NewStats: 3,261,071 , 8,172,961 topics. Date: Wednesday, 28 May 2025 at 06:56 AM 183y3g

telim:
be deceving your self the mechanic that fix my car as two bungalow, two wives, benz cls 500 and c300. You will see them dress dirty because of the nature of their job but they pay all there bills.

With this your comment you are not serious yet. Satan dey deceive you.

Is late gazzuzz rich or not?

Nadingo:
May Gazzuzz's soul continue to rest in peace. That Nigga could buy you when he was alive. Other Mechos here like Femtopford, kingreign rake in millions dey dia dey cap nonsense

Shut up,gazzuz is a car dealer.

I know him too,he is an edo guy.

Breatheon:
@33, I'm more afraid of the future

So reality is dawning on me for the tasks ahead.

Presently 33 with N85k/month salary job

During my days in school, I had thought life will be far better after school but here I am earning 85k/month and that is money that cannot even meet my immediate needs and not to talk of wants and unto other responsibilities.

By age, I'm supposed to have been married but still living in one room which is not advisable to even think of marriage in this condition.

To arrange myself for marriage, I need at least a one bedroom, furnished and comfortable. The yearly rent for that is about 400-450k

Then I am also worried about renewing the rent every year, year and year.

How about catering for the family? Aside rent, feeding, school fees (once married, you begin to reproduce), medical, clothing and so so and so forth.

To live a good life, you need a car for mobility sake as a family.

I can't continue to pay rent. Meaning I need to build a house.

Obviously, the 85k salary is not enough. I need to start a business.

And so many other issues giving me stress and sleepless night.

So my worry is, where would i get the money to do all these with these kind of job i am doing? For years i may not even raise a million naira.

I have seen situations where people no longer able to change clothes just because they now have a family and I'm trying to avoid that by all means.

I'm really really afraid of the future.

I feel there shouldn't be any future.

I will recommend 3 jobs that can make you rich.
While building my house. I get to know how much some guys make outside the university certificate.
These guys are extremely busy that you need to chase them.

1) Pop installation
2) Alluminium maker
3) wiring and Tiler

Number 1 and number 2 are making huge money weekly.
If you exploit showcasing your jobs on platform like jiji. Infact you will work yourself out from.jan to Dec.

AgentGoat:


With this your comment you are not serious yet. Satan dey deceive you.

Is late gazzuzz rich or not?

Mumu,so you dont know the difference between car dealer and mechanic.

Same here but far younger and a better savings. Na fear of lose no make me invest

Breatheon:
Who else is in the same shoe with me?

LordBiden:

Shut up,gazzuz is a car dealer.

I know him too,he is an edo guy.

Learn how to respect your elders, boy. Uche Gazzuzz was first a mecho before he ventured into car dealing, and until his death, he was still in the business of fixing cars. Bottom line is, there are mechs that are doing fine moneywise. I never even mention Madam Raduautoworks sef.

SKhanmi:
Diversify. Find other means of income, preferably something online.

Amazon KDP for example, can be done alongside your job. Domaining too. People still make money from online surveys/AI trainings

Or find someone to teach you USDT arbitrage although that takes a lot of time and capital.

None of them is easy though. So you have to be disciplined.

Forget your age and face your fears.

Hi,,,do you know anything about or can you enlighten me on this survey of a thing?.

bukatyne:


What is 'armed robber' salary?

If you don gerrit

FOGERRABARIT

He who finds a good wife finds a good thing and obtains favour from the Lord. If you can actually marry someone that is willing to live in the same one room, you can build enough savings to do the needful. Just imagine if she is making N85k too and you keep expenses the same other than transportation and feeding for her, you both can save N50k from both salaries and that will be N600k a year.

In 3 yrs, you both can save close to N2m...of course you will delay having kids with her. Then with the money, you create 1 revenue stream or do that after 2 years of savings. Then you can make enough to contemplate getting a bigger apartment to rent. The problem is...most people want to rent a bigger place and be house poor.

You can do the right thing at the wrong time or do the wrong thing at the wrong time. Either way, these would be bad moves. Do not be defined by your situation. If you have no plan to marry, then look for ways to further reduce your expenses or increase your earnings legitimately.

Breatheon:
@33, I'm more afraid of the future

So reality is dawning on me for the tasks ahead.

Presently 33 with N85k/month salary job

During my days in school, I had thought life will be far better after school but here I am earning 85k/month and that is money that cannot even meet my immediate needs and not to talk of wants and unto other responsibilities.

By age, I'm supposed to have been married but still living in one room which is not advisable to even think of marriage in this condition.

To arrange myself for marriage, I need at least a one bedroom, furnished and comfortable. The yearly rent for that is about 400-450k

Then I am also worried about renewing the rent every year, year and year.

How about catering for the family? Aside rent, feeding, school fees (once married, you begin to reproduce), medical, clothing and so so and so forth.

To live a good life, you need a car for mobility sake as a family.

I can't continue to pay rent. Meaning I need to build a house.

Obviously, the 85k salary is not enough. I need to start a business.

And so many other issues giving me stress and sleepless night.

So my worry is, where would i get the money to do all these with these kind of job i am doing? For years i may not even raise a million naira.

I have seen situations where people no longer able to change clothes just because they now have a family and I'm trying to avoid that by all means.

I'm really really afraid of the future.

I feel there shouldn't be any future.

LordBiden:

But I have never seen a rich mechanic.
Except for the abroad based ones.
And the trade is not for the weak.

Bro..Money is not for the weak.

Anyone that did not inherit it, worked for it. Wether it's through corruption or legit.

Even slays queens self as staying in shape is also work.

NobleStag007:


Most people don't know that these handiwork people are millionaires

Yeah! They don't seem to know.

My tailor has a car that he sometimes uses for Uber. The car was stolen at the Mechanic's. Without batting an eyelid, he bought another one. You'd think he's a mere tailor but he can conveniently pay the salaries of graduates.

Mattswaggz:


Hi,,,do you know anything about or can you enlighten me on this survey of a thing?.

Foreign companies pay people to answer different surveys. This surveys are handled by other companies that pay you. Depending on location, they can pay a lot depending on your currency or peanuts.

Prolific is a survey company that pays well, getting an there as a nigerian is something else entirely. Nobody go gree give you updates.

If you have any more questions, enter Reddit and search.

You can check my previous post on some topic where I mentioned my second chance at life.

I went back to university at almost 34yrs (official age).

Got first salary job at 50k as intern after undergraduate, I got this during service year.

Then, official salary at over 500k in less than 1yr after internship.

At moment got foreign based remote job that pay in hard currency.

Not everyone will got the second chance, but if you have not try, you wouldn't know if the second attempt is breakthrough you need in life.

For many years before going back to university, I was of the opinion that you can succeed without certificate but in my cases, I was wrong.


PS: My university certificate was required during documentation, not that it is prerequisite, I have the adequate technical skills the company was looking for, (but imagine, if I was unable to get the employment, despite having the skills?)

Edit:
My third child was on the way, when I got ission to the university.

Breatheon:
@33, I'm more afraid of the future

So reality is dawning on me for the tasks ahead.

Presently 33 with N85k/month salary job

During my days in school, I had thought life will be far better after school but here I am earning 85k/month and that is money that cannot even meet my immediate needs and not to talk of wants and unto other responsibilities.

By age, I'm supposed to have been married but still living in one room which is not advisable to even think of marriage in this condition.

To arrange myself for marriage, I need at least a one bedroom, furnished and comfortable. The yearly rent for that is about 400-450k

Then I am also worried about renewing the rent every year, year and year.

How about catering for the family? Aside rent, feeding, school fees (once married, you begin to reproduce), medical, clothing and so so and so forth.

To live a good life, you need a car for mobility sake as a family.

I can't continue to pay rent. Meaning I need to build a house.

Obviously, the 85k salary is not enough. I need to start a business.

And so many other issues giving me stress and sleepless night.

So my worry is, where would i get the money to do all these with these kind of job i am doing? For years i may not even raise a million naira.

I have seen situations where people no longer able to change clothes just because they now have a family and I'm trying to avoid that by all means.

I'm really really afraid of the future.

I feel there shouldn't be any future.

Keep your head up. A man's situation can change at any moment.

I was broke to a point where I'd usually think of ending things. Lack of courage and the thought of my mama was why I couldn't do it.

Till the end of 2019. I could barely save anything from my income. At the beginning of the following year, things started to get better and better. It got so much better in subsequent years till a point where I was earning about 100x of what I used to earn in 2019.

A lot of my old problems are gone, but new ones are here. I'll be 30 in a few months, and I'm doing alright financially. But I'm still not in a relationship let alone married. Perhaps it's due to PTSD from my broke days. The thought of being responsible for other people scares me. Even though the financial responsibility I take in my family is more than that of someone with 3 wives.

As somebody has said. Age is only there to put pressure on you.

Your life doesn't exist in the past or future. Where you have been and where you will be doesn't matter. All you have is this moment. Your life only exists in this moment. And all you can do is make the most out of it.
Always ask yourself whether you are doing your absolute best. You have to be honest. If your answer is no, the follow-up question would be to ask yourself what is something you can be doing, that you know would improve your life, but you're not currently doing. The answer should jump at you. It doesn't have to be something drastic or difficult. It could simply be to be greeting your neighbours or come workers who are doing better than you, or start reading for 30mins a day.

A lot of the time, what would completely change a person's life is not something drastic. For instance, in my case, I've been on Nairaland for over 6 years, wasting away in the romance and jokes section. I got the ideas that changed my financial life when I started to check out what was happening on the business part of the website. The following year. Things totally changed for me.

If your answer to the initial question is yes, then there's nothing to worry about. The amount you are making right now doesn't matter because it will change as long as you keep doing your best.

"If you do your best every day, you don't have to worry about the future" - Jordan Peterson

Living in the past brings regret and living in the future brings anxiety. You suffer twice when you give yourself anxiety about the future.

You may have little control over your current income but you definitely have control over whether it makes or breaks you. The exact same thing can happen to two people. One may allow it to crush them and the other may use it to bring a beast out of themself.
It doesn't matter what happens to you, what matters is what you do about it.

You need to keep a clear head and prepare for opportunities. Take care of yourself as best as you can. Opportunities may without your knowledge if you allow your current situation to keep you down.

Develop a sense of curiosity about what other people are doing to make money and copy them. It doesn't always require you to learn a skill or have capital. You can help other people sell their items and get a commission. People make a lot of money doing this.


Read books and listen to podcasts

LordBiden:

Mumu,so you dont know the difference between car dealer and mechanic.

Delete this rubbish.


Gazzuzz was a mechanic and deals in cars parts sales, car sales and pre purchase vehicles and every other things about vehicles.

Olachase:
@O.P if you have up to 2M in your and you base here in Lagos

Let's hand and create an organisation from the scratch if age is not a problem to you

Ole buruku. Go and borrow from Tinubu.

LordBiden:

But I have never seen a rich mechanic.
Except for the abroad based ones.
And the trade is not for the weak.

And who told you you might not one day be abroad? Or that it is the mechanicism I am sending you to learn?

But I guess I can now clearly see why you are scared. You are weak, meaning you are lazy and not willing to learn to work hard for your future, which is what the mechanic I suggested will teach you.

budaatum:
There's a car mechanics near you. Go and ask if they'd accept you as an apprentice in your spare time, you'd pay.

Do it for at least 2 years and the future will scare you much less.

Do note, other apprenticeship opportunities (like computer mending, or photography etc) may exist and be more up your line.

But why would you suggest mechanic job for him?

Mechanic job is not for the faint hearted at all

It is a very tedious and highly technical work

Only those who really have ion for fixing cars should go into mechanics

It is not recommended for someone who is looking for how to increase their earning power, within a few years

And it's true, mechanics don't earn that much

It is mainly the well established ogas in the business who are earning quite a lot because of years of experience, expertise and referrals

I am an engineer but nothing on this earth will make me go in mechanics!

I suggest that the OP go into businesses like solar and computers

Nadingo:
Learn how to respect your elders, boy. Uche Gazzuzz was first a mecho before he ventured into car dealing, and until his death, he was still in the business of fixing cars. Bottom line is, there are mechs that are doing fine moneywise. I never even mention Madam Raduautoworks sef.

What?

Gazzuzz is dead?

When? How?

bluefilm:


But why would you suggest mechanic job for him?

Mechanic job is not for the faint hearted at all

It is a very tedious and highly technical work

Only those who really have ion for fixing cars should go into mechanics

It is not recommended for someone who is looking for how to increase their earning power, within a few years

And it's true, mechanics don't earn that much

It is mainly the well established ogas in the business who are earning quite a lot because of years of experience, expertise and referrals

I am an engineer but nothing on this earth will make me go in mechanics!

I suggest that the OP go into businesses like solar and computers

Did you miss my "Do note, other apprenticeship opportunities (like computer mending, or photography etc) may exist and be more up your line"?

I suggested an apprenticeship because becoming rich is not for the faint hearted, and learning mechanic will teach him a skill, which he lacks, and show him the hard work required to become rich, which he'd need even if he decides to take your advice and go into business.

Please see telim's post below regarding his rich mechanic.

telim:
your are wrong those that fleece there customers are often poor because they hardly get refferals or recurring customers due them being criminal minded.
My mechanic is not in any high brow area and it is difficult to locate is shop as first time customer. He relies mostly on refferals and recurring customers but one thing is certain with him if you follow is advice your engine will last for a very long time.

Have being using my car for 5 years plus without any major engine problem due to his advice. This is the main reason we all like him. Things like car scanning is free and he also import original benz part and engine oil from abroad.

And Blitzking's who listed other things one can apprentice in.

Blitzking:
Learn bricklaying
Electrician
Pop...wall screeding etc
Phone and laptop repair
Fish farming
Poultry farming
Tiling
Photography..a very lucrative job
Keke driving if u are street..just look for hire purchase and learn the street rules
Barbing...not expensive you can learn in 4 to 6 months and become a pro
Aluminium
Dry cleaning
Catering...small chops...shawama..pizza
Carpentry and interior design
Data analysis if u are into tech
Programming..time no too dey for u..u need to start earning fast
Pos stand
Tailoring
Making shoes
Look for anything g you can buy and rent
Snooker stand..Once u ahave started making money from other sources you can have it by the side
Food stuff business..but u need family for this one or good savings.
The list is endless...hustle while you still av energy..time is going bro.

Olachase:
@O.P if you have up to 2M in your and you base here in Lagos

Let's hand and create an organisation from the scratch if age is not a problem to you

Where will see 2m with 85k/month job

LoneSoldier:

So you be one of those kidnappers abi??

Shey yahoo boys nobe crooks ? Why your mind go Kidnapping if you nobe one

LordBiden:

You too STFU abeg,you sound so pained.

Are you a mechanic?

I'm pained cos it's 2025 and you're still a dumb dork.

LordBiden:

But I have never seen a rich mechanic.
Except for the abroad based ones.
And the trade is not for the weak.

Most successful people didn't meet a huge amount to start life. Skill, trade is good. I have seen lots of successful ones, built house, buy car and have family.
All you need is, start, save money, invest and keep investing, thats what makes one rich.

Elzazzi:


Shey yahoo boys nobe crooks ? Why your mind go Kidnapping if you nobe one

Confused fellow? Are you a kidnapper yes or no... You jumped to yahoo boys, why are you avoiding the first question or are you both a kidnapper and yahoo boy....?

SINisSIN:
You don't know what you're saying. My local mechanic with ssce is building his second house.if you don't book him down, he might not have chance to touch your car in one month. Someone that all these university graduates dey learn practical aspect from.

That job aint for the weak oooo
My close pal na mechanic i know how that guy dey feel pains , treat himself, and his hands omo na stone. The pay isnt automatic either. There is competition too. You must be good to get patronized

Breatheon:
Who else is in the same shoe with me?

Your exact words come out as mine… sometimes I feel lost

captaininiobong:
Never rush in Life bro. Never get pressured because of another person success. Just know what you are doing. In a little time you will be fine.

I am in same shoes, you are earning 5k higher than me. What I did was to cut my coat according to my size, instead of living in an apartment of 400 - 450k, you can use half of the money and get a self con. with your kitchen and toilet.


What i did with skills: since Nigerian government has jeopardized us, we wont give up, learn a tech skill. that money you are looking for is online. I can teach you how to design websites and you get paid 100 - 15k per job. Depending on the type of site. I do ecommerce nothing less than 200 - 250k.

When someone said that Nigerian government will add 10 years to the future of student before they see meaningful life. I thought it was a joke. I stopped looking for work and started building my skills.

My bro, just get a course, buy a system nd learn tech skills. Atleast you dont work for all the 24 hours per day. if you devote time and learn, bro you will benefit.

its just that some of us didn't know, that time wasted in the university would have been used to achieve something in one year.

seventhly, Avoid woman for now except your sisters and mum, Women will delay you a bit. Especially the one looking for who will love. Avoid ashawo too. they bring badluck and illuck to struggling person aiming success. Some come with delay immediately u penetrate them as a young hustler.

Everybody grace no be same.

Dont worry about starting a business, learn a skill that will be useful tothe kind of business you want, use it to work for others in the line. Make your money and start yours.

Brotherly please mentor me on how to go about learning this web deg skill please 🙏 I beg you in the name of God sir.

LordBiden:

But I have never seen a rich mechanic.
Except for the abroad based ones.
And the trade is not for the weak.

dey play

Bro is not easy I just pray God comes through if not kanayo self the learn work this year

Well, I have seen comments and your reply op...

Life has processes. So, if your salary is 85K/month, what are the services you render? What profession are currently plying your trade? All I see here is complaints and no single time you took to tell us the services/profession you can render

Many of us today didn't even have the opportunity to earn this much in equivalence when we started.

I might not be able to advise you much cos I don't have those information I needed in your epistle. In any case, you need a second hustle. I personally have close to three different side hustle even as A Project Engineer.

You spoke about Marriage. Marriage isn't automatic. It starts by making plans, getting a certain partner and understanding your values and road map to a successful home. Talking about business, you can always think big but start small. Just last September, we ventured into wholesales selling of drinks, but, guess what, we took 200k to depot and even the manager was shocked and told us to go gather more money as this said amount is too small to start wholesale. My wife and I understand what we needed. Within few months down the line, a lot have been learnt, more money raised, with proper book keeping, loan was granted and we could say thank you Lord! On business, you have to think big, but start small. Starting small isn't a sign of foolishness or lack of funds.

You already have an accomodation. You're putting too much pressure on yourself. Why comparing your age with your accomodation? Who is setting the standard? In life, everyone have their routes and story. In your story, your script and directors are different. You should be grateful that you have that accomodation. Focus on improving yourself and side hustles. There's no late coming when it comes to success

You spoke about car... You see to the extent you've allowed social media to control your emotions? At 33, you didn't even thought of those who are still pursuing issions. So many don't even have a job not to talk of salaries. You're earning 85k and already thinking about a car, a family, a business all at once. Why not settle yourself first, be proud of your achievement at this age and be thankful for life.

This is a new year, seriously think of some side hustles. Get the necessary skill needed to trade in those areas. Focus on self development within the first half of the year. Some self development are even free with your data on YouTube and Facebook Platforms you will consume massive educational contents for some side hustles. If you intend to rent a one bedroom flat for 450k, nobody is pointing a gun for you to stay in that area. Look for a less environment to stay. No put pressure on yourself

Let me hold it here...

Find a reason to be grateful at 33

Peace!

Breatheon:
Who else is in the same shoe with me?

bro, I don't know how u want to do it, don't scam people, don't kill, don't do shady deals bit please and please start business..pleaseeeeee.


I am a living witness with first hand experience.

I had fear just like u did, but now the only fear I am having is how to be a billionaire and not a millionaire.

Clothing, house rent, medicals, money to carry escort, feeding of family and even the extended are not in my fear anylonger.

But there is a sacrifice to pay sha, pay the sacrifice now before u reach 35, before 35 to 36 I swear u will be stable and all these fears will allude you, by then u will be smiling I swear