Unemployment is such a bad thing that even who you perceive as an enemy does not deserve it. It keeps you demoralized, devalued, troubled, ashamed, weakened, hungry and starving, emaciated, frustrated depressed and suicidal. God help your son(children) from unemployment. It is only who hasn't stayed jobless before that will not understand this.

I have applied for jobs online and offline but just not lucky enough to land one, and so i decided to try offline again that yesterday with hunger and frustration glaring on me.

Having witnessed all that come with unemployment especially hunger and inability to afford the basics, like I said, decided to put my faith into work once again offline. If I had stayed longer in the house, may be hunger would have destroyed me.

I left the house in faith with nothing on me to trek around from office to office. I had covered a distance and some places, from 9am till 1pm. I became tired at some point and needed to rest. When I stood up to continue, the tiredness was too much so I decided to start trekking back home. This time, using any shortcut I know to ease the journey for me. That was where I came across a construction site.

"Since I left house with nothing, what is my hope going back with nothing? If I can get any job in this site now, I'm sure of earning something" - so I was talking to myself. With the corporate way I dressed, I walked into the site and asked to see the contractor. When he came out, I was very open to him. I told the man that I am jobless and hungry and this is the last place of hope I can work to earn something to eat. In short, I need a job here. The man looked me with the tucked in shirt and thought I was joking. He said, "but you don't look like who can do labour job here". I told him, "sir, forget the way I'm dressed. I want to work and earn something even if it's half-day pay". He asked again, are you sure want to do this and I said "yes", Ok, if you can do it, I have a job for you, follow me. He showed me where to use a wheel barrow to convey gravels from and to. He still thought I was joking. By this time, other workers there were looking at us. To his surprise, I removed my shoes, removed my trouser, removed my shirt. I was only left with inner wears. I grabbed the wheel barrow with a shovel and went for the first turn. That was when the man believed I was serious. I went on with the work but later got so weak due to empty stomach. He gave me N1000 to buy food for myself and later I continued with the work. At the end of the day, he handed me another N1500. That was how I was able to earn a living working in the construction site when I never thought of.

Nigeria will humble you even with your degree.

Going back home, pains upon pains. Body pains. Joint pains. Muscle pains. Headache. I couldn't close my eyes at night. God help me.

Nigeria would humble you.

Thanks for reading.

Construction industry to the rescue. That's one of the multiplier effects of construction sites. Just take painkiller, you will be fine. Better days ahead.

I see you have perseverance - Continue. God will multiply your effort.

When you have no option, you gat do anything to survive. God help us.

And this is supposedly someone that spent years reading books. Who messed up Nigeria like this?

It's well. I can relate with your experience. Naija my country.

It is well brother. I can relate.

I can relate bro. What have I not done in this life just to survive?

I pray you find a job that suits your standard. It's not easy for unemployed people all over.

I can relate with your experience especially when you find yourself at the lowest ebb of life.

The best antidote to this kind of thing is to learn how to do marketing as you are going about.

Meet people that can truly trust you, earn their trust if you must and take their product pictures to the office you often visit.

Target month end in some places. Work hard and use something as leverage. This kind of situation can be stubborn, be stubborn to overcome it.

God will send you help when you don't expect. Never pity yourself, bad times are great teachers but not all students pass the exam.

Addendum

My grandma would often told me, (as a young boy) oya mahu yavi, meaning "suffering don't kill it's own children" and it's true.

As youths, we must have a portable skill we can always fall back upon when life goes south.

E no easy imagine spending millions just for school at the end no job talkless of it being a white collar job chaii 💔💔
God who we often

Carmanbiz:
I pray you find a job that suits your standard. It's not easy for unemployed people all over.

Thank you. May God lead my way to a good job.

In year 1999, as I was leaving the Golden Crown job, I told myself that I will never work under anybody in my life, I was barely 20 years of age.

My father did not create a company anywhere where I would be pampered, but I just have the inkling that I am a human being and so endowed someway.

I had a feeling that if I pick up employment, I will never be able to nurture whatever it is I may be gifted with. LOL I have no idea what I can do, I just believe if I can do it, I will be great.

I don't even know what that "it" would be then. It was adventurous life but still a lot happened on the way. Never hang your hope on strangers in life.

We must have inner drives at something, there must be economic reward to it. Strangers and career helps most times in life but not always. What works for me may not work for someone else.

You no con enter one beer palour mk u order for one chill beer, well congratulations you have gotten a job,

2500 * 22 =55,000

If you ready to drop ur certificate and hustle like a drop out, I have a job on my farm for you

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It is real world here, not easy.
You have to keep going, better days they say it's ahead.

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DigiPerson:


Thank you. May God lead my way to a good job.

You are welcome my dear. Let God always be your strength

Quitters don't win and winners don't quit. The journey is not going to be a smooth one but keep pushing, just keep pushing.

Sad.
If I begin to talk now, people will say I hate their country.
Nigeria has 200M population with less than 2500 USD GDP per Capita, I'm sorry to say but what you described should be the order of the day in such society.
Certain decisions should have taken place in the past for stop all the mess manifesting now.

Where are you based

You guys will just come here and tell lies while sleeping in ur bed at home just to get favour from some persons.. since when my brother was scammed here on nairaland.i stopped believing ur cock and bull stories.. liar

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Mavinsoladele:



Will love to join please

until Dem scam u

Seagodess:
until Dem scam u

Lol...thanks for the concern.

Mavinsoladele:



Will love to join please

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Seagodess:
You guys will just come here and tell lies while sleeping in ur bed at home just to get favour from some persons.. since when my brother was scammed here on nairaland.i stopped believing ur cock and bull stories.. liar

Exactly what I thought.
I don't know why a young man will go out to work and expect pity from people for working to earn a living 😕

Seagodess:
You guys will just come here and tell lies while sleeping in ur bed at home just to get favour from some persons.. since when my brother was scammed here on nairaland.i stopped believing ur cock and bull stories.. liar

Not everybody tell lies here. If you don't mind, I can show you pictures of the site I worked and the painkiller drugs I'm taking now to relieve myself.

shortgun:

Exactly what I thought.
I don't why a young man will go out to work and expect pity from people for working to earn a living 😕

Oga, haven't spent how many years in the higher institution, is that the kind of work the person expected?

shegzhkn:
Sad.
If I begin to talk now, people will say I hate their country.
Nigeria has 200M population with less than 2500 USD GDP per Capita, I'm sorry to say but what you described should be the order of the day in such society.
Certain decisions should have taken place in the past for stop all the mess manifesting now.

Brother, I am sorry to use myself as an example over and over, the truth is, government is like my father. In fact I lost my Dad at age 2.

But I saw my Dad's house, an old upstairs when I was in primary 5 or so. I said to myself, if my Dad could do this, being barely literate, I will do much better than him in life being literate. That's my thinking at 11 or so.

I've not neared his records in any way today. But he's just like a stranger. I don't have to look up to strangers because I may not have what worked for them exactly. But I do have my very own "opportunities".

Please don't look for justifications in what "strangers" ought to have made available that you don't have, if they could, they would have. Imagine if the Igbos have to stop because "everybody has issue with the Igbo" kind of mentality is fanned into Igbo business life?

We want to escape creative thinking and problem solving in our own generation whereby, everyone is brandishing academic qualifications, the academy will never solve the problem, it will rather add to it.

You will not learn the business aspects of interpersonal relationship in the four walls of the classroom, you will by solving life problems. If you study electronic electrical, are you into this "elect-elect" business or into job hunting?

Thomas Edison, the father of electricity was a businessman, a great one for that matter. Now how about Tesla, what attitude did he took to America and who was most intelligent out of the two brother? What about Ford etc?

If you check them Gay Luzac, Avogadro and all this people whose observations were put into "account", most were individuals who were working and on the job recorded their observations and empirical findings.

I wonder where we're going cramming their findings without being involved in the business that this people do. Talk about scrap. So let's find the main thing and not glorify the programmed scrap. It will take us nowhere, our children are coming too, they're almost here.

Innoson is not teaching but working,. Dangote, Otedola and all these great men were not extraordinarily brilliant, I'm not saying that they are low IQ, but that they started like with similar passion and scarce opportunities as you and I.

If we start looking at doing the very job and forsake the status that we educate ourselves into, we will have great industries on the job.

DigiPerson:


Oga, haven't spent how many years in the higher institution, is that the kind of work the person expected?

This is the mentality that's keeping most youths in the country jobless and unproductive.
That you got tertiary education doesn't mean you must be employed by govt or land a white collar job.

Tertiary education should prepare you for a life of independence, build your confidence in the society and stimulate innovativeness in you.

For a country with a population of close to 300m people there's alot a graduate can do to earn a decent living.

You begin to fail the day you start to think that there are jobs beneath you.

Don't take painkiller, sleep on hard surface and your body would get used to it.