wristbangle:


So the news about Nigerians working in mortuary is false? Does that mean people spreading this information are lying?

Anyway what about the other listed points brother?

People like you have this bigmanity mentality.

As a hospital volunteer years back, we had to wheel out bodies from the morgue to the chapel of rest for families to view.

A bit later, it helped me in pathology & anatomy sessions. While some students were feeling queasy, I just got on with it relaxed.
Fortunately, Westerners don't look down on you based on your job.

A cleaner I know used proceeds from it to set up businesses back in Lagos. Employing graduates now. Some collecting N40k Naira monthly.

Hardworking cleaners, Security guards, carers and cabbies can earn up to £30k (some even more) a year. That is same as a medical House Officer just starting job. After 5 to 6 years at university.

Consider also that around 10% of medical students over last 10 years already had a PhD, around 23% an MSc/MA nearly 40% with a BSc/BA before going to medical school.

Many foreigners also pay their way through BSc to PhD doing so-called menial job. Many are now lecturers/HOD in 9ja.

Some doing menial jobs & studying soon find that after finishing, with MSc job offers are £25k/year. His menial job already gives him £31K/year.
If he's a bit mature and has kids, current job allows him to do school run and wife can work steady. Total family income = £59k/year.

Should he take £25k job with MSc, then ask the wife to stay at home? Lose £34k/year? And hope some day his career will progress and earn more?

You cannot use 9ja mentality to judge what happens abroad. Many permutations make people do what they do. You have to be in the position first to know.

Above all, there's dignity in labour.

ronald4lif:


Is it not same Nigeria where employers treats their employees like offals and piece of trash. Where an employer can lay you off your job without any course to do so. Where staff go months without being paid and with no explanation from their bosses even as there are virtually no labour laws to protect the working class.

I can go on and on but there's no pride and benefits of working in Naija as compared abroad. So, nothing truly annoying about anyone doing such jobs like you said.

A close pal of mine once told me that he's better off cleaning closets abroad than working his socks off in a Nigerian company.

Rationale thinking? I say yes!

These are honorable jobs people do. I don't see any issue in this . If you have been abroad, you would see many students do this part -time. I did same. I worked in a restaurant making chicken burgers when I was in graduate school in the US. today, I work in one of the BIG 4 firms in the US. its about perception and what you want in life . I see nothing wrong with these

This wristbangle is a fool. Idiot

wash bodies? In this century? You are clearly uninformed

wristbangle:
The rush for greener pasture has becloud the vision of Nigeria Graduates to the extent that most believe nothing good can happen owing to the deplorable state of the country's economy.

As a result of negative economic situation, some have travelled to the overseas in search for good jobs but it's unfortunate that they eventually secure shameful occupation which they can't even wish for their enemy to do.

Therefore, 8 Annoying Jobs Nigeria Graduates Do In Order To Survive At Overseas Countries

1. Cleaner

It's so demoralising to see a PHD holder cleaning toilets, streets, floor of hotels, bars and offices. No matter how terrible Nigeria economy is, a graduate of such calibre cannot even think for once in picking such jobs in this county except if his/her village witches are at work.

2. Security guard

I have heard cases of professors in Nigeria University been employed as security guard in overseas countries because his quality of education and expertise cannot even match the skills an employer is looking for. What could be so agonising to see your celebrated professor as puppet in another country?

3. Washing dead bodies

It's rather an insult upon injury to see a Graduate of this country washing dead body in another man's land to make end meets. The most annoying thing they claim to be working as forensic officer but what happens when they contact a deadly disease during the occupation, of course prophet T.B joshua will be at their rescue.

4. Prostitution

I don't know why some ladies who are graduates has completely lost self esteem and integrity hereby resorting to prostitution career when they travel to overseas. This is a common act in countries like Italy and Brazil where they have sex with all sort of men, dog, horse and monkey in order to make money. I am sure that people must have heard the story of a female Nigeria celebrity who did this act. I pity the guy that will marry her.

5. House maid

I believe that the highest qualification to select a house maid suppose to be someone with O level certificate but the case is different in overseas countries where some Nigeria graduate make mockery of their selves to work as house help.

6. Refuse and Sewage packer

Honestly speaking I pity the life of refuse and sewage workers because they are marred with poor health condition which is as a result of the bad stench oozing from the waste. Let's be frank here, can a white man work as sewage worker in Nigeria? Abi no be the same brain God give us?

7. Drug smuggler

Smuggling cocaine, hemp, marijuana and other hard drugs is not a legitimate occupation and it can never be. Greed and desperation to become wealthy fast has ruin the destiny of so many Nigeria Graduates whereby some have rot in jail while others has received death penalty.

8. Undertaker

There is dignity in when a graduate of this country patiently build his/her career at expense of picking a job that will never add value to his resume. Imagine a graduate working as undertaker (lifting corpse in coffin) at overseas countries because of the money attached. Is that life?

You can also add yours

Lalasticlala

stupidddd post. I am very sure u have not been outside nigeria before.. People just think they can sitdown on their pcs and type whatever they like...smh

HungerBAD:
Aside the Drug Pushing and Prostitution, i see nothing bad.

The other Jobs are totally Legit, and as long as it is an Honest Job and pays the Bills, i see nothing wrong with it. To the OP, have you lived outside Nigeria?i am assuming no, and that is why you came out with this list.

Life Outside Nigeria is not the Bed Of Roses, people portray it to be. If you have lived outside Nigeria, and you are being picky with work, especially if you are "SQUATTING" somewhere, then in a short time you will find yourself homeless and foodless.

You work because you have bills to pay. More over, some of the Jobs on your list are actually high paying Jobs, like the Mortician and the Security Job, especially if you are employed by a High Profile Company.

Your mentality is exactly why there are plenty of unemployed graduates in Nigeria, as they are always picky and choosy with what they want, while squatting somewhere eating free food, and coming to the pages of Nairaland to complain how their hosts/Brother/Sister/In law and friend is treating them because they are Jobless.

may God bless you

Op has been murdered

Yet, murrafokkas expect them to remit money to you lazybones through Western Union.

Olaone1:
This wristbangle is a fool. Idiot

wash bodies? In this century? You are clearly uninformed

Lol, thank u sir.

Op, Don Jazzy worked as a security man when he was abroad.


Nw look where he is today!


If you want the money, go and collect it!


Receive sense in Jesus name.

Bros! They need to raise capital for ideas they have for businesses they can develop. So i see nothing wrong with that

wristbangle:
The rush for greener pasture has becloud the vision of Nigeria Graduates to the extent that most believe nothing good can happen owing to the deplorable state of the country's economy.

As a result of negative economic situation, some have travelled to the overseas in search for good jobs but it's unfortunate that they eventually secure shameful occupation which they can't even wish for their enemy to do.

Therefore, 8 Annoying Jobs Nigeria Graduates Do In Order To Survive At Overseas Countries

1. Cleaner



2. Security guard


3. Washing dead bodies


4. Prostitution


5. House maid


6. Refuse and Sewage packer


7. Drug smuggler


8. Undertaker


You can also add yours Shameless parasite asking for Western Union transfer all the time!

Lalasticlala

More Nigerians at "Home in Nigeria" do more of the Drug Smuggling as it fetches more money outside Nigerian shores. On that you are wrong!
Prostitution is banned in most Western Countries and is not openly done, as we see it done in Nigeria. Infact, there are more Nigerian prostitutes in Nigeria, than abroad. only a few make it out of the country to continue the trade and even at that, anyone knows that you cant find men "OPENLY patronising" under-age prostitutes abroad, as we have in Nigeria, so, its even worse here in Nigeria.


...and by the way, the Poster is likely to be one of those people who cant survive in Nigeria without killing their family-member abroad, asking for Money. They suffer to make money but parasites like you will lie to them about how you are "nearky dying of some fake sickness unless they send money to you quickly"....... yet you will waste the money on flexing with girls and then turn around to insult their sensibilities!

God is watching you.

These are transitory jobs o, even graduate citizens dey do am, na Naija people dey shame to do these kine works o...Oyinbo no get shame, as long as you pay im salary...there's dignity in labor

There is dignity in labour. Jobs such a these are what immigrants typically start off with. Those with the right skill set will move on to bigger and better things in no time....and those that blocked to pass most of their courses and don't have the soft skills and adaptability required to cut it end up as career cleaners, security guards etc

Na so oo

melvinjames:

Waiting for tosyne2much's
10 categories of Nigerians that get money from abroad

Hahaha

Chaaaaiii !!! See as u rush gimme inspiration

it better Dan doing drug gbam.
www.nairaland.com/2881422/tajikistan-shaves-13000-beards-radicalism#42201114

wristbangle:


Thanks boss.

People wan kill me ooh!

Seems people do not get the hilarity in the article though I agree with people as regards no Nigerian graduates wash dead bodies or work in a morgue

Oh now, ur own thread is Hilarious? sorry that almost everybody lashing at you did not see one single iota of humor oozing from your thread because you insulted alot of personalities while at it.

HungerBAD:
Aside the Drug Pushing and Prostitution, i see nothing bad.

The other Jobs are totally Legit, and as long as it is an Honest Job and pays the Bills, i see nothing wrong with it. To the OP, have you lived outside Nigeria?i am assuming no, and that is why you came out with this list.

Life Outside Nigeria is not the Bed Of Roses, people portray it to be. If you have lived outside Nigeria, and you are being picky with work, especially if you are "SQUATTING" somewhere, then in a short time you will find yourself homeless and foodless.

You work because you have bills to pay. More over, some of the Jobs on your list are actually high paying Jobs, like the Mortician and the Security Job, especially if you are employed by a High Profile Company.

Your mentality is exactly why there are plenty of unemployed graduates in Nigeria, as they are always picky and choosy with what they want, while squatting somewhere eating free food, and coming to the pages of Nairaland to complain how their hosts/Brother/Sister/In law and friend is treating them because they are Jobless.

You are right and i guess the Op is actually high on weed.

This OP na m#therfuxca.. Very idiotic post... Utter baloney.. I know of a cleaner in Canada that makes almost 700,000 naira monthly.. Now tell me can a bank manager in that zoo call Nigeria make such amount in a month as salaries.. ? Idiotic op, do ur job in Nigeria pay u dat amount In a month... Keep wailing while boys are making good living abroad. Fool

[b]The timeless saying that "no one can ever see beyond his horizon" aptly applies to the OP. This is the most FOOLISH posting I have ever seen on NL which made frontpage. Apart from drug peddling, the jobs listed, including PROSTITUTION are perfectly legitimate, particularly under the UK law. I was lucky to be fully funded to study for my masters and doctoral degrees in london and didn't need to work. Nonetheless, there were boys and girls, men and women who had to pay their passage through graduate school by doing some of the jobs listed by the OP, especially cleaning and security. These ladies and gentlemen successfully completed graduate studies and now occupy enviable positions in their respective fields both at home and abroad (especially Europe, and north America). The reality of today's market is that countless native Europeans, Americans, Australasians who are university graduates are not in graduate positions in their respective countries, making it more difficult for immigrants to break through into the labour markets in these countries. Even when you finally break through, the whites would make life uncomfortable for you, especially if you're smarter, cleverer and more qualified than they are - they feel threatened by your profile and portfolio. That said, I personally know a Nigerian who graduated from OAU with first class honours in biochemistry, completed his MSc in the same field at NewCastle University, and for whatever reason, has been working in customer service for the last 10 years. He has built a country home in Naija, has his own detached house in the UK, lives comfortably, peaceably and together with his wife and children hold UK citizenship. What else can anyone ask for? He is, today, the envy of his classmates who are in Nigeria wallowing in university lecture rooms as senior lecturers and in laboratories 'slaving' as chemists for MNCs.

I normally don't do argumentum ad hominem, but on this occasion, I would say the OP needs his brains checked at ARO, Abeokuta, because he must be certainly, mentally derailed.[/b]

at least these jobs are better than the same jobs in Nigeria,

Griffon:


A close pal of mine once told me that he's better off cleaning closets abroad than working his socks off in a Nigerian company.

Rationale thinking? I say yes!

He's being rational and truthful. Nigeria doesn't have the suitable climate to work and most of their work place doesn't even meet the required health and safety standards as obtainable abroad. One can injure themselves during work without any first aid or available ambulance service to rush to their rescue. Nothing works in our country, people are just surviving in thorny conditions.

A friend once told me sometime last year, that he's better off than most affluent Nigerians who are 10times richer than he is. This is someone who works as a health and safety contractor and earns about £45K annually (an equivalent of 17million naira).

He cited his reasons as no matter how rich a Nigerian is they don't have stable electricity, pipe borne water, roads, proper healthcare etc. That their generators and boreholes could experience fault often which could lead to a brief interruption of power and water supply. Sounds crazy but very truthful.

Inadequate of Ndi Ara..

ronald4lif:


He's being rational and truthful. Nigeria doesn't have the suitable climate to work and most of their work place doesn't even meet the required health and safety standards as obtainable abroad. One can injure themselves during work without any first aid or available ambulance service to rush to their rescue. Nothing works in our country, people are just surviving in thorny conditions.

A friend once told me sometime last year, that he's better off than most affluent Nigerians who are 10times richer than him. This is someone who works as a health and safety contractor and earns about £45K annually (an equivalent of 17million naira).

He cited his reasons as no matter how rich a Nigerian is they don't have stable electricity, pipe borne water, roads, proper healthcare etc. That their generators and boreholes could experience fault often which could lead to a brief interruption of power and water. Sounds crazy but very truthful.

Absolutely true.

wristbangle:


So the news about Nigerians working in mortuary is false? Does that mean people spreading this information are lying?

Anyway what about the other listed points brother?

Yes it is false though that lie has been going on for years

@op was your dad a former PDP politician?

wristbangle:


So the news about Nigerians working in mortuary is false? Does that mean people spreading this information are lying?

Anyway what about the other listed points brother?

The working in the mortuary things is false. You can't just leave Nigeria and become a mortician abroad. It's like traveling abroad to become a medical doctor. You're dreaming, unless you go through training abroad and get the highly required qualifications. And that class of job that mortician falls in needs special training. It's not the type that picks just anybody like other minor roles. And if you've not travelled, these things people say are usually very hard to relate to.

As a student what job do you expect before graduating to get that much desired job? Sure you'll get that much desired job cos you're equipped with a certificate and training from an institution they know and trust. But meanwhile would you tell a Nigerian graduate to reject a cleaning job that pays his bills and leaves him/her with a monthly cheque of N600,000 equivalent? Hmmmmmm.

The Op is not exposed at all, not even to Nigeria.

You need to find out what jobs some graduates have to settle for in Lagos and Abuja. During university lecturers strike there was the picture of one lecturer going round in the social media while carrying pounpon as a laborer. That is extreme though. We do have many graduates, at least on a temporary basis doing the same jobs in Nigeria as US.

This also happened to Ghanians in the eighties here in Nigeria. Nigerians graduates has since taken over right here in your Nigeria. One of the big environmental company in Lagos today started as two man crew, foreign graduates. Until they were able to hire more and get more contracts. They know the in and out of the job. It is also important if you are starting a business to be able to do the lowest to the top job in case someone call in sick or suddenly quit.

I have a friend, whenever he is short of workers, his family is on the farm. This OP sounds very short sighted. That is the problem we have in Nigeria where most graduates refuse to do menial jobs but are willing to do it for their bosses.

As for prostitutes and drug dealers, which university did the OP go? Pay attention and you will see them around you every weekend taken by bus loads to parties or some of the the drug dealers and users as cult members. OP shine your eyes.

Baby talk.

ronald4lif:


I'm not entirely dismissing the claim that they do work in a mortuary. I'm only saying it's not as common as being paraded about. It's on the lower range and personally don't know of anyone who works in a morgue.

If it's that common at least I'd know at least one person who works there, just like I know many who do the other jobs you highlighted. And all your other listed points are accurate and on point.

But there's a reason why people who do those menial jobs do it. First is that they are uneducated and have no technical skill. And the last and most important is that they are living illegally and don't have the required legal paperwork to aim for better jobs.

nice one bro....
I'm coming over soon, please reserve one of those jobs for me.

What you said about d Profs na lie abeg, 9ja ain't that bad

Annoying for who? You have a big problem. Do they complained? Which job did you have for them? Is better to do dirty job in Diaspora than doing okara rider in my father's land.