MackyNaija:

Hahahahaha!

Then imagine me wey just come Yankee? I will forever dodge the snowy regions. Texas 105*F, we die there!

I lived in North Dallas for about 4 years and the winters were brutal.

From October to March we got death defying low temps. I always wondered how son of men had endured this for hundreds of years.

After my divorce I quickly ran back to Southern California

EgunMogaji2:


I lived in North Dallas for about 4 years and the winters were brutal.

From October to March we got death defying low temps. I always wondered how son of men had endured this for hundreds of years.

After my divorce I quickly ran back to Southern California

I did a trip from Houston to Oklahoma city in 2017 late December.


I started at around 55*f at Houston and for every hour I drove upwards, I lost 3 to 4*.
When I got to Dallas I was below 40.
I arrived Ok City a little below 30 and with light hail.


When I left, I said - Never Again!


I was at San Diego in September, excellent weather and beautiful city!
Next summer, I must repeat that trip! Only about $120 for a return flight.

MackyNaija:

Hahahahaha!

Then imagine me wey just come Yankee? I will forever dodge the snowy regions. Texas 105*F, we die there!

We wey con deh here nko abegii

Drenimarcus:


We wey con deh here nko abegii

You be iced fish na... I be human being.

Iced fish can't complain.

My Nigerian understanding of work was warped...

Work long hours, highly manual sorry technical tasks, weekends and holidays, mornings and nights... I once did over 30 hours straight work, on another project - 77 days straight on the field.

Part of the reasons why I dislikED managers...
'They don't work' but are paid big salaries.

No wonder I had preferences for roles that still requires sooooo much stress - manufacturing or process engineer.

My friend says for roughly the same salary with Supply chain or Safety engineers? He cannot kill himself.
He is also on the look out for laptop pressing roles.



My current role in Quality is special - I'll explain that in a bit...
My rice and fried meat deh cold, make I chop small inside.

MackyNaija:

You be iced fish na... I be human being.

Iced fish can't complain.

As I said before, my resume was patterned to fit into roles as a manufacturing, process and industrial engineer... No love for Quality.

I still applied for roles in all.
At the interview, I was discharging answers in the line of control plan, Guage RnR, Cpk, Ppk, SQL etc etc..
The manager just deh look me.. See this one...

That's not what you'll be doing here - he said.
I was confused then but now I understand.



Tuck in every morning, go to the office, press my keyboard, caress n romance the customers, ensure compliance documentation are in order and processes are compliant, do customer facility walk-through, do supplier facility audits etc etc..

After all this, my shirt remains tucked in... No Sweat..

For the same salary as our process n manufacturing engineers? I cannot cough...



Make Una follow me thank Oluwa for delivering me from manual labor engineer and turning me to a keyboard pressing engineer.


My plans have changed - I Aspire to remain part of the decision making team. You should too.

All my former managers, forgive me for the hate, sorry dislike I had for you all.

MackyNaija:
As I said before, my resume was patterned to fit into roles as a manufacturing, process and industrial engineer... No love for Quality.

I still applied for roles in all.
At the interview, I was discharging answers in the line of control plan, Guage RnR, Cpk, Ppk, SQL etc etc..
The manager just deh look me.. See this one...

That's not what you'll be doing here - he said.
I was confused then but now I understand.



Tuck in every morning, go to the office, press my keyboard, caress n romance the customers, ensure compliance documentation are in order and processes are compliant, do customer facility walk-through, do supplier facility audits etc etc..

After all this, my shirt remains tucked in... No Sweat..

For the same salary as our process n manufacturing engineers? I cannot cough...



Make Una follow me thank Oluwa for delivering me from manual labor engineer and turning me to a keyboard pressing engineer.


My plans have changed - I Aspire to remain part of the decision making team. You should too.

All my former managers, forgive me for the hate, sorry dislike I had for you all.

Sky is just the starting place for you

You can’t imagine how much I’ve envisioned myself being in a keyboard and trackpad caressing role, it’s One of the sexiest role ever.

EgunMogaji2:


It's due to automotive and vehicle emission standards.

In Ibadan I would guess that 75% of the vehicles I see on the road will be stopped by US police and towed, not driven to an impound lot.

When I drive through Oluyole I always see factories exhausting fumes to the atmosphere. A good 50% of the one Is see will be shut down immediately in the USA.

Another thing is all this our I PASS MY NEIGHBOR GENERATORS, those ones alone na case.

Toppytek:


Another thing is all this our I PASS MY NEIGHBOR GENERATORS, those ones alone na case.

Very true.

It seems at least one gen per household.

MackyNaija:


I did a trip from Houston to Oklahoma city in 2017 late December.


I started at around 55*f at Houston and for every hour I drove upwards, I lost 3 to 4*.
When I got to Dallas I was below 40.
I arrived Ok City a little below 30 and with light hail.


When I left, I said - Never Again!


I was at San Diego in September, excellent weather and beautiful city!
Next summer, I must repeat that trip! Only about $120 for a return flight.

@Macky, I sent you a Pm... I want to discuss with you on something very important... Would have done this earlier, but I had a late flight from Missouri yesterday.... Thank you...

TheNoble007:


@Macky, I sent you a Pm... I want to discuss with you on something very important... Would have done this earlier, but I had a late flight from Missouri yesterday.... Thank you...

See your neat English, you must have gone to very good schools in Nigeria No be ajekpako like me.

Hope say the talk go bring money..

Jes Thinking - �

I was talking to a friend two days ago, we worked at the same company back then...

What we never dreamed of 3 years back, we are currently not dreaming about it but actually living the life.


He currently works in the oil fields in the U.S, making 5x more than our senior engineers that currently work for his current company but in Nigeria.

His problem is no longer money, me sef wey just start no deh hungry again.. [s]my student loan go pay back himself, no be me go pay that money[/s]

When I talk to him, I remember how life can change in an 'instant'. 4 years ago, I dropped him off at the airport to embark on his Msc. trip... Today the story is different.


Quite unfortunate the oil industry is dying slowly, me sef for follow make blood money.
That brings me to a new topic -
The best jobs are gotten thru referrals, he did submit my resume at his company and after I passed thru all the processes, I got an offer this past February for an Oilfield Drilling Engineer role.

This my brain deh shake - I disregarded an opportunity to make six OO.. But that's just me... My style is unconventional.

I'll be disregarding another opportunity to start as a Gas Turbine Engineer next February, another chance to make six OO will be pissed away.



Don't blame me, I'm enjoying my role as a Laptop pressing engineer... I especially enjoy coming home to meet GucciBabe every night.

Field work na suffer! Yes, I said so.

By God's grace I will join you guys in the us, working on it

Here is a post I saw a while back on another thread -

...Most Nigerians i have seen here from my experience hoard information cos they dont want you to be better than them, but the Indians have formed a formidable force.... They share information between themselves and with their combine effort and money they start up something brilliant with the initiator the CEO. You will not find one Indian person working in a warehouse or doing menial job except in a gas station which is owned by his brother or relation.

Mind you Indians are the richest immigrant in America, because of just one thing which is INFORMATION between themselves...

On the other hand Nigerians haven't gotten to that point yet because of our mentality, hoarding of information, "you must not be better than me in america" mentality. More so we are not organised like the Indians, and we have not created a niche for ourselves, we have a long way to go...

Truly we have a long way to go...

Part of the reasons why I was having a hard time securing an internship was lack of information, I had no idea how to properly present my skills and experiences but that has changed.

Beyond changing that, I made it a personal mission not to allow people suffer unnecessarily - the experiences gained during internships and the money earned could go a long way.

A quick check on linkedin would show that students from Tamuk are doing something right. I have gone beyond that level...
Rendering career advice or sharing your knowledge about issues when clearly the receiver is struggling wouldn't hurt you, the US is toooooo big for someone else to displace you or become richer than you.

I applied for the Gas Turbine job from info a friend gave me that a certain company was hiring and I got the offer. Has it killed him? Hell no.

I interviewed at a sugar refining and a computer hardware company - didn't get the jobs BUT I mentioned it to someone, he applied to one and was sourced for one and with little coaching based on my experiences with those companies, he got fulltime offers from both. How does that take food off my table?
It doesn't, it only gives me one more person I go borrow money from.

I envy the indians, they are excellent at making opening for the kinsmen n women. We all should learn to share information and collaborate, there is too much opportunity in the US to be selfish but even in the midst of the selfishness of some, "las las, all men go still deh alright" - A. Richy, 2017


A friend even called me last week that he has gotten an offer for a software engineer role months before his graduation- starting salary is six 00. I am glad to have one less person to worry about.



Winnings exite me..
Keep pushing, Your time will come.

Hadampson, how far na?
E don tay. Take these ones.

Sunrise,
Sunset, and
my favorite Black n White...

MackyNaija:
Jes Thinking - �

I was talking to a friend two days ago, we worked at the same company back then...

What we never dreamed of 3 years back, we are currently not dreaming about it but actually living the life.


He currently works in the oil fields in the U.S, making 5x more than our senior engineers that currently work for his current company but in Nigeria.

His problem is no longer money, me sef wey just start no deh hungry again.. [s]my student loan go pay back himself, no be me go pay that money[/s]

When I talk to him, I remember how life can change in an 'instant'. 4 years ago, I dropped him off at the airport to embark on his Msc. trip... Today the story is different.


Quite unfortunate the oil industry is dying slowly, me sef for follow make blood money.
That brings me to a new topic -
The best jobs are gotten thru referrals, he did submit my resume at his company and after I passed thru all the processes, I got an offer this past February for an Oilfield Drilling Engineer role.

This my brain deh shake - I disregarded an opportunity to make six OO.. But that's just me... My style is unconventional.

I'll be disregarding another opportunity to start as a Gas Turbine Engineer next February, another chance to make six OO will be pissed away.



Don't blame me, I'm enjoying my role as a Laptop pressing engineer... I especially enjoy coming home to meet GucciBabe every night.

Field work na suffer! Yes, I said so.

Your oil industry is slowly dieing?
Here in Canada, it is literally dead.
I also read today that around 53 billion barrel of crude reserves was discovered in Iran yesterday. More surplus oil to the market to crash the price even further

Which one be laptop processing engineer though

salford1:

Your oil industry is slowly dieing?
Here in Canada, it is literally dead.
I also read today that around 53 billion barrel of crude reserves was discovered in Iran yesterday. More surplus oil to the market to crash the price even further

Which one be laptop processing engineer though

My heart skipped when I read this. When crude become like common water (we are getting there), Nigeria's situation will be worse than Venezuela's.

The rig count here is steadily dropping - I and my friends that work in the upstream industry were thinking there would be a boom for 4 to 5 years before the next burst.
There is no semblance of boom here, the day rates are at unfathomably low levels.

When I saw my offer letter, the money was good but nowhere near the pre-2017 burst levels. The company even reduced their pay last month - unheard of in the upstream industry.

Laptop pressing engineer = Neatly ironed shirt + solid chino pants + sharp shoe + sweet lunch + apples and bananas + every other thing except work! No 'hard' engineering job - did I hear someone say that is not real engineering? That one na una business.

My salary still comes complete. I kant kill myself.

Or maybe they are just treating me nicely so I don't run to another company.
I caught the HR manager on hot mic during my first week of work saying something about me getting hired by google n co. There is a dearth of talent in the silicon valley region.

MackyNaija:

My heart skipped when I read this. When crude become like common water (we are getting there), Nigeria's situation will be worse than Venezuela's.

The rig count here is steadily dropping - I and my friends that work in the upstream industry were thinking there would be a boom for 4 to 5 years before the next burst.
There is no semblance of boom here, the day rates are at unfathomably low levels.

When I saw my offer letter, the money was good but nowhere near the pre-2017 burst levels. The company even reduced their pay last month - unheard of in the upstream industry.

This was what happened back in Canada. As far back as 2015, 20 to 40% salary reductions were common, then the lay-offs started. The lay-offs are still ongoing as I speak. I was affected in late 2015. Luckily, I changed industry to utility.
We in Canada actually think the US oil industry is booming since the oil is not expensive to extract like the bitumen majorly mined up north in Canada. Hmm. I guess we are wrong.

MackyNaija:
Laptop pressing engineer = Neatly ironed shirt + solid chino pants + sharp shoe + sweet lunch + apples and bananas + every other thing except work! No 'hard' engineering job - did I hear someone say that is not real engineering? That one na una business.

My salary still comes complete. I kant kill myself.

Or maybe they are just treating me nicely so I don't run to another company.
I caught the HR manager on hot mic during my first week of work saying something about me getting hired by google n co. There is a dearth of talent in the silicon valley region.

I get you now...
Office based positions. That makes me a laptop pressing Engineer too, but money no dey like field roles Sha. Coffee and muffin in the morning, then better lunch at noon, then come back and fight sleep till close of work . Best thing, home every night.

The HR is right Sha. Lost two colleagues so far to silicon valley this year. The moment they got their Canadian citizenship, they just japa to San Francisco to take up new roles at Intel and Eaton respectively.

.

MackyNaija:
Hadampson, how far na?
E don tay. Take these ones.

Sunrise,
Sunset, and
my favorite Black n White...

Boss, na school no let me login oh. How una dey?

I dey smell peace for your neighborhood, unlike expensive slum wey we get for here.

See as cars full your area, una get car dealer for una area

salford1:

I get you now...
Office based positions. That makes me a laptop pressing Engineer too, but money no dey like field roles Sha. Coffee and muffin in the morning, then better lunch at noon, then come back and fight sleep till close of work . Best thing, home every night.

The HR is right Sha. Lost two colleagues so far to silicon valley this year. The moment they got their Canadian citizenship, they just japa to San Francisco to take up new roles at Intel and Eaton respectively.

oga Salford, its like that whistle to move to USA is getting stronger

Despite the obvious decline in oil and transition to clean renewable energy, Trump doesn't support the green new deal. Is it because the deal was signed by a Democrat President. Electric cars is taking over speedily and Tesla is making billions from this transition and also AI is on the rise too. I saw a trending video of robotic soldier. The world is really changing at a fast pace.

MackyNaija:
Laptop pressing engineer Neatly ironed shirt + solid chino pants + sharp shoe + sweet lunch + apples and bananas + every other thing except work! No 'hard' engineering job - did I hear someone say that is not real engineering? That one na una business.

My salary still comes complete. I kant kill myself.

Or maybe they are just treating me nicely so I don't run to another company.
I caught the HR manager on hot mic during my first week of work saying something about me getting hired by google n co. There is a dearth of talent in the silicon valley region.

MackyNaija:
Here is a post I saw a while back on another thread -



Truly we have a long way to go...

Part of the reasons why I was having a hard time securing an internship was lack of information, I had no idea how to properly present my skills and experiences but that has changed.

Beyond changing that, I made it a personal mission not to allow people suffer unnecessarily - the experiences gained during internships and the money earned could go a long way.

A quick check on linkedin would show that students from Tamuk are doing something right. I have gone beyond that level...
Rendering career advice or sharing your knowledge about issues when clearly the receiver is struggling wouldn't hurt you, the US is toooooo big for someone else to displace you or become richer than you.

I applied for the Gas Turbine job from info a friend gave me that a certain company was hiring and I got the offer. Has it killed him? Hell no.

I interviewed at a sugar refining and a computer hardware company - didn't get the jobs BUT I mentioned it to someone, he applied to one and was sourced for one and with little coaching based on my experiences with those companies, he got fulltime offers from both. How does that take food off my table?
It doesn't, it only gives me one more person I go borrow money from.

I envy the indians, they are excellent at making opening for the kinsmen n women. We all should learn to share information and collaborate, there is too much opportunity in the US to be selfish but even in the midst of the selfishness of some, "las las, all men go still deh alright" - A. Richy, 2017


A friend even called me last week that he has gotten an offer for a software engineer role months before his graduation- starting salary is six 00. I am glad to have one less person to worry about.



Winnings exite me..
Keep pushing, Your time will come.

Guy you are too special to me

ak22:


Guy you are too special to me

Make we marry??

Note: My wife get gun ooo... Revolver. Nansense gun..

Hadampson:


Boss, na school no let me login oh. How una dey?

I dey smell peace for your neighborhood, unlike expensive slum wey we get for here.

See as cars full your area, una get car dealer for una area

Baba, car no be big man.
A friend from school say make I bring $2500 come carry T3.sla
He's on internship with them.


Most places for USA deh peaceful. Moving soon, my office too far from house.

MackyNaija, hi. I've been a low-key follower of your thread for quite a while now and honestly speaking, your stories have heightened my spirit to want to leave Naija. If you're chanced, may I send a pm to you about an issue (travel related) I have been battling with, please?

y33zluv:
MackyNaija, hi. I've been a low-key follower of your thread for quite a while now and honestly speaking, your stories have heightened my spirit to want to leave Naija. If you're chanced, may I send a pm to you about an issue (travel related) I have been battling with, please?

I am just an ex-student currently doing office work - glorified secretary...
Are you sure I can do the job of a travel consultant?

MackyNaija:


I am just an ex-student currently doing office work - glorified secretary...
Are you sure I can do the job of a travel consultant?

. Definitely not consultancy issue. I just need your views about something which I believe you'll have an idea on, please may I send it now?