Chai......! This thought alone can kill some corp members.
I remembered how I was praying and hoping for POP but some few months to POP, I was overwhelmed with the thought of where do I go from here but when I eventually got home, I didn't spend a week as planned before I got a job, that was when it dawned on me that not everybody will walk the streets haunting for job.
GOD DEY MY BROTHER.
start by informing relatives that you are done with service, it helps.

It depends on a lot of factors...

Go look for work ogbeni.....soo funny how people still depend on their parent at a stage like dis...after nysc I told my parents I wasn't coming home until I had a job and I pursued nd worked hard nd prayed tooo...believe me I went home 7 months after nysc with a news and job that made my parents forever thankful to GOD for having a child like me...pls learn to hustle start small pray,belive and earn honestly GOD will bless ur hustle....stay independent...@ op there's nothing wrong in goin to see ur parents after a year of struggling alone but pls don't relax nd make ur self too welcomed at home u are a visitor to dat house nw not a bed owner

Umunede:
Exactly what happened to me some years ago when I was going for NYSC in Osun state. I am very happy today that I made that decision not to go back to my Parent. That is what changed my life. That singular decision is one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. Below are things I did
Burn the bridge. When I was leaving for NYSC, I told my Parent point blank that I am not coming back to stay with them again. I will only visit them to greet them. They were shocked. They were thinking I was playing. Guess what, that is exactly what happened. I hated going back to them. I am the first born. they have trained me through University. why should I go back to them? so first, hate going back. That is what drove me to work out my life. I never regretted it.
Secondly, know that the good job may not come immediately after service. The question then is what will I be doing to keep me going after NYSC since I will going back to my Parents? Right from the first day, I stepped into Osun state for NYSC, I stopped thinking of NYSC. The only thing in my mind is after NYSC, what will I be doing. In the camp, I was asking questions. You have a talent. I love teaching. The day I left camp, I approached many JAMB/GCE lesson centres that same day by just asking people. Because something is in my mind. I am not going back. I must get something to be doing even after NYSC before the big job will come.
SAVE SAVE SAVE. Our allawe then was 6500 and later increased to 7500. I was saving. You must save every month from your allawe. Don't blow everything. Be prudent. Those savings will help you later.
Prepare for tests and interview. Buy aptitude test and interview books, GMAT. Read wide. Develop yourself.
Start applying for jobs from day one. Tuesday and Thursday Guardian was my friend. I don't have money to buy the newspapers as corper. I visit the local vendor as early as 6am to 7am every Tuesday and Thursday. I will give him 10 or 20 naira to scan through the newspaper before the buyers will start coming. I go with my pen and paper to write down vacancies. later, the vendor became my friend, he sometimes give me the newspaper to scan for free. I remember then, he will tell me, "no dirty am oo", dem de come buy am. I will say Oga, I hear. Most young people nowadays are very lazy. Nothing good comes easy. You have to work out your life. It is through this guy's newspaper I landed the good job I was looking for. Nobody helped me. My friends mocked me then, that I an SAN(senior applicant of Nigeria). I told them I am M-SAN(most senior applicant of Nigeria). Be applying, be writing test and be attending interview. You are getting experience.
Start little. Don't go for a costly well furnished accommodation. They gave me accommodation where I did my service. But from day one, I was asking around where I could get cheap accommodation where I will stay after my service. Eventually, I was able to get a good cheap one. If you are batch B for example, there will be some batch A corp members that their rent runs beyond their service period and they want to leave immediately. You can negotiate with them. That is how I got a good one
Above all, be prayerful. Bros, you need God to help you.
Doing all these, barely 3 months after my service, I got the lucrative job I was looking for. Today when, I look back, I feel happy and fulfilled not to have gone back. If I had gone back, I will not struggle the way I did and they will be feeding me 3 times a day. Maybe, I wouldn't have been here.

Good one.

tobe4real:
Oga don't try it..i've done it and regretted it.ur parents can even be telling u to come home but pls don't go..well it depends on where u are,if it's a safe environment try to get a teaching job or just something small for the time being while u still apply for better jobs and stuff..dont leave where u are until u are sure of a better stuff in the state where ur parents are.

Did you read what he wrote? Teach who? Students are in trouble!

It Depends on some factors. If your parents stay in the rural area, going back to them may not do u you much good! However if you served in a rural area and ur parents stay in an Urban area with lots of opportunities for work and business, why not. It makes lots of sense!

Parents can disturb eh.. dem no go undastand.. Jus lookin at u & waiting for u to drop something for the family.. At a point sef, dem fit start to dey insult u.. I went through dis.. But thank God, its now history!! I'm on my own now

Well.. I won't advise going back to them as you might feel some level of comfort dat cud make you lazy.. If u have a brother or sister you can stay with for the moment, then dat wud be better, considering the way things are in the country.

Then home tutoring in ur immediate vicinity might be a good idea, as you only do those in the evenings and you can work on acquiring any skills and also applying for jobs too..

Note that home tutoring could be a good way of meeting influential people who cud help you in future.

Lastly don't joke with skills, if possible try learning a new language.. I'm currently learninf french, as well as web development, java programming and some computer softwares.

Dont limit yourself

My 2 cents

Going back is not always a bad idea, I for one went back home three months after service, on arrival, I went round to see Popsie's friends, some older friends n put word out that am through with service. As God will have it, the firm I did my internship with called me and asked that I resume work with them barely two months after, am presently on my third job.
My candid advice is that u pray for God's guidance, no two people have the same Destiny, Grace or Favour. All the best.

Congratulations

apprentist:
Going back to my Father's House and Mummy's Pot after my service Year.

Sincerely, I've never stopped giving this a thought since I left home for service.
I have huge plans for my service year- Things I look forward to achieve, degrees, skills, contacts and so on. But above all, I look forward to starting life after my service year.
Now, this decision as we all know isn't one that comes on a platter. My reason for saying this goes thus:
1. To afford an apartment will require rentage and maintenance,
2. I'll have to earn to survive,
3. The Societal system doesn't trow jobs at your lap imidiately after service. Just to mention a few.

Some of you here on NL have been through this stage of life already and gracefully sufficed through.
What was your experience like and how did you finally get on your feet?
Do you subscribe to going back to my parent's after service?
Did you have to stay at your parent's while starting life outside?
What were the things you did during your service year that helped you in this area at the long run?

Opinions and Experiances would be grately appreciated.

I use my own case a point of contact to your own as I pray that you'll have a similar testimony like me.

I finished service and I stayed less than two months under my parent.

Does thou believe?

There is grace for every level, After service going back to my parents was the only reasonable option at then, What kept me was that we have a business that my younger brother was managing, Stayed a while before I got a job and left home. The truth is that it is your parents that will always welcome you and understand better, except maybe you have elder siblings that will accommodate you while you jobhunt and look for means of livelihood. Apart from these, no friend, I never believed in staying with any cousin or friend cos I wouldn't want someone to see me as a burden but to my parents they understood.

Wish you the best, dust your cv's, apply voraciously, keep good contacts and above all pray.

Albeit, I enjoyed my "joblessness" days, I had absolute freedom but now I had had time for myself, So Enjoy!

apprentist:
Going back to my Father's House and Mummy's Pot after my service Year.

Sincerely, I've never stopped giving this a thought since I left home for service.
I have huge plans for my service year- Things I look forward to achieve, degrees, skills, contacts and so on. But above all, I look forward to starting life after my service year.
Now, this decision as we all know isn't one that comes on a platter. My reason for saying this goes thus:
1. To afford an apartment will require rentage and maintenance,
2. I'll have to earn to survive,
3. The Societal system doesn't trow jobs at your lap imidiately after service. Just to mention a few.

Some of you here on NL have been through this stage of life already and gracefully sufficed through.
What was your experience like and how did you finally get on your feet?
Do you subscribe to going back to my parent's after service?
Did you have to stay at your parent's while starting life outside?
What were the things you did during your service year that helped you in this area at the long run?

Opinions and Experiances would be grately appreciated.

my brother I was a batch B corp member that passed out July this year, when it a month to pop I told some of my colleagues that am not going back home to stay with my parents, they where like why, I told them I can't stand the shame of looking them in the face everyday after training me to this level, I took that decision, my mum supported the idea with my younger ones, I renewed my rent of 20k from my savings during the service year, u bought food stuff and other necessary things I needed. at first it was hard n tough, boring and the shame all your friends gone but I kept on after about a month of staying at home I woke up one morning went to Aba enquired about how to supply suit and native wears and I thank God it has been favourable I also work in a fueling station but I know one day the dream job will come. its hard but you have to manage..drop your pride or ego (if you have any) B.Sc is over hyped in this country just try n do something good n useful.. wish you well by timi dakolo that's the song that encourages me.

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follow the link to know how.

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Going back or not depends on your own plans and knowing yourself. You going back doesn't mean ure lazy or u won't make it and u not going back doesn't mean u will be a millionaire the following week, it all depends on u planning based on ur strengths. My elder bro came back but being a gifted child he didn't even spend one week b4 getting a juicy job with p and g, dude wasn't even satisfied so after some years he left for Shell where he earns mega bucks and his goal is even mightier than what he's doing. I finished service with batch B in July and I already av a Masters but I had to come back home but being here I can tell u I earn more than what my mates r earning, not boasting . I love ppl smelling nice so I just went into perfumes, body sprays , beauty products etc and d way I package am ehn u go think say na me be Tom Ford. Altho I did my MSc abroad, I still dey find better job but in d mean time I'm loving selling my stuffs cos I get to meet pretty working class females and I make money too. Just fashion out a Plan for yourself.

apprentist:


No doubt. But then what'll be the difference between me and a Jambite speaking admission? Just wondering.

True talk facing same situation @ home after service. Very frustrating

activelyA:
Going for the next batch...
I am a lady but this is my greatest fear...

In fact, I MUST NOT RETURN...

Thanks...this is really a great motivation for me

Going for d next batch also....perfect time to follow this thread

tobe4real:
Oga don't try it..i've done it and regretted it.ur parents can even be telling u to come home but pls don't go..well it depends on where u are,if it's a safe environment try to get a teaching job or just something small for the time being while u still apply for better jobs and stuff..dont leave where u are until u are sure of a better stuff in the state where ur parents are.

So someone from Delta State who is serving in Gboko, Benue State receiving 3k as salary should not leave Benue State abi?

jazinogold:
hmmm


op u fit gatecrash the ministerial screening! u mite be lucky to take a bow and leave

Orubebe pattern. If only Op fit gather mind burst in there and start shouting in Orubebe's Voice "I will not take it! I will not take it!! How can I finish Nysc! and go back to my father's house! and you people are here doing screening! Somebody must employ me or nobody will be me employed as minister! Someone get sachet water to drink plz. I will not take it o!

op Don't waste ur savings on renting an apartment when u don't have a guaranteed job just yet. What if after getting the apartment and no job showed face even aftr a year,where do u think u will see cash to renew ur rentage?
My advice for u is to keep ur savings for going for job tests or for business whichever u decide to go with.

AS for me,I had the opportunity of staying back in the north in july,but was no way i was going to stay back and receive salary of 13k monthly. So i moved immdiately back to lagos that same day harmed with my savings for transportation to attend job tests. i started attending job tests and interview the following week and before two months i was gainfully employed. if u stay somewhere like lagos, u will know its wasteful to use ur nysc savings to get a job without any job in sight just yet. When u get employd u can always move anytime

Sorry bro! I guess you voted for buhari thinking that by today, N1 would be equal to $1 and you would be working in a firm or Govt establishment with a salary of about N250,000 with other allowances and benefits but unfortunately....YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED!

was in my parent house after pop. Those who will understand and know why am with them. I secure a job tho not attractive then and with their support I was able to save and stay on my own and finally got a new job. Your parent will understand you better than friends who you want to squat with. No one can ever be like your parent because they are always there. How will you expect me to get an accommodation in lag with the peanut I saved so staying with my parent then really helped and now am doing fine on my own

Umunede:
Exactly what happened to me some years ago when I was going for NYSC in Osun state. I am very happy today that I made that decision not to go back to my Parent. That is what changed my life. That singular decision is one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. Below are things I did
Burn the bridge. When I was leaving for NYSC, I told my Parent point blank that I am not coming back to stay with them again. I will only visit them to greet them. They were shocked. They were thinking I was playing. Guess what, that is exactly what happened. I hated going back to them. I am the first born. they have trained me through University. why should I go back to them? so first, hate going back. That is what drove me to work out my life. I never regretted it.
Secondly, know that the good job may not come immediately after service. The question then is what will I be doing to keep me going after NYSC since I will going back to my Parents? Right from the first day, I stepped into Osun state for NYSC, I stopped thinking of NYSC. The only thing in my mind is after NYSC, what will I be doing. In the camp, I was asking questions. You have a talent. I love teaching. The day I left camp, I approached many JAMB/GCE lesson centres that same day by just asking people. Because something is in my mind. I am not going back. I must get something to be doing even after NYSC before the big job will come.
SAVE SAVE SAVE. Our allawe then was 6500 and later increased to 7500. I was saving. You must save every month from your allawe. Don't blow everything. Be prudent. Those savings will help you later.
Prepare for tests and interview. Buy aptitude test and interview books, GMAT. Read wide. Develop yourself.
Start applying for jobs from day one. Tuesday and Thursday Guardian was my friend. I don't have money to buy the newspapers as corper. I visit the local vendor as early as 6am to 7am every Tuesday and Thursday. I will give him 10 or 20 naira to scan through the newspaper before the buyers will start coming. I go with my pen and paper to write down vacancies. later, the vendor became my friend, he sometimes give me the newspaper to scan for free. I remember then, he will tell me, "no dirty am oo", dem de come buy am. I will say Oga, I hear. Most young people nowadays are very lazy. Nothing good comes easy. You have to work out your life. It is through this guy's newspaper I landed the good job I was looking for. Nobody helped me. My friends mocked me then, that I an SAN(senior applicant of Nigeria). I told them I am M-SAN(most senior applicant of Nigeria). Be applying, be writing test and be attending interview. You are getting experience.
Start little. Don't go for a costly well furnished accommodation. They gave me accommodation where I did my service. But from day one, I was asking around where I could get cheap accommodation where I will stay after my service. Eventually, I was able to get a good cheap one. If you are batch B for example, there will be some batch A corp members that their rent runs beyond their service period and they want to leave immediately. You can negotiate with them. That is how I got a good one
Above all, be prayerful. Bros, you need God to help you.
Doing all these, barely 3 months after my service, I got the lucrative job I was looking for. Today when, I look back, I feel happy and fulfilled not to have gone back. If I had gone back, I will not struggle the way I did and they will be feeding me 3 times a day. Maybe, I wouldn't have been here.

Very inspiring and motivating. I was totally glued to your story.

Rushing to the Akure eze war forum. there is serious war going on there. i can't afford to miss that.

facing the same problem now.i know I wl surely remember this stage nd I wl laugh.

Squad4:
Go home to see them and relax a bit, then get a move on. Seek out opportunities try to get your first job, the pay is not important at this point...one thing i can advise is to find a private company that are into a field you have interest, offer to work free that you just need the experience, be passionate about your proposal. Trust me you will get in they would be forced to give you a stipend for transport and then work diligently, if something comes out, you will be the first person on the list to be considered and at the same time, your CV will read you are currently employed and in a good industry which will help you with other job applications.


All the best bro! Above all watch and PRAY!!!

Have you experienced this?

my brother, its not easy but I want to share my story.
I finished my service last year and immediately enrolled for msc degree in one of Nigerian universities. it was all the money I saved during my service year that I used in sponsoring the program. It will interest you to know that up till now, I'v not received a dine from anybody(parents included) but with God the program will come to an end next month.

So plan what you want and go for it with all your might with praises to God for keeping you alive.

It all depends on d economic circumstances surrounding ur immediate environment where u are and where ur parent reside. U cant expect someone whose parent are in a very quiet village/city economically to return cos all that will inspire d fellow may likely be uninspiring...in my case i returned, found a teaching job initially in a school that offers A levels study and in less than 4months, since i was with my parent, i began an Msc degree and they helped talked to big friends who got me an interview opportunity for a lecturing job in a Uni where i am working @ the moment...pls choose right and believe God for d best