Hello Hive.

Concluding final year in school had my hopes very high, I was totally oblivious that regardless of the unemployment rate outside I was going to secure a job after school and in my field of study. Been gullible further our sugar coated mouthed lecturers gave us high hopes encouraging us further using examples of past graduate from our department and field who have found good placement.
We studied hard hoping that our lots will fall in the right places as well. We all graduated and reality dawned on us.

The fist job that ever meets a Nigerian graduate is the compulsory National Youth service Corps, this is a service with a privileged for one to have some experience. Not everyone is interested in going through this program and that might be one of the reasons it was made compulsory.
For this I was posted to a High school straight after graduation to teach physics in SS 1 and 2.
Further more I was to assist the other science teachers in arranging the practical labs every time there was to be a practical.

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Been someone with a petite stature a simple lifestyle and manner of dressing in a High class school where parents lavish so much on their students and some of the students are even richer than their teachers really posed a challenge to me. You will hear unkind comments from students to their teachers regarding the poor state of the teachers.

Standing before the marker board to teach the students physics I barely passed to graduate school was the worst experience ever. Common I didn't sign up for this 😢, teaching wasn't my calling let alone this 😩, eventually that came to an end.

The first ever real Job.

The first ever real job for me was when I got a placement at flour mill company to work as Sales promoter.
A sales representative job is a bit different from a sales promoter
Sales reps markets products/services while sales promoter is involved in advertising the brand to people, organizing promo/giveaway to boost sales of products. In some organizations both are treated as the same and can work interchangeably, of a truth tree is no much difference in this.

Regardless of the era of mobile phones technology and internet alot of business promotion has to be done offline because of these reasons.

• A large percentage of Nigerians and especially our market women are not educated and would not come across these online adverts. We have to visit them at the market to advertise new product to them in the native languages.

• Some of these markets are in remote places with no mobile facilities, we have to travel down in cabs to create awareness for new products and services.

I worked with a team and our duty was to promote the products on sale in the company with all the benefits buyers will enjoy at the end of the year if they bought goods to some certain percentage.
This was a new knowledge for me and a total shift from science to what?

The benefits of been in this field.

• I worked closely with traders and what what a real life experience of what buying and selling truly entails.

• How to manage risks and know when to take profit or which percentage of profit was enough.

• How to startup a new business/products/services and how to introduce this to the public.

This truly has nothing to do with microbiology but it was worth it. At least I learnt that one could work on himself to fit into whatever job placement as long as it is beneficial and pose no threat or limitations to him.

I only worked for half a year as the goal was not to remain in a company for long, I have always wanted to be my own boss but before one can proceed to own a business of their own without a prior knowledge of what the market can be like you really have to learn from other existing businesses and that experience was worth it for me.

Thank you.