed not only him but a lot of people that hoped in me to become something reasonable. Laundry sef no work, always in the shop regretting my entire journey. Maybe I should have waited and studied another course or maybe I should have just chosen and engaged in a trade with with my 100 level tuition

I just regret everything. Under the hot sun, People will see me walking from one company to another establishment with my credentials. Most times i have to Beg for money just to move from one place to another online. The situation is that terrible

I have asked myself what I am doing wrong but I apply to jobs everyday. Or maybe I am afraid of starting a family on 15k salary just like most of my colleagues back in university. We do meet and they tell me how I am delaying in starting a family, and then goes ahead to tell me how poor their teaching salaries are and how they have had to depend on friends and family. But me I have no one to fall on.

A times I feel really sad and end up praying for those unemployed graduates going through the same phase I am phase I am passing through. Even though you don't know me, I pray for you

It's so sad, I'm in such situation with you. May God help us���

ben1daEbiri:
I'm in my finals studying Petroleum Engineering and the comments I'm seeing here is nothing short of depressing.

I really had to learn some things the hard way. I have one little advice for aspirants here: DON'T STUDY PETROLEUM ENGINEERING AS FIRST DEGREE!!!

The future if the oil industry is bleak, getting a job comes with a good pay and all but the field is too streamlined so there's barely a job for 3/10th of Petroleum Engineering graduates; mechanical engineers are getting the jobs. As a PE, you can't get a job in ME but a ME can easily get a job in PE.

Even mechanical engineering is trash. The only engineering course I will advise anyone to study is electrical engineering or computer engineering. I did marine engineering which is a specialised field of mechanical engineering and getting jobs was hell. If you are in your final year and have time start learning to code now. I used to use my free time in the university to watch movies and play games. I really regret doing that now.

Start Blogging Business And Thank Later

This is not meant to make you feel Bad, truth is you are trying Ur best and things ll fall in place at the right time, just keep praying to God
I graduated 2017 , served 2018 since then God has been faithful. Just Keep trying

ModestGal:
This is the story of my life

share it here, we are interested in the modestgal story.

[quote author=Morningstarrr post=102082746]
This was my thought all through the night. Kept ransacking my brain on the fastest way to end it.
My present plan is to go into transportation business

ModestGal:

Will you shut the hell up with your nonsense right up

U de mind the guy. Very hopeless set of cooperate scammers. They will disguise and people will fall in. It's easy for him and he is seeking for who to come n pay him for tutoring.

Only fresh graduates fell for their scams. I for once never had a skill but got employed in an oil company few years after nysc. This ones who ain't got anything to offer to frustrated graduates will only tell u to go and learn trade as if the person will use his AKWA AMU to pay for the skill.

Even brick layer won't teach u work for free of late. Nobody does it. Anywhere u enter to learn work, when they give u horrible requirements and son stupid drinks to buy.. u will just get bk to ur house n keep dying silently.

I just fear this set of fellows

ben1daEbiri:
I'm in my finals studying Petroleum Engineering and the comments I'm seeing here is nothing short of depressing.

I really had to learn some things the hard way. I have one little advice for aspirants here: DON'T STUDY PETROLEUM ENGINEERING AS FIRST DEGREE!!!

The future if the oil industry is bleak, getting a job comes with a good pay and all but the field is too streamlined so there's barely a job for 3/10th of Petroleum Engineering graduates; mechanical engineers are getting the jobs. As a PE, you can't get a job in ME but a ME can easily get a job in PE.

SPECIAL ADVICER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI.

Nwaotu10:
We're in the same shit bro.

Graduated since 2017, no reasonable thing since then.

Frustration and depression has turned me to a sadist.


I'm just a walking corpse, looking forward to resting in peace someday.

Ware do you base?

pedi:

Ware do you base?

Recently relocated to Abj.

After going thru so many comments here...I jst felt I should add mine too...who knows, it could be a source of inspiration to any1

Life hasn't bin easy fr evry graduate of this country (mst esp. the ones who has nobody)...and in my case...I'm an orphan sponsored thru sch by my blood Sis...(coz na last-born I be fr the family) my bro, I graduated "16...served in "17...aftr which i was sent away from home due to a little misunderstndn I had with my Sis. who sponsord me above...life became SO UNBEARABLE...had to scot with one to two old friends lik DAT sha...even feeding became a miracle...to cut my story short... I had registered fr the N-POWER scheme (batch B) while I was in service...God so good, I made their list...stipends of 30k started coming in...along the line i got a job in a sch as an administrative officer with a monthly salary of 28k (then i started saving heavily) mind you: i'll be 31 this year.... after saving fr about a year...I was able to gather like 300+...got a single room apartment as a young man who is about to start life...bought all my house equipments...moved to my apartment...lost my sch job due to a fraud that happened in my dept whch I knw nothing about...started roaming about again fr a while till I found a street Bro. who operates a printing services. Mind you: i'm an ICT inclined individual right from time (efficient in graphics design, typing etc)...I decided to join him for free with no salary attached...stayed with him fr over a year+...then he engaged me along the line...but ALL I could figure out is that he's kind of person who is only interested in using you...meanwhile, from part of my NPOWER savings...I had bought some office equipments fr my self like (photocopy machine, laminating machine, passport photo printer and so on) I would only say I found God's Grace coz I got dismissed again by same Street Bro. as i intentionally reduced my Zeal to his work when I found out that he's only interested in using someone.

Again, i applied fr this Survival Fund with some few slots...got selected and paid...as I type this, I hv gotten a shop of my own with the equipments I had gotten earlier...though still struggling with some funds to get the remaining things I need.

MY CONCLUSION:
FIRST...move close to God in prayer...then If u alrdy hav a skill... develop on it more and try applying for opportunities online (who knows)...things might workout by fluke.

all the comments I have read so far is so heartbreaking, indeed Nigeria has failed us youth..I graduated in 2019, I'm now serving in north central of the country..(corona ish and ASUU). I just wanna save as much as I can and invest..elders in the house, any suggestion on what I can venture into that will yield me good income...

Nwaotu10:

Recently relocated to Abj.

I thought u leave in jos I will have recommended a place for you

Nwaotu10:
We're in the same shit bro.

Graduated since 2017, no reasonable thing since then.

Frustration and depression has turned me to a sadist.


I'm just a walking corpse, looking forward to resting in peace someday.

common bro,be positive,put a call to family and friends in a way that you will need their help, then go and learn a trade like fashion designer, barbing demand for this trade is high in the market, forget about what people will say about you, just have a focus.

pedi:

I thought u leave in jos I will have recommended a place for you

Nah.
Thanks, though.

obamartins:


@OP, If you are ready to work hard to change the story, get a good laptop and send me a mail, i will mentor u free of charge. I used the word "work hard" because i realized some of u that cry like this are mentally lazy, but want things to change.

Bro help n mentor me too.. I graduated since 2013,but my income is nothing to write home about.. I get laptop.. Pls help me to get another legit source of income,no matter how small

Try this: I will make it short.

People will only pay for the value they can get from you. The higher (and scarce to get) your value is the higher the pay and offers. The opposite still applies. Sometimes you really have to START ALL OVER!

1. Do an online job search in the area where you live or want to work. Check hundreds of different websites, check newspapers, etc. Make sure you use reputable websites or better still browse companies' websites directly. Do this for about a week.
2. Write down 5 topmost reoccurring job roles.
3. Pick anyone that you can easily study, learn using free online resources
4. Learn the skill (This can take you days, weeks or even months)
5. Apply for these roles or look for where you can work for them for free or stipends and gain experience and prove yourself.
6. When you apply after this you will be the one selecting who and where you want to work.

Else...

Learn a trade and be good in it.

The above is too much?!! Then you are not desperate enough.

Graduated 2018, finished youth service earlier this year
Self employed…glory be to God

Nwaotu10:
We're in the same shit bro.

Graduated since 2017, no reasonable thing since then.

Frustration and depression has turned me to a sadist.


I'm just a walking corpse, looking forward to resting in peace someday.

bro don't be ,I'm also in same shoe maybe worse cos I had to drop out due to non payments of sch fees now it's like I'm the biggest failure in the world.Thank God for good friends and family I for Don rip since

CODEDRUNS004:


U de mind the guy. Very hopeless set of cooperate scammers. They will disguise and people will fall in. It's easy for him and he is seeking for who to come n pay him for tutoring.

Only fresh graduates fell for their scams. I for once never had a skill but got employed in an oil company few years after nysc. This ones who ain't got anything to offer to frustrated graduates will only tell u to go and learn trade as if the person will use his AKWA AMU to pay for the skill.

Even brick layer won't teach u work for free of late. Nobody does it. Anywhere u enter to learn work, when they give u horrible requirements and son stupid drinks to buy.. u will just get bk to ur house n keep dying silently.

I just fear this set of fellows

Exactly