NewStats: 3,264,991 , 8,185,281 topics. Date: Friday, 13 June 2025 at 05:24 AM 1v4t3e

dearpreye:


Where there's a will, there will most certainly be a way.

lol... That's also the question people who haven't expanded their mind would often ask.

Did that dude knew he could write articles to raise money?

dearpreye:
Today, and once again, I'm writing on a very familiar issue. Degrees are outrightly overrated - especially down here in Nigeria.

This system churns out thousands of graduates every single year, and almost all of these graduates have the same mindset of seeking and getting a job somewhere. Whether or not we accept it, the JOB MARKET is overcrowded and government won't give everyone a job. Actually every serious government should be more concerned with creating a ive and enabling environment than creating jobs for its people.

Every individual has a talent and a ion, and their wealth and fame lies in their vigorous pursuit of those ions and talents.

It's about time everyone begins learning a skill OR start to develop some latent ability within them. There's nothing wrong with adding a skill to your degree. It could be learning plumbing, professional driving, wiring a house, tailoring, selling, carpentry, painting, fashion deg, etc, or it could developing some soft skills like becoming a great communicator, writer, or even becoming a motivational speaker or personal development expert.

I had gone to give a safety briefing to some contractors and other management staff this day. After the briefing, one of the managers approached me, appreciated the manner of the talk and asked, " are you a motivational speaker?". Of course I sad NO. And she enthused I would make a good speaker if I could put my heart into it.

I laughed away the talk, but the speech replayed later in my mind as I was preparing to retire to bed in the evening. I Googled on the topic and started to read almost all the materials that came up. That was how I started on the journey to personal development and motivational speaking.

Last week, I went to give a give a talk to some youths. Although I refused to take a dime but I left there very fulfilled and I know I'm on my way to adding another skill to my skill pool. In this era, there's no limit to the skills we can acquire.

At the moment, an old man is fixing some plumbing works for me. As we talked, he told me how he's been looking for youths to assist in learning that skill, but none has shown any interest.

As an undergraduate, you can still make plans towards learning a skill while on campus. Skill is the way forward. No great nation ever took skill development for granted. It's time to learn a skill. Any skill can be a temporal source of income. Men are losing their jobs; competition is fiercer now than ever. Even if you're seeking to be the best in your chosen field, you can still add a skill. Any skill.

Thanks for reading. Have a great day.

Lalasticalala, good morning.

To be candid, any job is a job as long as it can bring in money. Since I left school, I haven't had luck with getting a job but that didn't stop me from earning six figures with skills I taught myself.

Now, just a few weeks ago, I learned from a certain Nairalander that people are making a killing with web and app development.

I have since started reshaping my mind to accept new skills in that area. I will be learning HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3, PHP, JAVA, JAVAScript, Python, Ruby On Rail.

Why?

I taught myself website design and I want to go deeper so I can be in control.

Since I read rich dad, poor dad years ago, I haven't really feared being without a job.

There is also nothing I don't know about doing business on the internet: Internet Marketing, Content Marketing, SEO, marketing, List Building, Selling On The web with stories, Cold Calling, Freelancing, Domain selling , Blogging, Importation etc. All this I taught myself.

The whole industry has changed over the years and outsourcing is also collapsing it.

Big corp are willing to pay you to write simple codes and app for them. I saw 2 companies yesterday that is willing to 55-60k dollars if you have coding skills and I found them while researching. This further reinforced my desire to learn coding because I have always loved working with my PC and I want to be in control!

iwriterng:


It still amaze me why it took so long before he implemented his personal ads serving platform (Maybe he's not business wise). When you have a site like nairaland, the only way to make money is by creating ads space, he is still missing out on some other methods anyway, he should have section for business people, he should also allow sticky post when you buy the spot. SEUN!!! Hire me as your CFO.

That's due to rigid mind.

Seun isn't a business man in the actual sense-- else by now he would have implemented AMA by now. He can displace Linda Ikeji if he really wants but like I said, he isn't a businessman.

Linda Ikeji is not really doing blogging in the actual sense... Her grace was starting early. Phenomenally, early starters takes the lead in a niche--early bird catches the worm!

talk2hb1:

Why did you think the like of Seun, Linda Ikeji dropped Google Adsense?

seun dropped it because of bans. Google was always banning his and adsense wouldn't show up for weeks and this didn't put him in control--with google, you are never in control. Never build your business to depend on Google.

People had to suggest placing local ads on nairaland.

denzmark:
i disagree adsense pays alot you can be in any country but you need to be in the right niche, not all keywords pay the same. some of my small sites getting 5000 pageviews a day out performs my big site averaging at 30000 pageviews a day in adsense.



do yo know how extremely difficult it is to make money with the things you just mentioned.
number 1 marketing is based on performance(A,L) you can get 100 000 pageviews to your site with 5000 clicks and get $0 they don't pay for pageviews or clicks its basically robbing you of your hard earned traffic its easier to slap adsense there and relax even the lowest paying keywords will get you something better than nothing.

promoting products is difficult for your average joe they better off with adsense as long as they have traffic.reviews sponsored posts are not ideal for your avaerage blogs theres no clear blueprint on how to make money on these. are you making alot of money from these? i personally think you can be making more on adsense.

you are wrong in some of your assertions

Emodeee:
A lot of times ladies do discuss that they don't want guys that are too nice to them, it makes the routine of the relationship to be very boring. You can easily predict your man. You wanna enter the car, he opens the door, he goes to the market to buy food stuffs so you can cook. As much as some ladies relish this, most of them detest it.


Do you know some ladies like it when their man beats them?

I heard a story of a lady in a relationship with a guy somewhere in lagos. She is not yet married to this guy but he beats her like a punching bag. After the beating, the lady will still go ahead to beg him and say "I love him, I love it when he beats me" really!
I'm sure she will also enjoy BDS..M from the guy.


Ladies, how do you like your man?
Do you feel good guys are boring?

"Good guys are boring" that was a statement by nelly of nigeria info 99.3 fm.

Ladies, share ur view.

Expect many of them to deny it and say they like good guys.

ubiquitousade:


it is because a .ng domain is more expensive than the .com or .com.ng.

check out the hosting service providers and compare the prices.

but .com.ng is cheaper now. Why can't we still embrace it?

I have scanned the web and only a very few domains are live on .com.ng or .ng.

Why aren't we embracing our own brand of extension like it is obtainable in UK, Australia, South Africa etc?

mobiss:
Any day analyst in the house?
I think is a good skill,considering visiting my Excel for this.

Dude, you have not communicated.

kay29000:


Men!!! I heard it is not possible with gt bank!!!! Back to square one.

you are just making things difficult for yourself. Go activate internet banking, get token device and transfer the money from your dorm to your savings , withdraw with ATM. Shikena

IamLEGEND1:


now u're gonna go all "cry-baby" on me because someone poked a little fun at you?

u are obviously just a wimp.... or an asslicker.

either way,I don't really care.

an adult wouldn't act like you did here. I just realised I was engaging a toddler still tied to his mother's apron string.

obontami:
u don see her face before?

yes na. With one of my handle which I used to follow her. But she removed it after then.

obontami:
I know he has a crush on her
He even open a thread for her sef

INTROVERT is a pretty lady ooo.

IamLEGEND1:
wic is more than I can say for you

dunces think they have opinion. Hopefully, if by tomorrow you faced with tragedy, do not feel bad when someone else begin to make a mockery of your predicament while desperately seeking solution... What goes arounde, comes around. One who hasn't seen the end of the world is laughing at a blind man.

obontami:
guy hw introvert parol

U don fccck her ??

dies

IamLEGEND1:



Yeah wareva.
go 4ck urselfs

you have no life!

Blackkie:
This is my challenge.
I cannot see where i will place the proposal.

it's there. Look around. Click on a job listed and the proposal tab is there.

IamLEGEND1:


we should respect his girlfriend?

seriously?

I see the thread is a lil' more personal for you as you are probably in possession of the same kind of vagína lips....

we are not doctors and he has Google at his fingertips, and he could have taken this to the health section,there are doctors there.

it's foolishness to assume that everyone has same reasoning as yourself.

stonecoldcafe:


There is no need for all that; the sky is big enough for everyone. I see so much hate and jealousy in your posts.

k

OP, it's very normal. Some have one of their testicles longer or larger than the other...

http://youngwomenshealth.org/2013/07/16/labial-hypertrophy/

Blackkie:
I have ed on www.upwork.com.
I saw many jobs posting that i can handle but cannot understand how to place my offer to the client.

Can someone help me out please?

you submit a proposal

islamics:
@fxbot: no testimony yet o! People like me are still trying to put things in order so as not to stop half way.
I appreciate your contributions and that of other 'ogas' to the thread: its really helpful. But be like say materials don dey plenty.
I really hope to give testimony. Oga fxbot you dey try o! I am tempted to ask: what is your niche?

i dont have a niche

babaearly:


This is far better

dude already answered his question lol. OP, you asked a question and answered it yourself.

I would say one is better than the other--have higher prosepct.

How? You can integrate a bto an ecommerce site, which is more conventional.

For those interested in Website desig, HTML, CSS etc,

CodeAcademy.com for free. One of the best resources out there. I also learned about CodeLand.com from a friend.

For android development, start here.

https://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.html

It's saddens me that even those who are saying "God bless me" are doing so on the basis of a "capacity to show off" and not invest.

We will know sooner than later who the real money makers are in 10 years time.

This what stagger was talking about. Big Project, Big Money
https://www.upwork.com/o/jobs/job/_~012325f0fbc6e1ebbc/

mobiss:
What do you think about this profile template?
Kindly, evaluate as if you an employer.
Note: This is just a fresh writer with no experience profile

Article writing/Copy writing/Editing

Specialized in: Business,Fashion,Arts and Entertainment

$200/hr
Nigeria
Twitter:@freelancer
Facebook:freelancer
E-mail:[email protected]
Website:blog.com

Objective: To help capture the eyes of the reader and targeted clientele:to act,opt-in,take action,purchases;engage in company's products and services.

I am into writing to express and communicate the in-depth research information into the minds of the reader,with a keen goal of pushing them to act what they read and always want to see the next article or content.

Prompt time delivery of projects are very important core value to me. In order to always meet your project deadlines.

'Engage me today,to keep your targeted audience.'

You can do better than this.

Buy now we should be hearing testimoney or isn't anyone making money on upwork yet?

What challenges are you facing?

damiloladuke:


Can u please continue to make me trend..it seems the more comment you make, you keep this thread alive and it gets noticed by Nairalanders that recognize talents and they sign up for my program....Today i got a writing contract of N15K for just 5articles..

Thanks to you , continue to comment pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I need another one tomorrow

and I just got paid 200k and 100k to be paid by end of this month. How is that?

You are a good writer bro. I am not disputing that. Imagine you earned 50k now. How much do you think you would earn if you improve your site's image? Think BIG!

May be you don't understand yet. Lemme explain.

In 2008 I found one of those paid to click and I was novice. A friend told me it's wastw of time but I didn't believe him.

Why?

The site was so sleeky, clean and exude and aura of corporate organization. The design was out of this world.

So you?

You are losing clients witha design like that if you don't know.

Like they say, a friend will tell you your mouth is smelling. That's what someone who cares will do.

yungcheda:
Is wenogetjob.com the blog that makes you money??

http://fourhourworkweek.com/2011/09/24/how-to-create-a-million-dollar-business-this-weekend-examples-appsumo-mint-chihuahuas/