Just when I finished NYSC the job hunt struggle increased, I didn’t want to stay at home atall. A friend shared a vacancy she just applied for with me and I applied too. We were so happy when we got a call back for an interview, which was the most stressful interview everhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Crying face" aria-label="Emoji: Crying face"> 1/6
I didn’t know we had that much youth in Ibadan https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙆🏽" title="Person gesturing ok (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Person gesturing ok (medium skin tone)">,we went around 8am, left 8pm the struggle to get home was real, because rain was about to fall too. My interview went very well, I was 100% sure I was going to get a call back, it was like me gisting with my older friends and 2/6
Teaching them few stuffshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😎" title="Smiling face with sunglasses" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with sunglasses">. After the first interview some of us were called back for a second interview( more stressful than the first one) I almost got lost on this day, because they changed location to a very far place..at a point I was thinking maybe they want to kidnap us 3/
I got to the location in the morning and left in the evening even with the fact that there was no crowd (they sure know how to waste people’s time). The interview ended and I was praying for a call back because all these effort cannot be wasted https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Face with rolling eyes">4/6
Few days later I got a mail to start working the next week, but guess what the salary was 25k https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy">immediately I didn’t know math again is this 250k I’m seeinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👀" title="Eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Eyes">. As I was still in my confused state a guy I met at the interview that was also offered a job called me https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😪" title="Sleepy face" aria-label="Emoji: Sleepy face"> 5/6
Uncle was so angry, while I was still complaining that why will they offer a First class graduate 25k uncle told me he has masters https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy"> ... I was weak.
Nigerian employers will ridicule your qualifications https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💔" title="Broken heart" aria-label="Emoji: Broken heart">6/6
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