Greetings, good people of Nairaland

Please I need a piece of honest advice from experienced nairalanders, I am a Software Engineer, I got an offer from a very close friend (He is like a brother to me) of mine that resides in Dubai to come and manage a club he co-owns to enable him time for other activities. I will need to learn how nightclubs operate since I have little or zero knowledge about the nightlife. I have the freedom to pick up side gigs (or remote work) when I can and He is not in any way restricting me but he needs me to learn the business with him.

The plan, in a simple language, when I learn the business well enough he will pull out and open his own so I can be his manager since he doesn't want recognition.

He paid for my flight ticket and was the one that processed the visa for me (tourism) and he is currently working on how my visa can be extended and my work permit too.

Before I came to Dubai, I applied for this opening with a tech firm in Berlin. I completed the last stage here in Dubai and have been sent the offer but I will have to relocate to Germany because the work is on-site, the company bare expenses regards flight ticket, travel insurance, visa process et al. The start salary is 56K euros per annum (gross).

Also, I resigned from a bank as a development specialist (full-time staff not yet confirmed though, was earning 450K naira net with other benefits) prior to my trip to Dubai. I was doing well in Nigeria because I earned a total of up to 800K (with all my works combined) just that the work ethic (the bank work) is toxic to me because you will work your brain out debugging code, plus I am looking at a good place that I can start a family when I am ready and Nigeria is a no for me unless I have enough money to send my kid abroad to study.

What do I do now that I am already in Dubai? I am passionate about tech and I love the echo system. Please any input from experienced fellows will go a long way for me.

Thanks in advance. Mod please help so I can get as much input as possible

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Greetings, good people of Nairaland

Please I need a piece of honest advice from experienced nairalanders, I am a Software Engineer, I got an offer from a very close friend (He is like a brother to me) of mine that resides in Dubai to come and manage a club he co-owns to enable him time for other activities. I will need to learn how nightclubs operate since I have little or zero knowledge about the nightlife. I have the freedom to pick up side gigs (or remote work) when I can and He is not in any way restricting me but he needs me to learn the business with him.

The plan, in a simple language, when I learn the business well enough he will pull out and open his own so I can be his manager since he doesn't want recognition.

He paid for my flight ticket and was the one that processed the visa for me (tourism) and he is currently working on how my visa can be extended and my work permit too.

Before I came to Dubai, I applied for this opening with a tech firm in Berlin. I completed the last stage here in Dubai and have been sent the offer but I will have to relocate to Germany because the work is on-site, the company bare expenses regards flight ticket, travel insurance, visa process et al. The start salary is 56K euros per annum (gross).

Also, I resigned from a bank as a development specialist (full-time staff not yet confirmed though, was earning 450K naira net with other benefits) prior to my trip to Dubai. I was doing well in Nigeria because I earned a total of up to 800K (with all my works combined) just that the work ethic (the bank work) is toxic to me because you will work your brain out debugging code, plus I am looking at a good place that I can start a family when I am ready and Nigeria is a no for me unless I have enough money to send my kid abroad to study.

What do I do now that I am already in Dubai? I am passionate about tech and I love the echo system. Please any input from experienced fellows will go a long way for me.

Thanks in advance. Mod please help so I can get as much input as possible

Go to Germany, build your life, career and meet more people. You can't actually say what will be the end of the club, but tech the future is brighter

Ynix:

Go to Germany, build your life, career and meet more people. You can't actually say what will be the end of the club, but tech the future is brighter

Thanks for the kind input. I sincerely appreciate

Move to Germany. An EU blue card will open the world to you talk less of permanent residency or citizenship eventually. Don't dull yourself.

Moving to Germany will help you build a career in something you're passionate about.

I understand the fact that you may feel guilty about your friend who paid for your flight and worked your visa for you.

Truth is, you can always pay back the favor your friend made to you, but it's dangerous to sacrifice your career, future and happiness for that. What if you can't effectively run the club and your friend's co-owner pushes your friend to sack you or any other scenario?

Move to Germany.

berlin is better

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Thanks for the kind input. I sincerely appreciate

You'll be grateful for that input. My sister works in Germany as a software engineer too and she's building a career for herself. Forget about nightlife and entertainment life

Follow your heart,don’t take advice
What works for Mr A might not work for MR B
beside,what will be will be,I wonder all the fuse about this abroad when you are earning 800k in naija

My friend move to Berlin and stop asking nonsense questions.
What is the future of that night club?
Want if the work permit in Dubai fails to materialise?
What if you start having issues with the owner of the night club?
What is they deport you from Dubai since you arrived with only tourist visa?

Move to Germany, learn their language and before Jack, you will be on your way to Big 4 Tech Company in the world

I prefer to live in Berlin,Germany.
The country of reknown scholars like Karl Marx, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Engels, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, et al.

u dey ask people wey dey Naija or Berlin?

Germany ASAP

Ok

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Greetings, good people of Nairaland

Please I need a piece of honest advice from experienced nairalanders, I am a Software Engineer, I got an offer from a very close friend (He is like a brother to me) of mine that resides in Dubai to come and manage a club he co-owns to enable him time for other activities. I will need to learn how nightclubs operate since I have little or zero knowledge about the nightlife. I have the freedom to pick up side gigs (or remote work) when I can and He is not in any way restricting me but he needs me to learn the business with him.

The plan, in a simple language, when I learn the business well enough he will pull out and open his own so I can be his manager since he doesn't want recognition.

He paid for my flight ticket and was the one that processed the visa for me (tourism) and he is currently working on how my visa can be extended and my work permit too.

Before I came to Dubai, I applied for this opening with a tech firm in Berlin. I completed the last stage here in Dubai and have been sent the offer but I will have to relocate to Germany because the work is on-site, the company bare expenses regards flight ticket, travel insurance, visa process et al. The start salary is 56K euros per annum (gross).

Also, I resigned from a bank as a development specialist (full-time staff not yet confirmed though, was earning 450K naira net with other benefits) prior to my trip to Dubai. I was doing well in Nigeria because I earned a total of up to 800K (with all my works combined) just that the work ethic (the bank work) is toxic to me because you will work your brain out debugging code, plus I am looking at a good place that I can start a family when I am ready and Nigeria is a no for me unless I have enough money to send my kid abroad to study.

What do I do now that I am already in Dubai? I am passionate about tech and I love the echo system. Please any input from experienced fellows will go a long way for me.

Thanks in advance. Mod please help so I can get as much input as possible

Berlin straight my brother
Germany go open many doors, I beg stay of white powder. How u sure Dubai night club no go close with gofarment regulations and lack of patronage. Tech sure die. You fit do online Masters and PhD.

Move to Germany, Follow your passion.

Follow the ladder � �

Dubai! Germany is full of racists.

There's is no place like Western Europe, not even Asia or America. #FACT

tensazangetsu20:
Move to Germany. An EU blue card will open the world to you talk less of permanent residency or citizenship eventually. Don't dull yourself.

U get Serious brain. Bt i advice op to tell him friend

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Greetings, good people of Nairaland

Please I need a piece of honest advice from experienced nairalanders, I am a Software Engineer, I got an offer from a very close friend (He is like a brother to me) of mine that resides in Dubai to come and manage a club he co-owns to enable him time for other activities. I will need to learn how nightclubs operate since I have little or zero knowledge about the nightlife. I have the freedom to pick up side gigs (or remote work) when I can and He is not in any way restricting me but he needs me to learn the business with him.

The plan, in a simple language, when I learn the business well enough he will pull out and open his own so I can be his manager since he doesn't want recognition.

He paid for my flight ticket and was the one that processed the visa for me (tourism) and he is currently working on how my visa can be extended and my work permit too.

Before I came to Dubai, I applied for this opening with a tech firm in Berlin. I completed the last stage here in Dubai and have been sent the offer but I will have to relocate to Germany because the work is on-site, the company bare expenses regards flight ticket, travel insurance, visa process et al. The start salary is 56K euros per annum (gross).

Also, I resigned from a bank as a development specialist (full-time staff not yet confirmed though, was earning 450K naira net with other benefits) prior to my trip to Dubai. I was doing well in Nigeria because I earned a total of up to 800K (with all my works combined) just that the work ethic (the bank work) is toxic to me because you will work your brain out debugging code, plus I am looking at a good place that I can start a family when I am ready and Nigeria is a no for me unless I have enough money to send my kid abroad to study.

What do I do now that I am already in Dubai? I am passionate about tech and I love the echo system. Please any input from experienced fellows will go a long way for me.

Thanks in advance. Mod please help so I can get as much input as possible

Berlin please! The benefits are enormous. Moreover, with IT u can move across the globe easily

Ok

In your shoes, I'd go and build my tech career in Germany without thinking twice. The long term benefits far outweighs anything you can get managing a club in Dubai.

I've never been to Germany but I live in North America and I've temporarily lived in Dubai as well. Though I worked as a software engineer in both locations, I can tell you without mincing words that a tech career in the West is everything.

Good luck.

richmote:

Which area of software development are you involved in

I'm into enterprise applications, e-commerce/POS design/development, cloud computing and systems integration.

Everybody just dey lie

Germany amigo.. UAE isnt a place to plan long term