If you're a young Nigerian grad with good people skills, you should consider getting into tech sales.

Learn tech sales and get very good at it.

I promise you that in 5 years you will be extremely sought after.

Here's a 10 step to get you to tech without writing code

1. Read this book. https://blog.close.com/outbound-sales-book/

2. Find a B2B startup whose product you like. Offer to bring them leads for free.

3. Implement the book, generate a huge lead list and pass it along.

4. Convince them to hire you to close the leads on commission first. They will.

5. Close the leads and then negotiate a better pay structure.

6. Now you're in. Kill it in your first sales role. Read, learn and practice. Spend ~ 18 months in that role.

7. When you have a decent contact list, seek to move to another company in a higher position

8. Implement all your skills and grow sales in the new business, get yourself into a leadership track within 2 years, recruit and train other sales people

9. Always grow your network and seek out founder types. Once you find a founder starting out in your industry, join them!

10. Negotiate equity and lead sales in the startup.

Within 5 years, you've become a tech founder based on sales alone and you too can exit for millions of $$$ and you don't need to ever write a line of code.

Extra tip - Pick specific industries to be an expert in.

If you got to the end and you're motivated to get started on this, email me (email in bio).

I might just do a 3-month sales internship based on the book I tweeted. We'll go over topics in the book, we'll set up goals and whoever meets them gets hired.