MackyNaija:
My people, resumption for my first day at work was 9am...

I got there at 10am! Extremely late!!!
Devil is a liar,


Google map sets a range of 45-70mins as the average trip duration. It took me 2 hours and 15 minutes! See me see wahala.

Chayii the devil is liarrrrr.
Omo Google map can confuse somebody ooo. It will tell you 5 mins walking distance, just get ready for 30-35 mins walk.

PS: Your story has really been motivating.
Getting used to R,Minitab already since i came. I wouldn't mind getting intouch with you. I get SWE to attend in November

nelem:


Chayii the devil is liarrrrr.
Omo Google map can confuse somebody ooo. It will tell you 5 mins walking distance, just get ready for 30-35 mins walk.

PS: Your story has really been motivating.
Getting used to R,Minitab already since i came. I wouldn't mind getting intouch with you. I get SWE to attend in November

Swe na for women. Stay your house!

No dm's or pm's, I be guy.

MackyNaija:

Swe na for women. Stay your house!

Brov you know as e dey go na. .
Make we see the world, after all,all of us na engineer, men & women alike.

I wouldn't forget some of the things you pointed (unto my sop matter) out for me like 2yrs back.
Much appreciation always.

Paccus:

Thanks Boss...hope to read more of your experiences especially those points you highlighted to talk about...i dey read this your thread pass the way i read for school��.. i still get questions ooo so make i tell you sorry for my disturbance wey dey front��..

Sorry for?

It's gonna cost you... I don't do naira.

MackyNaija:
My people, resumption for my first day at work was 9am...

I got there at 10am! Extremely late!!!
Devil is a liar, I cannot be sacked on the first week at work.

Hadampson, you sure say no be you inform my village people say I don get engineer work??


Google map sets a range of 45-70mins as the average trip duration. It took me 2 hours and 15 minutes! See me see wahala.

I'll leave home by 6.30am tomorrow!

Ewo

Anything wey dem do no go reach you... The devil is a liar

@Emboldened.. Good one boss

MackyNaija:

My school cost about $25k per annum according to the i20.


But one can do...
Fees $7500 (fixed)
Living cost in a shared apartment (variable) ~$350 monthly, $4500 a year
Feeding $2000 a year (variable)
Misc $2000 a year (variable)

Total is about $16k, if it exceeds that amount it wouldn't go beyond $20k but the i20 says $25k.



Not having this knowledge is why people delay starting the program sooner. Some people spend less - the school fee is the only fixed cost and the rest depends on the individual.

Thanks for this and your educative thread

MackyNaija:

I already said I am a US permanent resident now.

Oversabi people take note - The card says 'USA perman3nt resid3nt', nothing like 'conditional' is written on it.



Thanks Sir.
Your own na made in aba, purchased from agboju!
Do quick relocate so you go fit buy from Amazon.

Oil dey your head But Amazon na d wrong place if u want buy CORRECT shoe.

Great job with the CV packaging. You really gingered me with that orientation. Me sef wan add that python to my kpali.

What is even more impressive is how u manage to add these skills to your kpali within 2 years or so. This guy is sharing the blue-print to success.

I just open this thread this morning and read everything from page1 to 53.... Very Interesting and educating...

Oga MACKAY...you are indeed a child of blessings...
You opened this thread years back only as just a student going to US to study but today you are permanent resident in US..
Just continue doing the right thing and never join the stupid ones over there to tarnish the little image we still have there...
The lord is your strength...

Don't worry asking about Naija...we are still ENJOYING BUHARI ECONOMY...

By the special grace of God, Am definitely coming over there soon.

Remain Blessed.

Hadampson:




Seeing is believing. It's obvious from the pictures you shared with us. Continue to glow in God's grace

God of mercy, shower your blessing on me

Make una come mark attendance o.. The boss is back

cc: Predstan, Iamboladee, Subomi007, HeWrites

Abeg where is AngelicBeing the only patriotic citizen of Nigeria that i know

l have been busy, and off Nairaland

Anyone has real life experience about living in St. Louis, Missouri. Is it really as dangerous as publicized online?

nervorum:
Anyone has real life experience about living in St. Louis, Missouri. Is it really as dangerous as publicized online?

Stayed in St Louis for about three months, it is a peaceful city..

AngelicBeing:
l have been busy, and off Nairaland

Welcome back boss

Hadampson:




Welcome back boss

Thanks buddy

Thanks all.

On Internship and Job Search

Remember getting a position is a journey and not a Sprint...
A senior colleague in school calls it a game of numbers.

You can never tell which job will give you an offer but with the right skills properly written in the right resume, the right pitch, and applying to jobs in 100's, 1 should come through.

From my experience as a Fall student, the first search opportunity is online, next is at your school's career fair, then SWE conference, then back online, then to the NSBE conference and back online.

Job searching should start one month after you land in the country and have settled in to an extent.

1. You can apply online and get one.

2. Your professor at school can hook you up with positions.

3. You can be reached out to on LinkedIn or handshake (as in the case of my school)

4. If an alumni from your school has performed well at a company, the recruiters there will like more people from same department.

5. You can get a short skills based pitch and direct Message recruiters on LinkedIn. Premium account works well here.

6. For full-time roles, You can talk to recruiting agencies - they are very efficient at finding people jobs.
Are0tek, rand5Tad, k3llyservic3s etc etc.

7. Internal referals by people recommending you for jobs where they work.

8. You can aplly to a rotation program that an alumni interviews for but didn't get in.
Or a position that someone else was hired for.



There are numerous ways to get a job, do not despise 'small' companies - they might be the ones holding the keys to you breaking into your desired industry.

9. After graduating, I applied for and got 3 jobs as a Process Engineering technician using just my high school degree in a watered down resume in order to gain relevant work experience as I didn't do internships or have relevant experience in that field.

Employers at subsequent interviews took me serious since they new I already had a job in process engineering and it was a matter of time before I got a role as an engineer.


The first interview in a Power sector company sent an offer after 48 hours.

My current office sent an offer in less than 24 hours.


Do not despise 'remote locations', get in and get the required experience to make the move to your desired company or location.



Make I begin prepare for work. The traffic here be like Lagos own.

Good luck

MackyNaija:
9. After graduating, I applied for and got 3 jobs as a Process Engineering technician using just my high school degree in a watered down resume in order to gain relevant work experience as I didn't do internships or have relevant experience in that field.

Employers at subsequent interviews took me serious since they new I already had a job in prices engineering and it was a matter of time before I got a role as an engineer.


The first interview in a Power sector company sent an offer after 48 hours.

My current office sent an offer in less than 24 hours.


Do not despise 'remote locations', get in and get the required experience to make the move to your desired company or location.



Make I begin prepare for work. The traffic here be like Lagos own.

kroger:


Stayed in St Louis for about three months, it is a peaceful city..

Thanks mate.

MackyNaija:
9. After graduating, I applied for and got 3 jobs as a Process Engineering technician using just my high school degree in a watered down resume in order to gain relevant work experience as I didn't do internships or have relevant experience in that field.

Employers at subsequent interviews took me serious since they new I already had a job in prices engineering and it was a matter of time before I got a role as an engineer.


The first interview in a Power sector company sent an offer after 48 hours.

My current office sent an offer in less than 24 hours.


Do not despise 'remote locations', get in and get the required experience to make the move to your desired company or location.



Make I begin prepare for work. The traffic here be like Lagos own.

Thanks boss!

I just deh wonder...

I read a comment on a thread from the front page - "...where there is work, no salary. Where they pay salary, there are no jobs".

I am yet to hear of any company here that owes salaries. If you know of any, inform us.

My Nigerian company was one of the best you could find locally. Salaries paid on time, health, security, transport allowances even follow for the salary.

We were paid housing allowances, 13th month even follow. Kai! I realize everyday the extent to which I had it good.
I no too suffer for that country.



Overall, I prefer it here, no manager go threaten you, HR no deh side with management and you can legit claim time off and it's paid.
Meal room deh here, sick bay, several fun activities - my company before this one get table tennis room.. Infact ALL the companies for Yankee na 'naija multinational standard'.

My friend that works for Halll1burt0n here says he has met several people that think Sh3ll and Exx0n are just names of gas stations!
Who send you if you deh work for 'petrol station', sorry, I mean oil and gas company. If you say you work with Sh3ll, people go deh look you like say you be small rat.

If you are still second guessing... To leave or not to leave, stay back!
People that are serious don't think twice about it. For this country, your hustle must pay!

MackyNaija:
I learnt something though or should I say I reminded myself of something - these people like you to have a balanced life - 'what do you do when you are not working'? I was asked...

Na so I begin talk go 'left' Abeg, no form efico or workaholic...

I only realized after I left that I had flunked it. When I went home to soul search on what happened at the interview naim I know say I for answer - 'I go horse riding, water surfing and skateboarding in my spare time'.

'I also go to meetings of the Rotary Club, visit members of my book reading club and go for violin classes'....


I swareegard! I for get the job!!!

Based on this my f-up from two years ago and my sweet babe ...

I have turned a new leaf, I am now living life like the Americans do it. Taking some time off to De-Stress.


This will be the birth of my 'ChopLife' series.

Chop Life Series
In the local sense, to ChopLife means to mix jollof + fried plantain + fried goat meat + big p3psi orobo while the a/c is on as you r watching a very good movie!

For Yankee, ChopLife will be to find very nice places to visit... Forgetting about work, all cares and worries of life while experiencing new things.


I have visited and will be visiting several places in northern California I found via a g0ogle search.

I have been to San Francisco golden gate bridge and seen the fog too. Who adds fogs as an attraction?
Didn't use the cable trains, my interest was the bridge.

List of places I plan to visit are in the other pictures.

MackyNaija:
My people, resumption for my first day at work was 9am...

I got there at 10am! Extremely late!!!
Devil is a liar, I cannot be sacked on the first week at work.

Hadampson, you sure say no be you inform my village people say I don get engineer work??


Google map sets a range of 45-70mins as the average trip duration. It took me 2 hours and 15 minutes! See me see wahala.

I'll leave home by 6.30am tomorrow!

Check out waze app....

Yosemite National Park has been planned for October with my wife, make we go spend $250 for hotel per night.

Nansense expensive state.




Na my wife n my shadow go go Redwood Park..
No be me lion go come chop for bush!!!

tintedniggz:

Check out waze app....

I was considering Waze for morning carpooling last night...

It will make it possible for me to use the HOV lane if I can get an extra person to join me to work.

Problem is my departure time varies between 6.15am to 6.35am... Anytime I ready finish, I carry my lunch box and water bottle run like rabbit go enter my motor.


How will someone I am picking up handle this variability?

MackyNaija:

I was considering Waze for morning carpooling last night...

It will make it possible for me to use the HOV lane if I can get an extra person to join me to work.

Problem is my departure time varies between 6.15am to 6.35am... Anytime I ready finish, I carry my lunch box and water bottle run like rabbit go enter my motor.


How will someone I am picking up handle this variability?

Don't be surprised if you get someone that has such kinda of time variability as well lol.....Everybody just dey rough ham ni
I use Waze often.

Wow! Been a while on Nairaland say 5months, lol..Nice Job bro..
Anyone in Atlanta? wanna meet up for the weekend?

lyrondee:
Wow! Been a while on Nairaland say 5months, lol..Nice Job bro..
Anyone in Atlanta? wanna meet up for the weekend?

boss u no drop transcript nothing nothing

What an irony of life. You carry lunch box and water bottle to work, if na for naija, your colleagues go dey yab you say you be mummy's pet, say you no be big boy.

MackyNaija:

I was considering Waze for morning carpooling last night...

It will make it possible for me to use the HOV lane if I can get an extra person to join me to work.

Problem is my departure time varies between 6.15am to 6.35am... Anytime I ready finish, I carry my lunch box and water bottle run like rabbit go enter my motor.


How will someone I am picking up handle this variability?

Hadampson:




Seeing is believing. It's obvious from the pictures you shared with us. Continue to glow in God's grace

God of mercy, shower your blessing on me

Make una come mark attendance o.. The boss is back

cc: Predstan, Iamboladee, Subomi007, HeWrites

Abeg where is AngelicBeing the only patriotic citizen of Nigeria that i know

Bro, abeg dey mention me for ChemBrodar