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18/08/2016

You Need To Know These Things If You're Jobless

We can add if from a humble background

The major craze in this clime and time is social
media ,e-retailers and othr great things on the world
wide web. So first thing:

1 LEARN HOW TO BE A DIGITAL MARKETER:

Who is that: someone that understands e-mail
marketing,social media advertising, search engine
optimization,google analytics and a fairly good idea
abt web designs. In short the guy that can help u
get buzz on ur product or service offered online.

Information to be this person is all online and as it
is.. we all live online anyway;so any youth can turn
that wasted time into a gold mine.

This is a skill corporates re willing 2 pay correct
money 4. Brick and mortar company trying to figure
out ways to have a big presence online and have a
return on investment on money spent online.

2 LEARN TO BE AN AFFILIATE MARKETER:

With the inroad jumia,konga,deal dey etc have
made,this is a viable way of trying to earn some
dough.

This could take some time-6 months to 1 year to
get the hang of it and start profiting.

The input for these is time and propably money for
a domain name: 30$.

3. LEARN TO BE A PROGRAMMER :

A damn good programmer won't starve. Like with all
skill set,it takes good time to be a bad ass one. All
u need is just the 'can do spirit',a mind that is ready
to learn- open minded- and make sure it is what u
want. If working the back-end seems too much u
can learn designing a user interface xml(uix).

We now have schools whereby they re ready to pay
you while learning to be a better programmer:
Andela . Though the barrier of entry is quite high.

A good programmer can go on to be anything he
wants to be; think about the
googles,oracles,microsoft,apple,facebook,nairaland
e.t.c .

The whole world is your oyster: u can venture into
any fields and try to disrupt it by creating unique
solutions to myriads of problem in Nigeria.

U might want to look up this start-ups : paystack,
hotels.ng, kangpe doctors, andela, prepclass,
traclist, flutterwave, drinks.ng, paga and many
more. They are all trying to solve problems with
technology and monetizing it .
really hope I get to programme 2 some extent one
day .

4 Agriculture

This is the big Elephant in the room. We need
cheaper tomatoes,bags of rice are expensive,yam is
expensive,even sweet potato is now costly ,garri is
not that accesible to the poor man anymore;

Without mentioning addendums : small
eggs,xpensive fish and meat; though u can have a
meal without these anyway.

All these points to one thing : scarcity. We import
almost everything,youths re in urban centres looking
for white collar jobs with funny certificates.

About time to choose a field in agriculture and be a
specialist in it :from the quick wins(low hanging
fruits) of fish farming to snail rearing,poultry
farming ,pig farming ,best ways of growing
subsistence crops - defer cash crops technique till
later
Find something to do across the value chain of
agric: learn how to harvest rice-operating the
thresher, processing-handling the mill, storage-learn
abt how to go about storing cereals in silos.

Be a specialist and try to find ways of marketing
these skills,even if it involves going to co-operative
farmers in your village.

One thing is sure, a 21st century farmer will not go
hungry.

5 Blogging

Everybody is a blogger nowadays,but trust me there
is still room for curation of quality contents on your
blog.

Find a great niche that is interesting to you and
write or find great stories around it. Curating good
contents is not easy neither is creating it,reason
why a lot of blogs takes the easy way out and lifts
off stories off one another.

The downside to these is that it is a thankless
job,and for a hungry man,the incubation period-
using linda as an example:4-5 years - b4 it can be
monetized might just be too long. You can add to
that : finding keywords that would drive traffic to
your blog, might involve a jobless man finding
dollars for facebook,twitter,instagram,google ads .

But in all these u become a better person and an
authority in that field and u never know who or
when the expertise would be needed.

A rich kid would easily crack blogging than a
jobless dude. These bring me to jobs that would
work well for a jobless dude with buffer:

photography-those cameras re quite expensive,
same thing with being a dj-ask dj cuppy
(otedola),xclusive (alakija) ,obi (ajuonuma) ,case
( dehinde fernandez grandson). U can try cracking
being a chef. All these skills re in high demand.
A jobless dude won't be able to afford money 4
studio sessions,or the xpenses for transportation
and looking good for an audition: hazards of trying
to be an entertainer.

This list is not exhaustive,about time we stop
mopping about lack of jobs and find something for
our hands to do. God bless.

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